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dariusk
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dariusk
12y ago
Okay, I fixed it, it only loads images that it plans to render. Thanks again, that was a little embarrassing for me!
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dariusk
12y ago
Hi, good catch. I'll fix that.
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dariusk
13y ago
Right, it doesn't move in this version. This is a mod of the full game, which does move quite a bit. I wasn't going to rewrite the entire core render loop for the original game just for this weekend hack.
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dariusk
13y ago
Hi, author of the site here. Spelunky was made using GameMaker 8, and I ported it to GameMaker Studio and used its HTML5 exporter to get it working in Chrome, then I modded the core game from there for this tool. So: the reason it's co
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dariusk
13y ago
This is a single entry into NaNoGenMo, which is something I started this month as kind of a programmers version of NaNoWriMo. It does not necessarily have to do with fanfiction.net: the Github repository where I'm hosting the event is
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dariusk
14y ago
Nope, I'm using PhantomJS, a headless web browser that's mostly used for test automation. I programmed it to log in to the Amazon account, fill out the various forms, and buy/ship the stuff.
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dariusk
14y ago
I'm actually not parsing the HTML at all. Not really. I'm using PhantomJS, which is a headless web browser. Each time I load a page, I inject jQuery and just do a simple JS command like $('#whatevertheIDisfortheform').submit(); It's the equ
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14y ago
I actually really appreciate your comment about bureaucracy The main difference on my end is that I believe "working in a vast decentralized computer bureaucracy" is completely analogous to "working in tech" whether you like it or not. Bru
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14y ago
Last I checked, science -- not technology -- is about expanding the frontiers of human knowledge. Technology is the reification and application of that knowledge: necessarily a messy thing.