westoncb

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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Well, I looked up some reviews on Ishmael because of this discussion, and it doesn't seem quite like what I'm looking for at the moment, but it did cause me to stumble onto "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" which I'm
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   That's an interesting idea. Check out the second answer from 'Vesselin Petkov' which talks about a geometric case for the difference between the two. His answer overall seemed to me more interesting than the most upvoted one
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Actually it's a pretty specific thing from the work of Carol Dweck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth As with any popular technical concept, many users will drop some of the subtleties, and I
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Thanks, that article does clear it up. So the orbit doesn't change shape nor does it shift, instead it rotates (from the article: "More precisely, it is the gradual rotation of the line joining the apsides of an orbit"—so I g
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Hmm, but if the perihelion changes position and the orbit doesn't change shape, the only other option is that the entire orbit shifts—is that it? My understanding of precession is that there are two levels of rotation: an object rotati
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Anyone know of (or want to give) a clear explanation of how gyros behave? I found the article to be unclear on a number of points. I was also unclear on this: "The first triumph of general relativity was its exact prediction of the orb
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Thanks! That's funny, Doom 3 was just coming out when I was in college and I had the same issue when considering doing something with MD5s—and they also just appeared super intimidating to me at the time :)
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Interesting—yes, I was wondering about their shader model. I glanced through your source and saw what looked to me like some of the conversion. In any case, the shaders you have running so far (I assume they generate the animations on vario
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   by westoncb 9y ago

   Awesome! I wrote an MD3 loader/renderer/animator years ago[0] and had a lot of fun with it—always wanted to try loading the levels as well, though I've yet to try it. Any comment on how difficult that was in comparison to dea
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    I'd second this recommendation: Nexus is one of the most interesting and entertaining sci-fi novels I've read in recent years. I'd heard the sequel was not so good—anyone have an opinion?
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    Why is linear motion relative but rotation absolute?(quora.com)

    3 points by westoncb 9y ago|0 comments
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Here's a partial solution for text input (or at least for editing text): https://youtu.be/tztmgCcZaM4?t=1m25s
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    I think the uses I've seen of it have been recent enough that that authors probably aren't focusing much on that aspect. If you compare those three words, 'interpret', 'understand', 'hermeneutic', the
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    That's historically true. But from the Wikipedia article, for instance: > Modern hermeneutics includes both verbal and non-verbal communication[6][7] as well as semiotics, presuppositions, and pre-understandings. Hermeneutics has be
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Ack, what is "hermeneutics"!? I know it's a field of study and I get a little what it's about (though I'd need to see some more concrete examples to really get it I think)—but what baffles me is why people use &#x27
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    I wonder how the 'psychological novel' which was supposed to be invented in James' The Portrait of a Lady (1880) (according to the article) is distinct from, e.g., Crime and Punishment (1866) (or Notes from Underground ,
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    I guess you're in good company since the article also has: > I must admit that at the time I was not overly impressed by The Turn of the Screw. So you may want to try others. I read his The American a few years ago, and liked it o
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Yay, someone else too! :)
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Haha, yep, it was a lot of fun. Especially going back and using Swing after about a decade of using other UI libs—that was a very interesting experience. When I was initially using Swing it was all I knew and at first I thought of all new s
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Btw, this project started when my sister and I were eating at Panera and decided it would be fun to each write an HN front-end. Hers was largely a project to learn React, which you can see here: http://coribeecroft.com/hacke
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    I tried using the platform look and feel on macOS, but it gives a number of important elements tiny heights, including comments, making them unreadable. I'm sure there's a fix but I haven't looked into it.
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Haha I was very confused until: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg :)
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Swing uses a pluggable 'look and feel' system (essentially themes)—which does include a 'native' look and feel for various OSs, including Windows and macOS.
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Part of that is because Java has basically moved onto JavaFX over Swing—and partly it's because I built this specifically to resemble old Swing apps :)
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Hey kevinherron—thanks for the feedback. I actually was aware I could build something nicer with JavaFX, but one of the main constraints on the project was that it satisfy my nostalgia for old Swing apps (particularly the 'Metal'
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Haha! Thanks! I can't really say this is representative of the best modern Swing has to offer, though, so I hope people won't judge it too much by my joke project ;)
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    It is a regular JTree! —mostly. I am using a custom TreeCellRenderer, which uses a JPanel with some labels on top, and a JTextPane for to display the comment itself (since the HN API gives back comments as html, I use JTextPane to parse&#x2
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    Hey anon6412, so this was my first Kotlin project, and I don't really know much at all on the ecosystem. I could check out kotlinc and write up something on how to build with it—I imagine it's just adding ./lib to the classpa
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    The only way is to change the Look and Feel, and unfortunately I think 'Nimbus' (which I show in one of the screenshots) is the most modern looking of the built-in Look and Feels. There may be some decent 3rd party options though.
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    by westoncb 9y ago

    As the author of this—yep, I can agree with that. I'm generally baffled when I see folks complain about Electron's slowness—but that's probably 'cause I started out building Swing apps :)