neckro23

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by neckro23 11y ago
No need to DIY -- Steam already has game streaming built-in, so your friends can watch you play if they want. It works pretty well. This is separate from the Home Streaming feature, which is what's used/abused in the article. Ho
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by neckro23 11y ago
> Ideally, bands would think of the sound guy as a member of the band. Kind of like the conductor of an orchestra is a vital member of the orchestra. I know one example of this: Front 242. Bressanutti (the group's founding member &
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by neckro23 11y ago
It's an old browser feature. I think the idea was so you could easily reference other elements in inline-HTML event handlers (onclick= etc.). Personally I find it handy for messing around in jsfiddle and the like: <pre id=&qu
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by neckro23 11y ago
It's very applicable to software development in general. "Who wrote this crap? I'm rewriting it!"
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by neckro23 11y ago
Not to victim-blame here, but the fact that there's even an "installer" should be a huge red flag. There's no reason a simple FTP program can't be just an .app bundle.
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by neckro23 11y ago
This seems the most likely explanation -- compounded by the fact that us kids reading the books were just beginning to learn how to read. After reading the article, I do vaguely recall some childhood cognitive dissonance over the fact that
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by neckro23 11y ago
You can skip maybe half of this by installing the Service Pack manually right away. It still sucks, but not quite as much. No idea why Windows insists on installing individual updates before the Service Pack that includes them all anyways.
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by neckro23 11y ago
brew tap aspnet/dnx; brew install dnvm Not quite, but they're getting there. And supporting Homebrew, apparently.
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by neckro23 11y ago
I had the same response when Napster originally came out -- it was too arrogantly blatant, it would get smacked down ASAP. And it did, but not before causing a significant shift in how seriously record labels approached downloadable music.
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by neckro23 12y ago
This is almost perfectly useless. I approve.
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by neckro23 12y ago
You don't have to give them your private key -- it's just for convenience, if you happen to trust Keybase. You don't have to run it in the browser, either; you can just install the command-line tool via NPM and know exactly
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by neckro23 12y ago
The store-brand meters and strips are usually a great deal if you don't have insurance, but the catch-22 is that most Rx insurance won't pay for the generic strips, just the name-brand ones.
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by neckro23 12y ago
Windows has a standard way of doing this, no? I've seen other Windows apps like TortoiseSvn do icon overlays too.
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by neckro23 12y ago
If you prebake the lighting and use ridiculously high-rez textures, you can make any 3D engine look like that. Static geometry is cheap.
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by neckro23 12y ago
In Source the scale is fixed (1 "unit" ~= 1 inch) and I imagine the same's true for UE.
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by neckro23 12y ago
In the US it's rated "R" (17+). If it wasn't for all the bad language though, I bet it would only be PG-13 by modern standards. Attitudes vary. My own parents would never have let me see Aliens when I was 11. I thin
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by neckro23 12y ago
The good old-fashioned rocket jump is another example of this. Quake 1 had a feature where if a player took damage, they'd get pushed in the direction the damage came from. This was originally intended to serve as a visual indicator.
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by neckro23 12y ago
Conventional smoke detectors use radioactive isotopes (americium). I imagine Nest wanted to avoid putting radioactive materials in their shiny consumer products.
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by neckro23 12y ago
At least you have to be physically present to steal or lose cash.
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by neckro23 12y ago
I have a pithier version: Being poor is really fucking expensive. But yeah, the guy's problem isn't that he bought a used car. It's that he bought a used luxury car. They're not exactly designed for reliability or ea
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by neckro23 12y ago
When I first saw Another World, the animation was so incredible (for the time) that I figured it was one of those newfangled CD-ROM games. Then I bought a copy and was shocked that the whole thing fit on a single 1.2MB floppy -- most graph
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by neckro23 12y ago
MRU drives me batty. It mostly makes sense for applications (Alt+Tab et al.) but for documents like webpages the "index" is right there in my tab bar. Why expect me to remember the order I last looked at them? On a related note,
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by neckro23 12y ago
I remember reading about DPR before he got busted, and thinking "wow, this guy must be practicing some insanely paranoid opsec". Turns out, he was doing nothing of the sort!
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by neckro23 12y ago
Misleading title, but this is a really clever hack. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before, since JPEG's lack of an alpha channel is a common complaint.
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by neckro23 12y ago
It seems that MS is coming around to the idea that charging consumers for the OS is no longer terribly good business, even though they have less skin in the hardware game than Apple does.
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by neckro23 12y ago
It reminds me of TypeScript, where everything defaults to type `any`, so it can interoperate with normal JS. This essentially makes static type checking an "opt-in" feature of the language.
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by neckro23 12y ago
I wondered what had happened to it. In the early 90s it seemed like it would be the future of image compression, and here we are in 2014 still using DCTs.
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by neckro23 12y ago
The details vary, of course. Typically it's any gameplay-related commands the player gives. You avoid the timing problem by having the client timestamp the packets. Time on the server side is quantized into "ticks", which a
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by neckro23 12y ago
Homebrew now has prepackaged binaries ("bottles") for most of the packages that take awhile to build, which has really helped the speed thing.
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by neckro23 12y ago
Anemic competition in the '90s (Nintendo and Sega's failed Dreamcast) made Sony dominant, and the PS2 kept them there. Microsoft then spent quite a bit of money taking them on throughout the 2000's, and eventually won (in th

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