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by palish 15y ago
I was about to complain that Chrome wasn't popping up the context menu on right-click. So the .js file is disabling right click? How exactly do I look at the source without it? Hmm. Aha: "Wrench icon" -> Tools -> View Source
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by palish 15y ago
Hah! That's so simple, yet so brilliant.
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by palish 15y ago
Heh. For what it's worth (and at the risk of karma annihilation), you're probably correct. A lot of the seemingly-godly things people have done are from 'simple tricks' that they've learned. People just don't like to admit it. Woz was as
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by palish 15y ago
Oh, the ego of us humans. The one constant throughout the history of science is that Nature's imagination is substantially more vast than our own. What if we discover that "old" has an entirely different meaning after light has traveled for
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by palish 15y ago
Mm... Fair point. It just seems like another fundamental change to allow twitter messages to go to >5 people at a time. What would be the limit then? Ten people? A hundred? Maybe limiting the number of people at all is a bad thing
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by palish 15y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by palish 15y ago
I don't get it. (But I didn't downvote.)
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by palish 15y ago
Keeping in mind, people 200 years from now may look back on this comment and go "Ha ha, people used to think crazy things like 'the universe is only 14 billion years old'".
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by palish 15y ago
Completely agree. (It's important for your comment to be worded like that, and not just "you shouldn't learn C++ and game programming at the same time". Otherwise a lot of the context is lost.) That said, if I had to do it over, I wouldn't
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by palish 15y ago
Dot product. Here's a random list of thoughts, speaking as a graphics and game programmer: First, you hardly ever have to even think about "perspective transformation". Put it out of your mind until you're ready to attempt acquiring advanc
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by palish 15y ago
I guess I was particularly lucky or talented. Anyway, I feel obligated to point out that it's not impossible, since I did it, and I'm not that smart.
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by palish 15y ago
This is terrible advice. Someone wants to get into gamedev, and the first project you want him to do is "build a raytracer"? Obviously you're just a terrible person trying to discourage the guy, so foo on you.
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by palish 15y ago
Oh, sorry... if you're asking whether it's possible to hack the "crappy rand()" such that it has more entropy by constantly re-seeding from MT... then I have no idea =) I just use MT itself.
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by palish 15y ago
Wow, that was fast. Nice. The truth is this: if you ever hear the phrase "re-seeding", you should reinterpret it as "warning! danger!" because if you seed a random number generator more than once, you destroy any entropy ('true' randomness
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by palish 15y ago
Actually, if you seed your random number generator more than once ("re-seed"), then you're completely destroying your entropy. Which is obviously the exact opposite of what you're trying to achieve.
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by palish 15y ago
You should use a Mersenne Twister rather than rand(). That rand() probably only has 32767 discrete values. So your time is quite imprecise, in addition to being biased. (C's rand() is very biased, so if that code forwards to rand(), then
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by palish 15y ago
"Video games require massive amounts of mathematics to run flawlessly and to look good. 3D graphics programming requires a very strong understanding of Linear Algebra and a pretty exhaustive knowledge of Geometry and Trigonometry, ..." Th
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by palish 15y ago
No... I may as well explain what happened, to put it into context. I was about 19 at the time, and sort of naive. I was trying to figure out why the local coffee shop needed to pay so much money for their internet service. One of the rec
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by palish 15y ago
I thought they had to keep logs of dynamic IP addresses already. I know for a fact that coffee shops are required to keep such logs (due to Sept 11th --- discovered this during a phone conversation with a local coffee shop's "router provide
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by palish 15y ago
I'm amused. I'm going to call "death" a "succession event" from now on.
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by palish 15y ago
Only as a storytelling device. And in Deep Space 9, the Ferengi Nog was willing to spend his entire life savings of Latinum at the request of his friend Jake, just to buy Jake's dad a baseball card, simply to make him happy. I hope one day
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by palish 15y ago
You forgot "And that's an immoral way to operate. As individuals, we should try very hard to discourage that mentality. But that's the way the world operates at this time." Personally, I've given up hope that the world will ever be differ
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by palish 15y ago
I believe the idea of "publicly-held companies" is a net negative for humanity. It encourages immoral behavior. Obviously my thoughts are unreasonable. I wish the world were unreasonable. Because then people might empathize with each oth
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by palish 15y ago
Why is it fun at that point? (Honest question. Please don't take it any other way.)
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by palish 15y ago
The world would be a better place if if companies focused on "people", and not on "money". Of course that's unrealistic. But I don't care. I grew up believing in Star-Trek-style society. You know... "Social problems are gone; people are
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by palish 15y ago
You should edit your post to include reasons why WebPutty is "a bad thing". (I have no idea; I'm a gamedev guy, but I find webdev very interesting. It's hard to know what to avoid and what to embrace when you're new.)
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by palish 15y ago
Why would WebSockets offer any client security beyond raw TCP sockets?
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by palish 15y ago
" They can charge $10 billion per byte. " I can think of two times in my life when, if this were the case, I would've been without internet for a very long time.
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by palish 15y ago
This is spot-on, and it's a shame nobody seems to care.
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by palish 15y ago
That's exactly what I thought. That's not the case? (I'm a gamedev guy, not a webdev guy.)

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