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Nice demo. I noticed some small things you could improve for when you are going to do a real demo. The shader of white houses the first link do not look right on my machine https://imgur.com/uo6ajXj.png It looks a it like z
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The The dutch national news agency (NOS) also still has its version up. https://nos.nl/teletekst I actually use there app version everyday. And my grandpa of 91 used to use it everyday before his Alzheimer's got the be
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In the Netherlands we prefer to use the dutch payment system "Ideal" (One of the best systems ever btw). Most dutch payment service providers give you an url back from there api and when you send the user to that url they can sele
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I still remember that I connected a PS4 controller a few years ago to test a unity game that I was making. I typed apt search ps4 but could not find something so I pressed some buttons and magicly the UI changed. It all just worked no setup
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Because I saw it was not mentioned yet. There is also a very good study path for game programmers. https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer
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Casio calculators also have a seperate exam mode where they clear all memory and do not allow the user to get to advanced function such as programming or derivative guessers. On the newer models a special led light on the top would indicate
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i'n not an expert and only started reading papers this year but this is where i got a few papers that I read from: - 2minutepapers on youtube - mostly ML and CG - Google scholar for finding specific things. - The shadertoy discord cha
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This year is the first year I actually started reading some papers about Computer Graphics. This old paper by Ken Perlin from 1985 "An Image Synthesizer" Inspired me a lot. It really showed me that if you have a real deep understa
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nice readup, Had to lookup how I did solve this problem because I could not remember it. I solved it when I was about to join a university. / * Created by Sneeuwpopsneeuw on 28-Aug-16. */ The code Is one big commend that basic
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One thing that helped me to get some insides in c++ was the old Command and Conquer source code from the 90's https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection Jason Turner has multiple videos where he t
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Wow It is really cool to see you on hackernews as well. I have programmed 2 different gameboy advance games for game jams in the past. But building it from scratch is really hard. Most resources are down with the exception of TONC https:&#
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No it should definitely not. I really see this as an extra tool you use when you are already in a call with people, And if you don't like the Microsoft teams / zoom culture just use https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet
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You are missing the point of differential privacy. This is an oversimplified explanation but I see it like this (This is also how my professor and his phd assistant at my university explained it to us). Differential privacy provides some si
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I'm still studying Computing science right now and will start with a master in Game Technology next year. But it is really hard to get a job or do freelance work in the gaming field so no not yet but hopefully soon TM.
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Project Euler is also always nice to learn more things about math.
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I quit webdev after 3 years and I'm now trying more and more thing in the gaming world. Mostly cpp and opengl. Emscripten(was) and WebGL are very nice to make shiny doodles. So maybe try one of those. Or make simple art with css.
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In the Netherlands there have been big discussions and protests for and against one of our national holidays called "sinterklaas" (a second Christmas) Where there is a figure called "Zwarte piet" a blackface character th
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A friend of mine once gave me this explanation: Back in the days you only had IT, This slowly changed to ICT (Information Communication Technology) This branched of in 3 separate things ICT/IT, NSE (Network security engineering) and (S
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A friend of mine has made something like this for a blockchain hackathon once, around 2 years ago. The technics he used where relatively simple. It stats with some Elliptic-curve cryptography math to split up a single main key into multiple
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Great to hear! Now if only it was easier to understand what most of the buttons with strange icons do...
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I'm partly happy and sad at the same time. 90% of the people in the Netherlands speek english and go to universities that are also fully english. When you suddenly see your favorite content with strange dutch translations it makes it w
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I would personally very much appreciate it if the ada recources could be placed or archived again on the internet. Lately I had the feeling even books where a better option for finding information about the language.
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Ask HN: How to go from a idea to a Computer Graphics paper proposal?
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Every 4 to 5 years I buy a new laptop for 1000 euro that looks nice and put xUbuntu on it, that's all.
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I have used Scheme and Clojure witch are both dialects of lisp a few times a months to try out ideas for ProjectEuler. Lisp, Haskell or F# or what every pure functional language you would like to use force you to translate math to code very
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No I always invest a little bit more and buy something as soon as it gets on the market and try to use it as long as possible. So I for example I am currently still using an Oneplus-5 that i now have for 3+ years and its specs are still hig
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I tried some small classed on Udacity a while ago but there where a lot of bugs and the course work was too easy. This was before Nanodegrees became a thing but untill now i have only done different courses on EDX, 9 in total from MITx, Col
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Competition helps me, so when I wanted to lose some weight I challenged a friend of mine to a battle who could lose the most % after 3 months. When I wanted to learn OpenGL and c++ I challenged an other friend to who could make the best por
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I ask the person that knows the recipe to write it down on paper for me, I also try to make te recipe as soon as possible to keep it fresh in my mind, everything else I just google (duck) it when I want to make it.
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One thing that really helped me was when i started using ruby on rails. This framework introduced me to the idea of scaffolding. The basic idea is to just generate large sections of a web application. So you can generate a database table ca
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