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by a_e_k 10y ago
The "natural language" programming thing has been done a few times. HyperTalk comes to mind for one example.
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by a_e_k 10y ago
As I understand it, this is basically an open source clone of The Foundry's Nuke software. Nuke is used widely in the VFX industry -- probably the dominant software in its niche. I'm not knocking the effort it takes to clone its
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by a_e_k 10y ago
I should think the "no expectation of privacy in a public space" principle cuts both ways.
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by a_e_k 10y ago
The roguelike development community has spent a lot of time thinking about this problem: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Field_of_Vision
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by a_e_k 10y ago
Crispness was one of my primary motivations for learning to make my own programming font, Luculent [1][2]. Consolas is wider so the proportions aren't quite the same. But mine is superhinted to look good with no or limited antialiasi
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by a_e_k 10y ago
Yes. That's one of the best movies that I've only seen once. It occupies a rare intersection between shows that I consider excellent and shows that I'd rather not watch again.
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by a_e_k 10y ago
Yes. This is known as "Blinn's Law."
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by a_e_k 11y ago
There's also the benefit of not having to worry about managing the scalar prologues and epilogues.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
For what it's worth, you can find a nice detailed description of Microsoft's approach to sub-pixel anti-aliasing in "Optimal Filtering for Patterned Displays" [1]. There is also a follow-on, "Displaced Filtering fo
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Indeed, that's the headline on the article itself, but it does seem misleading. I think "Software Maintenance by Skeleton Crew is an Anti-pattern" would be a better but still concise headline.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Try playing around with Adobe Kuler [1] for a bit and explore some of themes you like on there. The color creator has some of the basic color rules like analogous, complementary, triadic, and so forth so you can experiment to get a feel fo
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by a_e_k 11y ago
I've been pretty happy with Xubuntu for the last few years. It gives me a nice, no-frills desktop UI but still has access to the entire Ubuntu package ecosystem.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
True, most of what the guy said seemed pretty gauzy. But putting a stop to the bad practices was one of the few immediately actionable things he said.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Yes, my current preference is for Bitbucket, but a large part of that is that I personally prefer Hg to Git. I still eneded up finally making a GitHub account just because so many other projects are hosted there.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Sounds like this can only be good for SourceForge after the previous scuzziness: > "When I say trusted – I mean trusted," he went on. "We disagree with some of the previous monetization strategies from an industry and busi
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Interesting. I never knew that Rosewill was their house brand. Makes a lot more sense seeing all their products there and gives me a bit more confidence in buying Rosewill in the future.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Yes, this could be interesting but that one's a dealbreaker for me. Guess I'll keep using Valgrind.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
If you have an Android device, the Droid48 app listed there (also at [1]) is worth a plug. A touch screen on a phone can't compete with the awesome tactile keypad those old calculators had, but at least the layout and operation are fa
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Nice work. The subdivision into cells and encoding into GPU textures is strongly reminiscent of the 2008 paper "Random-Access Rendering of General Vector Graphics" by Nehab and Hoppe [1]. Rotating the line samples is a rather int
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by a_e_k 11y ago
That's a slightly different kind of noise than this, but still a neat set of videos. Thanks, I hadn't seen those before.
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Building Up Perlin Noise(eastfarthing.com)
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by a_e_k 11y ago
I usually carry around a Pilot G-2 these days. I've been pretty happy with them and they're easy to find in stores when I need more. In general, I'll favor a gel pen with fast-drying ink.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Isn't that just standard rules of the road/defensive driving practice, though? Certainly that's how I handled it back when I lived near a train crossing.
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Discussed a couple of days ago in the "HN now mostly readable on mobile" story. I'm affected by it too, but fortunately dang acknowledged it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10536591
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by a_e_k 11y ago
It basically gives you that. The P6 version (".ppm") is a tiny text header followed by uncompressed RGB pixels in binary format. It's about as simple as you can get for an image. Here, for example is a program to generate
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by a_e_k 11y ago
In my field, graphics, this happened with the Journal of Graphics Tools. The editors founded the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques in 2012. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Graphics_Tools [1] http:&
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by a_e_k 11y ago
Emacs, at least, already has artist-mode built in. Screen cast showing it off: http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
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by a_e_k 11y ago
I remember Linus making much the same point: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html It generally lines up with what I've observed. Surprisingly, I've found that even arithmetic comparisons like you me
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by a_e_k 11y ago
I believe that's already possible with TrueType now if the person doing the hinting is willing to make the effort. TrueType hints are restricted programs stored as bytecode. One instruction, MPPEM, requests the pixels per em. Another
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by a_e_k 11y ago
The DPI may be high, yes, but the number of actual pixels is still quite low. Looking it up, I see that the smaller watch has a 272x340 display and the larger has a 312x390. That's either 92k or 122k pixels to work with -- about 1&#x

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