TheZenPsycho

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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
it is not always about whether you can at all. Sometimes it's about power budget- That is, battery drain, etc. Run your lua engine and you have less budget for particle effects. Run all the things and your game drains the battery in 10
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
What's your market? Is it the U.S. or… India? if you put the population of each next to each other, which would you describe as "most people" ?
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
I think the point is you don't generally need something with the extreme power and flexibility of lua to simulate comments like yours. A simple bytecode with 5 or 6 instructions should do. And it'll be performant enough to run on
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
"At the same time, I think you could extract 99% of the performance benefits of the bytecode approach if your language had a well-defined heapless, stackless "tasklet/microthread" subset that centered around mutating exi
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
I've been using make for front-end builds for a while. two tools I've been finding to be indisposable are jq and mustache templates. I made a php based mustache/cli implementation here: https://gist.github.com&#x2F
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
Your point is fine. But the limitations on the iOS side are more significant than you seem to realise. things that I'm aware of that apps can take advantage of: * midi signals * plain audio signals * looking like a usb flash drive to t
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
Is there actually any reason to assume the pace of technological progress from the early 20th century til now, will remain the same in the next 100 years? I find it more likely that technological progress ended around 1980 and what we are d
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
I see this kind of sentiment on Hacker News a lot. I kind of feel like, if you really want to express this thought process, I'd like you to suitably justify that this argument isn't just a smokescreen, disguising your resentment t
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
I remember it back in 1996 when it was called "future splash". the first major website to use it was simpsons.com, with the major selling point that the drawings could be done with vectors and thus be quicker to download than heft
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
there's also the whole thing where a compound eye enables the capture of a full light field, e.g. like the Lytro camera which uses a "plenoptic" system to capture image data that can be re-focused or used to create 3D images
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssi_module.html
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432097 also, which is it. are we on s3 or on a linux server with python?
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
A legitimate problem we're solving by… inventing a new templating language. Did we need a new one to do this? Absolutely none of the hundreds of existing languages could have possibly worked, so let's reinvent SSI with different s
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
So basically, we've gone down a path of solving problems we've created ourselves.
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
or you could just, 'y'know, run SSI. what web server doesn't have SSI? What problem are we actually solving here?
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache make that pretty irrelevant. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_disk_cache.html re:edit hxincl uses a similar style as ssi but with a couple of enhancements: http:&#x2F
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
Maybe you forgot to put on your glasses. What he said was accurate: Both of these games contain within them a 100% accurate recreation of Super Mario Bros. Complete with original graphics and sounds. Just with some other stuff you can do.
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
so wait. are you saying encryption… encryption was invented after 1970?
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
would the way we use computers be completely unrecognisable without those things?
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
This comment is a load of shit, and so since you're happy to dismiss an entire essay without any back up, evidence or argument, I can just as easily dismiss your comment. Hitchen's razor.
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
perhaps it was meant in a different sense- I thought he meant that a "socket" resource shouldn't have the programmer specifying the physical hardware and port number while other programs have the ability of monopolising that
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
Because software actually is kind of hard, and to get anywhere you need to convince a somewhat larger group than one to all work towards the same goal. And how do you know he is not?
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
am I missing something? using safari. All I see is a blank white screen, with a few things that might be "buttons", none of which do anything. It doesn't respond to keypresses. No messages appear saying that my browser might
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
The difference is today, flames are hugely aided by convection. Or in other words, there's a world of harm that can be done by putting a huge number of these malcontents in contact with each other in a way that they can all cooperate
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
nevertheless there are other gems such as hxselect and hxwls
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
OH! I think I like the line format of those even better.
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
You know what makes me sad now? That there doesn't seem to be anything like these for css files- in particular for extracting references to external files and images, and moving a css file from one directory to another while maintainin
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
I found these the other day and I wonder how these have largely slipped under the radar. Of particular interest is hxpipe and hxunpipe which makes "scraping" tasks absurdly easy, by converting html to a form easily manipulatable b
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HTML Command Line Utilities(w3.org)
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by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
Given this post I am actually curious as to whether there are certain edge cases in which a single var statement prevents a semantic error that multiple var statements would hide. This phrase piqued my interest: > variables being hoist

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