Kenji

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by Kenji 10y ago
Yeah, very true. The algorithm to solve the cube is simple. The accomplishment here is the mechanical part.
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by Kenji 10y ago
The nostalgia! I programmed my first game in my early teens in AS2! Those were the days... Hehe. I think Macromedia Flash/ActionScript 2.0 were the perfect tools to get started with programming, I was really lucky. I don't think I
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by Kenji 10y ago
You can churn out a complete HTML5/JavaScript game in 2 evenings. Granted, you have to import images and don't have the convenience of just drawing something and making a MovieClip out of it. However, fundamentally, it's very
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by Kenji 10y ago
But if most customers buy all those games anyways, why should they change their methods? If Windows sells, why should you make Linux? If iPhones sell, why should you make Android phones? If gasoline cars sell, why should you make electric
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by Kenji 10y ago
I think the key here is Form follows function Many gamedevs don't get this. The underlying mechanics form the core gameplay. You can always make the story, looks and characters fit, but if your game mechanics are boring and broken, o
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by Kenji 10y ago
You have that problem with all executables that are not distributed through an audited packet manager (or another safe channel). If you directly download any executable for linux, or apks for android, you have the exact same problem.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I hate how intrusive the Windows Defender is, it automatically deleted some executables of mine I know to be clean (false positives). Just disable that beast entirely, seriously (group policy or regedit). Makes your PC much snappier. Defend
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by Kenji 10y ago
Probably some form of dithering, I'd guess. I'm curious myself.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I disagree. I think things like Wikileaks and independent, small blogs and feeds contributed a vast amount to this election - knowledge about Clinton that we would have never had otherwise. (And I say this as someone who supported neither c
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by Kenji 10y ago
Let's be frank here: Free speech and facebook never go together. They want to present as a respectable forum where prominent people like politicians can have their platform (same with Twitter). That needs some kind of filtering. And, a
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by Kenji 10y ago
That sounds fantastic! I've recently been looking at mechanical keyboards again (Cherry-MX blue switches, I have browns at the moment) and those are quite noisy. An algorithm to detect and filter keyboard noise could benefit millions o
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by Kenji 10y ago
See? C is so intuitive : )
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by Kenji 10y ago
I knew it was Undefined Behaviour, but I played along and tried to guess what it would return on GCC/Windows/x86/no optimisation, in the assumption that the author is clueless about UB and just ran some tests and did a quiz a
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by Kenji 10y ago
The opposite is if you visit a really technical university that teaches you theoretical computer science, compiler design, information theory, etc. and the job interviewer asks you about Java 8 implementation details and you have no clue be
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by Kenji 10y ago
Statistics have actually shown that only a very, very small part of votes was both misspelled and ambiguous in such a way that it became invalid.
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by Kenji 10y ago
No, there was an article about it in the newspapers. It's actually really simple. If there is any doubt, it doesn't count. Otherwise, they'll count it as what you meant. It works beautifully.
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by Kenji 10y ago
What do you mean, "ridiculous" "rumour"? Do you not accept the authenticity of DKIM-authenticated Wikileaks e-mails? It is written there, black on white, byte for byte. EDIT: Just to clarify. The e-mail in question speci
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by Kenji 10y ago
In Switzerland, people write themselves Yes or No in the appropriate field, or they write the names of the people they vote for (misspellings will still be counted, unless two candidates have similar names and it's hard to make out w
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by Kenji 10y ago
90+ hour weeks barely even occasion comment I don't believe it. 90+ is absolutely insane. If you are working this much, you seriously have to reevaluate your life choices - living under a bridge is probably healthier for you.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, I noticed that the hard way. I now moved off JavaScript and went back to classic C++ game programming. I like it much more at this lower level with fine-grained control.
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by Kenji 10y ago
#11: Your user's browser has the final say in all matters of timing. Whatever you do, ultimately, if the browser decides that something has to be computed on your main JS thread while you are trying to hit frames and timings, you'
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by Kenji 10y ago
They usually stop being useful when they destroy you from the inside and make you do things you'd never do in a normal mood range. But what he says has a nice ring to it, in line with all the modern self-help nonsense.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Maybe it's a systemic problem and they neglected quality control after previous successes. A classic example of why you should never neglect quality control. The alternative costs more by orders of magnitude.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Know-how has to be maintained. Knowledge has to be passed down to the apprentices and juniors. Otherwise it is lost over time and has to be rediscovered/reinvented, often by failures like in the article. Technological progress is never
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by Kenji 10y ago
And although all the world’s major faiths teach love That's not what I see when I look into the holy books. Let's be frank here, faith and religion are still the tools to turn ordinary people into genocidal maniacs.
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by Kenji 10y ago
That's not what I'm arguing about. They're also no worse than the side effects (from depression severe enough to cause suicide to life-threatening complications and yes, permanent infertility) that women on various forms of
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by Kenji 10y ago
This is nonsense. Many women even benefit from the contraception (I mean, beside the obvious benefit of contraception). I know of women who had horrific pain during that time every month, and with contraceptives, they regained control over
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by Kenji 10y ago
Democracy is dead. The political class spits on your vote and laughs, and you can do nothing about it. Welcome to the 21st century.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I am super happy with my Lenovo T450s - it's sturdy, has a super crisp, beautiful IPS display, very long battery life, trackpoint. The only bad thing about it is that the speakers point downwards into the table, but I rarely use them a
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by Kenji 10y ago
Probably because anaesthesia has significant risks, and even if it was safe, most people would spend the first few hours on arrival puking (a very common side effect of anaesthesia).

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