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by hebejebelus 15y ago
I pointed my younger sister at this the other night. She's 17, and I'd tried to interest her in programming before with no avail. She seems to have caught on to this, though, and it's something I'm extremely happy about. It's not that I thi
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I wasn't aware of that. Guess I need to become a US citizen, then... On a sidenote, why is that the case? Sure, SpaceX is a US-based company, but why does that mean that they can't hire non-US citizens with visas et
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
That's a great site, thanks very much.
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Oh, really? That sounds eminently doable. Do you happen to have any fantastic resource for shaders?
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
That's fantastic. I've been meaning to get into WebGL (perhaps make some sort of tech demo game with it). I've held off because of performance issues (also, I admit, I'm not too excited about dealing with shaders). I think I should stop pro
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Flax HTML5 Game Engine 0.2 Live Demo(flax.ie)
2 points by hebejebelus 15y ago|0 comments
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
I fail to see how the males aren't just the female stick figure with short hair. Your viewpoint is at fault here, not the comics. I see what you mean in a way - that the male stick figures don't have long hair. Again, though, this is only y
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Potentially, we could do so, yes. It would take some time, though, because the engine is centred heavily on creating map object from a JSON string, which probably wouldn't work so nicely out of the box in a simple JVM (though to be honest I
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
The biggest difference between Impact and Flax is that Flax is written with the Java language, using GWT to cross-compile into Javascript. We used GWT because a year ago, when we started, neither of us really knew Javascript. As well as tha
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
It's certainly on the cards. There's a whole bunch of optimisation we have yet to do, but we wanted to get a version out the door.
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
The default one is, currently, from Pokémon Gold or Silver. You're right - to use it under fair use we should include a copyright disclaimer. (However, does the fact that the image is meant to be changed mean anything in terms of legal issu
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Thanks, Matthias. You've been there since the start, thanks for everything (especially helping us with the JSON serialisation).
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Well, we certainly hope to not disappoint! Diluvia looks awesome, great mechanic. Did you use node or websockets (or another method?) for the multiplayer aspect? Also, how did you do audio? I'm about to start working on Flax's audio section
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
From my post: "There’s no “game” in “Flax game engine” so far. What we’ve got is really a demo of our map editor, Weave. Naturally, we had to build the tools before we could build anything even resembling a game." Before the end of the summ
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Don't worry, that's exactly what we'll be doing. We've got a hard deadline of three weeks on each iteration, and a soft one of two weeks. After the soft deadline, we'll bugfix anything and remove non-working features. Hopefully this will ke
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Show HN: Our HTML5 Game Engine, with live demo(flax.ie)
44 points by hebejebelus 15y ago|20 comments
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
FTA: "When Picard and el Kaliouby were calibrating their prototype, they were surprised to find that the average person only managed to interpret, correctly, 54 per cent of Baron-Cohen's expressions on real, non-acted faces. This suggested
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
WRT your edit: This reminds me of a service idea I had a while back which I shelved for far too many reasons: A site/chatroom-esque thing where you can invite people to watch things with you over the net (inspired by my long-distance relati
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Interesting, very interesting. Now, I haven't watched any programming-specific videos other than the one linked, but my immediate thoughts were something along the lines of "But you need to know [that a program executes from the top-down] f
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
There are things I would _really_ like from google - where I fit in to their adsense categories, for example. (I'm not sure whether this data is anonymised or not) I just downloaded this data, all the data they would give me. I got my email
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
My biggest surprise when resetting a bunch of passwords from the Sony hack was the fact that Paypal wouldn't let me use a complex password like the one in the article (no longer than 16 [or something like that] chars, no quotation marks, et
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
Primarily I use GWT, but occaisionally I'll do some pure js just for fun. Coffeescript doesn't have any particular features that I need, and I'm perfectly happy using js.
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
As a computer games development student, this feels very relevant to me (as, I'm sure, it does to other software developers). Even a project I'd like to do, on my own, for a week, is very hard to finish. There never really seems like there'
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Dublin Web Summit highlights the under-reported successes of Irish tech(wired.co.uk)
1 points by hebejebelus 15y ago|0 comments
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
I'm Carl, the one the article mentions, so I can answer questions if anybody's got any.
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Dublin Web Summit 2011 - Largest tech start-up conference in Ireland & UK(flax.ie)
4 points by hebejebelus 15y ago|1 comments
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The Dare To Be Digital game competition from a student's perspective(flax.ie)
3 points by hebejebelus 15y ago|0 comments
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
And we still haven't invented the field of symbology. Looks like it'll be a while until Dan Brown's prophecy comes to pass.
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The Weather Factory, Dare To Be Digital 2011 Part 1(flax.ie)
4 points by hebejebelus 15y ago|0 comments
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by hebejebelus 15y ago
The title really should be changed to reflect the actual message (or lack of one). Nowhere in the post does he say that he didn't have a good time working at Apple. Nowhere does he advise not working there (like the title suggests). Fro

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