ehsanu1

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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   I don't know why it would be considered more difficult to use canvas/dom for rendering + JS. I've been working on a simple JS (well, CoffeeScript really) game, and it hasn't been very difficult at all. But then again, I do lot of JS and nev
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   Seems like if you were moving in some way, or perhaps standing, you're less likely to realize there was a quake. Reminds me of the monkey business illusion. We're really good at ignoring information our senses feed to us.
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   Since everyone is telling HN about whether they felt the earthquake or not, I thought I might point out the feeling the earthquake is dependent on not just whether the ground shook in your area, but other factors as well. In particular, the
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   OT, but you remind me of a joke a math professor made in a Calculus III class: A vector has both magnitude and direction, not to be confused with our university newsletter ( The Vector ), which has neither.
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   Is it bothering anyone else that the graphs seem to indicate performance regressions with newer versions of Firefox/Chrome?
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   While this is an issue, it's a pretty minor one from my own (limited) experience using CoffeeScript. It's extremely easy to relate the JS errors to your CS code, since the JS generated is so readable. It's just a little tedious to have to t
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   Having trouble registering here: https://sandbox.mobileworks.com/accounts/register/ It just ends up refreshing the page, with the form still filled in (except password fields).
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   Well, I'd be surprised too if it was just due to PCWorld, but it's more than that. The guardian and the telegraph, and many other mainstream news outlets have gotten wind of this story: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&
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   by ehsanu1 15y ago

   Except that it at least prevents the discussion devolving into a long chain of jokes, like you see on Reddit, and generally keeps this kind of thing to a minimum overall on HN. There's a place for those chains of jokes, and that's mostly on
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    This critique is just a bit unfair to Scheme, given his first couple examples being used to show how cumbersome it is compared to Miranda. Normally you'd have a fold function defined and use that instead: (define (sum x) (fold + 0 x))
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    Unless you're strength training. In which case, you may not care to climb the stairs as they don't really further your goals.
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    Then the issue becomes determining what abstractions are "necessary". The line is very blurry, and there is plenty of room for a range of reasonable positions on this matter. While there may be some objective truth about which abstractions
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    Please see http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2722896
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    For debugging, see node-inspector: https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector For details about modules: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.8/api/modules.html Use the same site for the rest of the API too of course. I like vows.js for unit
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    Thanks for the pointer to fountain codes. Though, since I'm working on a networked game that works over websockets, this is basically something I wouldn't bother with since websockets are TCP, not UDP, and as such they are guaranteed delive
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    Nice. I had $5k worth of gold for when it was selling for $10/billion, but then the price crashed since I was slow and supply had gone up while I had stopped playing. Oh well.
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    Possibly click-through rate, normalized using average click-through rate for the first result.
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    I have 200+ accounts, from when I was first learning how to program and was automating some tedious mutlplayer strategies in a text-based facebook MMO game. Was a fun way to learn! The game was called Warbook, and I believe the creator is o
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    This type of flying machine is called an ornithopter in general, and many hobbyists have made their own. You can even buy toy ornithopters I believe. However, most cannot be controlled, and those that can probably can't be maneuvered as wel
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    by ehsanu1 15y ago

    There's another solution to this, besides the ones mentioned by others in this thread, which someone can probably do themselves. Just look at the design of the teleprompter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Teleprompter_schematic.svg Err
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    Mr. X by Carl Sagan (insights through cannabis)(hermiene.net)

    10 points by ehsanu1 15y ago|1 comments