CJefferson

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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   This talk by Jonathan Blow (author of Braid) has totally changed how I think about writing games, and certainly since I listened to it I've got much closer to finishing any of my personal projects than I have in years, hopefully will releas
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   It had a slight iPhone success. ~5,000 copies, never got very much publicity despite an average review of about 4.5, now taken down I'm afraid. I'm currently playing around doing a HTML (DOM, not 5) version. Unfortunately I don't have as mu
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   10 years or so ago, when I was a game programmer, I used to have the same "I've got an idea for a game" problems. Most ideas were useless, some were poorly thought out "Like X but Y", for example "Like Command and Conquer but set in space";
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   The amiga is a fasinating example. The various processors did give the Amiga amazing performance, but they also made it very difficult to update the Amiga hardware as time went on, as apps were tuned to the exact number of cycles which woul
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   Quite a few OS X games, particularly the ones from very large companies, use a DirectX wrapper, like Cider. While they are technically running on OpenGL, the coders wrote DirectX
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   While there are many positive stories about Macs on the internet, I wonder how close to reality that is. I only have one experience - a 3 month old Macbook's USB ports all stopped working. I went into the nearest Apple store and they said i
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   Are you referring to this line? "Check for SSH keys. Have an existing key pair? You can skip to Step 4" I think many people might not know what that means. Also, why does the next step tell you to move any key pairs you already have, if you
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   Out of interest (serious question), do you know why someone would already have files, unless they were an existing key pair? Shouldn't step 2 say, if you already have any files, "Wow, something is up, what are these files doing here?". Alte
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   by CJefferson 15y ago

   That is I think a sign of bad writing on my part. I certainly didn't write this to be on hacker news, I just wrote it because I was suprised how hard, and possibly dangerous, github's newbie guide is (I have now clarified that I am talking
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    You don't think blindly telling people to move their ssh private key, if it already exists, might lead to newbs breaking their computers? Certainly it would have broken mine if I had done it.
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    Problems With Github(chris-jefferson.blogspot.com)

    3 points by CJefferson 15y ago|10 comments
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    If people, and in particular libraries like jquery, didn't specialise for IE, many websites would be unreadable and leak so much memory they would rapidly crash IE.
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Most people would consider it Google's fault if their main page crashed Internet Explorer, even though it would technically be IE's fault. The internet is full of compromises. Also in this case, even if Google Instant wasn't crashing Jaws,
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    I wish people like cnn would do more research, or ask an encryption expert. I could produce a dozen encryption systems which are fatally flawed, yet impossible to hack given only a page or so of encrypted text. The challenge comes when peop
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    After 30 seconds of googling, I can get the "LG GT540 Optimus" unlocked for $129, and it can be updated to Android 2.3. This phone certainly isn't the cheapest android phone, so I'm not sure what it's selling point is.
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    I'm not sure what BT.500 certification is, but I can certainly tell the difference on some (not all) images, when recomposed. Are you attached to JPEGmini? If so, would you be willing to bet that I cannot tell if a photo of my choice has go
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    While I sympathise deeply with the author, I find this post really annoying. Firstly, it doesn't tell me anything. I suspect long-term readers will know exactly what 'Mean Website 1' and 'Mean Website 2' are. Without that information it see
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Thank you, that tempts me to go and look at perl. At the moment I tend to use simple awk, or a full python script. I find python really doesn't lend itself to "one line", or even particularly short, programs however. I keep meaning to go ba
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    It's certainly easier to remember.. what's the lane?
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    While Mac OS X is unix underneath, Apple are not open-source friendly. They have not updated gcc in about 5 years, and even though they now provide clang, they still provide no C++0x support, unlike linux and windows. The various package ma
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    I actually wonder if instead, Apple might be peaking. I remember seeing, in academia, a lot of macbooks appearing around about when Mac OS X 10.1 first came out. This then later seems to have spread. In a possibly similar way, I now see a l
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Yes, I also find this the major thing holding me back from HTML presentations. I wrote a HTML presentation for a conference and didn't realise this was a problem until I came to present it, and found out there doesn't seem to be any way to
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    I feel that at least telling them they are in for a hard slog, is a good idea. I've wasted at least a couple of months, using vim as my standard editor, before giving up and going to something else. Vim's "jump to compiler error" tends to g
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    You would call those standard? What other applications use those?
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, but it uses ctags, which simply chokes on boost.
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Certainly they are all in vim, I wouldn't suggest it can't do all those things! But, I have to use lots of programs every day, and my "muscle memory" allows me to get a lot of consistent functionality out of all the programs I use. Whenever
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    What about things I know how to do in every app I ever use: Cut, Copy, Paste, Find, Find Next, Replace, Load, Save, Print, New Document, Undo, Redo. All of those things are standard in all mac apps, except vim of course. It occurs to me (ju
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Does it work with the boost headers? Or member functions? Eclipse and VS can handle these both with ease. If you think it does, I'd be interested to know your setup, as I've never been able to get such a thing to work effectively in vim.
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Yes, but vim doesn't do code completion or have refactoring support, which is something I like in my IDE. Before someone tells me it does, I've had competent vim users try to get C++ support set up for me before, and it is almost worse than
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    by CJefferson 15y ago

    Yes, that aspect of operator overloading is nasty. I think one thing that makes operator overloading worse is that there are few reasons to use 'add()' rather than 'addUser()', but once you decide to use operator overloading, there are limi