franciscoapinto

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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Wow, fantastic games! Probably the highest quality bundle ever. - Amnesia is fantastic. Terrifying, yes, but fantastic. - Limbo is gorgeous. - Bastion is a great game. - Haven't played the others, but I've heard good things. A big "thank yo
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
That is a great idea, if you can get it to work. I think your nomenclature's wrong, though. If you are comparing via the AST, it's lexical version control. However, on your second paragraph: > That is, if you move a function, I can see
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Originality apart, I personally think this is a terrible idea: - Requires Javascript. - Makes accessibility suffer (your colorblind users are going to be _so_ mad).
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Interesting Captcha (scroll down to the comments)(adafruit.com)
2 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|1 comments
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/r/badcode(reddit.com)
1 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
This again? Ah. Good old noscript. http://i.imgur.com/Cb17T.png
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
> When watching TV the intent is to watch TV, not purchase soap, a car, or a soft drink. The difference being that facebook doesn't make you watch a 10 second ad between each one of Dave's party photos.
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Won't work with javascript disabled, obviously. This makes it unusable for me.
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The State of Software Engineering Education(merc-devel.com)
4 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Interesting discussion on the rationale behind null-terminated strings: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418708/whats-the-rationa...
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Building realtime applications with RESTful streams(firehose.io)
1 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
I wouldn't read an ebook but I'd certainly read a series of blogposts. > Taught me to not do anything unless I really believe in the idea. This can be dangerous. Sometimes you're unsure if your latest and greatest idea will work out, an
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"Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"(textfiles.com)
1 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
news.yc is both cynical AND pessimistic! http://hartli.com/facts?site=http://news.ycombinator.com
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So you want to work for the videogame industry(youtube.com)
1 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
https://panopticlick.eff.org/ You'd be surprised.
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Gentoo developers AMA on Reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Lots of: "Message recieved [sic] in wrong format. Please retry" The topbar is really confusing. Other than that, good work.
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Too hot gpu? If you have a ATI graphics chip on that machine, you can try one of the following: - Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI - Properly configuring power management
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Http - PHP small micro-routing framework. 130 lines, 5kb, modeled after Sinatra.(github.com)
1 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|0 comments
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Ah. Good old noscript. http://i.imgur.com/Cb17T.png
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
It was a disappointment to check the downloads page and discover that there isn't anything other than a windows version available. EDIT: It does seem to run on wine.
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
>Remember what you were asking for funding for - the game. Actually, from the kickstarter page: The funds generated from Kickstarter allow us to: Hire extra talent for things like music, sound effects and additional platform devel
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Nice strawman. There was a single title suggestion -- yours. I explained why I didn't agree with it. I'm not out to get you, and I don't purposefully choose "sensationalist" headlines for my submissions. I admit that the "actually" on the h
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Thank you for this. I'll retitle the HN submission. BTW, I'm not affiliated with the kickstarter project in any way.
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
What would you title it?
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Like I stated somewhere below, I wasn't aiming for sensationalism. Like I also stated below, suggest a better title and I'll update the submission. "How we lost 50% of our kickstarter funds to overhead" is not a better title, since your def
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
Please, suggest a better title and I'll update. It was not my intention to use a sensationalist title . I, however, think that you may be reading too much into it. EDIT: do you mean the title here on HN or the post's actual title, on the ki
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by franciscoapinto 14y ago
I could observe a recurring point in kickstarter postmortems here: t-shirts end up being way more expensive than you think they will be.
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Where $37k in Kickstarter pledges went(kickstarter.com)
27 points by franciscoapinto 14y ago|22 comments

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