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by romaniv 13y ago
An innovation here is treating parts of the world like cellular automata at times Dwarf Fortress used cellular automata for water and lava before Minecraft [1]. It also had a from-the-ground-up crafting system with complex production chai
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by romaniv 13y ago
The usual question is whether the person in the article got rich mostly because they were lucky, or mostly because they did something right, where everyone were doing it wrong. (I say 'mostly', because one doesn't completely
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by romaniv 13y ago
Doesn't this show that $1k is a wrong incentive in the first place?
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Hacker uses bots to top music charts(scmagazine.com.au)
2 points by romaniv 13y ago|0 comments
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by romaniv 13y ago
Honestly, I think you can take most of the notes out of there and it will sound better. I'm not saying that it sounds bad , but the influx of keystrokes doesn't do much there sonically and adds some annoying artifacts.
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by romaniv 13y ago
Yeah, a lot of what I hear and see in the videos from the article is just octave multiplication. I've seen much more interesting effects achieved by interrupting fast-running arpeggiators. Also very complex, but far more melodic, and p
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by romaniv 13y ago
Or you can help yourself with your foot, like Jason D. Williams occasionally does.
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by romaniv 13y ago
I started using an anti-virus on Windows a few years ago, but it never detected anything. There are other ways to stay secure. (Common sense when dealing with downloaded files, Sandboxy, JS blocked by default in the browser.) Overall, I fee
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by romaniv 13y ago
‘Callback hell’ isn’t a problem for people who’ve written a lot of JS. I get the feeling that people who say this write a lot of JS, but don't read a lot of JS written by others.
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by romaniv 13y ago
For one, to get started, just open up a browser console, and have at it! No other language offers such a low barrier to entry. Languages do not "offer" browsers. Browsers offer languages. Javascripts flexibility is why you see
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by romaniv 13y ago
From what I've seen, 'naysayer' is a term people most commonly use to ignore and suppress critical thinking. It's very convenient, because it sidesteps the question of why someone says 'no', and blames it on
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by romaniv 13y ago
Why cook when you can eat chips and order pizza? Probably because it's better for you and because cooking has cultural significance that goes beyond simply replenishing calories. People who cheerfully proclaim that PCs are dead forger
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by romaniv 13y ago
The performance of a PC from five years ago is probably adequate for web browsing and office tasks. For anything more demanding, the advances in power consumption, execution efficiency and process node are huge leaps from five years ago.
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by romaniv 13y ago
1. Generate a random number. 2. s- or bcrypt it. 3. Encrypt the data with the result of step 2. 4. Give people most of the random number, minus N bits at the end. (And tell them how many bits they are missing.) They will have to run s/
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by romaniv 13y ago
That PC market is literally the entire point of this device. This controller will not help you play Dwarf Fortress or ArmA, and you won't be able to use it to comfortably play any complicated RTSes either (because those need keyboar
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by romaniv 13y ago
I don't see how they are turning their backs on anyone just because they're venturing into a new market segment. Same way Microsoft turned its back on PC game(r)s with it's "Games for Windows" brand, which really
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by romaniv 13y ago
While this might be a good replacement for console controllers, I seriously doubt that it will be successful in replacing keyboard and mouse for FPSes, RTSes, point-and-click adventures and other genres that currently make PC game market i
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by romaniv 13y ago
Did you know that this kind of reordering was intentional in some banks? http://consumerist.com/2011/11/10/bofa-scraps-plan-to-let-cu...
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by romaniv 13y ago
Good idea, but the particular visualization (moving shadow) is a bit annoying. I would go with something less in-your-face. Maybe a light shadow that blinks couple of times on focus? I don't think the directional aspect of this is very
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Epic, The Privacy Browser(epicbrowser.com)
101 points by romaniv 13y ago|127 comments
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by romaniv 13y ago
If I can open a project and refactor some piece of code to be 1/10th of it's former size, while making it both more readable and more efficient without changing what it does than it's shit. In such cases I honestly don't
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by romaniv 13y ago
I didn't say I never looked at them. I said I didn't need to understand how they worked. There is a huge difference. For example, I've seen logic that looked at roughly 10 user input fields and generated one out of 30 pre-d
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by romaniv 13y ago
This is the most overrated and overquoted piece of (bad) software engineering advice ever. Sure, it's harder to read unfamiliar code than write new code, because your understand the reasoning behind the new code. That's exactly wh
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by romaniv 13y ago
We used to live with "exceedingly inefficient" full page reloads when we had dial-up, single-core computers and slow servers. And it worked. Now we have multicore computers, mufti-megabit DSL connections, cloud-based hosting and y
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by romaniv 13y ago
Progressive enhancement is a luxury, and not everyone can afford it. It vastly increases your test surfaces, and requires multiple designs for every page/feature. Only if you're doing it wrong. (I.e. if you re-implement planned
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by romaniv 13y ago
No one stops you from doing polling as an enhancement to a working HTML-only version. However, "single-page" has absolutely nothing to do with this, and neither do client-side MVC frameworks. I mean, there are not a prerequisite t
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by romaniv 13y ago
What you're describing is not progressive enhancement. It's a mental exercise in re-implementing a website with workflows designed for heavy JavaScript usage without using JavaScripts. Which is silly. For example, if you ever trie
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by romaniv 13y ago
I solved the cognitive overhead problem by developing everything via progressive enhancement. This way JavaScript has a clearly defined role and place in the process and I don't have to think in multiple languages. Of course, a lot of
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What does it explore?
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by romaniv 13y ago
when I think back to my C# days, it makes me wonder how I ever did without functions as first class objects and a slew of other really great things about JS. C# has delegates, events, lambda function, properties and async function as lan

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