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by iman 17y ago
It's actually a lot more sophisticated than that. Here's a great presentation from Valve about the "AI Director" in Left 4 Dead: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2009/ai_systems_of...
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by iman 17y ago
unsafePerformIO is part of the the Haskell 98 Foreign Function Interface, which is "An Addendum to the Haskell 98 Report". (See chapter 5 Marshalling < http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/ffi/ffise5.html... ) All haskell compil
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by iman 17y ago
Here is the previous discussion of this at hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328833
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by iman 17y ago
Can you talk about revenue that came from the flash version? millions of hits seems like it should give some nice ad revenue. And did you consider seeking sponsorship for the flash version?
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by iman 17y ago
Very impressive, but performance sucks, even in google chrome. Keep in mind that the 486 is capable of fully emulating the NES. The truth is that javascript will simply never be appropriate for tasks such as this. It is too slow and no amou
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by iman 17y ago
"The correct naming of things [...] makes you attractive to women." I'm curious about this kind of writing in a programming related article. Did any women who read this article feel discomfort when they read this sentence? I am guessing no,
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by iman 17y ago
There are languages that have useful features that lisp lacks. For example, Haskell has lazy evaluation and automatic compiler generated program correctness proofs (a decent type system). Then there are languages that try to be even more po
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Conan O'Brien Harvard Speech (2000) "Fall down, make a mess" [video](guba.com)
26 points by iman 17y ago|2 comments
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by iman 17y ago
The user referenced in the article who complains and thinks that he deserves everything for free is not the kind of customer you want.
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by iman 17y ago
You can read the thesis that later became "Purely Functional Data Structures" for free online: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf It's a great read even for those who don't yet have experience with functional programming.
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Inspiring Women Interview: Corrinne Yu (Lead Halo engine programmer)(kombo.com)
58 points by iman 17y ago|32 comments
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by iman 17y ago
This looks very similar to the "Eye Drive"[1] mini robot developed by the Israelis, and already in use by the IDF (according to an article[2] in the Jerusalem Post). The company's promotional video[3] of the robot shows it in action. [1] h
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GDC 09: Everything you wanted to know about going indie...(destructoid.com)
1 points by iman 18y ago|0 comments
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by iman 18y ago
4. Game consoles and games are very expensive and thus not very popular in Israel. So all the kids need a computer in order to get their video game fix. 5. There isn't much poverty in Israel. It would probably be very difficult to find a ho
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by iman 18y ago
Are they still free? Or are they now paying renewal fees like the rest of us?
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by iman 18y ago
The genetic algorithm technique is often used to solve a problem just because it's cool, and not necessarily because it is the best way to solve the problem. Is this the case with this "Mona Lisa" problem? Is there an alternative algorithm
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by iman 18y ago
I disagree completely. It is true that a few years ago, OCaml was more "practical" then haskell. It was faster and had more libraries. But today haskell is superior to OCaml in nearly all aspects. As a language, haskell has always been clea
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by iman 18y ago
The "pain of a monad" is pretty much the same any many other topics in programming that are tricky for beginners: pointers, recursive functions, linked lists, etc. In fact, monads aren't even a language feature, they are a data structure ju
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by iman 18y ago
But nevertheless, browsers still maintain their own internal cache. Firefox: http://jelmer.jteam.nl/2006/11/04/disabling-the-firefox-dns-...
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by iman 18y ago
yeah, chrome tabs are not "shared-nothing". They have a common document cache, a common cookie store, a common history store, probably a common dns lookup result cache, and maybe some other things. These all need to be carefully synchronize
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by iman 18y ago
Yep, there are many other languages that can be compiled to javascript: Ocaml to javascript compiler: http://skydeck.com/blog/programming/ocamljs-ocaml-to-javascr... Haskell to javascript compiler: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/
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by iman 18y ago
What cpu architectures are supported?
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by iman 18y ago
"People ask me who I fear," says Wilbur. "Which of our competition - LucasArts, Microsoft, any of the big companies. They don't frighten me. What I'm afraid of is two guys in a garage, working in total obscurity. That's where the heart and
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by iman 18y ago
From the end of the article: Advantages: * Despite the number of fans, it was quite a bit quieter than I expected.
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Build Your Own Quad-Core Machine With The Tempest Case(gamedev.net)
1 points by iman 18y ago|3 comments
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by iman 18y ago
So I can have a file evil_applet.jpg that is a valid jpg and also a valid java applet? The website where the file is uploaded will serve the file with a mimetype of jpg. If I try to force it as an applet on a 3rd party site: <embed type