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by palish 15y ago
True, however, the details are DOTA. League of Legends isn't DOTA at all, for example. It's hard to explain. You could only really understand if you'd played the game. "DOTA" roughly means "A highly/specifically competitive game, where
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by palish 15y ago
Er, okay. That seems unrelated since they never "made Quake" and likely have little/no influence over Carmack himself. But oh man: Carmack vs Notch. Imagine it. Nevermind, I hope Bethesda can somehow persuade/pressure/bribe/extort Carm
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by palish 15y ago
He's not the author, but he's "the face of Dota" at this point. (Well, he's "the person of Dota", at least. Mr. Ismail is far too reclusive to ever show his face.) Unfortunately, it pains me to say this, but this is the truth: If you trie
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by palish 15y ago
Hmm? Bethesda didn't make Quake, if that's what you're saying...
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by palish 15y ago
timr isn't the submitter of this story. He's a commenter. PG was specifically referring to submitters , submitting links.
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by palish 15y ago
Could you elaborate a little on why Jules' blog post was bad? It seemed completely straight-up. "X happened, Y happened, Z happened". Whether or not we agree with their decision, it seems like a good (for us) thing to hear the full sequ
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by palish 15y ago
Incase anyone was wondering, it seems like this was one reason _why chose to leave: http://www.rubyinside.com/nokogiri-ruby-html-parser-and-xml-... (_why wrote Hpricot. Imagine how that post must've felt from his perspective.) http://ne
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by palish 15y ago
Which porn company?
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by palish 15y ago
Sorry! Didn't mean to imply you did. It was sort of a tangent... a lot of people think that way, and so I sort of had a bone to pick with 'em. Cheers.
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by palish 15y ago
Wow, that's incredible! Thanks for sharing. Sorry, I miscommunicated --- fluid simulation isn't expensive as long as it doesn't affect gameplay. Because then you can do it all on the GPU, and you don't have to transfer it back to the CP
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by palish 15y ago
Actually, Ford never said that.[1][2] [1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747106 [2] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819549
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by palish 15y ago
I never readback the textures. The water surface is entirely generated and simulated on the GPU, and its heightfield is converted into a normal map and fed into the renderer every frame. There was literally zero performance overhead (we w
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by palish 15y ago
Thank you. Probably my favorite tech demo of all time. It gives me goosebumps every time I watch it. Likely watched it at least 30 times by now. Everything about it is beautiful, from the art to the music to the sound effects to the incr
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by palish 15y ago
GPGPU is incredibly overkill for simulating a water surface. Create two 256x256 RGB textures, call them foo and bar. The R channel will store current height of wave. The G channel will store the previous height of wave (allowing you to der
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by palish 15y ago
Apologies, but this attitude is quite annoying: "As long as you're healthy and a hard worker, you too can be a genius! It just takes time!" If anyone bothered to try to answer the question "do genetics matter much?" by examining real-world
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by palish 15y ago
Who cares, and why? (Honest question.) He certainly doesn't; he's dead. And everyone knows who we're referring to, so there's no ambiguity. Everything seems to indicate "it doesn't matter", and yet apparently it does to some. So why? A ni
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by palish 15y ago
I was of course talking specifically about WebGL for games... But it seems like you'd run into many of the same hindrances. For example, how will you get around the 5MB local storage limit? It would be unwieldly to re-download the whole vi
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by palish 15y ago
Hardware compatibility is the least of WebGL's problems. Right now there's essentially zero chance of WebGL powering any modern graphics engine. It unfortunately seems doomed to a life of "hey-look-at-my-cool-effect". (Which is neat, don't
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by palish 15y ago
Well... its demo is way cooler, for one. =) Seriously, I'm having way too much fun swinging this ball around and smashing things. Package it up for $0.99 IMO. Huzzah! http://imageshack.us/f/839/towerofpower.jpg/
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by palish 15y ago
RNG's... Did they include Mersenne Twister? http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html EDIT: Apologies... the only reason I asked was to contribute to the discussion, but now I realize it probably looked like I was being la
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by palish 15y ago
Probably should've posted this at about 10AM PST rather than 10PM.
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by palish 15y ago
Here's a smidgen of info: http://tam.plannet21.com/FAQs.htm#electronics
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by palish 15y ago
Wow, that was extremely annoying to disable. - I didn't remember my password offhand, so each of my 5 attempts required me to fill out a captcha. - On the settings page, the "Account" link is... less than visible. The word "Account" appear
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by palish 15y ago
I thought Fukime was great!
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by palish 15y ago
Warning: This is incredibly epic, and worked fine for me. May cause heart attack due to awesomeness.
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by palish 15y ago
Like I said, this is not Anon. Think about it. Anon aren't stupid. And going up against Facebook is stupid.
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by palish 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds completely out of character for LulzSec / Anonymous? They aren't stupid. They surely know that waging war against Facebook would be silly. I'd bet this is someone completely different, looking to po
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by palish 15y ago
Obviously. But you will not be Starcraft, Dwarf Fortress, nor Minecraft. :)
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by palish 15y ago
Here's the Minecraft Fire video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs Post-Mortem (or maybe a different house, but still hilarious): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuM61RKtcs
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by palish 15y ago
The more people hacking, the better IMO. It's something that should be praised.

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