corysama

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by corysama 16y ago
I use it to catch up on the news during my morning bus ride. There are bugs, but the small speed and interface differences compared to Mobile Safari keep it preferable for scanning lots of text in lots of small articles.
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by corysama 17y ago
I recently tried out a demo of a "high-speed" side-scrolling game library for flash. It ran OK, but not terribly impressive considering how little was going on. But it seemed really familiar somehow... Eventually I realized that it was n
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by corysama 17y ago
Keep in mind tha the grand joke is that Adobe's Flash compiler is based on LLVM -a project that is heavily sponsored by Apple.
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by corysama 17y ago
I've read exactly one semi-scientific comparison of popular DVI cables of varying price. Amazingly, the conclusion was that Monster Cables really are better. However the difference had no effect unless you were running a high-bandwidth si
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by corysama 17y ago
I'm upset that Opera's text-to-speech feature has been busted in their recent releases. Instead of reading long articles on my computer, I prefer to have my computer read them to me. I find it to be much easier to get through wall-of-text
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by corysama 17y ago
I recall the GameBoy Advanced SDK docs stating something along the lines of "Even if your game is so simple that it won't strain this tiny processor, please optimize it for speed as much as you can anyway so that you can spend as much time
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by corysama 17y ago
I love Lua, but trying to make it work standalone is working against its design goals --kinda like trying to use Javascript standalone. I push anyone with such ideas to really, really think about using Python instead.
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by corysama 17y ago
There is a commercial Visual Studio plug-in that will do what you want, but I don't recall it's name. I wrote a Lua remote debugger myself years ago. A nice trick was that you can associate a string with a chunk of code when you load the c
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by corysama 17y ago
The line "awkward silences often arise because the geek doesn't pay enough attention to his partner's attention level" struck me as a misunderstanding. Often when in a group, I'm doing nothing but focus on everyone else's rhythm because fo
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by corysama 17y ago
It's probably true in most scientific and engineering fields, but I can tell you from many experiences in programming that minor inaccuracies in a partner's understanding can lead to major disasters if left uncorrected. It only takes a few
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by corysama 17y ago
Lua has a simple API for debugging built in. Because of this, there are several free and a few commercial Lua debuggers available.
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by corysama 17y ago
3D game development involves a lot of very basic linear algebra (small matrix operations) and the occasional application of advanced linear algebra (conjugate gradients and similar solvers).
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by corysama 17y ago
Being a software engineer often means that you are in the job of fending off well-meaning, but unreasonable requests from clients on a continual basis. Learning how to say "No" repeatedly without coming across as lazy or a jerk is an extre
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by corysama 17y ago
To put this in perspective: When Mike talks about this stuff, he's coming from a position of "This is serious business. The point of my job is to make this run 10,000 times in 0.1 milliseconds. It can be done. It's not that hard. Why ar
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by corysama 18y ago
Despite his wealth, Felix Dennis is a very depressed and depressing person. In an extensive interview that I watched, he stressed repeatedly that a major motivating factor behind writing his book was to convince those who think they want t
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by corysama 18y ago
OnLive claims to have compression time down to 1 millisecond. I'm not sure how long decompression takes, but it would be more accurate to say "the latency will be ping + 1ms + decompression time worse than a local game". Anyone have stats
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by corysama 18y ago
One factor that helps me is to set my IDE syntax coloring schemes to minimize the amount of blue one the screen. Mostly yellow, green and brown text with hilights of grey or cyan on a black background. Staring at glowing text is much bette
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by corysama 18y ago
Although their syntaxes differ, Lua and Javascript are functionally very similar. Lua is like Javascript without the burden of maintenance-by-committee. Lua is very small, very portable, very easy to embed and extend in C/C++ based apps an
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by corysama 18y ago
"Normal" human behavior is a lot more schizophrenic than most of us are comfortable with realizing (myself included). "Flashes of genius" and other moments of great creativity are often the result of background processes in the mind commun
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by corysama 18y ago
As people slowly learn that having too much stuff can be more hassle than it's worth, I'm seeing a quiet trend towards simplified consumption. It is my expectation that rapidly developing regions like China will go through a period of outr
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by corysama 18y ago
Like all great ideas, someone has thought of this before. This idea was researched quite a bit 10 years ago -before hardware vertex transformation took off and view dependent LOD was still a hot topic. I haven't heard much about it since