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by doomlaser 6y ago
Thanks! https://doomlaser.itch.io has a bunch of the free ones. It gets "better than 84% of millions+ websites analysed by Visual MIND AI", with a 90 in "Visual Appearance", whatever that might mean :)
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by doomlaser 6y ago
> Your site is visually VERY GOOD > Your website is better than 72% of millions+ websites analysed by Visual MIND AI for: http://doomlaser.com What's it actually doing under the hood? Just taking a screen grab of the
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by doomlaser 6y ago
RISC-V is a likely architecture to gain in popularity post ARM (which is also RISC). It's open source and freely licensed.
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by doomlaser 6y ago
I uploaded the opening NYC flyover to YouTube in its original aspect ratio (where the city grid morphs into a circuit board): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8VtOAHIpk The main character's mother wishes him a happy b
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Unity Acquires Git and Perforce Competitor Plastic SCM(venturebeat.com)
3 points by doomlaser 6y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Once you've entered the atmosphere, you're falling to earth whether you like it or not. As it stands now, you must execute every move in the procedure or you crash into the ground at 120mph and explode.
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by doomlaser 6y ago
In my mind, the multiple complex reorientations while falling at terminal velocity — with no plan B — just seems particularly harrowing..
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by doomlaser 6y ago
This is the first time I've seen video of a starship test that didn't end in catastrophic explosion, so this is great news! I'm still worried about the overall design, specifically when it comes to landing. The current proced
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by doomlaser 6y ago
It is a Hall of Fame, just one that pays. Atkinson quit in the 80s.
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by doomlaser 6y ago
To that point, QuickDraw is still shipping in MacOS although it's officially deprecated. Pretty impressive for an API that began life in 1979. I will dock it for never supporting more than a 1-bit transparency mask, but Atkinson had
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Lattner created LLVM which finally replaced gcc as the premiere compiler infrastructure across the whole industry. And he created Swift, the future high level language for the whole company. Apple desperately needed something higher level t
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by doomlaser 6y ago
Bill Atkinson deserves it. He almost singlehandedly wrote the original Macintosh graphics API, QuickDraw, and also created MacPaint, which defined the UI/UX of the graphical pixel editor. Photoshop is its clear descendant. The Mac grap
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by doomlaser 7y ago
ESPN+, their unbundled streaming service has 3.5 million subscribers as of November. So well over 90% of their subscriber base is cable. But cable is still a beast to be reckoned with, especially in the arena of live events.
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Choice quote from Atari's early 1980s market research: > Players want detail, movement, three dimensional effects, color & color changes, unexpected events, faster games with more realistic & dynamic sound Good basic princ
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Netflix has nothing like ESPN, or Pixar, or Marvel, or Star Wars. ESPN alone has a total U.S. subscriber base of about 86 million, to Netflix's 60.62 million
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Time Warner has the Harry Potter license, Nolan's Batman movies and Joker , The Hobbit, Lego Movie, Wonder Woman, and all of Turner Communications, including CNN & Adult Swim / Cartoon Network.
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by doomlaser 7y ago
> Disney+ has grabbed 24 million users in the U.S. since its November launch, according to a new report from the analytics firm Cowen & Co. This figure topped some early Wall Street estimates, but does include people who got the serv
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Baby Yoda has taken the world by storm, and my friends are now already predicting the eventual inevitable appearance of baby R2D2.
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Beyond Disney proper, there's: Disney Theatrical Group, Walt Disney Television, Radio Disney, ESPN, FX Networks, National Geographic Partners, The Muppets Studio, Pixar, Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Search
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by doomlaser 7y ago
AT&T/Time Warner's hit rate for HBO seems pretty high, especially in a highly desired & affluent market segment, so there's another one?
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by doomlaser 7y ago
In a discussion of Netflix's poor original content hit-rate, an example of a direct competitor's massively higher hit-rate seems apt. How does Disney's strategy result in better performing content, and how could Netflix learn
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by doomlaser 7y ago
> What is the hit rate of Hollywood? Look at Disney. > It’s difficult not to look at Disney’s record-breaking year, securing eight of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2019 domestically https://www.theverge.com/2019
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by doomlaser 7y ago
The big innovations in Windows 95 UI were the Start Button and the Task Bar. Both were excellent additions proven most evidently by their continuing presence in Windows 10 today.
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by doomlaser 7y ago
This is the standard way of doing real-time networked multiplayer games, first pioneered by John Carmack in the Quakeworld codebase in 1996 > Instead of expecting everyone's messages to be dealt with at once, I now deal with each pa
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by doomlaser 7y ago
It could be excellently implemented, but if it's too expensive for the market, the market won't buy it. Look at NeXTSTEP. Today it's powering a billion iPhones and millions upon millions of Macintoshes, but for its first 15 y
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by doomlaser 7y ago
> When I was at Apple, I watched many innovative products fail. Badly done? No, simply ahead of their time. For example, from 1992 to 1994 Apple developed one of the first commercial digital cameras, the Apple QuickTake 100, one of the v
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by doomlaser 7y ago
> So, to summarize: A font from an early 1st-party Mac game made it (questionably?) onto some Mac shareware disks. A programmer at EA found it, converted it, and included it with Deluxe Paint. From there, it then appeared in a lot of oth
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Last time I tried using it, they did not have this feature enabled in their interface. There was a popular support request ticket to fix that, so this may have changed.
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by doomlaser 7y ago
Firefox has more power user features and a robust plugin system. One of my must-have features for a browser is the ability to define search engine macros for the address bar, to quickly and directly search sites like Wikipedia, Twitter, You
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Video Games as High Art? Roger Ebert and the Cultural Ghetto(doomlaser.com)
1 points by doomlaser 7y ago|0 comments

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