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by ssdsa 13y ago
Real time ray tracing is also my dream since 1994. I'm very glad that IQ launched ShaderToy.com recently. That inspired me to give real time ray tracing another try, and I'm really happy that you can trace 1000 mirrored spheres in real time
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Holy cow! Everyone who pledged $10.000 or more receives a copy of "Akalabeth"! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth:_World_of_Doom ]
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Since the selected text is sent to Google in plain text via a regular HTTP connection, you shouldn't use it on confidential data.
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by ssdsa 14y ago
The use of Comic Sans really makes the tribute look like an amateur's first try at a home-made photo book. It's already featured on http://bancomicsans.com/
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How likely is it?(flowchainsensei.wordpress.com)
1 points by ssdsa 14y ago|0 comments
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Old School Color Cycling with HTML5(effectgames.com)
5 points by ssdsa 14y ago|2 comments
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Cool, it's from the same author (Fabrice Bellard) who coded the PC emulator in Javascript: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ ("How much time takes your browser to boot Linux?")
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by ssdsa 14y ago
This line from the article made me laugh: "The transformation would make sense in a dialect with weaker support (both compiler and social) for assignment."
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by ssdsa 14y ago
I did this in 1997 (!): http://home.wtal.de/ss/html/pnmtohtml/pnmtohtml.html (Sample images and C source included).
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by ssdsa 14y ago
How can the "griefers" operate from their floating base? How are they able to leave the floating platform to get to the ground and back? And why couldn't the players of the other guilds simply take the same way up onto the floating base?
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Hm, I thought this was about hiding data in JavaScript source code!
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by ssdsa 14y ago
I'm sure this was meant as a joke.
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by ssdsa 14y ago
So this boy is from Dresden, Germany, but I cannot find any german articles on this topic. Strange?!
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Carmageddon: Reincarnation(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ssdsa 14y ago|0 comments
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by ssdsa 14y ago
While it's very nice to your users to replace CAPTCHAs with something more fun, it isn't necessarily more effective against attacks or spamming. Classic CAPTCHAs can be broken by simply using cheap manual labor (working slaves in low-paid c
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by ssdsa 14y ago
If you are not familiar with 4k intros, you may wonder how things are organized at the executable level to achieve this kind of packing-performance. Probably the most important and essential aspect of 4k-64k intros is the compressor. Have a
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by ssdsa 14y ago
For the record, the SID chip was used in Commodore 64, while Amiga had the Paula chip for sound output.
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Well, horsepower has absolutely something to do with horses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower "Horsepower was originally defined to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses in continuous operation."
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by ssdsa 14y ago
That's a nice idea, but row boarding doesn't allow couples or families - obviously wanting to sit together in a "column" ("row")? eventually - to stay together during the boarding process. This could be especially difficult if there are par
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Well, that's not actually the first... Electric Sheep Comix did this 10 years ago: http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/
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HTML5 Benchmark with special focus on lag because of GC(html5-benchmark.com)
5 points by ssdsa 14y ago|0 comments
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by ssdsa 14y ago
The "Deutsches Museum" in Munich, Germany has got a permanent outdoor exhibit exactly of this kind. Some pictures are here: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstellungen/naturwissenscha... You have to walk more than 4 kilometers from the s
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by ssdsa 14y ago
While we clearly see that there is a huge market for used games (see GameStop), there isn't any comparable market for used books and used furniture, at least not here in Germany. Every avid reader I know likes to read new books and cannot s
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Gamification - Why Badges are not enough(marczewski.me.uk)
1 points by ssdsa 14y ago|0 comments
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by ssdsa 14y ago
A really nice essay about Quicksort and it's quirks and border cases. Worth a read! On the other hand, when developing an application, you should think twice if you really need to write your own sorting routine. Better stick with the system
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by ssdsa 14y ago
Maybe an artificial intelligence may yield the results necessary to enable some of us to "live forever" - in whatever form that may be. However, artificial intelligence may go bad and turn against us even if that honestly wasn't our intenti
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by ssdsa 15y ago
And POKE646,12 so the text color is a medium gray.
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by ssdsa 15y ago
No matter if it is 3583 BYTES FREE or 38911 BYTES FREE or some other number - the start-up text was an important message to all users: There's this language (BASIC) available right here at the prompt, ready for you, just type away. And ther
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by ssdsa 15y ago
Without him, the world would be a different place. The Commodore computers inspired so many people (adults now) and made all "our" business world, start-up world and hacker world what it is now. By bringing home computers to a huge number o
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by ssdsa 15y ago
Yes, of course! The master of this technique is here: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

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