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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
You're being downvoted because these comments have little to do with the content of the article, which is about "dirty" low-level memory management techniques designed to avoid naive heap allocation, not trying to abstract th
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That is a good reason to stagger school starting times. It doesn't explain the need to make HS and JHS start so early, or why on earth they would start earlier than primary school when young children tend to wake up earlier than teenag
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I wish I could have gotten up at 8 or even 7AM when I was in school. We're talking about school starting hours, not wakeup times. You can't wake up just before the bell rings and teleport into class. Depending on how far you live
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
A first world education system should not prioritize the employability of minors in manual labor over their health and education.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I don't think it's fair to make every student wake up unnaturally early for the sake of those with any kind of extracurricular activity, not just sports. Harming school performance and sleep depriving developing children in the
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I hang out in some indie/amateur game dev communities and it's like everyone and their dog is making a top-down stealth shooter with the exact same effect, the exact same mechanics, and the exact same "FPS in 2D" feeling
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm kinda tired of the "cone-of-vision" mechanic and associated visual effect common in modern 2D games. In traditional 2D games, being able to see things that are not visible to the player's avatar is, IMO, a significan
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I think FreeType is the go-to solution for text rendering. http://www.freetype.org/ My take on the word cloud problem: 1. Sort words by frequency. Map the highest and lowest frequencies to some maximum and minimum font
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Was MSX really a failure, or just a failure outside of Japan? I was under the impression that MSX was the 8-bit micro in 80s Japan. I don't know too much about it's history, but given that so many important game series got their
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Some people do compete for speed or score in single player games. Arcade games have always had scoreboards, modern "arcade-style" games have online ones, and a community can turn any solitary activity into a competitive one: http
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Did you actually read the article or the HN comments? Both are fairly critical of Atom. "There's no such thing as bad press," maybe, but just talking about something doesn't mean you're trying to hype it up. God for
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Cute comparison, but it's not really fair. The web was quite obviously more useful than Gopher, while WebGL offers no improvements to the web for its most important tasks of being the standard tool for communication and the interface t
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm not a web developer, but that sounds pretty sane to me. However, the important part of their decision, I'm guessing, was not so much the PHP part, but the "get people who actually know about the web to do this for us.&quo
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That's more than a bit of a stretch. More like, Apple cares about the security of their sandbox and having exclusive control over the sale of software on their platform, and doesn't see the need to include a feature that a) practi
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>That's totally a legitimate criticism I was adding it to my original comment when the driveby downvoters arrived. >Complaining about your phone's battery life when you can just as easily not visit the site has a lot less we
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>What's the point of WebGL from Apple's perspective?
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Oh ok, let's keep a gaping security vulnerability open in the one runtime that everyone demands the ability to shove heaps of untrusted code into, just so that people can see the occasional really cool demo that gets posted on HN eve
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I dunno, I'm not really crazy about the prospect of random web sites murdering my phone's battery with superfluous WebGL animations. Remind me again why web pages need the ability to display realtime 3D graphics? I don't like
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'd normally agree, but "embedded device" in this situation means "network router" (which are reasonably powerful computers in their own rights), and the application is not mission critical with hard deadlines and s
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Occulus VR, of course.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Shii's essay on the strengths of anonymous communities is still the best I've read on the topic. It comes off as somewhat naive, being written in 2004 and updated in 2006, before 4chan had really exploded in popularity and set in
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
This was posted earlier today, under the exact same title, but with a URL that differed solely by a trailing backslash. It hit the front page, too! Way to go, HN duplicate detector. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72076
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Oops, not sure how I missed that. Resizing all the layers (maybe lazily until the user tries to draw on them, if that's such a waste when you have a 100 layers or something) should definitely be the default, though. I'd wager that
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
After expanding an image (as in, adding blank space on the borders), you have to manually expand every layer to fit the image, or you won't be able to draw anything in the new area. Deferring layer resize until you draw on the resized
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Keep in mind that Bill was talking about programming in assembly language for extremely resource-constrained systems there. Even today, if you're trying to write an extremely small/fast program/inner loop in assembly, you had
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Have you heard of Nintendo's Virtual Console service? They've been doing pretty much exactly this since the Wii launched in 2006: old games for the NES, SNES, Genesis, and more for $5-15~. You can't get the Final Fantasy game
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I'm not sure if dagw was referring to this or not, but last year some musicians put a Duke Nukem cover album together, and the original composer refused to accept royalties and got it taken down shortly after its release in the "G
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
The PS4 is the only console ever to have an AMD GPU that runs a conventional Unix (FreeBSD). Obviously Microsoft's consoles wouldn't, and Nintendo uses their clunky "IOS." In any case, the interface exposed by most conso
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
There are all kinds of ethical ways to get your most dedicated customers to "pay more" (what's the MBA-speak term for "trying to get everyone to pay exactly as much as they're comfortable with"? I can't re
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
As I understand it, "whales" tend to be less "poor gullible fools maxing out their credit cards" and more "extraordinarily wealthy people that enjoy wasting amounts that seem ridiculous to us but are truly nothing b

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