fr0styMatt2

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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I think you're right. I've been thinking lots about what exactly it is that I'm averse to doing. The coding part - yep that's fine - I've worked with game engines before, I'm familiar with Unity and have dabbl
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Ask HN: Do I really want to make a game? (or any side project?)
4 points by fr0styMatt2 11y ago|6 comments
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
EDIT: The more I contemplate this, the more silly it sounds. A trap of nostalgia (for a time I wasn't even born in!). ---- Yeah true. The world really is wonderful, yet I always get the impression that science was much more respected
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I wish we lived in a world as optimistic as that world back then :(
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
FYI Steam also has a mobile authenticator as part of the Steam app now; I remember seeing a banner for it pop up in Steam news not too long ago: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8625-WRA...
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Can you give some examples of what you'd consider red flags in a site's password reset procedure? I'd be really curious; this is an area that I've thought about as a "necessary but horrible-for-security thing".
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I'd agree with this too; at least to an extent -- especially given Oracle's recent actions wrt. to Android/Java. Now that you mention Intellectual Property, I wonder.... Does the fact that .NET is used in big enterprises and
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Why oh why oh why did I have to think about Visual SourceSafe ever again? :P
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I think the status of the development tools has/had a lot to do with it. As a .NET developer, it's always been unclear until a few years ago as to how you could get the free tools and what you could do with them. I'm specifi
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Ask HN: What's a good intro to quantum computing?
1 points by fr0styMatt2 11y ago|3 comments
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I'd always wondered about this. Planar always just seemed a horrible way to try and think about a screen. What made it faster? Is it just that the hardware could be simpler? Curious to know.
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Interesting! What did you use to do this?
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Interesting interview: http://www.ausretrogamer.com/interview-with-bob-yannes-sid-c...
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Nostaliga trip! My parents had bought me a Commodore 16 for Christmas, maybe 85 or 86. I remember us hooking it up to the old Rank Arena telly that we had in our back room and then not knowing what to do. I remember we put a tape in and p
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I remember playing around with overclocking my old Pentium 4 and how it would boot fine into Windows, but then you'd run Prime95 on it and the benchmark would start failing because the FPU was returning incorrect results.
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I think it's actually quite common that you can; see for example Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia ) This page links to some YouTube examples: http://theness.com/roguesgallery&#x2
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
What impresses me about Apple is how little seems to leak from them, given the size of the company now.
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I agree with this. I can't fathom how the controller looks similar, except that the buttons are the same colour, or close. The shape is totally different. I don't get it.
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I've always wondered about this! Back when I was a teenager I remember playing around with one of the Kai's Power Tools to generate fractal-like images (I forget exactly which one it was, but it had a bunch of presets that would g
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I find many of these photos anxiety-provoking to look at. I can't explain why though. Anyone got any ideas? It's almost like I find them 'odd' but to a really really extreme degree. This fascinates me. I wonder what p
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Do you have a reference? I'm really curious to read about it.
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I wonder why we need transparent screens though. I see AR as a subset of VR, not a superset of it. Once you've solved the field-of-view, screen resolution and (I'd also argue) dynamic range/colour accuracy of VR, you add a
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
It's strange, but when I think about it, DK1 was a much more positive 'product-y' experience for me than DK2 was. Perhaps part of that is that DK1 was my first VR headset, so much of the initial awe factor had worn off by th
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Exactly. Gear VR is their 'VR for everyone' product. It's fantastic for that. They're already well on their way down that path.
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
Had a friend get burnt bad by this. Specifically, he got two GTX 970s to run in SLI, but the motherboard didn't end up supporting SLI. Neither him, nor the PC shop that built the machine for him, picked up on that. It didn't help
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I had my last gaming rig built at a small PC store. Not a big chain or online or anything, just one where I could walk in, sit down and talk to the guy about general components, pick all the pieces I wanted and then have them order them in
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
There is absolutely nothing worse than a site that pops up a full-screen ad over the page content on a touch device. Especially when using a mobile browser that's resource constrained as it is. I feel like more sites are using these
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
This one immediately jumped out at me while reading (I'm interested in crypto but when asked about it in a job interview I happily told them that security implementations should be done by someone that knows what they're doing!).
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
I think Pikmin (by Nintendo) is a herding game as well. Never really played it though, just seen tidbits (got Pikmin 3 free I think on Wii U when I registered Mario Kart 8, still haven't tried it!).
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by fr0styMatt2 11y ago
So much this. The fear of failure in cooking is a bit like the fear of failure in maths ("I'm just bad at maths") or fearing technology ("I'd never be good at computers!"). I do get it. It feels extremely was

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