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by headbiznatch 14y ago
Minus has been doing this for awhile. It's incredibly handy to be able to share something with someone instantly and without a need to create an account. http://minus.com/
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by headbiznatch 14y ago
I thought the presentation metaphorically enforced the message they were trying to deliver. To me, that's actually useful and not "over-styled" or "all-nonsense" - it's a valid technique to communicate with more than just words and to encou
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Been using this in production for about 6 months and it is the Cadillac. Pretty good documentation, too.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
I feel like a total idiot right now, checking algebra wikis and shit to make sure I am not insane, but isn't that inequality wrong? Wouldn't the listed formula's value need to be less than the radius SQUARED? Or: w * sqrt(2) / 2 < r?
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
State machines are excellent, but this comes up every so often on HN and I've come to respect the observation that state machines become very difficult to change. They particularly rock for games, where the universe is unlikely to suddenly
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
I love font icons and these are great. Thanks for sharing. Two notes: 1) When I first started using font icons, I encountered an issue that might be worth sharing - you need to make sure your web server properly handles the more esoteric fi
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
I thought this way as well, but professional sports leagues argue that their efforts generate the data, so they own it (i.e. without their venues, players, coaches and additional resources, those numbers wouldn't exist). They will allow you
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Good point :)
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
True. I guess I'm just surprised by the magnitude of the effect. Thanks for the input.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. It just seems counter-intuitive that canvas area should matter so much when the drawing logic is essentially the same. We are creating the same number of objects, just on a larger canvas and with different (X,Y) coordi
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Beautiful. Performance question: why does window size affect FPS so drastically?
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
I never got my jet pack, but I DID get my handheld supercomputer. I love this. I love the idea of it and the 7 year old in me who had his world rocked by that TI-99/4A is stoked. I just can't be upset at any aspect of this - our computing d
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Smash a nose, freak everybody out, nobody says shit after that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtkM2SPaSJ8&feature=youtu...
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Try Divvy - http://mizage.com/#windivvy It may not qualify as a "tiling window manager" depending on what you think that should include, but it's excellent for arranging windows.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
I just set up a cache of sounds to use in place of verbal responses today - mostly Coins, Lasers and Jumps. They just seem to say so many things better than I can. It has already gotten me into trouble. In other words, it's awesome. Thanks.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
This nicely draws together several sub-currents of developer thought pertaining to the "am I good at this?" current that all developers have. I found myself bouncing back forth on some of the ideals, waiting to hear how it all turned out fo
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Fun little game where when the twist became opaque, I immediately was excited to play more levels. That's a game design win. Thanks for sharing.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Taking actions to alter one's self can easily improve the ability to take actions that affect others. A simple example: lifting weights so you can be a more effective fire fighter. There are many others, including the ingestion of chemicals
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
The funniest part of the press release for me is the "About Oracle" section: "Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company." Put it on every release, it will become
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Getting rich quick is a valid strategical choice. It may not be your thing, but this kind of categorization is personal.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
It made strategic sense if they were hoping to make a couple billion dollars on their investment.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Glad you realise something subtle here. It's not so obvious.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
This was built by my buddies, including the author of the Gaia Flash framework. It showed up on lifehacker today so I figured it was as good a time as any to brag about it here. It's pretty damn cool. Yeah yeah, it uses Adobe AIR - logical
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Show HN: jamcloud - turntable for video(jamcloud.com)
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
there's definitely a reason YOU don't...
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
This response is inevitable because you are sharing this opinion with people who can see through your biases. I'm happy enough that someone programming games isn't hacking my bank account. Does that register on your personal Richter scale f
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
Love GIMP, but I really wish they would fix the issues with bit depth (precision in general) and IMHO, proper CMYK support.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
After my experience developing a Silverlight client with Prism over the last couple of years, I believe the MVVM pattern is a totally valid abstraction for separating business logic and presentation. Coding against objects that can be wired
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
If a sound (like a stream) is playing on your computer, it can be ripped directly from the playback device. I've done it in the past with complete preservation of the sound's fidelity, but I suppose it might not always be possible.
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by headbiznatch 15y ago
In my experience, the best designers bristle at the notion that they "just get on with it". They consider being learned in design a great badge of honor, as important as their innate sense of style. To them, the worst design transgression i

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