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by stepvhen 10y ago
Thats odd, since Harlan Ellison claims it is ultimately an optimistic tale in favor of humanity. Ellison writes in his memoir about the story, "Yes the fate AM has in store for Ted is monstrous, depressing, and downbeat. But the sub-te
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by stepvhen 10y ago
In other literature the answer to inheiratance is "composition" or "components" rather than "delegate and contain." A nitpick, but I think it better captures the meaning of the method. Bob Nystrom wrote a very
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I installed OpenBSD on my laptop a few months ago, and the number of things that worked out of the box (screen resolution, wireless internet, touchpad) made a very good first impression. Since then it has yet to surprise me unpleasantly, so
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by stepvhen 10y ago
the snes emulator on retropie, last time i used it, didnt render music properly, in that every time there was a glissando or vibrato, it would get stuck on the flat tone, making final fantasy vi sound awful. i ended up using another setup f
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by stepvhen 10y ago
It would be, but cycle perfect emulation is very difficult and costly. Higan (formerly Bsnes) manages it with Snes emulation and it requires a cpu with a rate over 3GHz. I remember reading the N64 would require a 10GHz cpu to emulate with 1
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I am fairly certain this is a "syupid programmer trick" kind of thing. I don'tinagine anyone seruously using Unity within windows
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by stepvhen 10y ago
the suckless people are doing this wih the coreutils, titled sbase. they adhere to POSIX and nothing else, really http://core.suckless.org/sbase
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I like to think SMBC[1] presents a more accurate graph of confidence vs knowledge, but I don't know enough to really speak about it. [1]: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I value my CS degree, but I also agree with the author. I don't think recruiters should ask for a CS degree, or focus on applicants having a formal CS education. There needs to be an simultaneous shift in the industry and in academia t
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by stepvhen 10y ago
The sound of the hamburger rain in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" was wet brown paper towels (you know, from school?) being flopped against a floor.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
> If a human was responsible for that writing, they wouldn't have much of a career. I don't think that is fair to the computer. A computer doesn't need a career, and a human has a lot more to draw from than the limited num
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Ha, well then my class/texts have failed to mention these practical uses.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Depending on how open you are to ppssibly over-analyzing things, it is part of a grander discussion of the last century that states, very simply, "robots are people too". Many people believe that creativity and emotion are the bi
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I think math is "easier" to learn while it still holds a clear practical value, up to calculus and linear algebra. Past that, when you start to enter the world of "pure" mathematical s, it can be muh more difficult. The
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I think the motion aspect, at least what we see in the clip, forces a perspective that can't be avoided, breaking the style. Even if somebody did make a true cubist film it would be difficult to balance between intelligible and un-cubi
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Really I was just trying to be polite in what I expected to be dissent. The video looks cool, but I don't believe the network used has any understanding (however you define it) of Picasso's style, as another commenter has stated.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I have two opinions: 1) I don't think cubism transfers well into a motion picture format, 2) I think these experiments, as they are currently, attempt to merge two styles and end up with neither, and nothing novel in its place; there i
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I have a feeling this, and the rest of the games made by "Schadenfreude Interactive" aren't real, as much as I would love to play Grand Theft Ottoman or Accordion Hero, or Nazgul Thunder. Hannibal Crossing looks particularly
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I don't think it is a stretch to say that art directors don't have to worry about what platform the game is on, generally. Programmers, on the other hand, definitely have to worry. I imagine the art is seen in a better light on mu
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Sometimes you start game development with a single mechanic and see where that takes you. Like "what if you could control gravity" and that might lead to VVVVVV or others. Or it might crash and burn. The advice is to encourage dev
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I think there is a misunderstanding: Dota doesn't apply to the quote "Game developers should create a well-defined concept ..." since it was neither conceptualized nor made by the Warcraft programmers. Additionally, the origi
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Dota was a user made mod originally, so I don't think that counts.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I encourage you to listen to more music, particularly if "humanity" is intrinsic to the art of it. There is plenty of music made by humans that is rather un-humanlike. Noise, Drone, Chiptune, Glitch, Musique Concrete, Field Record
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I would suggest using "learn x in y minutes" [1] if you need to lookup syntax for something. It doesn't feature the "for loop in java" search function, but it has more languages than this tool, as well as tools like
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by stepvhen 10y ago
You should probably play Undertale, an indie RPG that allows you to utilize mercy on your enemies to the point of completion without killing anybody.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I did not create these. Each game is MIT licensed, and the source is included.
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by stepvhen 10y ago
The Houynhnms, from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", were a race of intelligent horses, whose entire society was based solely on reason. I imagine the goal here is to propose coldly reasonable concepts in computing
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by stepvhen 10y ago
I think it is assumed that whomever is reading knows how to program an animation using their choice of framework/library/whatever, and that the most common method for dealing with these is pixels in a grid. So, the budding game de
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by stepvhen 10y ago
For, and if anybody was wondering, the name is a reference to the Jimmy Stewart movie "Harvey"[1] , in which Jimmy Stewart is a grown man who has an imaginary best friend, a 6 foot tall bunny rabbit. [1]: http://www.imd

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