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by bexsella 5y ago
It doesn't glorify criminality. Everyone either dies, or becomes a heartless, lying mafioso.
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by bexsella 5y ago
Mozilla's JS Reference, I'd guess. A genuinely great resource. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... Edit: And the Web API reference (which is what I was actually thin
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by bexsella 5y ago
Arthur's nose was shortened years prior to the first season of the TV show coming out. You can see on the cover of Arthur's Teacher Trouble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Teacher_Trouble
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by bexsella 5y ago
More than two weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27304012
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by bexsella 6y ago
There's a lot of focus here on Bink, but Oodle has a fascinating history as well. From world-class compression ratios/decompression speeds to being implemented in hardware by Sony in all PS5s. RAD have a great history of getting e
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by bexsella 6y ago
When the trailers to this came out, I was impressed, but remembered that I'd played a small game, maybe even a prototype, of similar tech about a decade beforehand called Bloody Zombies[1] by Petri Purho. Turns out, Nolla Games has Pet
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by bexsella 6y ago
This is great! But it makes me think that Microsoft need to add a BASIC compiler as standard in all Windows distributions. They did that Small Basic thing a while back, but it was too encumbered in .NET-isms, a kind of Visual Basic .NET lit
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by bexsella 6y ago
My program went nowhere, by design. But after a few weeks on a 'new' project using ClearCase and ClearQuest (circa 2017), I was so frustrated with the archaic and painfully bureaucratic system that I decided there was nothing wors
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by bexsella 6y ago
Not OP, but I personally could not use JS, and would outright refuse to use, in production. It's fraught with headaches that seem trivial but drastically change control flow, == and === being my favourite example. Linters help, but it
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by bexsella 7y ago
> Imho this is such an important feature that i don't understand why it's not more common. I would assume this is the case because until now we haven't had the mass adoption of the technology on offer in the sheer numbers
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by bexsella 7y ago
Not that uncommon back in the day. Even Doom on PC didn't use floating-point; instead relying on fixed point.
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by bexsella 7y ago
Location: Adelaide, Australia Remote: Onsite or remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, C#, Java, Qt, WinApi, POSIX CV: <email> Email: bexsella@outlook.com Working on embedded systems and supporting software for defense h
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by bexsella 7y ago
I think the issue there would be money. Night Dive aren't a big studio, and there is no guarantee of a 'win' here. A win outcome here could well be Warner Bros. producing a contract and still saying no to a re-release. Also,
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by bexsella 7y ago
Minification is a form of obfuscation, and a lot of libraries and commonly used scripts are purposely completely unreadable. show_ads.js, for example, is nonsense, so it's not unreasonable for a hacker to sneak into ad code, insert som
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by bexsella 7y ago
Game Engine Black Book: Doom - http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/ Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D - http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/ Fabien Sanglard Both are a fascinating read about
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by bexsella 7y ago
Don has made plenty of political posts with releases of Notepad++: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v7.6.2/ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v6.7.4/ https://note
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by bexsella 7y ago
I've got a simple run running that calculates my girlfriend's GPA. The University doesn't display your GPA where topics are listed, but it does list the grade and weight. The calculation is easy and it only runs once a month,
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by bexsella 7y ago
I haven't received my copy just yet, but I am keen to get reading it. Although there is some fun conversation to be had with people from a non-tech background when you're excited for your copy of Eunuchs: A History and a Memoir to
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by bexsella 7y ago
It really whips teh llama's ass...
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by bexsella 7y ago
It's reliably stable. With a current Mac, running an app that was built 10+ years ago would be a nightmare if not impossible without source. With Windows, I can still run apps from the late 90's with little effort (with the except
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by bexsella 7y ago
stb_image.h - I've used plenty of image APIs and libraries in my time, and none have had the simplicity of just "load this" and just worked as I expected with (practically) no setup.
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by bexsella 7y ago
He only has the rights to Keen Dreams specifically due to it being the only one published by Softdisk.
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by bexsella 7y ago
They're positive in the face of adversity but always realistic. For example, the software you're working on fails 10% of required tests. A manager once said to me that it's the nature of engineers to focus on that 10%, but he
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by bexsella 7y ago
It's not important, but you're definitely wrong here.
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by bexsella 8y ago
I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone mentioned this, although I was actually expecting someone to mention a specific alternate language.
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by bexsella 8y ago
Agreed, along with basic familiarity with vi/vim this is almost required knowledge if you're deploying to or working on a system other than Windows or MacOS.
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by bexsella 8y ago
No, the X in DirectX is used as a sort of variable with X referring to the many subsystems of DirectX (e.g. DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, etc).
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by bexsella 8y ago
I think they key difference here is sheer speed. At the time, Ultima Underworld may have been the more technically impressive game in terms of graphics, but the id's focus on framerate and simplicity over graphical complexity had somet