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by flixic 13y ago
It is, as John Siracusa called it, "Sport of Kings". He elaborated a lot on the topic in episode 69 of Hypercritical: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/69
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by flixic 13y ago
Iceland is a NATO country, and fairly friendly with USA.
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by flixic 13y ago
Namecheap also accepts bitcoins and is quite a bit cheaper.
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by flixic 13y ago
Great, however, that was possible with ImageMagick before. Even more: ImageMagick can extract PSD layers as separate PNGs.
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by flixic 13y ago
Hello, that was me!
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by flixic 13y ago
Just had a chat, so it definitely works! Text chat area is missing, but otherwise impressive. Also, right now it's probably 90% HN users, that's a very interesting crowd to meet randomly.
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by flixic 13y ago
I always liked one button games (1 bit input), such as Canabalt[1] or Helicopter[2]. Another interesting UX exercise would be 1 bit input, 1 bit output system. [1]: http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/ [2]: http:/
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by flixic 13y ago
A can apply to anything, like car wash or cinema. B is limited to websites. Not that this patent makes sense even then, but B is much more limited.
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by flixic 13y ago
From their original blog post I had an impression that they will try to mirror Google Reader's API and features: "We hope to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader’s features (including its API)"[1] Now they haven&#x2
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by flixic 13y ago
After trying many, I ended up using Middleman. So I recommend adding its review.
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by flixic 13y ago
I am thinking of experimenting with new UI development. Is any of these environments easily hackable and customisable?
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by flixic 13y ago
Oh, yes, you are totally right. For some reason I mixed these rankings in my mind.
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by flixic 13y ago
They seem to twist the facts ever so slightly. PHP is not "most popular computing language on the planet", it's the most popular web coding language; C is the most popular "computing" language, whatever that means. And in linked article the
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by flixic 13y ago
I do as well, Chrome on Mac: http://cl.ly/OveN
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by flixic 13y ago
These are lyrics from this song, "The Humans are Dead" by Flight of the Conchords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64
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by flixic 14y ago
Hmmm, on Mac, might be possible to simplify using system's dictation (have no idea if they have API for that, probably no, but maybe there is a way to hack it) and system's voice. So then it might be even faster, and would require mostly ju
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by flixic 14y ago
It would be very difficult to find, but John Siracusa has said the same thing when asked which of his Hypercritical episodes were his favorites. In short, he explained why he thinks some of his more emotional episodes were very popular, whi
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by flixic 14y ago
Better algorithm, just as simple, would be splitting at ". ". Making something smart enough to not split at "fig. 1" and the likes would be more difficult.
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by flixic 14y ago
Twitter is succeeding with 3rd-party clients killing. Good job!
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by flixic 14y ago
Map generation, some enemy AI, and most frustratingly: combat action outcomes. My story was the same as numerous other players: started playing hardcore, died not because of a mistake, but because of lag (internet lagged for a few seconds,
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by flixic 14y ago
Very similar to one of my favorite flash games, 3D logic 2: http://www.kongregate.com/games/alexmatveev/3d-logic-2-stron...
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by flixic 14y ago
I also do this often, but taking inspiration from "The Dice Man", I assign weights to options (0.3 for one option, 0.6 to another, 0.1 for the third - I assign weight very quickly, without much consideration), launch calculator and press Ra
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by flixic 14y ago
Thanks! I knew most of this, but for some reason had an impression that ruby was in particularly nice spot to subclass Obj-C classes. I have to agree, you are right, and other languages could follow RubyMotion's model.
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by flixic 14y ago
CoreData is a very powerful object store with many libraries that support it. I haven't tested BubbleWrap much, but it's a very simple system, without searching, indexing, migrations and other CoreData features.
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by flixic 14y ago
The bigger reason to use RubyMotion is not a different syntax - you do end up using very similar code anyway, although lack of header files is a nice thing - but different tools. Objective-C is not the barrier. Xcode is.
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by flixic 14y ago
Put simply: no. RubyMotion works because Ruby and Objective-C are very similar internally, both being inspired by SmallTalk and sharing almost all "core" language features - it allows to run ruby code on Objective-C Runtime. In this regard,
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by flixic 14y ago
Oh what a joy it is to read this! My experience with RubyMotion is very similar, and I am very happy to see major, high-profile app made with RubyMotion. However, I was somewhat disappointed to see that they use BubbleWrap persistence inste
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by flixic 14y ago
Not yet. The idea is to draw variable width ribbons in the air - but given my total lack of experience in programatic 3D modelling, I'm moving very slowly towards this goal.
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It's up to you. Essentially, it doesn't care about monitors and which way it's placed.
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It seems like they encourage sharing demos / videos, as long as we don't talk about API. So I've been talking with other friends quite freely about Leap: after all, most people are not interested in inner-workings as much as just the magic

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