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by stepvhen 10y ago
> Recall that Doom is a multi-level first person shooter that ships with an advanced 3D rendering engine and multiple levels, each comprised of maps, sprites and sound effects. Doom isn't in true 3D, its an advanced raycasting engin
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by stepvhen 10y ago
The purpose it was made for has become irrelevant. Everybody got smart phones, so the SMS character limit became moot, as well as the need for a lightweight interface. Everybody got Facebook, which satisfies all the text based posts people
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by stepvhen 10y ago
Haskell is too sugary; there's too many ways to write out exactly the same thing (semantically identical, not computationally). And most resources choose one way to do things over another and it all becomes fractured and difficult. In
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Just because you're not convinced doesn't mean it isn't happening. Why would somebody, a lot of people, an awful lot, say X is happening if it wasn't? And why default on somebody lying instead of believing them, or at le
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by stepvhen 11y ago
He was definitely using a wacom tablet (or similar) and Photoshop (or similar). The color selection is what I remember from Photoshop. And obviously sped up.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
The modern iteration is based on SDL graphics, not text (though that is available). The game slows down because you end up with 80+ dwarves, cats, forgotten beasts, Mothmen, kobolds, and more, all trying to pathfind to their next thing, and
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by stepvhen 11y ago
I, for one, would not appreciate it if entire swaths of b/w photographs were needlessly colorized for "archiving", especially the Ansel Adams. His photography was too good for the exact medium he chose, and colorizing them de
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Funfact, going from LISP to C (and back) is the whole of chapter 5 in SICP [1]. The last few exercizes in the book ask you to write a C compiler in Lisp, and then write a C compiler in the Lisp you just created [2]. [1]: https://m
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Largely I agree with this article, except the point that most developers think there is "a constant feeling that things that other people make are better than" their own. One of the most common traps is Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome,
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by stepvhen 11y ago
The OP is "luring" people with a small amount of information i.e. "bait," and other people will "bite," as a fish would, to learn the rest of the info.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Multiple people have sought to rewrite coreutils, whether it be for fun, exercise, or out of frustration with the current utils. I know folk on 4chan's /g/ were rewriting them once, and the people at suckless are trying to do
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Entrepornography?
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by stepvhen 11y ago
youtube-dl can fetch a video via its ID, the part after the "/watch?v=<ID>" in the URL. Combined with a video player, such as vlc, mpv, mpc-hc or similar, you can stream youtube videos without viewing from the youtube w
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by stepvhen 11y ago
The article mentions some of the recent attacks were on fairly benign websites, though that's subjective and could be construed as a sales pitch.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
I suppose for some that will just add to the mystery.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Probably not. You're usually looking at a 2-3-year old laptop already for $300. And for that money, you kind of get what you get.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
I've bought old thinkpad T-series on ebay for ~$300, installed arch, and moved on with my life. I keep most of my relevant data on git repos or a home server. If it dies, which usually happens after a good few years, I just get a new o
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by stepvhen 11y ago
In a letter titled "On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence"[1][2], Dijkstra replied to this and other reponses, the larger one titled "'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Bitbucket crashes minimal browsers like Surf and github doesn't. So, in that regard, Github is better.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
I was hoping for a much more in depth post after reading the title. It doesn't really go into much detail past an anecdote.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
There are comments in the source of the website, explaining most of what people have asked here, including where he has taught, his organ, mistaking his identity for a football coach and bird watcher, and a plea to not be emailed that Donal
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Knuth 3:16 (2002)(larry.denenberg.com)
68 points by stepvhen 11y ago|20 comments
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Ah I thought it was there. Good guess, I got the invite. Thanks!
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by stepvhen 11y ago
If there are invites left, I would like one (email in profile).
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by stepvhen 11y ago
All research has to start somewhere. And the space for video games is much larger than the one you describe. In 2003 Steel Battalion was released for Xbox, the controller for which had around 40 separate inputs. Or consider older Point and
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by stepvhen 11y ago
Due to the family illness I mentioned in another comment, I have come into some money. I am actually going back to school, and don't have much desire to work. Maybe at a coffee shop, just so weekends don't lose their meaning.
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by stepvhen 11y ago
I was hired at a large software consulting company, that sends people all over the place. I established with them that I was a backend/lower level developer. But due to some family illness I requested to stay in the city I lived in. Th
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by stepvhen 11y ago
For the record, I tried getting my phone to work back when I was hired, and it just wouldn't. I never contacted somebody to fix it, why bother. I virtually never got emails either. People would just show up at my desk unannounced if th
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by stepvhen 11y ago
I haven't had a work task at my job for 6 months, sans a week of QA testing, and a few days in SQL. I come to work, and have to be left to my own devices, and I never connected my personal laptop to the internet there. I tried to study

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