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by acron0 15y ago
Had to read this closely. "Strikes off" is slang for "removes" where I'm from :|
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by acron0 15y ago
I will admit, I used to think Notch was just a regular-joe programmer who had gotten extremely lucky with his strain of adventure game. Now I know I was dead wrong.
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by acron0 15y ago
We have something very similar in he UK called http://launch48.com These are great events. Can't recommend them enough, especially for developers looking to learn more about the 'business process'.
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by acron0 15y ago
I think I'll go with this :)
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Ask HN: Is there a standard for representing phone numbers in text?
2 points by acron0 15y ago|5 comments
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by acron0 15y ago
Watch the troll bait. This is 90% fiction, 10% authors zealous opinion.
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by acron0 15y ago
Pretty much there with 3.5 release.
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by acron0 15y ago
No offence Google, but I think I'll take my game middleware from...y'know...people who make games for a living. In seriousness, this has no hope of contending in an already crowded space.
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by acron0 15y ago
This is totally legit. 100% free - for the 3.x releases. Can't recommend this enough....especially as I just dropped £300 on an iOS licence a month back :E
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by acron0 15y ago
This model is pretty mainstream these days and the best commercial implementation I've seen has to be in the Unity3D engine. It's almost entirely componentised, and writing totally generic 'work-anywhere' components is liberating. One thing
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Your tech is shit (and so is mine)(plus.google.com)
1 points by acron0 15y ago|0 comments
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by acron0 15y ago
The thing about Prey is that it only works based on the assumption that the thief has no knowledge of its presence or that the concept of 'software that phones home' is even possible. As Prey becomes more popular eventually thieves will cat
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by acron0 15y ago
Sigh. Why don't people like you come to my part of the world? If I was in London I would be jumping up and down with excitement right about now. I am a developer. I am passionate about startups. I am passionate about technology. I am passio
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by acron0 15y ago
I work in the gaming (betting) industry and came across this for the first time recently. The customer _demanded_ uniform distribution which meant getting our RNG server to churn out 8 32bit random numbers just to shuffle one deck. Fun.
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by acron0 15y ago
Ugh, monospace! I recommend using BMFont by AngelCode for generating font sheets and data: http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ It provides kerning information and offsets so you can use pretty much any font you like, and aren't cons
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by acron0 15y ago
Thanks Zappan, glad to hear it's not just me struggling :P
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Ask HN: .NET or not .NET...
9 points by acron0 15y ago|3 comments
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by acron0 15y ago
+1 for PyGame or XNA. Start small, don't over-stretch.
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by acron0 15y ago
Head of the hydra and all that.... https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83164092998758400
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by acron0 15y ago
I for one will not be adding this feature to my web app. However, might it be possible to kick in a login process using OAuth/OpenID? The onus isn't then on you to validate the user.
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by acron0 15y ago
Hopefully this will catch on. If NYT wins this round then it sets a good precedent for the Apple cases.
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by acron0 15y ago
Is it possible to automate sign out and password change?
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BBC: Why personal data is at risk on unsecured public wi-fi(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by acron0 15y ago|0 comments
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by acron0 15y ago
This really needs some kind of [multi] seed so that you can recall passwords. Otherwise I've just gotta store them in plaintext somewhere...under a password I know I'm not going to forget!
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by acron0 15y ago
Jeez, I'm using it already: https://twitter.com/#!/acron/status/78057196830732288
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by acron0 15y ago
That's pretty nifty! I can see it being used favorably by journos and bloggers.
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by acron0 15y ago
.co.uk is up at 09:31 GMT and .com pings fine.
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Still Think The Mouse Isn’t Dead?(techcrunch.com)
11 points by acron0 15y ago|18 comments
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by acron0 15y ago
I actually just had a go and this could be really good for fast prototyping and communicating ideas with designers. A bit like Balsamiq but with more emphasis on the functionality rather than the visuals.
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by acron0 15y ago
I totally agree. I can't help but feel like they're holding on to "the way things were" because they've been through it. Children born today will - as they should - have a different perspective on IP and what it means and that's reflective

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