greggman

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   by greggman 11y ago

   O'RLY? Does your style guide suggest lining up comments? Why? Does your email app separate things into columns? Do you think it would be more readable if it didn't? How about your bank statement, spreadsheets?
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   by greggman 11y ago

   I'm curious, would you prefer your favorite music player list things like this Madonna, Rain, 3:45 Lady Gaga, Bad Romance, 4:17 U2, In God's Country, 3:57 LCD Soundsystem, I Can Change, 6:31 vs Madonna
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   by greggman 11y ago

   "If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the
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   by greggman 11y ago

   Yes, but a big draw of using node at all is that it's JavaScript. I write some function "templateThisString" and I can use it on both the server and the client. Now I also want to use it in my build process. If I switch to an
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   by greggman 11y ago

   No please! More sync function please! Yes, if I'm writing a web server I want everything to be async. But, just as I want to share JS on the server and the client I also want to use JS as my build language. At least for me, I find it m
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   by greggman 11y ago

   Just tell me the next bus is just a minute or 2 away and much less crowded. This happens in Japan too. The first bus is full with people packed in leaning on each other. Wait 20 seconds the next bus is empty and I get a seat. The problem is
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   by greggman 11y ago

   I thought Tinkercad's goals were for 3d printing. No idea if it actually meets the criteria https://www.tinkercad.com/ There's also Clara.io but I think it's targeting rendering https://clara.io&#x
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   by greggman 11y ago

   They are also expensive. Usually $6 per transaction IIRC when I used to pay my rent.
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   by greggman 11y ago

   I would argue that `Promise.all` is not the equivalent of `forEach` because Promise.all will execute everything immediately, maybe all will fail, maybe 1 will fail, eventually you'll have your then or your catch called but 100 of your
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    by greggman 11y ago

    No they weren't. There was zero C/C++. Source Me. I worked on them
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    by greggman 11y ago

    Jak & Daxter the whole engine was lisp based. As for the arguments that you can't interface with others because they don't know lisp and there aren't lots of libraries that's true of every language at some point in t
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    by greggman 11y ago

    See my other comment. There are fast lisps.
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    by greggman 11y ago

    Some of the most performant games ever created were written in Lisp or a variant of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp Million polygon levels running at 60fps when the majority of games on tha
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    by greggman 11y ago

    If you follow physical materials back to their source they are free. Dirt, gravel, minerals, oil, water, coal, rubber, etc, they are freely sitting around waiting for labor to collect them, labor to process them, labor to deliver them. When
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    by greggman 11y ago

    clock sync is far easier than sending data. Once the clocks are in sync the demo just runs. If you think the clocks are going to drift just sync them every 10 to 20 second. Example: This demo runs on clock sync. In general no data is sent b
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    by greggman 11y ago

    This reminds of the game Kudos http://www.positech.co.uk/kudos/ It's a game where each game day you get to make 4-6 choices what to do with your time. Like relax and watch TV from 7 to 10pm or take a class. Based
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    by greggman 11y ago

    I've been wondering how easy it would be to do this with phones. I've seen documents for setting up wifi networking for a stadium to serve 20000 people. After that you need to know where each phone is. You'd have everyone go
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    by greggman 11y ago

    I liked this one too http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/2014/03/28/crt-simulation/
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    by greggman 11y ago

    I had never used a tweening library with easing functions. I had used my own easing function before but not a library. So I threw one together, made a small sample to test it. Turned out better than I expected. http://greggman.gi
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    by greggman 11y ago

    I expect I'll be educated in the replies... I like going to art museums but .... sometimes I wonder if the museums that display old-ish art are outdated in concept. People spend more money on art today than ever in history. They spend
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    by greggman 12y ago

    I'm not sure I follow your logic. So are you saying if we were a further advanced society people could have sex a crowded bus or restaurant and we should just all accept it and not expect them to get some privacy? I'm not suggesti
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    by greggman 12y ago

    How about IMGUI? https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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    by greggman 12y ago

    I've never programmed OpenCL but I've heard from others it's way too device dependent. Lots of queries about what the hardware can do and what form the data needs to be in before you can use it. That's not a good model f
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    by greggman 12y ago

    I grew up in the suburbs and loved it. It was safe. I was allowed to go miles in any direction. I'd go 5 miles to Disneyland or 9 miles to El Dorado Park. I'd ride 3 miles to Knott's Berry Farm or 3 miles the closest mall. I
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    by greggman 12y ago

    Really? I've been putting the license in every file in my project because it's JavaScript and people drive by a website, see "foo.js" and have no idea where it came from or what license it's under. With the license
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    by greggman 12y ago

    I've never seen a municipal/public grass area that isn't over watered in California. Drive down some street that has a grass covered divider or grass lined public areas between the sidewalk and the street. Come by when it&#x2
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    by greggman 12y ago

    There were plenty of other languages with GC. Perl for example. Not sure what "full object oriented" means but I think smalltalk might count? Also plenty of byte code languages. In fact VB was a bytecode language. I also don'
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    by greggman 12y ago

    They'll refund but that's not much consolation though. You show up at the place say 6pm, it turns out to be a lie, what do you do? Book a hotel at $$$ a night because it's last minute and it's the only thing available? I
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    by greggman 12y ago

    And it's working? All my experience with multiple threads on different contexts is crash, crash, bug bug bug. I'm surprised it's stable at all on any platform.
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    by greggman 12y ago

    It doesn't seem like copy protection that makes the game un-fun to play is really a good idea. It seems more likely to backfire as it might generate bad word of mouth for your game. "Damn, that game sucks. Glad I didn't buy i