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by jimsmart 10y ago
I program some Go - I believe you are talking about the 'empty interface', e.g. map[string]interface{} The problem with that is that you instantly lose compile-time type checking, and have to check/assert the types yourself a
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Replying to myself to add an additional point: Lague's cave system doesn't try to avoid designs with back-tracking -- in fact because he joins the orphaned spaces to the main space, the resulting cave system has more dead-end cave
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Related:- There's a great set of Unity3D tutorials by Sebastian Lague [0] that use cellular automata (and a few other tricks) to create a procedural cave system. The initial cave creation technique is nigh identical to this article (pu
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Related: There's a Unity3D video on Bezier splines/curves [0] - it's far more noob than this article, and very good at explaining b-splines from the basics up. It certainly doesn't have the depth of this article (neither
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by jimsmart 10y ago
From experience (in the past I managed a mailing list with over one million subscribers), the only good list of emails is one where everyone has done a double-opt-in, a.k.a. confirmed opt-in. We had to do it this way, not only because it is
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Unfortunately this article is behind a paywall, for NG subscribers only :(
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Apologies for not seeing your reply sooner. There's a few on Ebay[0] though you'll likely want to pick a seller in the UK for a really good price, there's currently one for under $20 from a UK seller with free worldwide shipp
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by jimsmart 10y ago
The keyboard provided with the Nintendo DS game 'Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure' is in fact a Bluetooth keyboard that works fine with non-Nintendo kit. It's got a good feel, is well built, and has no obvious branding. I
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by jimsmart 10y ago
At the bottom of that page I was half expecting to see a 'This page best Viewed in Netscape 2.0' button! ;)
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Immediate 301... and if the browser were following the RFC it could update any bookmark itself (perhaps with a prompt for confirmation). Maybe they already do that? Not checked. But I don't want a message about some URL change (that ca
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by jimsmart 10y ago
Maybe also ask your specific questions over on Go-nuts [0] - Lots of knowledgable Go folk there (including a bunch of the Go devs), and most questions get answered pretty quickly. HTH [0] https://groups.google.com/forum&#x2F
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by jimsmart 10y ago
What is your goal? If your goal is to reduce the amount of data that goes across the wire, just make sure you have gzip enabled on your server - the compression algorithm will take care of that for you. Otherwise (if you are trying to reduc
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by jimsmart 11y ago
An educated guess (having coded the NES) is that it's simply a bigger ROM, and the cart contained some kind of MMC chip [0] which allows different sections from the ROM to be paged-in - the menu screen contains the code to page-in the
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by jimsmart 11y ago
On the C64, when scrolling, the fastest way to update the screen colour RAM (which cannot be pointed to another address, unlike the screen character map) is to do it all with immediate LDA #$xx / STA $D800 / LDA #$xx / STA $D
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by jimsmart 11y ago
My anecdotal evidence ties with yours, to a greater degree. Not specifically generating code to run, but I certainly wrote plenty of self-modifying code when coding games on the C64, although it was never a trick I personally used on the NE
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by jimsmart 12y ago
If they do switch to ARM, I hope they'll do something like Rosetta to help with the switch. The last switch wouldn't've been as easy if it wasn't for Rosetta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(so
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by jimsmart 12y ago
Because the difficulty of the calculation increases as more are mined, therefore to mine the remaining Bitcoins it will cost a ridiculously ludicrous amount of resources (i.e. electricity for the processing power). So: game-over for all the
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by jimsmart 12y ago
Jeez, that's 100 email addresses in a million that it won't work on. Plus it's a pain in the butt. [Edit: Though I suspect that 99.99% figure was made up] Just get people to enter their email twice (which filters out most mis
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by jimsmart 12y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I used to do dev-ops on one of the leading 'free online legal advice' type sites in the UK. You don't say which country you are in, but if you google that phrase and your country, you'll likely fin
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by jimsmart 12y ago
I have two ultimate faves:- Accelerando (Charlie Stross) - truly epic, hard-scifi, from near to far future, truly hardcore Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson) - awesome tale, plenty of nanotech, almost fairy-tale-esque [Edit: formatting]
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by jimsmart 12y ago
Sure, 'many' do. Although it seems to be the exception rather than the norm — at a rough guess (I only looked at ~15 out of 89 result pages), about one in ten games have about that price, but it seems more than half of the games t
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by jimsmart 12y ago
A market that exists in some kind of historic utopia perhaps? Jesting aside... In part, I suspect that's why the OP has "a hard time believing [they] could get $29.95 for what [they] have currently produced" — unfortunately,
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by jimsmart 12y ago
FWIW: Closing and re-visiting fixed it.
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It's just looping the tutorial for me, clicking 'skip tutorial' just goes back to the beginning. (Safari on Yosemite)