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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Minecraft started as a Java browser plugin game. I think that's what the GP is referring to, not "Show HN: Minecraft in 3 lines of Javascript" https://minecraft.net/classic/
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Let me link to a (very longwinded, sorry) post I made a while back explaining how a particular type of memory pool allocator works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176091 tl;dr if you think "manual memory managem
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x86 Instruction Wishlist (2010)(locklessinc.com)
2 points by ANTSANTS 13y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Seriously, try loading the page with NoScript, and you get nothing. Apparently, it needed nearly a megabyte of JavaScript (somehow managing to make Firefox unresponsive for a several seconds on every page load ) to asynchronously load a 60
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I also wish 4chan would switch to open source, self-hosted CAPTCHA and analytics solutions. CAPTCHA especially, because while analytics scripts, tracking images, etc. can easily be blocked, you cannot participate on the site without allowin
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I don't entirely buy this. Everyone can improve themselves by mingling with their peers and listening to the pros, so if women were so easily dissuaded by negativity on the internet, you'd expect them to do worse at everything, wh
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
4chan started as a clone of the Japanese Futaba imageboard, which was itself a variation on the premise of the (also Japanese) 2ch text board. Other people have since made sites that, as I understand them, boil down to "4chan for peopl
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5960299
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I prefer to directly download long Youtube videos so I don't have to deal with the site's garbage flash and HTML5 video players, but I only do that after I've actually watched a minut
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Maybe I was a little rude (not quite as rude as calling someone a "passive-aggressive prick," mind you), but this behavior is annoying. I thought it was one of the "rules of the internet" or something that you make the b
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=yang+liu+east+meets+west
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>If you visit a website (Assuming you don't go via some anonymizer proxy), they can track you, and they can pass your details to any 3rd party who wishes to also track you. Sure, server-side logging is always possible, but (AFAIK) a
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
There is a Windows port, but it was a bit buggy the last time I checked (about a year ago). http://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I agree with your argument about 1-based indexing being more intuitive for people with more math than programming experience. I'd even concede that, given Lua's history (as I understand it) as a tool for engineers at PUC-Rio, it w
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348513
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D3D9: Why It's Not a Part of Dolphin's Future(dolphin-emu.org)
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I thought I was pretty clear about that. Synchronization is relatively straightforward in a realtime system, where your program has total control over the timing of execution. On a desktop operating system, however, the graphics card and it
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Yeah, a computer can easily render frames at the same rate that the monitor accepts them, while being horribly out of phase with the timing that the monitor expects to receive the frames. Imagine you and your friend playing on a swingse
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Try browsing with NoScript for a few days? Your experience may differ, but for me, having to whitelist a site every now and then is far less annoying than constantly putting up with crap like this.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Is Opera really more cross-platform than wget?
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I was in the same boat. I tried to switch back to Firefox a while back. Some people prefer Vimperator and Pentadactyl, but after using Vimium for a while, I found them to be a little too complicated and, well, different from what I was us
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That's fair, but there's another way to look at it: Mesa and Gallium are MIT licensed, why are they rolling their own inferior solution when they can "steal" a better one? You'd think if your company's bottom l
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
The GP wasn't saying that exercising quality control as a platform holder is a bad idea, just that Nintendo engaged in some ethically dubious practices at the time. The most obvious evidence: Nintendo did excellently in Japan while exe
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Why do people have Renaissance fairs, use film cameras, paint instead of using Photoshop, etc? Why do anything? It's fine if it doesn't interest you, but it's not like you need a practical reason to have fun making something.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Shiru is the only person I know of that wrote anything interesting in C for the NES. Here are his thoughts on the experience: http://shiru.untergrund.net/articles/programming_nes_games_i... http://forums.nes
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
…or as I've recently taken to calling it, 2k plus 8.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
You're right to point out that this list is targeted towards game engine programmers and not people who want to make games in general, but really, "characterization, storytelling, linguistics and spoken construction, cultural dyna
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
It does do useful things on Windows. There are the browser behaviors I mentioned above. Most image editors use middle click to pan, and I think 3D modeling programs use it to rotate and pan as well. It's only in dedicated text boxes
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
In most web browsers, middle click closes tabs, opens links in new tabs, and on Windows, starts an automatic "scroll follows mouse" mode. I seem to remember that at one point, Chromium on Linux would interpret middle clicking on a
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
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