aaronsnoswell

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by aaronsnoswell 12y ago
- At age 12, I taught myself C programming using [1] (I had never programmed before, but wanted to make games), then proceeded to write a 12,000 line 3D OpenGL Game Engine from scratch, using the NeHe tutorials [2] as guides. It took me th
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by aaronsnoswell 12y ago
Been working with LibGDX since 2010 - I still remember buying the Newton physics game on my Motorola Droid. This was the best 2D Android game engine back then, and it still is in my opinion :) Congrats to the devs!
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Got halfway through this today - most fun I've had programming in ages. Thanks for the link and thanks to the author!
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Don't try playing that flappy bird clone with headphones in. It's gonna take my ears a while to recover from that coin sound.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
How is that variation politically incorrect? Genuine question here. If anything, to me it seems culturally correct.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Relevant anecdote: For a high school ICT project my class had to make an educational game in Visual Basic. I made a 'math invaders' clone where you answer simple algebra sums (e.g. 5 + x = 12) to defeat the relentless hordes of al
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Time signatures are extrinsic to a piece of music; a 3/4 piece can be also be written as a x/y piece, it will just be confusing for the musicians to follow.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
The one best thing about this - comments.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
I've been following these developments closely. One question that I was hoping someone here could comment on; what are the international law ramifications of the Russian soldiers not wearing insignia? I was under the impression that th
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Wow. The quote in that section is stunning. Definitely worth a click-through. Thanks for posting this.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
As always, the Guardian has good coverage that seems to be keeping pace with the flow of information. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/ukraine-accuses...
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=ukraine%20invasion&src=tyah
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Russia invading Ukraine right now(abc.net.au)
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Mocked this up in 30 mins this evening. http://pastebin.com/MyB0UUFD
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The State of Internet Surveillance circa '99(fas.org)
1 points by aaronsnoswell 13y ago|0 comments
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
With the NSA graph it's worth noting that HN posts with 'NSA' or 'Snowden' in the title are known to be down-graded by the site's ranking algorithm. Can't remember where the source for this is right now.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
I had fun solving this today and wrote a dinky ruby program [1] to test my solution. Is there a better way to do this? [1] http://pastebin.com/n0vHSdzm
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Fermi Estimates(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aaronsnoswell 13y ago|1 comments
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
In the 1950s, test pilots were dying approximately once per week [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_pilot
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Logical Conclusion: All computer scientists are crack addicts.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
When the data that was stolen crops up on a forum somewhere, can someone please make one of those stub-websites that helps you check if you got stung by the breach?
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
What was Persona?
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Wow. I think you need to settle down a bit and allow your ego to deflate.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
For this reason I tend to position myself behind the nearby traffic pole relative to traffic on my side of the road while waiting for the 'cross' light.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
The effect works just fine with thinner tubes and smaller magnets - I've done it using 15mm 'plumbing' copper pipes.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
"Someone once briefly explained to me why it is that chocolate chip cookies have 37% chocolate in them." -Someone once pulled your leg mate.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
I don't understand how everyone here was able to read this article - I browse to that link and get a message telling me it is locked behind a paywall, requiring my subscription before I can read it. Do all HN readers also subscribe to
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
I'm from Australia. My wife and I regularly use Expedia and other US travel websites to book Australian domestic flights - even after our exchange rate conversion it still works out cheaper (often we save one or two hundred dollars).
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
Here in Australia in older houses it is very common for power to trip if too many appliances are running at the same time - not unusual at all.
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by aaronsnoswell 13y ago
I'm from Australia, but couldn't resist not seeing this. I used a free US VPN to watch it ;)

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