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by _frog 10y ago
It's definitely possible to run something like hq3x in real time, and many emulators support that, though I'm not sure if RetroPie specifically makes it easy to configure that stuff. Though I'd argue that algorithmically smoo
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by _frog 10y ago
Have you checked out RetroPie, the distribution mentioned in the article? In my experience, using a PS3 controller with that consisted of connecting the controller via a USB cable, selecting 'configure controller' from the main me
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by _frog 10y ago
Apple's giving developers the ability to offer trial periods for subscriptions. In their example an app that bills monthly could offer either a week or month long trial period to users.
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by _frog 10y ago
I think you're perhaps overthinking it. Is it so hard to imagine that maybe a) developing his app for multiple platforms requires more development effort than he alone is capable of and b) he chooses to allocate the effort he can produ
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by _frog 11y ago
The intent behind the remakes of Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle comes from a spirit of preservationism more than anything. The idea was to make these games easily purchasable and playable by modern audiences while kee
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Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript(eev.ee)
48 points by _frog 11y ago|12 comments
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by _frog 11y ago
> It's called having a preference. I love PC gaming, so I call console gamers "peasants" Don't you consider this maybe a bit childish and petty? Having a preference is one thing, but that's no excuse for being di
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by _frog 11y ago
A fun little fact: the name 'Shinra' is a reference to the Shinra Corporation from Final Fantasy VII, one of Square-Enix's most beloved games.
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by _frog 11y ago
The problem here isn't with JavaScript in particular, but the complete lack of other options. When you're limited to a single language, what you end up with is a software engineering monoculture.
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by _frog 11y ago
Funny you should mention that. Quoting Apple's own docs: > Objective-C lightweight generics are ignored by Swift. Any other types using lightweight generics are imported into Swift as if they were unparameterized.[1] So it doesn&#x2
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by _frog 12y ago
Are you talking about the thing where going fullscreen places the video in a new virtual desktop? Because if that's the case I vastly prefer that behaviour. It makes it much easier to jump back and forth between watching a fullscreen v
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by _frog 12y ago
I actually distinctly remember getting a copy of Metal Gear Solid 2 and being confused why I couldn't start the game. Hitting any button on the splash screen would take you to the menu, and then hitting X from there would take you back
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by _frog 12y ago
It seems like Sony, being a Japanese company, originally intended for O to represent yes, and X to represent no. If you look at a lot of early PlayStation games, or most modern games released in Japan, that convention is apparent. The O and
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by _frog 12y ago
That may be the case, but there's many contexts where you'd use this button where you can't alter the page's CSS. Perhaps the prime example being GitHub READMEs.
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by _frog 12y ago
I'm not sure if there's been any changes regarding signing, but I can confirm that VirtualBox has been working fine through Vagrant for me.
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by _frog 12y ago
I've had luck installing most Ruby gems used by my projects. The only exception so far has been Nokogiri, and even in that case there were instructions on the project's web page that got it to install without a hitch.
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by _frog 12y ago
And regardless, there's unlikely to be overlap between the markets for these two products. HealthKit.com is somewhat hard to navigate, but the impression I get is that their product is aimed at medical practitioners. I doubt they overl
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by _frog 12y ago
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here about what Apple's HealthKit is. HealthKit is simply the name for the API framework Apple is making available to developers, following in the naming conventions of UIKit, WebKit, Sp
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by _frog 12y ago
The second example how OS X has handled dropdown menus for some time now and it feels like a perfect compromise. Menus will pop in instantly, and fade away when they're dismissed.
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by _frog 12y ago
Unfortunately group chats don't work with their Jabber implementation, so you'll still need to visit the site for those.
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by _frog 12y ago
That's a very cool idea, but its application seems limited to games with clear 'level' screens. Recently I've been watching speedruns of Ocarina of Time as well as Metroid Prime and neither of those have obvious indicato
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by _frog 12y ago
I also picked this up after seeing it on Game Grumps. The combination of the game looking pretty interesting and them being really bad at it convinced me to just pick it up and finish it myself.
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The Trap You Set For Yourself(blog.codinghorror.com)
125 points by _frog 13y ago|30 comments
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by _frog 13y ago
Nintendo recently remade The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the Wii U, upgrading models and textures, and improving the lighting model in a bunch of ways. They even went as far as tweaking sections of the game that were met with widesp
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by _frog 13y ago
Worth noting though, a lot of the value of GitHub in particular, and to a lesser extent many other services, are extra features like issue trackers, wikis and so on that act to lock you in.
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by _frog 13y ago
Oddly enough it didn't bother me when I was reading it, but now it's messed up my colour perception and everything looks pink.
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by _frog 13y ago
That's actually very interesting. The UIKit framework that powers most iOS apps uses a similar approach in its collection and table view classes, which is one of the reasons that scrolling managed to be so smooth even on the limited ha
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by _frog 13y ago
Not quite, the replaceState() function, as its name would imply, replaces a history item instead of creating a new one.
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by _frog 13y ago
I really liked Discourse's approach to infinite scrolling[1], it updates the URL as you go with the History API's replaceState() function so you can safely navigate away from the page without losing your position. [1]: http:&#x2F
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by _frog 13y ago
If we're highlighting great LPs, I'll have to throw in a recommendation for ChipCheezum's LPs of the Metal Gear Solid games. The humour is spot on, and the games themselves are covered in exhaustive detail. His LPs of Mega Ma

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