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Show HN: Minimal game with procedural graphics in JavaScript/GLSL(github.com)
34 points by westoncb 8y ago|11 comments
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by westoncb 8y ago
I did a quick side project with my sister on a UI with similar goals. We called the documents, "variable level of detail documents"—demo here http://symbolflux.com/lodessay/ Also: we started a wysywyg editor
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by westoncb 8y ago
> But since polynomials are typically taught to students during early childhood, it seems like most readers are liable to just skim that content, ... My view was that the initial chapter was more about how to learn mathematics generally
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by westoncb 8y ago
> I'd daresay is the majority opinion among mathematicians. It is also the opinion of prominent computer scientists: Dijkstra, Leslie Lamport, Donald Knuth, to name a few off the top of my head. There are reasons partly historical a
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by westoncb 8y ago
There is a common category of misguided book review that the parent comment falls under: the reviewer has some particular things they are looking for from a book and fails to see that there are more uses for it than their own; so they gener
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by westoncb 8y ago
Glad it was useful. Cool looking project by the way! I like the list of 'Current Features' ;) Actually though, concept is neat and the showcase looks promising.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Unfortunately there isn't at the moment. The setup process is still fairly involved. Hopefully in the next couple of months I'll have something easier for others to use.
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Show HN: Minimal game with 100% procedural graphics in JS/GLSL(github.com)
6 points by westoncb 8y ago|3 comments
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Glad to see more work being done on the general purpose data browser concept. I've been spending occasional free moments working on one since 2014[0], and this is the first time I've come across something with any significant over
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by westoncb 8y ago
> ... and you could make it a lot faster by grouping similar workloads Could anyone clarify what's meant by that, or more concretely how it might be done?
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by westoncb 8y ago
TL;DR: I'm experimenting with that problem now. Currently I'm trying out this idea of 'transient state' described more below. ------- I've actually been working on something that deals a lot with that problem. It&#x
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by westoncb 8y ago
From the conclusion: > If you design a system, it is not helpful to consider options like MVC vs MVVM vs MVP. Instead, identify potential problems and if necessary solve them. I think that's a pretty good take on it. There's an
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by westoncb 8y ago
Hmm, maybe time for me to look into CGMs again :) Any recommendation for how to go about getting the Freestyle Libre? I don't have insurance, so I'm guessing it's gonna be prohibitively expensive...
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by westoncb 8y ago
I suspect the number would be quite a bit larger. You have to consider how many with diabetes would be willing to wear contact lenses, and if you consider what the tradeoffs involved are, I think you'd find it's a rather large p
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by westoncb 8y ago
> and thinking of geometric operators as generalized numbers would have seemed pretty alien for most of the 19th century as well. Do you know of any resource treating that subject explicitly? I assume you mean the same kind of operator a
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by westoncb 8y ago
I don't mean to give the wrong impression: I'm actually highly amused by it. But at the same time, as a heuristic for judging whether something I might read is worthwhile or not... well, the author gives me the impression of being
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by westoncb 8y ago
I feel like there's something I'm missing: it doesn't make any sense that this book would be published... Reading some of the preview material at Amazon, the chapters often start with brutal depictions of violence against Afr
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by westoncb 8y ago
Interestingly, I think I built that project with an architecture somewhat reminiscent of the 'boundaries' concept (still just surmising at this point). It's a super simple framework with two types of things 'Domains&#x27
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by westoncb 8y ago
That makes a lot of sense to me. Looking forward to checking out "Boundaries". Btw, one other idea I've had on the subject is that the problems with mutable state can be mitigated if we were able to more easily see/compr
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by westoncb 8y ago
I do think this echoes fooyc's point though: this does not sound like an area that would benefit from OOP. Sounds like an ideal use-case for functional.
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by westoncb 8y ago
My main conclusion on the subject is that it really depends on what domain you're coding in. There are plenty of applications I would never use OOP for. I use Elixir for my backend work. I tend to use OOP for interactive simulation&#x2
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by westoncb 8y ago
> The pattern you talk about is mainly a product of not wanting to squeeze a whole essay into an HN comment. That may very well apply to the GP's comment—but, my observation of the pattern is derived from a mix of mini-essay comment
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by westoncb 8y ago
For some reason 'arguments' against OOP seem to follow a common pattern. You have said many things against OOP, but you haven't actually presented an argument for why it's bad. I'll present each of your assertions
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by westoncb 8y ago
Are you just basing that on the title, or have you actually spent some time with it?
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by westoncb 8y ago
"Most college calculus texts weigh a ton; this one does not — it just gets to the point. This is how I learned calculus: my uncle gave me a copy." - John Baez (Mathematical Physicist; people here may know him from his work with&#x
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by westoncb 8y ago
This is correct. It's a general pattern widely used in game engines and some other areas; not at all Unity-specific.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Neat. I googled, and have been reading this writeup: https://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/lehre/ss10/ps/Ausarbeitung_Bei... —which seems quite nice so far.
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by westoncb 8y ago
There is a kind of complexity worship I've noticed, but my accounting of it is that it comes from folks who aren't aware of the methods of simplification employed by those successfully wrangling complex subjects/systems; abse
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by westoncb 8y ago
Are you more of a Philip Roth fan? ;)
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by westoncb 8y ago
I could never get a doctor to give a precise answer to that, just, "some kind of repetitive strain injury." It seems to have had psychological components to it also: I was so worried about it that I created additional tension ther

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