johngunderman

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by johngunderman 15y ago
I've messed around with VP8 a bit, and I'm very impressed with its quality/compression ratio. However, when I last used it (August), it had significantly slower transcoding times than any other popular codec. Hopefully they've fixed it by n
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The Haskell Heap(blog.ezyang.com)
83 points by johngunderman 16y ago|9 comments
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The Interrobang, Part 2(shadycharacters.co.uk)
2 points by johngunderman 16y ago|2 comments
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The Origin of Ctrl-Alt-Delete(hackaday.com)
1 points by johngunderman 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Interviews Josh Bloch (The "mother" of Java)(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
4 points by johngunderman 16y ago|0 comments
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Man builds Slingshot/Crossbow that shoots Machetes(hackaday.com)
1 points by johngunderman 16y ago|0 comments
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Real Time Edge Detection in Haskell(disciple-devel.blogspot.com)
63 points by johngunderman 16y ago|1 comments
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Music Synthesized from Conway's Game of Life(hackaday.com)
4 points by johngunderman 16y ago|0 comments
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A Commit a Day Keeps the Doctor Away(blog.oscardelben.com)
1 points by johngunderman 16y ago|0 comments
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Kinect hacked to work with Garry’s Mod means endless hours of virtual fun(hackaday.com)
2 points by johngunderman 16y ago|0 comments
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by johngunderman 16y ago
It was just poorly phrased. by "direction" they meant "from receiver to transmitter" or "from transmitter to receiver".
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I find it interesting that their device takes a maximum of 2 hours to run through all of the combinations. I lockpicked a Master lock just two days ago (I had forgotten the combo), and by hand it took around 30 min. Master uses certain rule
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Students at Olin build Automatic Lock Cracker (Master Combination Lock)(hackaday.com)
1 points by johngunderman 16y ago|1 comments
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Believe me, I'm not trying to replace game artists or belittle their work in any way. I'm just musing about whether or not there is a way to streamline an artist's job, to make it easier for them to create content. Which, when phrased that
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Is this even possible? Maybe it is just my ignorance of copyright law here, but I was under the impression that in the US copyright is granted automatically upon the creation of a original work. Copyright is not something you apply for. If
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by johngunderman 16y ago
> That's why Ray-casting would never pick up for real-time games (Unreal most definitely is not doing any ray-casting, I'm just giving it as a an extreme example). I'm not convinced that you are correct here. Although ray-tracing has no
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I feel like we need a "library" of freely available hi-res textures and models that can be adapted for a given game. From what I understand, a huge part of the development costs go into the art, and having a huge library to draw from seems
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The Pilcrow, pt. 2(shadycharacters.co.uk)
41 points by johngunderman 16y ago|2 comments
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Worst case of 19 drops: Drop bulb a every ten floors starting with floor ten, extending to floor 100. When bulb a breaks, start with bulb b. Drop bulb b starting from 9 floors below the floor that bulb b breaks, and extending to the floor d
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Or you could actually be interested in said literature and take classes on it :) I think literature and code have a lot in common, they both tell a "story", though with code it tends to be more imperative.
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Firefox 3.6.12
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I'm getting the error: "Error: K style not defined" in a pop-up. However, the page seems to be functioning normally. What could be causing this?
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I've found that it too often becomes an hour that I've lost to HN :(
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Internet2 is pretty damn big ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2 )
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I used to. I don't watch TV, but I probably spend too much time on the computer. Just a few years ago I would read more than any other activity.
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I think that the statement made about Benjamin Franklin is rather inaccurate. Ben Franklin was a printer, publisher, and writer for most of his life, which puts his occupation at a parallel with what Blizzard is currently doing. However, Be
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Github is a bit difficult to find projects on. All of the super active projects are flooded with developers, and everything else is just a single developer doing his own thing. The best way to get involved is to think about what annoys you
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by johngunderman 16y ago
M-x org-export-as-latex
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by johngunderman 16y ago
I've been following the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (RIP) which is one of the most famous fantasy series of the past 50 years, and all of Peter F. Hamilton's novels, which can only be described as epic space operas. Both authors a
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by johngunderman 16y ago
Freenode is excellent. As far as channels, these are the ones that I particularly like: ##programming ##compsci (a bit quiet of a channel) #emacs #haskell

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