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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Yeah, I agree with all of that. Dim comments, tint strings and preprocessor/template/macro stuff, and we're good. Everything else is pointless at best and annoying when it inevitably screws up (color standard library function
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You can syntax highlight assembly, it's just not terribly useful since the structure is so consistent and simple to begin with. Syntax highlighting in general is kinda silly. I'm sad that people turn their noses up at code that is
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
General purpose high level languages[1] didn't become practical in commercial game development[2] for even what we would consider to be "non-critical" code until Doom, the PlayStation era for consoles, and the Game Boy Advanc
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
They meant "obviously the comments and labels of the original programmers are not included."
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Many famous Nintendo games have been publicly disassembled before, and Nintendo is either unaware or turns a blind eye. The only different thing about this disassembly is that it is hosted on GitHub, where it is much more likely to be seen
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Stick your nose in your armpit?
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Dropbox, at least, lets you select which directories get synced per device, i.e. so your desktop and HTPC can share movies but your phone never sees any of them.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That's a neat idea, but as someone who has played a few niche online games before, players tend to figure out on their own what the most active hours are (e.g. evening to a bit past midnight EST for English speakers).
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
IIRC almost every online game for the Xbox 360 uses the P2P strategy (which is funny, given that Microsoft charges for online), so I wouldn't say that it isn't common or viable. You don't see it as much in PC games because PC
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
And so a generation learned to save early and save often.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
On the other hand, physical protests actually get covered by the news, while you'll never see "person got mad on the internet" on CNN.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Chrom(e|ium) can do some of these things! You can use shift and control clicks just like in a file browser to select tabs, then drag the whole selection to another window, or off to the side to create a new one. Easily movable tabs + a tili
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think the tabs vs spaces problem is silly and nobody should be using spaces[1]. Compilers should treat leading spaces as a syntax error. Clearly we both can't be pleased. ;) [1] Except in Lisp.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I think it's worth noting that there's never been a "weird" WM/DE that attracted a sizeable userbase purely on its own merits. Gnome 3 and Unity were to a great extent forced upon their users. If there were real b
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>The speed hierarchy of operations is: > > comparisons > (u)int add, subtract, bitops, shift > floating point add, sub (separate unit!) > ... > (u)int division, remainder This can't be righ
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
There's is a Linux port for the DS, however, which is a bit more useful because it has WiFi and the touch screen can be used as a keyboard. http://www.dslinux.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>It's always better to have a single C code for all architectures than an assembly stub for each, it reduces the chance to have different behaviours across implementations (or subtle bugs in one implementation but not the other). &g
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49 It's not that the engineers behind ICC failed to take the architectures of non-Intel processors into account, it's that it intentionally uses a slow pat
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Just noticed this reply, possibly the most eloquent way anyone has ever told me that they think I'm a moron. Yes, I've read Worse is Better. No, I don't think that the Unix philosophy is always the right one. I was 100% serio
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Thanks for reminding me that I never got around to watching Chungking Express: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Express
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>A Union is like a struct, but you’re only supposed to use one value >(they all occupy the same space in memory). It’s up to the programmer to know which variable to use. > There’s a joke in some of the original C code:
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I think it's partly because grades and school simply don't matter prior to high school (in the US, at least). Theoretically, as long as you don't fail, you could barely scrape by in elementary and middle school and it would n
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Do you have retrograde amnesia, or were you homeschooled?
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Children don't need a reason to be absolute shitheads.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm guessing sarcasm. No bad feelings intended, thorin.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Already posted half a dozen times in the past day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638904
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Good software developers also develop thick enough skin at some point to not take "your software is crashing a lot" personally. Troll dens suck, but so do hugboxes.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
4chan has grown to be quite obviously more sophisticated than Futaba, which really has stayed pretty much the same for over a decade. You can see for yourself: http://may.2chan.net/27/futaba.htm (that's their boar
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Not much to see here, folks. Someone took an old leak of the source code and commented out a few lines for a giggle. Only moot and the developers know what the site looks like now, but given the significant addition of functionality in th
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm not quite there yet, so take this with a heaping spoonful of salt, but as another programmer who wanted to do pixel art for their games: Forget about pixel art for now and learn how to draw first. Pixel art is not an easy shortcut.

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