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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
Alternatively, keep calling it a donation and let people donate whatever they want, with $9 as the minimum. A good RSS reader is worth a lot more than $9 a year to some people.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
This page brings back memories: Back in high school, I spent a few slow weeks in the back row of Physics class planning and working out some of the math behind a Military Madness/Nectaris clone for the TI-84+. I wasn't as clever as the peop
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
No kidding. The effective PPI (number of dots that make up the display / size of the image being projected onto your retinas) of a large TV viewed at a distance is pretty high, though, so both "retina displays" and large, low-resolution T
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
That, and lack of operating system support for high PPI displays. A friend of mine has his PC hooked up to a plasma TV, and it's absolutely astounding how poorly Windows 7's UI element scaling "feature" works, in 2013.
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
For the time being, here is Google's cached version of the page, sadly missing the images. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.kwa...
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by ANTSANTS 13y ago
A similarly off-topic question: Why isn't "automatically crop margins" a standard feature on all PDF viewers? I don't care if it perfectly matches the way the PDF is supposed to look printed out, I just want to read the paper. I can scroll
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Oops, you're right, I was looking at the wrong process in htop: the "go run test.go" process used to build and launch it, not the actual test process, which indeed burned up memory very quickly (but not fast enough to crash when I ran it fo
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Dispatching a table of functions should have roughly similar performance to dispatching a large switch table, yes, but implementing opcodes as a table of functions allows you restructure your bytecode interpreter in a way that significantly
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What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow")(jmoiron.net)
283 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|192 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
1. There are numerous userscripts that let you select a default video quality. I use YousableTubeFix, which also adds video download links and a number of fine-grained interface tweaks (heck, you can even remove the comment section complete
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
http://imgur.com/dvHjJoa Granted, this is on Linux, but I think it's only a matter of whether or not your font has glyphs for the emoji characters -- correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see a technical reason to treat emoji differently f
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The most evil anti-piracy measure in any game: http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-protec... The article claims that it would only happen to experienced ROM hackers, but I could easily see some lazy bootleggers only fixi
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I've got little to add to the larger discussion, but you know, this is kind of funny: I can ignore all kinds of crap that people on the internet get riled up over, and even the occasional personal insult, no sweat, but your assessment of Ki
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Don't forget Space Invaders (1978). The four note background drone speeds up a little bit with each alien you kill (along with the aliens themselves, of course).
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
You are not alone. I picked up enough C syntax to write trivial programs like the "guess the number" game in it around age 13 or so, and I already understood the concept of a pointer or memory address from reading about (but not actually pr
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Literally, yes. It's arguably much more readily apparent that code is just data when programming in assembly than in any other environment. It's all bytes, and you're forced to accept that from day 1. You aren't going to have the expressive
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Agreed, to me it seems that something like this has the potential to become the "Bandcamp for games." Steam, even with Greenlight, is intended to host a curated selection of games. That is part of (or at least it traditionally was) Steam's
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
RSS and Google Reader itself has an awareness problem. These are just anecdotes, but I introduced Google Reader to multiple profoundly nontechnical friends and family members over the years. Literally every single one of them immediately fe
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
1. You could still be targeted just for wearing such a device in the wrong place, then. 2. Do you really hope for each and everything you see to be uploaded to a remote server?
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Natural Selection 2 Postmortem(gamasutra.com)
3 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I don't think programming in assembly language for modern architectures (x86-64 as implemented by the latest Intel/AMD chips) will ever be as fun as doing so for microcontrollers or embedded devices, because it's almost impossible to keep a
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Chromium has this feature as well. I do miss Firefox's ability to set a different font for pages written in different languages though, if only for viewing silly SJIS art...
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Lua and Squirrel: The Case for Squirrel(computerscomputing.wordpress.com)
3 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Really cool related project: A re-implementation of the original OutRun engine in C++. http://reassembler.blogspot.com/ http://reassembler.blogspot.co.uk/p/cannonball-open-source-o... https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I emphatically disagree, you just ruined Derek's pixel art. Are you the kind of person that plays emulated games with 2xSai/HQ2X filters? Here's some way more pixelated, color-limited, and dithered artwork. Would you blur or median filter
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram If you happen to have a Nintendo DS, Nintendo made some excellent nonogram games for it under the "Picross" label, including one that translates the gameplay into three dimensions! Be careful, though
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'd imagine bank-switching a large ROM into 32 KiB of address space imposes constraints similar to those imposed by loading data from a slow-as-molasses 2X CD-ROM drive into 2 MiB of RAM.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120912025847/http://q-gears...
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Cores don't like to share(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
2 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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Garbage Collection and Memory Allocation Sizes(altdevblogaday.com)
3 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments

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