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by 5hoom 15y ago
I think that looking at overall spending per-student as a metric for the quality of education is about the same as using lines-of-code as a metric for the quality of a developer. Sure it's important, but it gives only a very small piece of
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Quite an amusing story. Minecraft sure can introduce you to the importance of planning & strategy. I recall early in my minecraft career learning painful lessons (don't dig down!) as I was exploring a large cave, fell in lava & lost
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Technically brilliant and completely ridiculous, this really is in the spirit of old-school hacking. My favourite bit was the author describing how the none of the lights have their brightness value set above 0xCC by the manufacturer, and w
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Beautiful. It's great seeing advanced 3D effects (sub-surface scattering and normal mapping? I think thats what we're seeing here) escape the realm of typeA games and show up on a web browser, running at a very acceptable framerate. Looks l
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Funny joke and all, but it got me thinking. Why not some sort of gesture for undo like a multi finger scribble (similar to 'rubbing something out' with an eraser)? Then I tried a bit harder & thought why not just use cmd-Z ;)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Ah, this is amusingly true. I suppose the ubiquitous nature of smart phones gives the common person more exposure to software than ever before, therefore compelling some to pitch half baked app ideas ('how about an app like Facebook, but in
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I think the issue is not that being attractive is bad, it's just that often that's the _only_ message that is consistently heard by young girls. Girls might hear positive messages about being smart, creative, independent, etc. from all sort
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by 5hoom 15y ago
If they do keep it cross-browser this could be a really great thing. I for one would be very keen to use something like this so long as it has a clean, well documented API and could run anywhere with a standards-compliant webGL browser. Raw
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Yeah, it gets a bit old. While we're at provocative flamebait titles, how about: - Vi vs. Emacs. - Ruby vs. Python. - GNU vs. BSD. - Republican vs. Democrat. There are some insightful differences that can be
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Forgive me as I'm not a linux or a low-level graphics guy, but I think this is a problem inherit with the technique, not the platform. Vsync is great, it gives excellent image quality (no tearing), but brings an inevitable input lag as ther
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Ha! It's just hallway testing with anyone in my immediate vicinity at the moment which provides nice instant feedback but looking into some sort of open beta when the time is right. But in all seriousness, thats one bit I'm not going to kid
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Great post. I'm a developer/artist spending long hours working on making video games. I 'm doing it all, the design, code & art. Sounds good. Problem is it can get very lonely, you get no encouragement and no criticism. You might make g
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Very nice. Linear algebra really is the bread & butter of game programming. Showing the theory alongside examples of how it's actually used to make games 'do stuff' should be very helpful to those getting started. I could have really us
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Beautiful project. I think you might be on to a winner. One would imagine that parents of young kids would feel very little objection to dropping money on an app that is both entertaining & educational, especially one that looks very sl
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by 5hoom 15y ago
C'mon now. I think you are being intentionally dense. We all know what is meant by "making technology usable" is "making technology usable - for muggles" ;)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Right on! A game like dwarf-fortress is a 6+ year labour of love from its creators (and its players!), and screw anyone who says dedication like that is wasting your life. And more broadly, a game is as artistic & life-changing as the d
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Hypnotic video. Only vaguely related, but this reminds me of a story a couple of years back involving a machine learning system that was able to derive the laws of Newtonian physics from observing the motion of a hinged pendulum. http://wo
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Maybe it's because there's more of an awareness here of how much the developer ecosystems we all depend on are built from Other Peoples Code. From the languages & compilers to the frameworks & API's, every day we stand on the should
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by 5hoom 15y ago
From a software engineering point of view, isn't reusing components considered a Good Thing? It seems logical to fork instead of reinventing a whole bunch of functionality (this assumes you are adding new functionality of your own, not just
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I hate to be 'that guy with a youtube link', but I think Trey Parker & Matt Stone nailed what Chat Roulette means to most people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNyDZmQyeY Probably best if Verbling doesn't associate themselves with t
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Oh yeah? Check this out http://gamma-level.com/iphoneos/ports/emacs Jailbroken only, sadly. But one can dream of the day dev stuff is allowed into the walled garden :)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
“You’ve got to remember. He was surrounded by great, great people at Apple… and those people are still there." Sounds like Steve's team gets a tick of approval from the Woz, that bodes well for the future of the company.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
What the hell is going on today? Thats two influential tech personalities resigning from their signature positions in 24 hours. Im starting to get worried here. Whats next, John Carmack resigns from id?(heaven forbid!) My world view has bee
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I often find that I want to comment on stories like this to express my enthusiasm for an interesting topic, but yeah I know that by doing so there is the risk that I'll expose myself as being pretty naive & unsophisticated in an advance
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I've never heard that perspective on Brainfuck before and have thusly avoided it as it seems, well, really hard & impractical. Thinking of it as an abstracted turing machine is intriguing though. Do you know any resources on tackling th
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Interesting how this post shows a connection between logical paradoxes, the Halting Problem and Quines. The reasoning that proves you cannot assign a true/false value to the statement "This sentence is false." is used to show that for a com
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I think the thing that gets forgotten when people talk about premature optimisation being evil is that premature pessimism is just as evil, and being sloppy is just being sloppy. All things being equal, you should always choose the optimall
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This makes me think of my first attempt at an iOS app. I'd read about all the successes stories & decided to jump on the app store bandwagon. After months of furiously working at learning Objective-C & Cocoa, development & testi
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I think being too strongly tied to any one language/platform is really limiting your horizons. Staying in your comfort zone (while obviously comfortable) can make programming seem very tedious as you kind of end up banging out the same old
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by 5hoom 15y ago
If you can look past the retro vibe this is a nice overview: http://programmedlessons.org/VectorLessons/index.html Some interactive matrix maths lessons: http://www.intmath.com/matrices-determinants/matrix-determin... Free textbook on l

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