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14y ago
it's all (unicode) boxes, no graphics. chrome 21.0.1180.79 + ff 14.0.1 on mac os x
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stefs
14y ago
well made, but in my opinion, it's just not much fun.
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14y ago
i almost quit the cod4 single player campaign because it was a bit too ... maybe not realistic, but stressful . i thought to myself: war is hell, so why do i want to play a game that tries to capture a soldiers misery? "most couldn't play"
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14y ago
i believe the "donate" model works in certain instances, but it's nothing you can count (or depend) on; at least not from the beginning. "certain instances" might be very famous artists who use it as a marketing stunt to get a lot of free p
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stefs
15y ago
they've been lucky. it might work once for a small, "personal" startup or a company that centers its marketing strategy on being political incorrect. but it also could have gone terribly wrong.
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stefs
15y ago
so, is this a joke i'm not getting?
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stefs
15y ago
the article states this is not the case - it also uses wifi.
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stefs
15y ago
tl;dr: i'm sceptical, this might be snake oil, omgthisisthegreatestthingeverandwillrevolutionizeeverything! honestly, the article is not of the highest quality.
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stefs
15y ago
the polygon to voxel conversion is just so artists can use existing tools like 3dmax or maya, which work on polygon models. think of the trees in their demo, the models have to come from somewhere. so realtime conversion is not needed. as f
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stefs
15y ago
this whole thread is ridiculous, because he clearly stated that he did contact amazon several times, with no result besides "sorry, we don't know/can't say what's going on either"
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stefs
15y ago
but only shoes with velcro straps, binding bootlaces is complicated.
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stefs
15y ago
they feds would probably charge you for destroying their property. (only half joking)
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stefs
15y ago
yes, the game would be a lot more fun if i could actually see the obstacles.
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stefs
15y ago
yes, that's his advice. Organizer -> Organization, don't ask, just do it. while this sounds silly, i think it's all about getting into the right state of mind.
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stefs
15y ago
a weekly rate of € 5000? sorry, but seeing that i earn about a quarter of that per month i'm not sure ... i mean, with a weekly rate of 5k i'd work the whole of january (and maybe feb if i'm feeling greedy) and take the rest of the year o
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stefs
15y ago
seems like david carradine was in the closed beta.
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stefs
15y ago
it's true that setting up node on windows is just a minor convenience (i did it with both ubuntu on virtualbox and with cygwin). it's still a big gap for novice programmers, and severely limits the number of windows users who just want to t
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stefs
15y ago
someone call m. night shyamalan!
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stefs
15y ago
"... but how do i get there?" - so where is the link to google maps? and i don't understand why they didn't link the email-adress. that's just immature.
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15y ago
Q - But that box is empty! It's an empty box! A - Yes, exactly. Q - Oh, okay, I thought you had made some sort of mistake. A - Yes, exactly.
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15y ago
Big companies mostly mess up entrepreneurial companies when they buy them and it really is best that companies like Skype stay independant and run by their founders if that is possible. "independant" - google doesn't even mark it as a t
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15y ago
before i ask a question, i try to find out if someone else already answered a similar question. the first few posts that come up rarely produce insta-fixes to my problem, but deal with different problems. hence: learning effect - by skimmin
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16y ago
> (sometimes by way of C or C) > New languages such as C and Scala have learned lessons from Java's design (... blah blah ...), and also retain or duplicate many features for backwards compatibility with C or Java. drunk blogging ft
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16y ago
while this special occasion may be a different thing, doing anything on the job that's fun otherwise may poison it forever. think of playing wow ... for gold farming. or being a game tester? nightmare of a job. another example: texas holde
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stefs
16y ago
imho an intermediate bytecode makes no sense, as silentbicycle explained. 3 alternatives: 1) make every browser vendor implement multiple runtimes 2) x-to-js translators 3) interpreters in implemented in javascript ad 1) multiple runtimes:
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stefs
16y ago
it's always possible to bypass whatever ORM you use by using plain PDO/SQL, but then all the features an ORM provides are lost. but mixing ORMs with custom SQL would be a challenge, because the results couldn't be mapped to relational table
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16y ago
it looks very nice, really! * do you write all your code without comments, or do you strip them out afterwards to get to save locs? imho you should forget the 200 loc constraint and make your code pretty instead - it looks anorectic. seesh,
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stefs
16y ago
that's impossible. i fear i have to resort to causing bodily harm because of that.
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16y ago
whoever this "helge" guy is, if i should ever meet him, i'll slap him.
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16y ago
ah, that smells of a first step in the direction of the diamond age ai books. way to go, but one has to start somewhere.
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