xigency

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by xigency 11y ago
The only thing is, the needle isn't moving here. This is an animation of what a needle would look like moving across a record, but taken in stop-motion style. I wonder if the use of an electron microscope is really needed? The groove
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by xigency 11y ago
That was my experience. I was quizzed about Java, no questions about my background. Maybe life is better when you aren't living on the farm.
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by xigency 11y ago
Imagine using a language in a command-line setting. Each statement prints a value, but it would be rare to see something like `expr' be a mnemonic for that value. I only bring it up because I'm in the process of writing an interpr
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by xigency 11y ago
I liked this actually, but I can't tell, is the main detraction that everything must be condensed into a single expression? As far as dynamic languages go, having every statement block return an expression, or the last expression evalu
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by xigency 11y ago
It's worth taking a look. When I wrote this it was before this standard was implemented.
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by xigency 11y ago
True, but I picked this working title in 2006 or 2007.
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by xigency 11y ago
I'm not sure why that would be.
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by xigency 11y ago
Yep, it's all JavaScript.
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by xigency 11y ago
It's more of a proof of concept than a game yet. Adding gameplay goes hand in hand with adding plot, and without enough of a framework or scaffolding to fit the whole game together I haven't started on that. Plus, all of the monst
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by xigency 11y ago
This is an example of a first-person shooter game written in JavaScript using WebGL. All of the (limited) art assets are generated procedurally. The game uses the team duck game engine (tedge.js) which handles things like loading shaders, b
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by xigency 11y ago
Hm, yeah. It's controlled using the mouse. Center the mouse to prevent the view from moving. WASD moves the player character. Pressing 1 enables debug mode, which shows some bounding boxes.
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Show HN: RIFT – A procedurally generated FPS game in the browser(team-duck.com)
27 points by xigency 11y ago|18 comments
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by xigency 11y ago
Here is a screenshot, and you are welcome to view the source code: http://brainplex.net/res/Rift.png
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by xigency 11y ago
What browser/platform are you using?
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by xigency 11y ago
This is an example of a first-person shooter game written in JavaScript using WebGL. All of the (limited) art assets are generated procedurally. The game uses the team duck game engine (tedge.js) which handles things like loading shaders, b
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Show HN: RIFT – A procedurally generated FPS game in the browser(team-duck.com)
3 points by xigency 11y ago|5 comments
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by xigency 11y ago
I must have missed the first part, but this is a topic that always interests me, especially when starting from fundamentals. Writing a lexer in C, while simple, is non-trivial mainly due to the tasks of pointer arithmetic and string manipul
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by xigency 12y ago
That's a good question. I used to live in Japan around the area of the disaster, so I still have a vested personal interest in the event. It's something I try to keep at the back of my mind thinking about the people living there.
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by xigency 12y ago
I've never had my ID checked to ride on a Greyhound bus.
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by xigency 12y ago
This seems extremely useful. My school did not have a consolidated math class like this, although computer science and software engineering students were required to take various courses in math, particularly discrete and combinatorial math
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by xigency 12y ago
It's a push button for laundry detergent. How could anything be easier? Doesn't really matter if people buy them or not when it costs 2 cents to make.
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by xigency 12y ago
Very cool. Reminds me of IFS fractals and a book I read, "Fractals Everywhere," which discussed them.
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by xigency 12y ago
Speaking of literacy, Gen Yers has to be the most clumsy abbreviation I have ever seen.
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by xigency 12y ago
Is this a new problem? The article talks about growing cities creating "endless commutes, growing pollution, and unwalkable neighborhoods." For someone trying to commute to the airport regularly, it's best to live in the NW s
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by xigency 12y ago
This is not something I see in a city like Chicago. Even with a thinning population in the city proper, there are a wide variety of jobs reaching out from the city to the suburbs and more than adequate transportation with plenty of "wa
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Most obscure 'Hello World' in less than 64 KB of code(codepad.org)
2 points by xigency 12y ago|0 comments
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by xigency 12y ago
This is cool. One more note along the lines of creating interfaces for more languages--it might be useful to create a client/server architecture so an AI application written in any language could interface. Still, this is something I w
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by xigency 12y ago
And here we have issues of ordering and uniqueness. There are multiple sequences that correspond to any one point, and in the countably infinite construction, there are points that have no sequence. This is not to say that the first definit
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by xigency 12y ago
See the continuum hypothesis. The cardinality of the real numbers is two raised to the power of the cardinality of the natural numbers. So: given that there are a countably infinite number of divisions, each doubling the pixel count, there
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by xigency 12y ago
So we're all wasting our time. Some people find more interesting ways to do it than others.

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