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   by pshc 11y ago

   Yeah. It's like 24fps in film. In 60fps (HD) every flaw is apparent; film props of the wrong weight look fake, and insincere facial microexpressions give it away. Whereas in 24fps (pixelation), creators can get away with more as your b
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   by pshc 11y ago

   Many pixel games today take it further by adding shaders, lighting, semi-transparency, HDR, particle effects, etc. so a lot of them share this hybrid old-new look. It's charming if a) done tastefully and b) the animation/art is so
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   by pshc 11y ago

   Yes! Thank you. I love the old pixel aesthetic, but today's art should fit today's constraints. Those classic games will always be around, awaiting your next nostalgia rush. Screw stagnation. Likewise, I like old Victorians and Ar
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   by pshc 11y ago

   Nice find with the grammar mismatch! Thanks for showing your methods in depth. I also liked the intro bit about knowing how to delve into a system. Seems like hoisting the entire Rust compiler distribution into one brain would be uncomforta
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   by pshc 11y ago

   Agreed; editor "slop" is important for UX. A structure editor needs to model a text editor, with all its indeterminacy, to be usable.
6. 516.▲
   by pshc 11y ago

   Same here. Well, s/working on/pondering and failing at/ for me :P My most recent attempt: https://github.com/pshc/archipelago
7. 517.▲
   by pshc 11y ago

   Sorry, but that's not how large groups of humans self-organize. Many idealists have tried, but power vacuums don't stay for long, nor are they efficient.
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   by pshc 11y ago

   This is truly next-gen. It's going to eliminate so much of the bullshit work in programming. Thanks so much for making it open source. Plaintext must be killed. Long live real structure.
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   by pshc 11y ago

   Nah, Lisp is nowhere near the most minimal way to serialize code. It's plaintext, so it's denormalized. Something akin to bincode is the most minimal. But that requires a non-plaintext editor...
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    by pshc 11y ago

    Diamond Age, here we come.
11. 521.▲
    by pshc 11y ago

    Yeah. It's a solid principle, but must not be used to excuse negligently bad output.
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    by pshc 11y ago

    Or: Should have been implemented in a language without garbage collection pauses?
13. 523.▲
    by pshc 12y ago

    Thank you for being vulnerable and passionate, Tim. This is really helpful to me right now.
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    by pshc 12y ago

    I'm fond of the childhood "buttons on ice cream, see if they stick."
15. 525.▲
    by pshc 12y ago

    Glorious hack! I wonder how many HNers are hustling over there for a selfie right now...? EDIT: Already too late :(
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    by pshc 12y ago

    Thank you for the wild ride, Eliezer.
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    by pshc 12y ago

    >what comes after 4k? Stereo, virtual reality...
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    by pshc 12y ago

    Oh my god, Tracy, that logo... ;) Awesome doodles!
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    by pshc 12y ago

    I have tears in my eyes.
20. 530.▲
    by pshc 12y ago

    Oracle killed it. Why not MariaDB or PostgreSQL?
21. 531.▲
    by pshc 12y ago

    Okay, cool, but... MySQL?!
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    by pshc 12y ago

    "But if we can ever jump past this uncanny valley, that’s where we’ll basically build AI." To me this seemed like the main conclusion of the post. And I agree. Voice recognition seems like an AI-complete problem. I think conversat
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    by pshc 12y ago

    Sometime around 7. At the public library, I found a book titled "How To Make Games." It went through the design and implementation of a text adventure game in BASIC, with a full program listing in the back. I discovered that our f
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    List of places with columnar jointed volcanics(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by pshc 12y ago|0 comments
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    by pshc 12y ago

    Those keyword quotes are amazing. I'm in stitches.
26. 536.▲
    by pshc 12y ago

    I'm guessing you'd need more pistons, pumps, piping, etc. in a closed system. Probably need to repressurize the fluid.
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    by pshc 12y ago

    It's unfortunate, but bikeshedding will always be with us so long as there is no model-presentation separation of source code. That lapse allows all these pointless[1] arguments to continue. Take an online store. In its database, you w
28. 538.▲
    by pshc 12y ago

    rip, GROK project.
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    by pshc 12y ago

    Right, but that's only half of the robustness principle.
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    by pshc 12y ago

    Possibly like this: http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-placement-box-with-pl... It looks like it'll be supported first-class for 1.0. By my guess we'll be writing things like this: // NOTE