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by adam-a 14y ago
It seems inevitable that we will have to change some of our fundamental ways of working if we want to get rid of our reliance on fossil fuels. Before the industrial revolution the world didn't have 24/7 assembly lines, it's only since coal/
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by adam-a 14y ago
I had no idea too much electricity could be a problem? I was trying to read more about this effect but google has no answers for me. Also, surely the obvious thing to do would be turn off some of the turbines in that situation?
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by adam-a 14y ago
Interesting style of trailer. It borrows the art style from Sword and Sworcery and the narrator from Bastion. Strange choices considering their target market is surely people who _haven't_ played those games and so won't get the references.
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by adam-a 14y ago
What I find quite interesting is this _disruptive_ design first appeared (to my knowledge at least) in Shenzen knockoffs at least 4 years ago[1]. Maybe there is prior art from Samsung but it seems like more evidence of the rise of hardware
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by adam-a 14y ago
A while ago I spoke to a Unity engineer about this. He told me they have internal builds running on Linux. I think the main thing holding them back from releasing it is the testing they would have to do for each distro. Probably not worth i
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by adam-a 14y ago
You get a nice surprise if you view source too. The demo uses a png to compress the javascript, more details on the author's blog http://www.bitsnbites.eu/?p=20#better_png
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Impressive 4k HTML demoscene(sway-4k.bitsnbites.eu)
2 points by adam-a 14y ago|1 comments
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by adam-a 14y ago
My secondary/high school had 300-400 kids per year, about 1500 over the 4 years it covered. Though my previous two schools to that were much smaller, I think it's generally common here for junior schools to be smaller than senior schools. A
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by adam-a 14y ago
I'm from the UK and I have the same reaction to most of these stories. Can it really be that bad? Is the American school system so dramatically different? I went to a high school which was not split by grade. I was called a "geek" or "boffi
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by adam-a 15y ago
I don't know what was happening, it seems to be ok now, perhaps just a little busy. I only have a cheap VPS.
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by adam-a 15y ago
That is strange. I don't have a mac to test on until next week unfortunately. Thanks for the note though.
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My open source HTML5 puzzle game(ohgames.co.uk)
11 points by adam-a 15y ago|7 comments
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by adam-a 15y ago
Not exactly side by side, but Node Inspector lets you use the webkit debug tools to step through Node.js code. https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
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by adam-a 15y ago
Yes, I see your point that the pricing of the pipes is still weird and uneven. What I mean is that I can pick my network based mainly on the price of their pipe, not the availability of some handset or because it's the only one available in
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by adam-a 15y ago
I'm frequently surprised by how much power the US carriers seem to have. Here in the UK they are mostly reduced to dumb pipes. There are (almost) no operator exclusive phones, except for the cheapo own-brand ones, which few people would cho
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by adam-a 15y ago
As a counter example, Carmack wrote Doom on a NeXT workstation[1]. These days OSX seems to be pretty hot for game dev, certainly if you want to do any iOS stuff, and OSX is creeping up as a platform too, with Steam now available there. No d
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by adam-a 15y ago
I always go for mintty [1] on Cygwin and have generally found it pretty good. I agree Cygwin is not perfect though. [1] http://code.google.com/p/mintty/
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by adam-a 15y ago
When you hide your meaning and the centre of your argument in mazes of long sentences, as the author does, you necessarily lose it a little. Which is kind of the point. If you want to confuse your reader with contradictions and vagueness, t
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by adam-a 15y ago
I don't have any glasses to try it with unfortunately, but cool to hear it works!
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by adam-a 15y ago
Includes anaglyph 3d mode too if you put "nw.setRedBlueStereo(true, 10.0, 10.0)" in your js console.
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by adam-a 15y ago
I'm in a similar situation. I graduated a few years ago from a good British university and got a first, but I frequently look back and wonder how I managed it. I distinctly remember arriving and working hard for the first semester, I got 80
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by adam-a 15y ago
I probably shouldn't have replied and dragged it out, and I apologise for my tone but you seem to be almost wilfully missing the point. There are problems where a linked list is theoretically better suited than an array. Your test is a prob
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by adam-a 15y ago
I'm reading this thread and kind of tearing my hair out. One theoretical case where lists beat arrays is seeking to the middle (once) and inserting 1000000 items in that one spot. If you want to test if lists can ever be useful in Ruby th
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by adam-a 15y ago
I agree, this is the aspect which makes this joke app more appealing in some ways than the real ones. The lack of constraints, the ability to rate anything, could be quite empowering for users and allow them to shape the service to suit the
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by adam-a 15y ago
There are a lot of ideas about what unit tests should be and what they shouldn't be. If the purpose is to ensure my code works with your code and to check that my new changes haven't broken something in another part of the project then the
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by adam-a 15y ago
I used to be a test engineer and was weaned on the dogma of people like Martin Fowler and Misko Hevery. Tests are very useful and can become indispensable on large, complex projects. As I was evangelising tests to the devs on my team for a
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by adam-a 15y ago
> I have two children. Child A is a boy, born on a Tuesday, what is the probability that child B is a boy? We have no knowledge of child B so the probability is even for it being a boy or a girl. > I have two children, at least one
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by adam-a 15y ago
Great story, very funny I thought. Feels like it could be a precursor to the short story Nanny by Philip K Dick ( http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=722 ).
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by adam-a 15y ago
I remember seeing your tutorial before and thinking it looked like a great exercise. Do you think it would be worthwhile for someone with a moderate Haskell background who wants to learn some Scheme? Or is it best to go into it the other wa
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by adam-a 15y ago
I read most of the journal entries when they were on his site (they seem to be removed now) and found them hugely interesting. He is obviously very talented, not just at making games, but also as a writer; he wrote the screenplay for the re

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