xedarius

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by xedarius 13y ago
Without wishing to flame, it's based on 12 years of professional experience working in the games industry. I could lend reason to AI, however I stand by my comment with regards to rendering and physics.
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by xedarius 13y ago
It's making me very angry the more I read about the Xbox One press launch. There's two things you needed to do Microsoft. 1) Make the console 5x to 10x more powerful than the previous generation. 2) Open the platform up to indies, like Appl
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by xedarius 13y ago
Cloud doing any of these things is bonkers. The cloud is good at things like running Xbox live, making my profile available anywhere, saving my games. Using the internet, let me emphasis this, the transient, unreliable communication system
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by xedarius 13y ago
My name on the internet comes from my time playing Quake 3. It is my real name, at least as far as I'm concerned.
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by xedarius 13y ago
Where does Yahoo keep getting it's money from? I don't now anyone who uses their platform. I'm assuming it must still be fairly popular in the US.
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by xedarius 13y ago
I spent quite a bit of money on corrective laser eye surgery (which turned out great). The surgery meant I no longer have to wear glasses, which I didn't enjoy at all. Sorry Google, put your tech into some other item of clothing and I might
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by xedarius 13y ago
Many many moons ago I had a similar idea, although my idea was to spot patterns of eBay purchases. I had a feeling that people in various parts of the world would buy certain types of items depending on economic trends. Once I had identifi
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by xedarius 14y ago
I didn't think anyone else programmed AMOS apart from me. I wish I still had all the discs full of my code and Deluxe Paint art.
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by xedarius 14y ago
I quite like this idea and it brings us closer to the concept of a digitally fingerprinted will. Which I'd much prefer to the one that is stored in my solicitors filing cabinet, somewhere.
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by xedarius 14y ago
Sounds great, email sent.
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by xedarius 14y ago
I have to say you've done a fantastic job with the Tfl API. Any chance you could put up a link to the hackathon here? Or at least give us a few more details?
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by xedarius 14y ago
I've noticed that once the wheels of conversation have been greased (via beer and a few presentations), during the interval people really seem to mingle and chat. To my mind this is the golden 10-15 minutes of the hacker news meetup. Here's
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by xedarius 14y ago
I worked in the games industry for over 10 years. A platform other than Windows was not an option. Microsoft provide a solid platform with an excellent tool set. Not only that but all of the main content authoring tools (3DStudio Max, Photo
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by xedarius 14y ago
Wonder if there are any Easter eggs for free tickets...
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by xedarius 14y ago
After I spend weeks creating this nonsense compiler what am I going to do with my Grand Master Certification? I've asked around my office and no-one here either recognizes it nor would they hire anyone based on them having it. Just do a an
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by xedarius 14y ago
This is great and nice to see some competition for Google. One thing I do like when I've seen the Google car, is it seems to bomb down the road at top speed. I've not seen how the Oxford car reacts at high speed. Hats off though, nice work
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by xedarius 14y ago
From the guidelines of what to post. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on T
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by xedarius 14y ago
Interesting, yet I'd have liked a little more of a break down of the results. For example the GPU will probably need to transfer the sorted data to and from the card. This will have a dramatic effect on performance.
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by xedarius 14y ago
More often than not on hacker news there's a story about someone whose accidentally gone 'bohemian'. I think it's something we all need to do from time to time. Personally I like to rent a cottage in one of England's many fine forests. The
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by xedarius 14y ago
Does anyone know of a plugin that allows Sublime to handle XML files correctly? By correctly I'm mainly talking about auto-formatting and generally understanding how XML is indented. Thanks
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by xedarius 14y ago
I've been programming iOS for a couple of years now and some of those tips where useful to me! Anyhow as we're contributing top tips, my one is 'Always run your app on target hardware.' Don't rely on the emulators, especially if your're doi
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by xedarius 14y ago
My favourite line was one from my girlfriend - "Maybe you shouldn't have taken his anti-virus software off my laptop .... he seems pretty badass."
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by xedarius 14y ago
I've always found Photoshop difficult to draw in, and haven't really enjoyed drawing on a computer since Deluxe Paint. However, Inkscape (a program that I've not seen before) looks great, and I will be trying out the tutorial. Thanks. I'm a
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by xedarius 14y ago
I'd say it worked out pretty well, I'd never heard of EA's Origin service before this article.
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by xedarius 14y ago
Would be nice if I could just type my Amazon login details into TimeMachine and magic off-site backups just happened.
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by xedarius 14y ago
What strikes me as significant about the predictions, is, what has dictated our development is the kinds of materials we can produce, not necessarily the ideas behind what you can build from those materials. I realise the illustrations are
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by xedarius 14y ago
I converted a game I had originally written in Java to iOS. In part because I wanted to learn Objective-C. With hindsight, and with the emergence of Android, I probably should have converted the game to C++. With the games base code (engine
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by xedarius 14y ago
There's also another thing to bear in mind. I've spent most of my career in the games industry. The games industry as a whole is only about 30 years old. It's only now we're seeing programmers/artists in their 40s+. This is almost certainly
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by xedarius 15y ago
A few years ago I was working on a spy-action game. One of the sub-games was a lock picking section. One of the programmers ordered a lock picking kit, along with several padlocks. This of course spread through the office like wild fire. Pr
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by xedarius 15y ago
Nice work, however this feature is a little like putting blinkers on a horse in case it sees something frightening. HN's greatest asset is the variation of the stories.

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