angusgr

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by angusgr 16y ago
Did you have a separate build machine, preferably that built automatically on every checkin, so there was a canonical "it's broken here, but not there" point? (Not that this avoids this problem, it's just - in my experience - it makes it ea
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by angusgr 16y ago
Unless it was intentionally left there as some kind of in-joke, I suppose.
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by angusgr 16y ago
The other scary thing is this isn't based on decompilation and analysis of the instructions. It's based on Notepad. Which implies that Rockstar not only used the crack, they didn't even verify what the crack changed in their binary (otherwi
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by angusgr 16y ago
My guess, on no basis apart from outside knowledge of some other game developer build systems, is that they couldn't actually build this game any more. I bet either their build system fell apart from disuse, or the one person who understood
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by angusgr 17y ago
Does anyone know what startup times are like for apps using these bindings? When I tried CocoaTouch, admittedly several years ago, "Hello World" applications took ~10 seconds to launch (I lost count of the 'number of bounces'.) I think that
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by angusgr 17y ago
"If you get specific enough, everything is in a category of its own without any competition." Of course. The problem the parent is describing is that the smartphone market, the person on the street with an iPhone, who doesn't have a clue wh
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Apple Takes All (mainstreaming of iPhone monoculture)(projectgus.com)
1 points by angusgr 17y ago|0 comments
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by angusgr 17y ago
"If I had a clunkier technology in front of me, I might learn more about programming" This article seems to pursue an odd dichotomy, that the platform can either be openable or slick - never both. Surely those two aren't completely mutually
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by angusgr 17y ago
There was a company a couple of years ago that did outsourced bulk film scanning. You basically sent them your film en masse, they sent it to India and had it scanned there, and then sent you back the film and the scans. Couldn't find them
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by angusgr 17y ago
I used to have a second hand Minolta Scan Dual IV, which is a dedicated 35mm scanner. I've since started shooting 35mm & medium format, and I sold the Minolta and bought an Epson V700, which is a flatbed. I also used an Epson 4490 while
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by angusgr 17y ago
Yeah. I've heard "clicking the shutter like crazy, trying to get the right shot" referred to as "spray and pray", though. ;)
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by angusgr 17y ago
I shoot film (as an amateur) by choice (sold my DSLR last year), but I still scan all of it, so every now and again it still gets tempting to give it the PS treatment..
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by angusgr 17y ago
More than not multitouch, it's a resistive (rather than capacitive) touch screen, so you can only reliably use it with a stylus (which is included.) Which is a bit of a downer, cos I was thinking of getting one to mount one in my car. Also,
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by angusgr 17y ago
Daily Telegraph not tabloid enough for you? ;)
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by angusgr 17y ago
I thought you sounded a bit like me in the OP. :). From the vague amount of pop psychology that I know, the "two different guys" is the hallmark of an introverted personality, and totally common. Although I think the amount of difference va
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by angusgr 17y ago
Is it possible that the actual problem is fear of failure, and/or fear of mediocrity, rather than shyness per se? When you meet new people, do you show them a different you, one who doesn't write songs or think about writing apps or startin
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by angusgr 17y ago
I think the comment refers to the placebo affect for "I would feel like I wasn't fully awake for up to three days after taking it."
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by angusgr 17y ago
Yeah, Distel's one of those things I keep bragging about to my vi-using coworkers, and have yet to actually try out myself. ;). Thanks for the tip.
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by angusgr 17y ago
Small bug report (assuming this is your mashup): clicking on the "zone" nodes in Chrome centres them but doesn't pop up the screengrabs. Works in Firefox though. 10 clicks in, first penis sighting. Sigh.
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by angusgr 17y ago
I thought this was a really interesting idea. In uni (college) I became pretty dependent on Mind Maps (using FreeMind) for planning essays. Laying all the relevant concepts and relationships out visually worked really well for me. From that
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by angusgr 17y ago
Wow what what a rant. - I think that different languages (and programmers) suit themselves to different balances of the IDE/Editor combination. I agree with your post, inasmuch as I find writing Java outside of an IDE like Eclipse limits yo
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The gameification of everything(kottke.org)
3 points by angusgr 17y ago|1 comments
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by angusgr 17y ago
Extra plug for the Canberra Hackerspace, Make Hack Void: http://www.makehackvoid.com/ Meeting every Tuesday at the moment :)
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by angusgr 17y ago
How would you improve this ad with more time? It seemed fairly well polished, for a simple premise.
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by angusgr 17y ago
Well, that's what I meant by "you're entirely right". I agree with you that these are points that are missing from a lot of the "geek" discussion about this, which seems to be the only discussion informing even the mainstream discussion abo
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by angusgr 17y ago
I gotta say, the tone of this almost turned me off. I got an impression of mouth-foamy vehemence in some of those paragraphs, and it was a little off-putting. However, you're entirely right. It's going to be really interesting to see how th
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by angusgr 17y ago
I don't really see how this is surprising. In fact, the fact that non-paid contributions to the kernel is as high as 25% surprises me. A criticism of Linux is that the kernel is largely developed on behalf of companies who care about certai
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by angusgr 17y ago
I'm a tiny bit disappointed that it needs to be plugged in. 3G + a chunky lead acid battery inside, and it could probably keep selling itself for months without even being plugged in. ;)
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by angusgr 17y ago
I hadn't noticed some of the other blog posts until they were pointed out to me, but they're worth looking at. "Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back", "Rape Fantasies and Hygiene By State" etc.
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by angusgr 17y ago
I didn't put this in the blog post, but hypothetically speaking you would not even need a worm. A person would need an ISP account where you don't get limited on uploads (like Internode, or most non-Australian ISPs, for instance.) A person

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