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Press X to make sandwich – A complete guide to gender design in games(howtonotsuckatgamedesign.com)
3 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
That's a description of the examples that use "Bloop," jlongster's toy library. Those examples do run a continuous requestAnimationFrame loop. Om, however, does not call requestAnimationFrame in a continuous loop; it
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yup, the IE devtools are named "F12" after the keyboard shortcut: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ie/bg182326%28v=vs.85%29 (F12 is also the keyboard shortcut for opening the developer tools in Chrome,
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The Programming Language Zoo(andrej.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Knuth's "Structured Programming with Go To Statements" is also a good read and explicitly points out how high-level languages make certain ways of expressing algorithms hard or impossible.
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Let's Write Some x86-64(nickdesaulniers.github.io)
163 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|44 comments
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Satellite Radio(dolske.wordpress.com)
55 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|3 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
It's a fat binary; it includes both 32-bit and 64-bit compiled code. Normally only the 64-bit code is used, but it can restart in 32-bit mode for compatibility with legacy plug-ins.
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An interactive explanation of quadtrees(jimkang.com)
93 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|19 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I'm a Firefox developer and I don't think this is true. As far as I know, most of the key elements of the Firefox 29 theme redesign emerged after the last major UI redesign (Firefox 4) was released in 2011.
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A fast, parallel backtracking algorithm for n-queens implemented in Rust(github.com)
53 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|7 comments
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Exciting updates to certificate verification in Gecko(blog.mozilla.org)
6 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Ars Technica has had a similar subscription program for years, with single-page layouts, no ads, full-text RSS, and a few other goodies: http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/ I've always appreciated the ability to
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Previous discussion of the GCC 4.9 changelog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578896
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I should note that Mozilla's "rr" is actually similar conceptually to the Elm debugger, since it records an input stream rather than a snapshot of the program's states or actions. But the mechanism is quite different, s
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Systems like gdb process-record-and-replay rely on logging machine state with every instruction [0]. This imposes limitations; for example gdb's record-and-replay system is not implemented on all platforms where gdb runs. Record-and-
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Current versions of Firefox also do not use CRL, if I understand correctly. It seems most modern browsers prefer OCSP instead, with CRL only as a fallback or not at all. You can find some of the rationale at these links: https:/&#x2
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
As of last week, OkCupid is a dating site that promotes marriage equality, or at least wants to be seen as such.
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
The official name of the award is the "ACM A.M. Turing Award" if that eases your fears about global namespace pollution. :) And it really is the "Nobel Prize of computer science"; the fact that not all practitioners hav
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Since ACM is the major organization for computer science research, nearly everyone who has studied Paxos should know of the ACM. Lamport's own seminal papers introducing distributed clocks and Paxos were published in the journals C
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Exactly - as in the original blog post by Yossi Kreinin, I'm talking about a difference in degree only, depending on just how many levels of dependencies and abstractions you're building on top of. Your comment brings up a good po
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I've found this very true, as I've moved over the years from very "high-level" programming (client/server apps, database-driven web sites) to "mid-level" programming (working on the Firefox browser) and th
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The forgotten future of the stationary bicycle(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Thanks for responding. I do try to assume that people are not intentionally being trivializing when using words with racist origins. I just think it's especially important to be aware of it in a discussion where people are weighing t
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I've seen people in this thread using words like "lynching" and "concentration camp" to describe what happened to Brendan. I understand people are angry about events, but please try to remember that for people in m
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
See also the thread for the official announcement from Mozilla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525198
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
These data could help support (or debunk) a theory I posted about "industry hubs" having a negative effect on gender diversity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7456449
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I believe that rule is in place to help detect corporations trying to hide campaign contributions by "laundering" them through a large number of employees.
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Thanks, dang. I'm glad to see HN staff engaging directly with users.
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Facts that conflict with identity can lead to rejection(computinged.wordpress.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments

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