palish

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by palish 15y ago
What's "msm"?
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by palish 15y ago
Have you ever lost your code before?
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Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than ten minutes
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by palish 15y ago
The most useful modern-day knowledge you could gain from this is here: http://www.sosmath.com/calculus/diff/der07/der07.html (Newton-Raphson Method)
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by palish 15y ago
Can you make it call you Rumplestiltskin? What's the longest name?
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by palish 15y ago
And in this case, the wager isn't cash; it's life.
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by palish 15y ago
Discouraging people from having confidence in themselves (even when that confidence is unrealistic) is one of the biggest tragedies brought about by modern-day mediums such as HN et al. I'd rather strike out a dozen times than watch from th
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by palish 15y ago
Probably off topic, but hooey on that: If you want to play an absolute gem of a game, go grab Cave Story. It's free, and it's "fun", in the most distilled form. http://www.cavestory.org/ It's one of those games that makes you wish you cou
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by palish 15y ago
Really? Interesting. I haven't kept up. That's... Well, that's ironic. I wonder why he decided to pursue gamedev with more passion than rocketdev?
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by palish 15y ago
Minor (very minor) quibble: You said "since Wolf3D"; but "since Commander Keen" would be more accurate. Keen was possible due to a stroke of genius, letting him trick the monitor itself into becoming part of his "adaptive tile refresh" syst
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by palish 15y ago
DaVinci tackled a dozen fantasies pretty much simultaneously. I think you're more capable than you give yourself credit for.
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by palish 15y ago
I'd say Carmack cares more about rockets than about games, at this point. Who wouldn't?
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by palish 15y ago
> It's one of my fantasies to work on this. Then why don't you? No, really, why don't you? Right now. http://nehe.gamedev.net http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html http://developer.nvidia.com/physx These ar
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by palish 15y ago
The advice is: "just make something"; so of course your question is then, "what shall I make?" http://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-become-game-... ^ That's an ordered list of projects, sorted by increasing difficulty. Basical
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by palish 15y ago
> I subscribe to the garbage man theory of value, do the jobs no one else wants to do but are essential to society. Avoid any job that seems glamouros it usually pays like crap. As a (former?) game developer, I can say this is spot-on.
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by palish 15y ago
Even if it wasn't -- honest question -- why would it be necessary to "license" their music? This is a work of art. It's not for any kind of profit.
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by palish 15y ago
So... I just read http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2008/artspdf/feb0803.pdf ... the "meat of things", as you put it. It describes a farmer who knowingly violated an agreement he signed with Monsanto; then Monsanto suing said farmer, and winning
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by palish 15y ago
Ahh, good old St Louis, Missouri, where everyone has so much money that they're willing to invest in pretty much any random jibber-jabber. Ha. There I go again, pretending I live around stuff-that-matters. Never come here.
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by palish 15y ago
Off topic: please un-break the ability to zoom in on an iPhone.
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by palish 15y ago
That's hilarious. I wonder why "long long" is 40 bits? And... A non-function-pointer is "16 or 23" bits? Nice. What's the proper scenario to use "long" instead of "int"? I've never bothered to use it.
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by palish 15y ago
Alas, that's a character encoding; not a platform-specific bits-per-byte setting.
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by palish 15y ago
You, sir, are evil! That's awesome!
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by palish 15y ago
8 bits per byte is the only convention that matters; I challenge any of you to prove otherwise. throws down gloves
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by palish 15y ago
> You needed millions of dollars, to be a big business, to have special contracts or all of the above in order for carriers to even take your meeting to see if they'd think about putting your software on "their" phones. This isn't true
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by palish 15y ago
Nothing, sorry. My point was, there's nothing to be done about it. They're going to do it, just as sure as gravity.
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by palish 15y ago
Heh. Random chance. Though, my area code is 314, strangely enough. And I've been age 3 and age 14.
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by palish 15y ago
Mm.. I don't think you could have seen Drew's original Dropbox screencast and thought "This is going nowhere". But I suppose that's why I have Dropbox account #314...
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by palish 15y ago
Heh. Thanks. I'll try it, but I don't think the screen is physically capable of generating enough luminosity to provide any fine-tuned amount of contrast... :)
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by palish 15y ago
Haw. I wish I had a Mac. I'm on a 1Ghz Dell laptop from 5 years ago. So the screen is... less than stellar. I also have $280 to my name in total :P
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by palish 15y ago
These are actually fantastic ZBrush patterns, as well. I just wish they weren't so... well, subtle. On my laptop, "Dark Leather" and "Triangles" both look exactly the same: a black rectangle.

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