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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I prefer Pascal-style type declaration as well, but playing Devil's advocate for a moment: There's nothing that says you can't have a left-to-right type declaration syntax and have the variable name appear on the right. So
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Stalin is very impressive, but > Simple benchmark (vs C (gcc), Stalin wins) Did you read the comments? > Nice, but part of the reason the C version is slow is that you are using abs instead of fabs. abs takes an int as an argument (th
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Second Reality code review by Fabien Sanglard(fabiensanglard.net)
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I don't mind the tiny screens of laptops so much, it's their keyboards murdering my wrists that do me in. I can type on a generic PS/2 keyboard for hours and hours, but I literally cannot use my Thinkpad for more than 10 minu
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Code::Blocks is probably a better choice for that. DevC++ is very outdated: the bundled version of GCC is 3.4.2 , released in 2006.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>When I was young I did all of my programming on a TI calculator (BASIC, and z80 assembly with an on-calc assembler). Those existed?! I remember reading articles on Z80 assembly language at ticalc.org as a teenager and desperately wishin
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
The New Web Experience — Firing up your web inspector and adding "visibility: hidden" to half a dozen things before you can read the damn article.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
The title is misleading. I was expecting some kind of discussion of Lua's implementation, not yet another list of reasons why Lua is cool.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Or dtrx: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/dtrx
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Here's a hopefully illustrative example of a special purpose memory manager: The naive bitmap Take a fixed-size pool of memory and divide it into a fixed number of equally-sized regions. Say, if your game's entities take up a maxi
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>It's very important to be allowed to say publicly that things suck. I would argue that more people should do it... His comments in the video were harsh and opinionated and the questioner was disappointed with the answer, but as the
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Ok, here's Phil responding to a polite and honest question (in person, and not over the safety of the internet!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMPIcV6zsPw You can argue that no one ever deserves to be harassed onlin
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Please consider: • The self-taught of all ages who may have never set foot in a university, or have begun informally studying an unrelated discipline on their own after leaving formal education. That they exist and can make use of academic
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
> Regarding LuaJIT, it compiles in about 10 seconds on a modern computer and does not use LLVM. A lot of it is written with an inline assembly preprocessor called DynASM I think he was trying to say "Mike Pall doesn't use LLVM-
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Codec support isn't that much of a problem nowadays, true. The plugin system is still useful for the reasons I mentioned: Adjustments and custom plugins that for the most part only dedicated AV-nerds care about. However, consider that
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Kinda surprised that the grandparent (asked an honest question) is getting downvoted while this post (made a baseless claim) isn't. >The only "nerd circle" I know that is fixated on MPC are otakus, for no meaningful reason
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I agree with mortenjorck, but putting that aside, I think you're missing the prevalence of pictograms in textual conversation. ;) People keep coming up with more and more stupid faces composed of obscure Unicode characters ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>Mobile web apps are slow because they're secure, precisely for the reason that they cannot examine or manipulate underlying system memory. I believe the idea he was getting at was "you need to be able to tell how much memory i
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I see where you're coming from, I had a similar experience playing with HTML as a kid. That said, "compiling" HTML from text to an efficient binary format wouldn't have prevented browsers from including those compilers t
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>String slicing with numbered indices is used all the time. Ok, so it (EDIT FOR YOUR BENEFIT: I'm talking about slicing strings with rune indices here, not slicing in general. Array slicing is a useful language feature, and, uh, it&
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>Python somehow magically slices unicode strings without chopping characters in half. You need a byte offset to slice a string, and it's impossible to convert from a Unicode rune offset to a byte offset without parsing the entire st
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I've still yet to play a smartphone game half as deep as any of the games I played on the original Game Boy as a kid. Modern smartphone games are really not that far removed from Snake on the early Nokia phones: Simple time wasters you
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
http://youtu.be/WgJGc-wRS9g?t=58s Not the best quality, but it works. Interstella 5555 was co-produced by Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999...), by the way, who Daft Punk were hug
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
I spend a lot of time browsing the web each day. I spend very little time using "web apps," and the few that I do use can easily be whitelisted, since I rarely try new ones. Everything else is basically a blog, article, some other
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Seconding this, especially the bit about colored screens. Sometimes, you just need a simple way to get some information up on the screen at a minimal cost to runtime performance and code-complexity. I'd find it hard to believe that any
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That's a little different from the tricks described in the article, though: Not a last-minute hack, but a deliberate space compromise of the kind that these games absolutely were built around. Ever notice that a lot of old games have v
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
>I don't see death as innately undesirable (though the period immediately before it can be painful) Ironically, I was under the impression that dying itself is strangely pleasant and comfortable, while being dead and done forever is
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That portion of the article is referring to clinical depression , not general loneliness and unhappiness. You just demonstrated his point (that people have a hard time seeing mental conditions like bipolar disorders as actual diseases of
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Ok, let me rephrase that: In other words, it's almost as if the average pervert understands the line between fantasy and reality!
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Perhaps "fetish" or "fantasy" would have been a better way to describe it. Plenty of people have fetishes ranging from the distasteful (rape, both from the perspective of the rapist and the victim, cuckolding, etc) to the absolutely bizarre

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