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by lt 15y ago
In iD games, there's a clean division between game-specific logic (which is usually in a separate DLL, haven't looked too closely at Doom3 yet), and framework/engine code. On Quake 2, you could replace the DLL to switch between the regular
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by lt 15y ago
http://www.hnsearch.com/api
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by lt 15y ago
Julian Bucknall just posted an article he wrote for PCPlus last year on this very subject. http://blog.boyet.com/blog/pcplus/pcplus-297-arithmetic-with... As usual, well explained and interesting.
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by lt 15y ago
These are kernel developers saying that the majority of crash reports they receive are caused by the virtual box driver.
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by lt 15y ago
Chrome was the previous name of Oxygene, a .net language derived from pascal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygene_(programming_language) The browser kinda stole the thunder from their name.
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by lt 15y ago
I find that expecting a twist lowers the enjoyment. The twist, when it arrives, tends to usually be anticlimatic. If it turns out there's no twist, it ruins the whole experience. I think that's why Shyamalan's later movies are considered so
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Antimatter ring found around the Earth could fuel interstellar missions(nextbigfuture.com)
5 points by lt 15y ago|1 comments
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by lt 15y ago
From the full article: The confidence of the SuperCollider programming language has been set to 80%. The reason for this is quite funny. In order to prove that the TIOBE index can be manipulated easily, Adam Kennedy created an empty Perl l
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by lt 15y ago
>Does WoW have duping problems? Not really. I can recall just one time where someone found an exploit to do so, probably 3+ years ago, which was handled quickly.
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by lt 15y ago
Sure. But it is still ad hominem regardless.
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by lt 15y ago
ad hominem: his argument is invalid because he is a SEO consultant. not ad hominem: his argument is invalid because [reason]. he ignores [reason] because he is a SEO consultant.
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Polygon Codec/Homogeneous clipping(fabiensanglard.net)
1 points by lt 15y ago|0 comments
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by lt 15y ago
Looks like it's been changed. Points seems to be always null through the API now. edit: just removed from the search. still here: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/2619811-02e34... expect to be gone soon.
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by lt 15y ago
Exactly. How do I find this comment through the API? How do I find its replies?
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by lt 15y ago
Comment scores are back! (in a convoluted way, through the API). I can see that at this time that the top comment of this page currently (tptacek's) has 58 points: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...
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by lt 15y ago
You just got a new customer.
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by lt 15y ago
Do you know if Backblaze has similar limitations? I cancelled Mozy due to their pricing changes and I'm looking for a replacement.
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by lt 15y ago
I've been using Anonymous Pro: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html mentioned in a followup to that article: http://hivelogic.com/articles/anonymous-pro-programming-mono...
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by lt 15y ago
Reminds of an article I have seen here before: Several physicists weigh in on what would happen if you were to place your hand in the proton stream of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. http://kottke.org/10/09/putting-your-hand-in-the-larg
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by lt 15y ago
Nice! Actual problem list: http://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&... (not sure if they are the ones from the book, but they are linked from there)
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by lt 15y ago
What has that to do with anything? Why assume a stereotypical cave-dwelling nerd because he is interested on different programming languges?
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by lt 15y ago
I believe your understanding is right, recently being a month, provided it's the exact same URL. Popular news are usually submitted from different sources so there are actual duplicates. I agree that it's certainly not easy to automate the
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by lt 15y ago
I've been thinking lately about running some analysis of my own, but couldn't find a data dump and didn't feel like scraping. Why has the dump been pulled? I'm thinking of classifying entries as temporal/atemporal. Temporal are industry new
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by lt 15y ago
Looks fake. I made up a name and it happily gave me an email address. Recent searches look fabricated too. Honeypot for business contacts/HN users?
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Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif(therussiansusedapencil.com)
2 points by lt 15y ago|1 comments
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by lt 16y ago
On the iOS you can scroll textareas and iframes using two fingers. I imagine it should be possible on Android too.
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by lt 16y ago
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching
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by lt 16y ago
Extremely relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2164
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Embarcadero AppWave Store: The World’s First True App Store for PCs(devstonez.wordpress.com)
1 points by lt 16y ago|0 comments
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by lt 16y ago
If Itaipu [1] bursts, it's said that it would flood and destroy a large part of Argentina. In the past, argentinians were worried that it could be used as a weapon against them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam

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