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by rtf 18y ago
The general term for the pictured style of building is "earthbag" construction. It's been around for a while now; depending on what you fill the bags with and how you frame the building you can even tailor the properties of the walls to fit
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HaXe compiles to PHP(lists.motion-twin.com)
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by rtf 19y ago
It's unfortunate that Flash is still a proprietary domain, given that it's become both increasingly prevalent and useful. I've put a substantial amount of work into developing a Flash game and have discovered, as I follow the market, that a
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by rtf 19y ago
Many times people will enter a passionate debate if they feel their lifestyle or livelihood is at stake. It's the same reason news media have long focused on crime, sex, and scandal - BAD THINGS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU! But in forming an actual
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by rtf 19y ago
It tests whether or not the language has cheap/easy concurrency. C only works at the system thread level, but the languages that beat it use built-in lightweight concurrency.
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by rtf 19y ago
I think the most interesting observation here is on the nature of simulation: nobody can simulate the entire universe without having a spare universe to play with. Something I came up with myself years ago. The rest of the article is deadwe
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by rtf 19y ago
An out-of-left-field option, if your goal is only to make some money working with ML: go into independent game design and create a game around a ML system. It's not something mainstream gaming would be interested in using because the goals
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by rtf 19y ago
The only things I really have to do to feel at home in a Gnome desktop: 1. Fool with the mouse movement and screen resolution settings. 2. Set shortcuts for "Show the panel run application dialogue" and "Run a terminal". I use Shift+Win and
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by rtf 19y ago
Here are some arguments: Not all macro systems are Lisp macro systems? Languages may have interesting features other than macro systems? Library support may be cleverly piggybacked in from an existing language? (see C -> C++)
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by rtf 19y ago
The breakthrough for myself as a programmer came from intro CS classes....it may seem odd but I would still recommend going back to the core CS topics of data structures and algorithms, focusing on the implementation - on what kinds of lang
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by rtf 19y ago
First of, I second the others. By the time I got around to seriously learning programming and specifically game programming I was using Python/Pygame on a 1 gigahertz machine and it gave me about as much power as a 486 would running optimiz
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by rtf 19y ago
Poor Wikinews. I keep their RSS around and they've been getting some cool - and different - interviews lately.
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by rtf 19y ago
The other way to look at it is that Lua has a simple enough binding interface that it's like a "high-level layer on top of C." So you can write C, or write Lua, and slop things around between them as necessary, run multiple interpreters, wh
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by rtf 19y ago
I'm working on a Flash game myself, and it's open source too: http://code.google.com/p/spacecreeps/ The first versions didn't do so hot, but I started a from-scratch rewrite a little over a week ago and it's shaping up into something real
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by rtf 19y ago
The saying I have for this negative reaction is "people see only what is in front of them." A good concept with poor presentation will be dismissed, and in the case of a language like Arc, presentation could also be defined to include "numb
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by rtf 19y ago
Now I'm wondering to myself if there's a graph or chart somewhere that plots people's adsense returns. (goes looking)
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by rtf 19y ago
Cotton shirt and vinegar. Works like a charm.
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by rtf 19y ago
When I want "coder background music" I just listen to a psytrance onine radio station.
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by rtf 19y ago
I find this very amusing. Something about it implying the bold statement that no hacker is lesser than Paul Graham, and then audaciously posting it on Paul Graham's site.
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by rtf 19y ago
The more I learn about development - and the more I work on real projects - the more I realize that we're perpetually at the "apprentice" level. By that, I mean that we're writing new code with no standardized solution. With few exceptions,
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by rtf 19y ago
I think it is quite mistaken to put brevity above everything else. For a 100-year language, presumably with corresponding 100-year codebases, surely the promotion of readable and refactorable source code would be the key. Macro systems alre