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   by aaronetz 12y ago

   Related (works from a single image): http://make3d.cs.cornell.edu/
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   by aaronetz 12y ago

   I have noticed that people oftentimes downvote because of disagreement, even when the comment seems to be okay (to my eyes at least). How about eliminating the downvote, leaving only the "flag" which makes it clearer that it shoul
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   by aaronetz 12y ago

   When I went to Finland, where tipping is forbidden by law, the service we got was on par with the service in other countries - minus some faked flirting, maybe, which is not a loss in my opinion. I think that a system without tips will need
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   by aaronetz 12y ago

   I am very much against feigned surprise, but this just a symptom of the underlying personality. Ban one thing - and the personality will find other ways to manifest itself. It's better, in my opinion, to just have an unspoken rule like
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   by aaronetz 12y ago

   I've just recently watched a very good documentary about ants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gIx7LXcQM . They are a truly amazing organism. Does anyone know of any ant games? I thought it would be cool to have a st
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   by aaronetz 13y ago

   In my OS course (both as an undergrad and later as a teaching assistant) we used Xinu [1] which seemed to work well. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinu
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   by aaronetz 13y ago

   Slightly off-topic, but can someone recommend a good book about typography? I mean more about the history of typography, less about how to design new fonts.
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   Google Now in Chrome(support.google.com)

   1 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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   1883 eruption of Krakatoa(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Very cool. A suggestion: move the help bar (that teaches the concepts) to the left side. I think it will feel more natural there. It took me some time to notice it. Do you plan to extend that to learning javascript too? That would be really
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    Suggest HN: Active user count display

    3 points by aaronetz 13y ago|1 comments
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    I wonder why they came up with a new library instead of contributing to box2d directly? Unless they had to break box2d's API (but off the top of my head, without looking at the code, it's hard to see why they would have to)
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Regardless, I bet Google Code will be shut down soon.
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Reminds me of the Anti-PowerPoint Party[1] (which was linked to on HN at some point). I would also like to say that I personally find whiteboard presentation much easier to follow. I taught a little bit too, but used slides, because it was
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    That doesn't sound too bad... It's definitely not the same as using psychological tricks to coax people to pay. As long as the game is not designed around getting your money, it should be okay, I think.
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Sure, there is a place for in-app purchases. But there has to be some moral code involved. I think that in general, paying for consumables is bad, but paying for extra (permanent) features is fine. There may be exceptions to this. There&#x2
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    God, this is devious. While reading it I was thinking, "where does the sarcasm part end?" but it never did. I mean, as an aspiring indy dev I can understand the need to make a living, but this is in the same league with casino mon
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    dead pixel, its stars are specks of dust
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    All this reminds me of a short story I once read, Melancholy Elephants[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholy_Elephants
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Thanks! Do you have an Android version of your game? I don't own an iDevice...
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Forgive me for plugging my own flappy inspired (but sufficiently different) game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos... I made it over the course of a few days, using libgdx as an engine.
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Something related that I stumbled upon some time ago (submitted to HN, got one upvote): http://gpuhacks.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/signed-distance-fie...
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    As a result, noise is reduced and we end up with a cleaner picture -- just as we would if we had one big imaging sensor instead of two little ones. But the two lenses are taking the picture from different angles, and with different focal
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    I personally appreciate your comment (and upvoted it too), Not sure about the downvote. Could be someone's mistake (those buttons are way too tiny on mobile.)
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Things that require creativity won't be commoditised, hopefully. Art, music, research, game design, writing, etc.
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    Ask HN: Good math books / activities for children?

    11 points by aaronetz 13y ago|10 comments
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    Off-topic, but I must say that this site handles resizing very well. I really appreciate it when a website seamlessly transitions from desktop-size to mobile-size layout. Sometimes I just like having my browser window shrunk down (or zoomed
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    I (naively) hope that eventually people who prefer microtransacions will realize what a waste of money it is, and start paying upfront. But seriously, maybe a good solution would be to design the in-app purchases in a game so that instead o
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    I couldn't agree more with your sentiment. The last mobile game I worked on at a (now defunct) company, started out as an innovative open-world exploration / action game (See http://www.slantsixgames.com/games&#x2F
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    by aaronetz 13y ago

    I'm not the owner of the blog, but this looks like a pretty amazing technique I thought I should share...