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by jcl 9y ago
One example might be Jordan Mechner, who wrote Karateka between the ages of 18 and 20, which went on to sell 500,000 copies. One of his journal entries mentions he got 15% royalty, and one of his videos mentions that the original retail pr
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An easter egg that I fondly recall finding: If you ran the game on December 25th, the suit of armor in the entryway is replaced with a Christmas tree.
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From 2013, which might be why the most recent movie referenced is Brave. If you're interested in a slightly more concrete example of the math going into Pixar movies, here's a Numberphile interview with Tony DeRose from around the
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Fun fact revealed in a GDC talk: Even Zach Barth himself did not feel motivated to complete the final SpaceChem level. He just designed it to the point where it "looked solvable" and then turned his playtesters loose on it. ( ht
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by jcl 9y ago
True, if you're writing a typical app, it will probably be easiest for you if you write it in the same manner as most other people. But if you are doing something very new or unusual, a sample project like this can be invaluable, since
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by jcl 9y ago
FWIW, This w3.org web standard for per-fee-links (dated Aug 1999) describes a micropayment system that can be denominated in arbitrary currencies, giving "airline miles" as one possible example: https://www.w3.org/
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by jcl 9y ago
It's actually closer to the Wolfenstein rendering engine than one might expect... Like the original, it does a ray-march in the ground plane to find map objects: https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob&#x2
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If you like this one, you'll probably also enjoy the "DOOM E1M1" shader, which not only reproduces the DOOM graphics, but also the level audio in a separate shader (note: sound autoplays): https://www.shadertoy.com
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by jcl 9y ago
Perhaps it was this article -- where analysis of age-50+ members of a particular Amish community showed that lifespan of mothers increases linearly up to 14 children, and increases with later age at last birth: https://www.ncbi.n
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On reading the title, I was kind of hoping that it meant that all DVD player creators would be free to stop imposing the artificial restrictions present on many DVDs, like region locks, "unskippable" tracks, etc. But it looks lik
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by jcl 9y ago
If I'm understanding the article correctly, it actually can't be used as a strictly preventative measure. It relies on the fact that the subject already has a tumor and that the subject's immune system has made progress in t
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Now that I think about it, most manual arithmetic would also be easier if we described numbers with the least-significant digits first. If you're doing sums in your head, you could just list out the answer's digits as you calcula
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by jcl 9y ago
I think it's more than just wear-and-tear... There are a lot of legal protections that make it hard to displace existing renters. Presumably most of these unoccupied homes are owned as rainy day assets, to either be sold or occupied
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by jcl 9y ago
I also found the interference in the beam splitters surprising, although experimenting in the game let me work out enough of the logic to finish the levels. I found an article on Wikipedia that, from the pictures, seems to be describe the p
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by jcl 9y ago
I think anime's predilection for establishing shots may be due in part to its manga roots... In "Understanding Comics", Scott McCloud analyzed the transitions made between panels in various works, and he found that sequences
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by jcl 9y ago
As far as security goes, a problem with "airlocks" is similar to a problem with attached garages: It's easier to get into them than directly into the house, and once you are in them, they can provide cover for a more concerte
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FWIW, some UPS store locations offer 3D printing (although it seemed pretty expensive): https://www.theupsstore.com/print/3d-printing
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From the first post of the forum thread: "My first computer was a Mac Plus. I've always had a nostalgia-softened spot in my heart for 1-bit graphics. I'd like to capture the detailed black & white look of old Mac games in
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by jcl 9y ago
Per another comment, he's scheduled to be at an upcoming Forth meeting: https://www.meetup.com/SV-FIG/events/243613446/
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by jcl 9y ago
Given the relative size of the function and typical memory, I suspect that the issue the author ran into was actually the JVM's 64KB limit on the bytecode size of a compiled function. https://stackoverflow.com/questions
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Per the description on https://github.com/csnxs/Terraria/ , this isn't the Terraria source code -- it's a decompilation of the binary.
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Could be Mount Yōtei, a Hokkaido mountain known for its resemblance to Mount Fuji: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Y%C5%8Dtei
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"Add" itself is acceptable: "the desired currency must be added to the wallet's balance"
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Reminds me a bit of the "caustic design" papers in recent SIGGRAPHs in that they're both optimizing a lens's shape so that it produces a particular output lightfield -- although the hologram needs to incorporate diffract
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The OpenGL version is using parallax mapping, where the pixels of the flat plane are rendered by ray-marching into a depth map: https://github.com/kosua20/GL_Template/blob/3de4e116cdd24df3... The cycles versi
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It's a conflation of two meanings of "clip": "to cut" or "to hold together". I'd always assumed that the software "clipboard" derived not from the common "board with a clip" but f
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A video of one of the authors folding a bunny model like the one in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnW-KU2yn4
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Could you clarify? Several of the examples are Python projects (with and without Tensorflow), and others are apps consuming models that probably came from Tensorflow.
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by jcl 9y ago
Heh... I knew this looked familiar. Per the note at the end of the article, it should probably be tagged "(2015)". Previous discussion under a slightly different title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106862
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It's a pity they didn't go with "TeXtonic"... The canonical way to pronounce "TeX" is roughly "tech", since the "X" is supposed to be a Greek chi. https://en.wikipedia.org/w

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