wlievens

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by wlievens 15y ago
Modeling a domain right is deceptively hard, and to me is one of the primary skills of our profession. Teaching what OO and inheritance mean is not the same thing as modeling a domain.
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by wlievens 15y ago
My nitpick about EnemySpaceship: whether an entity is enemy or not should not be part of its type but part of its state and/or logic. I know it's "just an example" but to me this thread is about whether arguably incorrect examples are bad
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by wlievens 15y ago
I don't understand how a driver implementation is an instance. I can imagine the HPDriver class having completely different code than the CanonDriver class. For a realistic version of this example, consider JDBC driver implementations.
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by wlievens 15y ago
You mean things that are (eventually) html page generators?
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by wlievens 15y ago
Nobody calls Quake a 4D game.
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by wlievens 15y ago
I find the fugue icons more diverse and even cutier than famfamfam's silk icons.
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by wlievens 15y ago
A parking violation isn't a crime, either.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Not if your assets are functional , such as a procedurally generated heightmap. Then they take up next to no memory. But you can't do that efficiently for a tree, I think.
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by wlievens 15y ago
You're right. The player confusion thing was already fixed in Diablo 2. You had offline and online characters. Their public understood the concept back then, so why wouldn't they understand it now?
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by wlievens 15y ago
Not if it's a scalable thing, i.e. you can get a "decent" conversion in a short time, and only do the full-scale conversions for milestone builds.
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by wlievens 15y ago
The characters weren't static though. That's what he's alluding to.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Yeah, it "only" solves the memory use problem.
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by wlievens 15y ago
"polygons for everything else" would mean you integrate two completely different rendering methods in one pipeline. I won't say that's impossible, but it sure sounds non-trivial .
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by wlievens 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Antwerp area, Belgium Skills: Java, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, ... Remote is possible Not looking for "full-time" opportunities, rather for smaller projects that can be done over weekends/evenings.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Amusing read, but the "leaves scars" part is completely unsubstantiated in the text itself, except for a vague allusion in the last paragraph.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Another great game with an economic theme reminiscent of Monopoly is China Town . http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/47/chinatown
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by wlievens 15y ago
Very, very clean looking site. Progress bars and stuff. Nice job.
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by wlievens 15y ago
I remember peeking at log or configuration files (can't remember well) of Age of Empires 2 and seeing them full of S-Expressions.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Built-in AI. They didn't specify the difficulty level, but knowing Civ games (can't speak for FreeCiv though), difficulty levels only tweak handicaps and not the AI algorithms, so the correct choice would be the difficulty level that has no
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by wlievens 15y ago
Odds are it's because of the word 'game' in the domain.
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by wlievens 15y ago
That comment has an extra layer coming from you .
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by wlievens 15y ago
With some decent DFA you can automate this stuff.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Votre IMC est NaN Input validation would be nice.
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by wlievens 15y ago
And more importantly, is there any business in this? Converting code as a gadget in one thing, but is there actually someone looking for a practical use for this? It's easy to say "But there are thousands of companies who want to convert th
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by wlievens 15y ago
Did you write Comet Busters! ? That's awesome! I played that game so many times I can still hear the sound effects in my head over a decade later. I really loved the version where you could blow the other players up. Kudos to you :)
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by wlievens 15y ago
Compliant browsers without any of the subtle differences and hacks. A performant Canvas implementation, available in 2005, would have been neat.
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by wlievens 15y ago
> not a virtual front end for people you already know For most people I know, it actually does exactly that.
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by wlievens 15y ago
People simply use helicopters to escape from prison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escap...
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by wlievens 15y ago
Can't read the page because the twitter shoutbox gives an error...
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by wlievens 15y ago
I don't know this guy, but he looks Indian? http://afterhoursgaming.tv/teams/facebook/ankur-pansari/

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