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by unconed 14y ago
Both C&C and PoP are about 20 years old. If you consider the copyright terms that most pirate parties are advocating, this IP would be in the public domain already. The PoP franchise is owned by Ubisoft now, so you really can't make the
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by unconed 14y ago
Is clang getting more popular because it is superior, or because its license encouraged commercial interests to invest into it? Also, you seem to equate a permissive license with 'lock and key'. My experience is the exact opposite, having r
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by unconed 14y ago
"Check your privilege!" you hear, after a woman scorned summons her white knights with a simple retweet.
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by unconed 14y ago
The argument ignores that GPL is a giant stink eye for many people. It deters people from wanting to make enhancements in the first place... there's no point in having rights to enhancements that are not being made. It doesn't matter if tec
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by unconed 14y ago
The only reason Linux being GPL is not a big hindrance is because most people use it as a black box to run independent code on. The barrier between GPL and non-GPLd code matches neatly with "stuff we'll never touch". With most software, bei
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by unconed 14y ago
The point is that at high DPI, the "serious fuzzing" is much less noticeable for a variety of images. A retina screen has 4x the amount of pixels. Which means the 2x2 undersampled color errors are probably below our perception threshold. Es
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by unconed 14y ago
> I have this vision of someone in the PHP community at some point randomly picking up the Gang of Four book and being like "holy shit, check this out people...they had a solution to some similar problems 20 years ago..." It's more sub
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by unconed 14y ago
A lot of people are underestimating what this stuff can be used for, IMO. It goes far beyond traditional games. I myself have been doing a lot of work with WebGL-driven articles [1]. With nothing more than nginx and Jekyll, I have an incred
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by unconed 14y ago
Actually, in a Retina world, it is often better to use a low quality JPEG at high res, than a high quality PNG at low res.
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by unconed 14y ago
Oddly enough, it works fine if you open the iframe in a new tab. I think it may just be Firefox denying my admittedly greedy requests for video memory.
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by unconed 14y ago
Sigh, every time my site hits hacker news or reddit I have to mention this... it's a Webkit bug. I reported it 5 releases ago, it sits unloved and unfixed. I imagine i'll just redo the site before they address it.
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by unconed 14y ago
Consider the fancy header to be the first answer to: what happens when you put a 3D engine inside a webpage. This article is what happens 12 months later...
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by unconed 14y ago
By that point, the grid has been rotated 90 degrees, with the real axis on top. This is mentioned in the notes. I did this because it fits the letterbox layout more in the later transitions. Edit: I changed it so this is made obvious.
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by unconed 14y ago
The namespacing is indeed ugly. HTML's current tag soup might be legacy filled, but we haven't replaced it because it's convenient to have short memorable tags for these things. XML namespaces failed in this, never letting you mix two names
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by unconed 14y ago
Indeed. How fucking shallow and sexist is it to expect your partner to shell out thousands of dollars on a useless piece of carbon that literally becomes worthless as soon as it's sold? And I bet these people are all about "gender equality"
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by unconed 14y ago
But then you assume nobody wants to use the default browser... Safari is a super decent browser on the Mac, its multi-touch support is more functional and less fiddly than Chrome's. I actively prefer it. And I make websites for a living.
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by unconed 14y ago
So you replied in agreement with a tortured graph theory analogy devoid of concrete ties to reality? I'm confused. Usually when people say "actually" they are correcting someone.
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by unconed 14y ago
Uh, how did you get "Paris-Instanbul is less diverse than cross-Canada" from my comment? I think I said the exact opposite.
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by unconed 14y ago
If you read through Facebook's guidelines for developers, there is a subtle but consistent undertone: don't do anything that makes people feel uncomfortable. Basically, they want Facebook to be a completely positive experience which strokes
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by unconed 14y ago
If you focus on 'diversity', you miss the bigger picture, because of course every place is unique. The US has for example far more pronounced extremes of urban vs rural (which many too forget). The real issue is distance, and how Europeans
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by unconed 14y ago
Because despite years of trying to shove it in people's faces, nobody genuinely liked using it. Then again, they never fixed the absolutely abysmal start up times. Through Java Applets, Sun associated the Java logo with "my browser freezes
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by unconed 14y ago
If you're interested in the full history, watch Crockford's Your New Overlord talk. He explains that Sun wanted JavaScript gone, but they had to keep it, because it was the only way for Java to talk to the DOM at the time. http://www.youtu
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The Christmas Experiments - Never Seen The Sky (Chrome/WebGL)(christmasexperiments.com)
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by unconed 14y ago
The thing about slot machines though, aside from the fact that the pay outs are not uniformly random, is that they're designed to have tons of almost-wins, i.e. "bar bar cherry". You think you're "so close" to having won that you think if y
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by unconed 14y ago
I enjoy the hardware, the administration not so much. Their control panel seems to log you out if you don't do anything for longer than a minute, and the graphs have failed to show up on multiple occasions. The whole thing is steeped in ear
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by unconed 14y ago
With the right lego pieces, you can do a lot. All depends on what libraries you can use. It could also be they're re-using stuff they work on day-to-day anyway.
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by unconed 14y ago
Presenter mode also has a clock though, which I think is important in the beginning. A common mistake is to simply cram too much into your slides. Like trying to introduce a topic, but immediately trying to catch all the nuances too. It wil
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by unconed 14y ago
I'd say it's much better to use things like Presenter Mode as a crutch, where you see the private notes, current and next slides and a clock on your own screen. That way you can focus on delivery, not on memorization, but your audience does
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Making things with Maths - Full Frontal Conference talk(acko.net)
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by unconed 14y ago
I'm a proto-geek who kind of taught himself to be more artistic. Let me share a few tips: - Learning to draw is not actually so much about drawing, but learning how to see. Light is complicated and humans like to abstract, especially geeks,

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