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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It could make sense if you are developing a server-side application where you own all the machines that it will run on and can take a cost-benefit analysis of dev time vs. server cost. It makes absolutely no sense when you are selling a pro
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
IIRC for some reason it's typical in Japan to not include chargers with handhelds or even sometimes AC adapters with consoles. For people in the rest of the world, the New 3DS will probably include an adapter.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Good lord, I need a drink now.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
We're talking about real life, not reddit or LessWrong or something. Most people don't want to "debate you" about their affection for pets, they just want to tell you how cute their dog is. And questioning their love for
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You're missing the point. If someone says they love their pet, you just don't ask that kind of question. It's like showing up at a church with a Dawkins book; who cares if you're "right," you still look like an
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That "horror-struck look" doesn't mean "I suddenly realized I don't love my pet as much as I would an actual human child." It means "what the fuck is wrong with this guy, and how can I stop talking to him
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Would you really not play if they give you the option to rebind keys? I've jumped through many worse hoops trying to play Japanese games that I was under no delusions of being the target audience for.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That 1% figure is hilariously wrong, but I agree with your point. Indie game dev is hard. If you "waste" too much time early on doing "the right thing" for tasks that can wait like localization, your game might not make
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
On the other hand, it makes it a bit harder to hit shift and ctrl (crouch and run for certain games), which are usually the most important keys after directions and space for jump.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I've sunk countless hours into FTL, this bundle is worth getting for that alone.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Uh, dynamic linking?
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
And so C++ takes another step towards Lisp.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It also significantly helped that Lua's main users could easily use an older implementation if something they depended on/didn't feel like fixing was removed. In contrast, breaking backwards compatibility for Javascript would
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I didn't say you couldn't write a trivial library to access sleep or chdir, just that I think it's ridiculous to need to do so. You may disagree, and clearly we can still get work done in the language, but IMHO Lua is subopti
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It goes beyond that, though. One of Lua's goals is to be implemented in 100% portable C, to the extent that it has no platform-specific #ifdef's (no #ifdef's at all, actually). This means that to use a lot of incredibly basic
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Your concern doesn't make any sense. Any package manager has to modify LUA_PATH in order for require to work with it in that way (unless it installs libs in /usr/local/lua, which requires admin privileges and isn'
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
http://www.lua.org/pil/8.1.html > To determine its path, require first checks the global variable LUA_PATH. If the value of LUA_PATH is a string, that string is the path. Otherwise, require checks the environment va
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Having reread the Lua manual, `require "lib"' can easily be made to execute `require "luapower/lib/lib.lua"' by adding "luapower/?/?.lua" to LUA_PATH. This is the way the standard
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I thought I recognized the favicon! He's also the guy behind Infiniminer (the primary inspiration for Minecraft) and KOHCTPYKTOP (a game where you design basic digital circuits that I'd like to personally thank him for, for expand
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
But it's arguably easier to package the other way I described, just stick all of the relevant directories into a zip file, instead of needing to manually pick out the "lib.lua" files from the base directory. Literally the onl
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I don't like luapower's approach to package management. Basically it stuffs the contents of packages in the base of a single directory: luapower/lib.lua luapower/additional-files-for-lib/stuff.lua Instead o
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Lua's designers purposefully try to keep the language's standard library vanishingly small to reduce portability issues and the footprint for embedded targets. So for Lua, if no one makes user libraries, you don't have any
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
In case anyone was wondering, that wasn't intended as a snide remark about Javascript. The way the "Gallery requires javascript" message appeared in the middle of the text like it was part of the essay just touched my funny b
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
"I’ve met so many, anarchists to Pentecostalists, Ivy League and Cherokee. I’ve found our diversity shocking. My fellow Americans can be incomprehensible. They say the indefensible. Do the indefensible. I think of that veteran, his str
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Ve?
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Probably even worse than the reduction of PE time is the reduction of playground time and the overbearing focus on child safety ruining what remains. As stereotypical dorky kid, I never liked PE, but I'd happily run around outside for
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
The article and comments ITT suggest that it is not like the existing "Creative Cloud", but instead works like VNC, or perhaps renders UI locally while doing all the actual image editing on a server. If it was all client code, the
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
This is stupid. Latency (which can't be reduced below the speed of light without circumventing the laws of physics) is incredibly detrimental to drawing and digital painting, two of Photoshop's most popular use cases. A frame or
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Maybe if you're playing a 30FPS "cinematic experience." Meanwhile, the hardcore PC FPS gamers with 120hz+ monitors running the game at 2x displayable framerate can't even tolerate the latency from enabling vsync.

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