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by unconed 12y ago
You're kind of missing the point. Doing a single classic demoscene effect is indeed trivial. Doing arbitrary multi-stage, multi-frame video feedback effects is not, and you'd need to write dozens of lines of unique GL API code for
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by unconed 12y ago
Right now, very dead. It was more of an idea than a real thing, badly architected, but with some good ideas waiting to be reimplemented on a non 0.x stack. Still perpetually disappointed every new "neo terminal" is monospace tho.
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by unconed 12y ago
... when the GPU drivers fix their bugs, when all the undefined behaviour gets defined, when the security holes get patched, and triple-A gaming studios with intimate connections to the vendors aren't the only ones driving the tech. An
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by unconed 12y ago
MathBox 2 is built on top of threestrap (don't google it, you get shoes), to enable exactly this kind of extensibility without me having to do it all myself. Just by following a few basic conventions (e.g. binding the VR headset to thr
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by unconed 12y ago
... but it's still more efficient than pure JavaScript, asm or not. And so much faster than MathBox 1.
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by unconed 12y ago
To handle HTML overlays, I basically need to add read back capabilities to find the final on-screen positions of points, so I can sync with CSS 3D matrices. GL text is a rabbit hole I'd prefer to avoid, especially since I often need ma
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by unconed 12y ago
Yes and no, everything is still sampled on grids. But the intermediate calculations can be doing tons of implicit look ups. So it's more like lazy evaluation, though there's no auto-memoizing (because the memory/time tradeoff
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by unconed 13y ago
There's multiple answers, and multiple differences in the original image: 1) Firefox supports kerning, i.e. variable space between particular letter pairs such as "TA" where you otherwise get unsightly gaps. WebKit/Blink
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by unconed 13y ago
None of those things contain enough cocoa to deserve the name "chocolate".
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by unconed 13y ago
The music does serve a specific purpose. The Seba track is chosen for its 80s style synths (itself a reuse of Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack), which separates cleanly in the FFT and enables the audio response to follow individual no
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by unconed 13y ago
This is intentional. If you visit the bare domain, you get the intro. If you visit an article, you get the article.
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by unconed 13y ago
I find this view of e^z far more beautiful than a bunch of symbols rearranged by someone who thinks definitions provide insight... http://acko.net/files/mathbox/MathBox.js/examples/ComplexExp...
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by unconed 14y ago
So, make it a habit of not reading trollbait articles, and seek out primary sources instead. I have this discussion with people about Wikileaks all the time. "Assange is such an arrogant prick" "Oh? What did he say that made you think that?
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by unconed 14y ago
The problem is two fold: 1) Despite creating an actual style guide for the logo, including recommended usage, the proposal IMO lacks serious attention to typographic detail, the one thing a currency logo actually needs. None of the examples
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by unconed 14y ago
Firefox: * No CSS shaders * CSS 3D is still very buggy ( http://acko.net/#force3d ) despite the support being over a year old now. Also renders without anti-aliasing, which makes it really ugly. * Both Firebug and the built-in inspector ser
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by unconed 14y ago
Because people on the internet are dumb, especially when talking to someone from a big company like Google. Who decided to stop providing a particular service for free.
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by unconed 14y ago
I agree that source maps are the right solution, but even the ability to pretty-print the indentation and separate statements onto lines would work wonders. I've had too many errors on line 1.
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by unconed 14y ago
I find the best analogy is with optimized code. It's not like you're deliberately obfuscating it, but still, in trying to write it as succinctly as possible, some of the information has gotten lost.
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by unconed 14y ago
Women form into geek groups all the time... geek girls this, linuxchix that, and nobody objects. In fact, studies have shown women have an in-group bias where women like women more than men like men, so it's inevitable they will stick toget
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by unconed 14y ago
> perhaps especially for people who've never worked in it At my last job, one of our interview questions for an experienced PHP programmer was "What makes PHP arrays different or unique, from a computer science point of view?" Not a sin
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by unconed 14y ago
This is great advice, but there is no longer any need to do use cumbersome ems for this. Just use pixels.
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by unconed 14y ago
More precisely, it's the way women can wind other computer nerds around their finger. The sword of attention cuts both ways.
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by unconed 14y ago
I do live my own life, quite happily, and don't wallow in self-pity. I merely shared an insight that has helped me make more sense of my life after 30 years of living it. I never said I was unique, merely that I deviated from the norm. "I a
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by unconed 14y ago
I identify with huge portions of this post. And if there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that I don't think like most other people. I don't mean "my ideas are better" or "I have superior reasoning skills". I mean "the tools th
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by unconed 14y ago
"Native code's benefits are overrated" is not the same as "HTML is superior!". Like I said, different constraints, different requirements. But, when a native app crashes, it usually means an exploit waiting to happen. When a browser renders
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by unconed 14y ago
I'd say the difference is two-fold. First, desktop applications generally still have unique icons and branding. Second, desktop applications have much more freedom as to how they combine the elements. Usually you can tell which application
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by unconed 14y ago
"And now we've taken this canvas, and hooked it up to a modified version of OpenGL ES!" Only it turns out that neither Apple nor Microsoft trust their "superior" native drivers enough to let the open web talk to it, even through a completel
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by unconed 14y ago
HTML5 sucks because he doesn't know about UTF-8? Yup, definitely a C programmer. I'll be over here, doing JS, not giving a shit about binary-safe strings.
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by unconed 14y ago
Where "enlightened" = agrees with all my views, simplified into dumb animated GIFs? The "What about the menz" trope is as sexist as the behavior it's pretending to decry. Calling yourself enlightened while stereotyping the opposing gender i
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by unconed 14y ago
It's not like he's selling Prince of Persia or Command and Conquer t-shirts, or a book on how to rip off games and make money doing so, he's selling expertise on creating game engines, and using retro games to demonstrate the effectiveness

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