HeXetic

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by HeXetic 13y ago
Looks fine for me in Firefox (Iceweasel) 23.0 on Linux, even with NoScript having disabled everything on that page.
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by HeXetic 13y ago
Probably this in reference to the steel towers and girders upon which the cameras are mounted.
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by HeXetic 13y ago
Every time one of these things happens, I actively see (employed) game-dev buddies on Facebook publicly advertising jobs at their present companies to their newly laid-off friends. Game developers are still a pretty tight-knit group. It's n
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by HeXetic 13y ago
I consider "L.A. Noire" the modern equivalent of an adventure game. Much of your time is spent walking around crime scenes picking up everything that isn't nailed down. The rest of the time consists of solving the game's "puzzles", which ar
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Isn't this sort of like turning an entire rack into just a big blade server enclosure?
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Agreed, I would move a lot of these things to about:config so that power users can play with them while hiding them from average-Joes.
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Among other things already mentioned, it makes it impossible to be "const pedantic" as Mr. Carmack professes to now be, i.e. declaring everything that is only initialized and then never changed as const. I most certainly am const pedantic a
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Personally, I found some of the horizontal spacing excessive. There were several lines that even forced me to scroll horizontally within VisualStudio (with a few side-panes open, admittedly), despite having a widescreen monitor. I'm pretty
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by HeXetic 14y ago
As someone who has worked with the Doom 3 source code for a mod, I have the opposite opinion. The code very clearly shows a programming team (or programmer) in the process of transitioning from old-school C to C++. Most functions have a hug
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by HeXetic 14y ago
The disclaimer page makes it obvious: http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/ The wording is intensely verbose but basically boils down to: "We made this all up as an art project".
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by HeXetic 14y ago
I meant that even though you appeared to be confusing refresh rate with frame rate, and certainly higher refresh rates made things look a lot better on old CRTs, higher frame rates than the max 60 fps possible on today's average LCDs* actua
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by HeXetic 14y ago
No, not that kind of effect; there is genuine "motion" motion blur available in games in response to rapid movement (e.g., sprinting in Battlefield or Mass Effect - the scenery closest to the player [and therefore moving most rapidly relati
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by HeXetic 14y ago
As micampe said, you're mixing refresh rates with frame rates, but actually you aren't entirely wrong, because I remember the heady days of upgrading my graphics card and having Counter-Strike hit 100-120 frames per second on my 120 Hz CRT
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by HeXetic 14y ago
> there's no blurring in video games at all. Most video games since a few years ago render frames with a degree of artificial motion blur to simulate speed. This is particularly the case with racing games but also exists in first-person
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Kinda important to mention apps when talking about smartphones. Sure, you can buy Angry Birds (or whatever) again for $0.99 if you switch platforms, but will you buy all of your apps again? And what if you really like an app that's only
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Highly successful Playstation titles tend to roll over into being re-released as "greatest hits" editions for about $20 in a year or so. The list is fairly extensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_%28budget_range%...
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Wow the original title for this submission, "How to Recruit Women into Tech: A Madison Ruby case study", completely missed the mark and I am glad it was changed.
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by HeXetic 14y ago
I can understand taking over an abandoned mall to make a "Zombie Theme Park" like was done in the UK http://www.zedevents.co.uk/the-mall/ but 200 acres is pretty big, and outdoors makes everything more complicated.
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Even better, the Atlantic's photo articles like this can be navigated with the arrow keys to go from one photo to the next.
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by HeXetic 14y ago
The registers aren't shared here, but the main memory is. The example has each thread write '1' into a [shared, main] memory location and then read the other thread's memory location into a register. If both CPUs' registers are 0, that mean
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by HeXetic 14y ago
I looked it up: In Firefox 11 and newer, punch in about:config in the URL bar, then find network.http.spdy.enabled and turn it on.
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by HeXetic 14y ago
Kinda crummy article to mention that SPDY is actually present in earlier Firefox versions, but just turned off. How about telling us how we can turn it on?
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by HeXetic 14y ago
That's not a "nice rebuttal", that's some bullet points spat back. Whereas the original linked article in this discussion provides some context and explanation, the bullet points in your second link are meaningless to the layperson (e.g, me
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by HeXetic 15y ago
Gpyroc is drywall, and that is used for interior walls, not exterior walls. Most (non-mobile) homes in the US & Canada are either brick veneer over wooden frame, or double-brick construction where the bricks bear the structural weight t
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by HeXetic 15y ago
Because the Economist's point is that so much of the potential tax revenue is getting excluded due to loopholes that eliminating those loopholes without reducing the marginal tax rate at the same time would amount to an enormous wallop. May
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by HeXetic 15y ago
You are misquoting the article, which actually proposes to "boost the tax take from the wealthy by eliminating loopholes while simultaneously lowering marginal rates." In other words, make the rich actually pay more by eliminating loopholes