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   by jcw 16y ago

   Panic comes to mind as a company that makes software with personality, just look at their site: http://www.panic.com
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   PC's over the last 20 years: what went wrong?(lists.suckless.org)

   2 points by jcw 16y ago|0 comments
3. 63.▲
   by jcw 16y ago

   Looks like the LCPXpresso board costs around $30, the price of ten lattes.
4. 64.▲
   by jcw 16y ago

   I want to develop games for this. How hard would it be for someone with no circuitry experience to build?
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   by jcw 16y ago

   This is really cool. However, one of the advantages of using vi is that you use it on any machine without really needing your configuration files, the defaults are comfortable enough.
6. 66.▲
   by jcw 16y ago

   Is it just me, or is SCP very slow in vim?
7. 67.▲
   by jcw 16y ago

   There's something really beautiful about demos and the demoscene. I'm glad they're being preserved and seen as an art form, was afraid that they'd be forgotten.
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   by jcw 16y ago

   Reminds me of the interesting ways the SNES Sim City has been exploited: http://incise.org/advanced-sim-city-strategies.html
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   by jcw 16y ago

   And what about the idea that once you display something publicly, it's no longer really yours?
10. 70.▲
    by jcw 17y ago

    Vim-shell isn't bad, but the version on the site is outdated. You have to scour their mailing list to find a working link to a patch that works with vim 7.2.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    Using screen to get a REPL alongside vim is pretty clunky. Conque is much easier, in my opinion: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771 I really hope that a real shell gets implemented inside vim at some point, it's almost e
12. 72.▲
    by jcw 17y ago

    There's also that child laughing sound clip that's used everywhere, is there a name for it?
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    by jcw 17y ago

    Did Windows 3.1 have a Paint program? Also, this reminds me about how I used to carry around MiniVMac (a Macintosh emulator) running OS 7 on a thumb drive to keep random notes and drawings. It would be kind of cool if you could sign up an a
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I paint and I code, and this made me laugh: * Computer programmers cause a machine to perform a sequence of transformations on electronically stored data. * Painters apply colored goo to cloth using animal hairs tied to a stick. It's funny,
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    by jcw 17y ago

    In Air Hockey, you can move your paddle in two dimensions, you can apply a variable amount of force to the puck, the goals don't encompass the entire width of a player's side, and there are those little holes shooting air that carries the p
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I do the same thing. Markdown lets you do this already, you just have to have two spaces at the end of each line. One thing that I feel like Markdown is sorely missing is the ability to link to anchors within the same document. It would be
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    by jcw 17y ago

    Having the REPL in a frame as soon as you go to the site is very clever.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    LÖVE is excellent, especially for prototyping. The fact that you couldn't access pixel data of an image was possibly its biggest shortcoming, but that's fixed with 0.6.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    Herzog Zwei is excellent. Congrats on getting that.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I think what the author means is that students have trouble breaking down large problems into small ones, and quickly testing out solutions to these small problems. As a student, I notice that people I know have some difficulty doing this.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I found the site just recently, after getting interested in demoscene and 3D graphics. Excellent site.
22. 82.▲
    by jcw 17y ago

    I would really like to mess around with this, but it doesn't compile under OS X because of some utility differences (namely readlink and cp).
23. 83.▲
    by jcw 17y ago

    Oh. Dang.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    Ha ha. I'm in the middle of a class where we make an environment for UT3. Everyone gripes and complains about how limited we are, because we're only using the level/script editor that comes bundled in with the game, and that you need the su
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    by jcw 17y ago

    It does. You need a certain Python script to get Blender to export *.ase meshes: http://www.katsbits.com/htm/tools_utilities.htm#ase
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    by jcw 17y ago

    This looks great. Let's all hope bloat and feature creep don't turn it into C++ in a few years.
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I feel the same way. Too bad no company in their right mind would release a game with intentionally outdated graphics and physics. Imagine the public outcry. Maybe the current game-playing mainstream is so devoid of imagination that they're
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I think the community seems so large here because it's hard to identify people and their patterns, everyone seems so anonymous. I think this is easier on forums where people have avatars. Keeping with the minimalism of HN, maybe a small sig
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    by jcw 17y ago

    I saw these the other day and salivated a little. As a commenter over there said, you can get one of these on IBM's merch store, although they're not exactly the same: http://logogear.americanid.com/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=42148 Having a
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    by jcw 17y ago

    Ed is fun to use, and learning it makes you better at vi.