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by hacker_9 11y ago
How did this make the front page? Isn't this just jquery.draggable()
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Ah the mythical wolfram language. I'm always interested in reading about it (and other languages that differ from my day to day), but apart from the wolfram search engine I rarely see it used for anything. Why is this? How does the lan
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by hacker_9 11y ago
"The telescope will be perhaps 10,000 times more powerful than any we currently have" "Right now we can spot planets circling around distant stars. The SKA will be able to spot the equivalent of an airport radar system on one
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Yeah it can get complex, I even know someone who got a job because they showed off a city they created with procedural generation in an interview! But that was just layout of buildings and roads, the next part of bringing it to life with pe
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by hacker_9 11y ago
They aren't all bad, have you seen webflow.com? They've created a pretty good darn UI builder, responsive design as well. Doesn't use React though I think.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The formula is: new operating-system/vm/browser > new programming language > new libraries > new ui builder :). Choose any one and re-create everything that comes after. Rinse and repeat en-millennium. At some point in th
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The more I think about it the more impossible it seems that there could be ANY story in this game. Even if they managed to procedurally generate one planet + missions, the next generated planet would have to 'make sense' and fit i
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Yeah I was thinking it would be something like Mass Effect with cities generated by overlaying algorithms. Something like: 1. Generate buildings 2. Generate transport links 3. Generate mission objectives 4. Refactor city layout to make obje
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by hacker_9 11y ago
And over here in the native world we've had drag and drop ui builders for 20+ years. I can't believe how slowly the wheel is being re-invented (over and over and over again) in the web world... when will the DOM and JS die and rea
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Cool concept. Still don't think it's worth learning the lisp syntax for though.