xenthral

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by xenthral 16y ago
I'm looking for a job in Canada (vancouver or toronto preferably) that would sponsor me as 'arranged employment'. I'm pretty great with C++ (4+ years), Lua. My focus has always been on gamedev, 3D rendering. I've also done professional webd
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by xenthral 16y ago
Great advice. I'd add to those book recommendations 'The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master' as well, great and fun read from beginning to end and good to open at any spot and read just a section. Also a fantastic read, Peter N
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by xenthral 16y ago
Have you looked into CMake to alleviate your compilation woes? I recently started using it and its been very useful so far.
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by xenthral 16y ago
I'm 24 and I've been coding C++ for the past 4 years, it was my first language and remains the one I use the most, though I've used Ruby professionally most recently, I'm trying to get a C++ gamedev job now. So its not just the older crowd,
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by xenthral 16y ago
Couldn't make the big "WELCOME TO FLYBYCHAT" left pane go away, so it felt like there was a lot of screen real state that was left unused. Also the HN lurker I was chatting with raised a good point: there should be different colors for "You
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by xenthral 16y ago
More reason to hope facebook goes down in flames, and the sooner the better.
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by xenthral 16y ago
"Thank you CrunchBase and _Charlise_ Rose" Thought I'd point out :)
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by xenthral 16y ago
Jobs wants to keep the walled garden pure of corruption. Says not to eat of the fruit of the tree of porn, lest the consumer lose their innocence. The serpent of webkit/safari tempts you.
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by xenthral 16y ago
What I've been wondering and am curious about is which of the straws is responsible for breaking the camel's back. Could they have done the same thing, but in a larger timeline and have not generated the press frenzy? Was it that this last
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Facebook, the deal, and you.(youtube.com)
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by xenthral 16y ago
He lost me a bit earlier: "I will eliminate Lua for the same reason [is not a general purpose language], though it has found a niche in the gaming community." wat? And then on a comment he says: "I should have written more about Prolog, Lua
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by xenthral 16y ago
I had definitely tried that before, recall issuing a 'mkdir .mozilla/plugins' & moving a .so in there. Can't remember why I rolled that back and reinstalled it through apt thought. Anyways trying it again nonetheless, the blinking is st
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by xenthral 16y ago
I went through a phase I tried installing everything under the sun and looked around quite a bit (the packages directly from adobe, different apt packages, random bash scripts I found online..) so I actually don't remember what I tested and
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by xenthral 16y ago
I've tried both the apt package and downloading directly from adobe, to be honest I don't remember if there was a difference in problems, or just the same set of them, either way it didn't 'just work'.
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by xenthral 16y ago
How did you install? 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree' ?
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by xenthral 16y ago
"It's more than possible that your hardware configuration is the cause" Its definitely not the hardware horsepower itself, as I have very good performance on 64 vista. I'm also running with the very latest nvidia binary drivers, I have an i
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by xenthral 16y ago
"Python falls in the middle of C and Lisp and thus is a useful comparison (and everyday-living) language." Its a shame Lua isn't more widely used / known that would be an even better fit. Because its far more of a middle ground between thos
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by xenthral 16y ago
"deliver a decent Flash implementation on a mobile device before touting your mobile position." I wish they'd do the same for desktop too. Flash doesn't really 'run' on my 64 bit ubuntu , it sputters and crawls and fucks up in a plethora of
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by xenthral 16y ago
One of the things you want to hit up right away after you get reacquainted is the boost library: http://www.boost.org/ If you use it well, it does a lot of heavy lifting, adds a lot of safety and expressiveness (boost::bind is just pure m
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by xenthral 16y ago
For bonus points on first item: http://srm.sourceforge.net/
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by xenthral 16y ago
Wow. This is hands down the best explanation of unicode in general, but UTF-8 in particular I've seen by far. and I mean by FAR. Thank you so much for this link!
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by xenthral 16y ago
"It's impressive. It feels like BeOS, unlike Zeta which was had poor quality." I guess I should have clarified - I've never used BeOS either, or well, even seen it I think, so more detail would be interesting, but from what you're telling m
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by xenthral 16y ago
Anyone ever used Haiku? And what were you mostly doing with it? What are the advantages if any [for that activity]? I've known about the project for quite a while, pretty icons and whatnot, but never fired up a vmware-like program to instal
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by xenthral 16y ago
> And the tweets almost never present an interesting opinion. Could be worse, could be youtube comments. Now that I think about it, I bet they must have read those at one point too.
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by xenthral 16y ago
control is such a nasty term. Steer, like a kindly ship captain.
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by xenthral 16y ago
Awesome, they recorded the gizmodo website shot (2:17) with firefox :)
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by xenthral 16y ago
Christopher Hitchen's review of the book and YC discussion on it: http://www.slate.com/id/2243112/pagenum/all/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1094011
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by xenthral 16y ago
> "Like murderous humans or murderous rogue states, they tend to die quickly because everyone finds the behavior so intolerable." I'm not sure this makes any sense at all. What if they view us as we view chickens? They could come to our
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by xenthral 16y ago
"Some of the campaigns have been controversial. Newkirk was criticized in 2003 when she sent a letter to PLO-leader Yasser Arafat asking him to keep animals out of the conflict after a donkey was laden with explosives during an attack in Je
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by xenthral 16y ago
> "What about "hate speech"? This is forbidden by the laws of the U.S." I'm not an american citizen, my opinion is that hate laws shouldn't exist. And most certainly not any law protecting against blasphemy of any sort - glad we agree t

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