Ogre

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by Ogre 14y ago
I googled it, they dumped the friends feature in 2010. Given that it took a year and a half for me to notice, it's hard to fault them too much. http://blog.netflix.com/2010/03/friends-update.html
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by Ogre 14y ago
Didn't they do this already, once upon a time? I know that in the pre-streaming disc only era, I used to have "friends" on Netflix and could send and read reviews of movies, and get recommendations based on what my friends had watched. I
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by Ogre 14y ago
I've posted that link once or twice before (once or twice literally, not sarcastically), it wouldn't surprise me if I was replying to you in one of those instances :) Here, I found it, we both posted in this thread, but not to each other:
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by Ogre 14y ago
It's typical in game development to disable both exceptions and RTTI entirely. dynamic_cast is out on either of those counts. std::almost_everything is out due to exceptions. EA released a GPL'd "EASTL" library a few years ago for those a
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by Ogre 14y ago
"Games are one area where the patent system actually works well." I have to disagree here. Games have all the same patent issues as other kinds of software. See for example: http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/9/15/3337632/hearing-dat...
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by Ogre 14y ago
"LTE fragmentation means that AT&T customers using an iPhone 5 in Europe, for example, won’t be able to take advantage of LTE speeds while abroad and will instead get kicked down to the 3G network." How spoiled are people that they can
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by Ogre 14y ago
RemoveFromList is a private method. All the public methods, other than the destructor, that call it also modify m_prevLink.
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by Ogre 14y ago
Or that when the NPCs in our hyper-realistic video games start creating their own video games we'll run out of stack space.
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by Ogre 14y ago
Unreal's Kismet ( http://www.unrealengine.com/features/kismet/ ) has been quite successful. There are a lot of little bits of scripting that go into a game where this kind of language makes perfect sense. Make a whole game with a visual la
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by Ogre 14y ago
There's not an answer on there I could honestly choose if I'd taken that survey. I would have voted No. But I am on both services, I do understand how it works, and I am not scared of scams. I just don't see why I should - creating an acc
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by Ogre 14y ago
Just a little while ago a family member who has signed up for a Coursera statistics course was asking if I could help "Download an R program". It took me a minute to figure out she really did mean the programming language, she didn't tell
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by Ogre 14y ago
There's really only one extension Chrome needs to get me to switch. Currently that extension is called Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. There have been variations on the theme like Smart Bookmarks Toolbar and others, which may or may n
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by Ogre 14y ago
Pipes is maybe the only yahoo product I actually use. It's only for one frivolous thing though. Failblog (part of Cheezeburger I think? Doesn't really matter) Used to have a sub-blog called Hacked IRL. They shut it down a while back, b
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by Ogre 14y ago
This is not exactly true. It's true that you wouldn't break your OS install by switching power off at random times, but if you had something in the middle of writing a file to disk, then it was sure as hell going to leave that file half wr
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by Ogre 14y ago
I ran into it accidentally just the other day, but all it told me was that I couldn't use it while debugging a multi-threaded program. I was immediately both elated and disappointed in the feature, since nearly all the C++ programs I work
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by Ogre 14y ago
Well, the main reason I would choose Google over Caltrans is that it really never occurred to me to go to Caltrans' site. Who expects a government site to be worth a damn? Snarkiness aside, I've looked at Caltrans now, and Google has more
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by Ogre 14y ago
When people talk about SpaceX being a private company, I have to wonder how different it really is from a government run space program when every single dollar of income they have comes from the US government (via NASA. I'd be happy to to
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by Ogre 14y ago
I thought this app was pretty amazing. I watched the landing all the way down with this and NASA TV going. I didn't even notice it had opened a non-browser application until after the landing. But I'm confused - the About dialog is just
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by Ogre 14y ago
And Close Encounters, and Saturday Night Fever, which both have blue-ish posters here: http://www.imdb.com/list/_EcfN1DMzJQ/ Also The Deep, which isn't on that list but did pretty well so likely had a lot of posters. All of which would b
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by Ogre 14y ago
60 Problems You Can Solve in BASIC, or something close to that. It was orange. Google doesn't know about it. My dad paid me a dollar for each one I solved. I think I did about 40 of them. Now that I think about it, that was also my firs
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by Ogre 14y ago
In this case, a direct link to the site ( http://paralleluniverse.co/ ) would be better. There is actual information there. To be fair, the first two words of the TC article were a link to the site. Signal to Noise over the first couple
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by Ogre 14y ago
It's being marketed as a database technology, but from a game development perspective it sounds more like "Engine" technology. The lines are admittedly blurry sometimes, but this doesn't seem to offer durability of data, which is what I th
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by Ogre 14y ago
c) Associate your real email address with your FB account Facebook gets an email address I don't use anywhere else. No one has me listed in their contacts under the only email address facebook knows for me (well, I presume. It's not hard
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by Ogre 14y ago
Hey thanks for that. I wasn't aware I could type smaller sizes into the font selector. It doesn't seem to work very well though. iTerm2 still renders a scaled font when I do that. Terminal does render the bitmap font, but bold text is a
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by Ogre 14y ago
There's another option. You can get a third party utility like SwitchResX ($, but the free ones didn't work very well when I tried them) and run your display at native resolution. Yes, you get a full 2880x1800 desktop, and yes, some thing
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by Ogre 14y ago
I used this topographic map app for iOS while hiking the Appalachain Trail last year: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/topo-maps/id306014271?mt=8 It's currently $7.99, and I felt like it was worth every penny. That $8 gets you unlimited do
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by Ogre 14y ago
Another exception, mixed Python and C/C++ debugging is apparently possible in gdb these days: http://misspent.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/debugging-cc-and-cp... I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet, I only heard about it a couple of d
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by Ogre 14y ago
I was sure I'd seen the Geek Spots one on HN before, so here, I found it: http://nerdydaytrips.com/ Also though in tracking that down, I found this enormous (2300+!) catalog of Google Maps mashups: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/goog
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by Ogre 14y ago
I work in an industry where C++ still rules. I haven't ever written more than a few lines of Java. However, here's a job posting from our web team: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id... Java is the only languag
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by Ogre 14y ago
Its age relative to what? Python is older by any measure, and the first public release of Ruby was only 7 months after Java's. Java certainly had a higher profile than either at the time, but they're all from essentially the same period.

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