Torwald

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541.
by Torwald 8y ago
I would focus on killing latency in the UI. Make every button as responsive as a hardware button. (This probably requires innovation in display technology.)
542.
Why I WON'T switch to Linux for video production.. ever? (vide0)(youtube.com)
3 points by Torwald 8y ago|1 comments
543.
by Torwald 8y ago
> …just depends on how deeply you are aligned with the goals of the platform. Here is the problem though: The platform of platforms, then, is politics, if we want to keep biology out of the picture. And the thing with politics these days
544.
by Torwald 8y ago
Because it's two disciplines. The moment you have to decide wether to "generalize this" or not, you are a game designer, not a coder anymore. Completely different headspace. So, path of least resistance is to continue coding
545.
by Torwald 8y ago
On macOS it doesn't let you open all PDFs and I wouldn't know why, expect maybe file size.
546.
by Torwald 8y ago
There is a SNES version. http://www.snesfun.com/play/prince-of-perisa/1470
547.
by Torwald 8y ago
> But both console systems had more colours on screen The Amiga had HAM-mode with over 4000 colors! > But this never seemed to actually translate into games that look better. I think this has more to do with the production culture. At
548.
by Torwald 8y ago
This is not weird. The fact you both have worked for the same place makes it more likely that you end up in the same online community as well, not less likely.
549.
by Torwald 8y ago
This is way too long for an elevator pitch.
550.
by Torwald 8y ago
> Both of those platforms were a fair bit more technically advanced than the Amiga in many respects Can you elaborate on that?
551.
by Torwald 8y ago
Think about the fashion industry, how they re-discover styles again and again. Sometimes millennia old styles. This will happen with all those nice 8bit- and 18bit-machine's graphics too.
552.
by Torwald 8y ago
> I would love a web where you can comment with your forum circle on any URI available on internet. This would be automatically available if hyperlinks were two way connections. All that would be needed is a culture of linking to what yo
553.
by Torwald 8y ago
> There's several browser plugins that work that way, I think the main obstacle is you need everyone on it. That was the basic decision of making hyperlinks work one way, instead of two way like it was envisioned by others, eg Ted N
554.
by Torwald 8y ago
Well, "2 clicks" is a bit of hyperbole, but in the spirit of your comment, yes, things improved even over that. The free hosting schemes available today are much more powerful. Just think about what you can do with a Google accoun
555.
by Torwald 8y ago
Different servers are linked to with the system of federation. If you set up your own, you also choose to what other servers you connect to. So, no, you are not shutting yourself out. But you have to manage your federalization.
556.
by Torwald 8y ago
The idea behind HN is to prove your assertions wrong. I would say at least until now it is working well.
557.
by Torwald 8y ago
> rarely speak with the drivers because it feels so awkward and strange If you decide to not do something just because it feels strange, you will limit your growth in many ways. Everything you haven't done very often feels strange.
558.
by Torwald 8y ago
No, they aren't. A free market capitalism will always work for the greater good of humanity, except when it gets distorted by (inhuman) outside forces, like for example the state.
559.
by Torwald 8y ago
First, we don't have a free market capitalism, so you don't know that. Second, you also don't know wether humanity and capitalism are at odds. I'de wager they aren't.
560.
by Torwald 8y ago
Thank you for this comment. This is one of the things I like on HN, people think profoundly.
561.
by Torwald 8y ago
Typically the MBA types who maintain the company's ledger.
562.
by Torwald 8y ago
So you are marketing your VM data center by talking about how a specific group of non-marketers suck at marketing? That's bad marketing. You need to produce communication that reaches those people, who are interested in VM data centers
563.
by Torwald 8y ago
I still don't get what makes the 5 digits year count "clever" then. You think humanity will not be there in 8k years, ok, but how does that make the 5 digits clever?
564.
by Torwald 8y ago
> BTW I find the use of 5 digits for years (02018) very clever! Why?
565.
by Torwald 8y ago
At ~2:20min he says that the realistic nightsky didn't add anything to the game. I was instantly reminded of Elite2:frontier and why it didn't really amaze as much as the predecessor did.
566.
by Torwald 8y ago
Read the sibling comment to see for how wrong and right you are. That aside, I disagree with your statement that these religions don't hide anything. Christians, Freemasons, Wiccans and others all have their secrets, their mysterion. N
567.
by Torwald 8y ago
Thank you very much! I appreciate your help. (I didn't see this comment before I replied to your other one.)
568.
by Torwald 8y ago
I don't think it is a horror story. If true, it would be a way to deal with the past. I think this is a standard in religion, to walk a way on which you deal with your own past up to a state of completion. I can see that a dealing with
569.
by Torwald 8y ago
Not necessarily unique, since the other commenter seemed to know what I was referring to. That, or he knows about some anti-Wiccan Evangelical folklore, which I in turn wouldn't know of. What I have heard is that Witches who would turn
570.
by Torwald 8y ago
The problem is you can't really know wether somebody tells the truth about his own religion. I'd really like to know IF these anti-christianity rituals I've heard of are OLDER than the peace sign as anti-nuclear power symbol

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