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by ramy_d 16y ago
this post is misleading, it only briefly overviews global illumination in cryengine 3.
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by ramy_d 16y ago
very true. Also, this "Once you manage to get Emacs and SLIME going (I'm assuming you already know Emacs intimately, because if you don't, you already lose)" sometimes i feel lisp is like an exercise in barrier of entry. "Let's make an awes
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by ramy_d 16y ago
honestly? I think it's hype and polish (then again, i've seen the other sites, and they aren't far away from good polish, so mostly hype). edit: i'm not trying to make a comment about hype cycles -_- or how they are going to fail. i'm just
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by ramy_d 16y ago
i dunno, i thought i would share this: http://current.com/shows/vanguard/89716716_fully-automatic-a...
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by ramy_d 16y ago
well it's about fraking time
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by ramy_d 16y ago
people do have choice http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph... people are voting with their dollars. The design of the product is more important than its functionality (this is to say: the average consumer likes pre
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by ramy_d 16y ago
just as a thought experiment: imagine android without fragmentation, over the wire updates for all platforms, on demand by users a-la-iPhone. different developing environments cause developers to think, and develop, differently for the devi
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by ramy_d 16y ago
Not sure if i understood, but here's my summary from what i got from this: In fewer words, the argument is this std::vector<std::string> get_names(); std::vector<std::string> const names = get_names(); Passing by va
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by ramy_d 16y ago
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
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by ramy_d 16y ago
what the hell kind of article is this? says 39 out of 500 sunscreens pass the test, and they don't bother to put a list of the sunscreens that PASS said test?
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by ramy_d 16y ago
page takes for ever to load, here's the article
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by ramy_d 16y ago
Valve Corporation has today rolled out their Steam Mac OS X client to the general public and confirmed something we have been reporting for two years: the Steam content delivery platform and Source Engine are coming to Linux. This news is c
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by ramy_d 16y ago
context?
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by ramy_d 17y ago
the article is written with bias
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by ramy_d 17y ago
indeed, it will be interesting to see how this issue gets tackled, if at all.
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by ramy_d 17y ago
+1 for Guake.
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by ramy_d 17y ago
yeah, i'm eager to see what the contract will look like, here's to saving up!
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by ramy_d 17y ago
videos: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-...
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by ramy_d 17y ago
damn, 500 euros...
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by ramy_d 17y ago
id be thrilled if flash died as the defacto video player and made way for html 5's feature.
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by ramy_d 17y ago
that's not even a reason, did they write it on a type writer?!
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by ramy_d 17y ago
I totally agree. The biggest thing I noticed my first few months of switching from windows to Ubuntu was that all my applications were managed through a secure pipe called the repository. The repository was filled using applications from a
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by ramy_d 17y ago
yeah, vapor ware will do that to people, and i hate to be the kind of guy who will fall in that pit (considering it will be my first "smart" phone) so yeah, guess the argument resounds. But I still feel like this is the one I can put my mon
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by ramy_d 17y ago
i don't understand how the nokia n900 phone running maemo linux can be totally ignored: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/19/nokias-maemo-5-tablet-sho... http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/08/nokia-rx-51-tablet-captur... rumored specs: h
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by ramy_d 17y ago
Because now we're talking about it, and 3 minutes ago, I didn't know what Sequoia Capital was or if it even existed. And look at me now, spelling their weird name correctly and all.
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by ramy_d 17y ago
ok, great article, how is this not everywhere in html form?
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by ramy_d 17y ago
crap, kept refreshing, now i have 4 on my desktop...
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by ramy_d 17y ago
second time this appears in HN though... it's a good article but still. maybe we need a "best of" section, right next to "new"
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by ramy_d 17y ago
a "play" button to press doesn't hint at a game at all, it hints at a movie. you press "play" to play a movie, you press "Start" to start a game. You may argue that those terms can be easily reversed, which may at first glance be a sound ar
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The linux phone we've all been waiting for?(arstechnica.com)
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