Fr0styMatt

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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
This makes a lot of sense. It's something that I feel is changing nowadays thankfully.
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
I wonder if this is a 'Valley' or just a 'Startup' thing as it doesn't seem too common here in Australia in the part of the industry that I work in (defence and now gaming); though maybe I'm just lucky and have
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
What's this in reference to? (genuinely curious)
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
On a 3rd gen iPad here and by far my biggest issue has been that multiple background downloads (a batch of app updates or track downloads from the store for example) will more often than not cause the whole device to deadlock, with the only
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
I'm taking Zoloft for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and I totally agree. Medication and cognitive therapy are both important parts of a treatment whole.
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
THIS^ Incidentally, would this bug have been flagged by a compiler warning?
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
For anyone with access to an Oculus Rift, I can't recommend "Titans of Space" highly enough. It brought me to tears. The sense of scale you get is utterly amazing. http://www.crunchywood.com/
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
In what way is using LLVM bitcode (PNaCL) at all similar to ActiveX? Yeah yeah I get it. I like asm.js as much as the next person; I just wish this whole PNaCl-is-ActiveX meme would seriously go away. It's willful ignorance. FWIW, I
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
"Non-bricklayers can make relatively accurate comparisons between two wall-building projects. " I would dispute the 'relatively accurate' assumption. My father works in construction and it's often the case that wh
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
I feel really sorry for them too, but from the FDA's letter I got the impression that 23andMe just stopped working with the regulator altogether, even though they were given the opportunity to do so. If that is the case, that's r
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Do you have references? I'm curious; I've tried Googling but don't get a lot about the hoax part of it. Would be really interested in that story - the last I ever heard fractal compression being mentioned was to do with jpeg
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
While it would seem that getters and setters vs public fields are very similar, there's a catch at least in the C# world - if you have a raw public field and later decide to change it to a property, that breaks your public interface an
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Udacity has a nice looking WebGL intro course: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
I've thought about that a lot as I also have the same tendency. What I've concluded (for me at least) is that it's just EASIER to get started writing an engine than to write a good game, so you end up working on the engine o
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
I guess it's a balance between over and under-engineering. The thing is, more often that not the person coming along to do 'external modifications' to that code is actually you, a few months after you wrote it. You can adopt
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Since we're talking about Carmack in this thread.... Fabien Sanglard does some excellent reviews of code from ID... see for example: http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/ There's actually a movement that studies c
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
This right here is where we start to mix up two totally different things by using the same words for them. This thread is talking about two completely different types of Equals; we shouldn't be using the same word for them and certainl
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Freaking zoom disable is the most pointless thing ever put in a mobile browser, ever.
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
I think we can somewhat offer Google the benefit of the doubt here too. It's likely that there's someone else targeting Google's algorithm to get that spammy video suggested to as many people as possible. As you (mcphilip) s
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Why do people keep saying that PNaCL is like ActiveX, when it's nothing of the sort? Is this a failing on Google's PR?
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
He does address the high-frequency sound thing though. Basically, your laptop speaker will be lucky to transmit at near 20KHz and your laptop microphone would be even less likely to be able to pick up any ultrasonics that are supposedly be
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
FWIW by the way, I don't get all the JavaScript hate either, other than perhaps it's from people who erroneously think they don't have any choice except to use JavaScript on the client side. From what I've seen of JS as
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Ah, I stand corrected, thanks. Makes sense; I think I had something about private vars in JavaScript and closures running through my head and confused it with 'JavaScript does OO with closures' :)
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Ah, thanks for the link. It's easy to forget how small the RAM budgets still are in some parts of the embedded world.
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
So, a question. Why does the industry use something like C? Even with the MISRA guidelines, it still seems like the wrong tool for the job when you have things out there like Erlang, which are designed for fault-tolerance and concurrency fr
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
Not really, from what I gather it's closer to a functional language that lets you implement objects with private data by using closures.
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by Fr0styMatt 13y ago
^THIS TIMES A MILLION! Static typing, with good type inference, is awesome. Old-school C static typing, is not.