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Isla, livecoding for children(islalanguage.org)
3 points by maryrosecook 14y ago|0 comments
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Deft and Intuitive Player Character Movement in a 2D Platformer(buildnewgames.com)
2 points by maryrosecook 14y ago|0 comments
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by maryrosecook 14y ago
I'm a student in the current batch of Hacker School. I wrote a testimonial that is not up on the internet, yet, so I thought I'd reproduce it here. Hope you guys find it helpful. tl;dr: go. There are eight elements of Hacker School. Firs
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by maryrosecook 14y ago
Thanks a lot. I've added a hastily compiled quick start readme to the repo: https://github.com/maryrosecook/isla/blob/master/README.md It's not as complete as I would like, but I am working on it. Is that enough to get you started? I'm h
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by maryrosecook 14y ago
Hi everyone. I'm Mary and I am making Isla. It's exciting to see the language posted to HN, and great to see so much discussion. I agree with the people who say that a programming language that apes natural language can be frustrating. In
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
Wrote a word processor in C in the mornings before school on my parents' Mac (OS7) when I was 14.
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
Thank you for your excellent feedback. Yes, andro.eventer is there to avoid polluting the owner object. However, your idea of passing andro to the behaviour's setup() method is a great one. I'm going to give it a try. The reason I require
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
Yes, I agree.
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
Excellent point. I would normally do this, but I wanted to reduce the amount of indirection in the code as much as possible. But, it may still be worth doing so people aren't distracted by thinking "Wow, this girl should use constants".
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
I'm very open to critique. Can you elaborate?
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Andro.js(maryrosecook.com)
49 points by maryrosecook 15y ago|13 comments
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SWIFT*SWITCH post-mortem(sophiehoulden.com)
1 points by maryrosecook 15y ago|0 comments
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
Yes, Ableton only have offices in Berlin and New York City.
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
Thanks, Tom :)
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
I think the learning curve for emacs is a little bit to do with its unusualness, but mostly to do with figuring out how you and it work together. This latter is a long process of discovery.
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by maryrosecook 15y ago
The choice for devs at Ableton is Linux or Windows. The company has Macs, too, but not for primary development machines.
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Machine.js, a library for making behaviour trees(maryrosecook.com)
3 points by maryrosecook 15y ago|0 comments
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
This series is fascinating. Loads of stories about weird hacks to make the graphics cleaner, to up the polygon count, to make the animation more cartoonish, writing a dialect of Lisp to define the gameplay. Related: an article about making
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
I would just write your next proper (non-toy) project in the language you want to learn. That way, you learn the language and you've made something.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
Thanks!
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
That's a nice idea. The grid stuff is actually done by the Render Engine. If I remember correctly, it's a spatial grid implemented as an array of arrays where the indexes are the row/column numbers of the nodes.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
Great. I'll check out the separating axis test, too - thanks. Incidentally, I believe The Render Engine, the framework I used, has just introduced support for this technique.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
Oh wow, I hadn't heard of that. Thanks a lot.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
The recursive technique you talk about is a nice one I hadn't heard of - thanks. I actually find that collision detection does affect performance. For example, in Pistol Slut, when an exploding grenade throws out forty pieces of shrapnel,
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How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut(maryrosecook.com)
90 points by maryrosecook 16y ago|35 comments
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
I used The Render Engine (not in the list above http://code.google.com/p/renderengine/ ) to make http://pistolslut.com It's pretty nice.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
Rather unusually, the issues covered by the media have actually been the most important ones. The battle over the privacy of information is far more important than the facts revealed by a small number of actual information leaks.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
No, it does not. If you pay taxes here, you have to have health insurance. For a permanent employee, this is about 14% of your salary. All in, I pay about a third of my income in tax (which includes health insurance).
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
Point (1) does not fit with my experience here at all. Kreuzberg is central, cheap and very lively.
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by maryrosecook 16y ago
Ableton, the company I work for, are based in Berlin and are looking for Python devs: http://www.ableton.com/jobs It's a really nice place to work, and the pay is OK for Berlin. Great summary of cost of living and tech scene from maxklein

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