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by zephjc 14y ago
Google continues its move towards the ad-driven singularity.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Kind of cute, a game-oriented Python koan/exercise site. There's a lot of broken english though.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Technically, that's a raycasting engine (a la Doom and Wolf3D). The first implementation that I know of that was made into a game was Daedalus for the TI-85, back in 1997 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/11/1147.html
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by zephjc 14y ago
It is on the site - for better or worse, HN auto-capitalizes submission titles
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by zephjc 14y ago
To quote The Simpsons: "You don't win friends with salad". That is to say, Republicans don't win voters with well-thought-out tax restructuring plans, they win them with "God, Guns and Gays" policies that appeal the the lowest common denom
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by zephjc 14y ago
My friends and I used to LAN play the crap out of this game in the MacOS8/9 days. It was a lot of fun, but networking bugs would cause all connected computers to hard crash, needing restarts.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Heh, Isolation Mode, indicated by a North Korean flag
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by zephjc 14y ago
killall might be what you're looking for, but it isn't typically necessary except for Chrome: killall 'Google Chrome'
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by zephjc 14y ago
Needs a favicon ;) Very cool!
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by zephjc 14y ago
Having been interested in VR since the early 90s, I have to say I am more than ready for any kind of good, hi-res, low-latency VR system - this definitely looks promising, given all the high praise from Gaben and Carmack.
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by zephjc 14y ago
How do you click that? You just click it - it really works (I just tried!)
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by zephjc 14y ago
Is anyone else totally uninterested in Windows RT? I'm much more interested to see how Win 8 and existing Windows applications run. That is, to have a tablet-cum-laptop with a full touch UI plus keyboard and trackpad.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Were you looking for something more in terms of systems programming?
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by zephjc 14y ago
What part - up in the mountains? I ask because I lived in Santa Cruz in 2010 (and grew up there too) and had 30Mbit internet from Comcast.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Non-obvious/invisible click and mouseover regions are probably my single biggest beef with Win 8. Just terrible.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Making already pent-up wanna-be jihadis angry and look foolish is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Taxes? US listed prices often don't include taxes, where in many other countries require taxes (sales, VAT, etc) be included in the listed price.
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by zephjc 14y ago
I played SL since 2006 and until 2009 or so, and I still keep up with it from time to time. I think one problem it has is that it tries to do a lot of things, and does none of them well. Building was fun for a while, but you hit a limit wi
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by zephjc 14y ago
To visualise this, it’s simplest to think of the state of your repository as a point in a high- dimensional ‘code-space’, in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of succ
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by zephjc 14y ago
Except that I can install OS X on a blank hard drive when needed (which I've needed to do twice).
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by zephjc 14y ago
Some people just have to learn the hard way I guess
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by zephjc 14y ago
This is cool, but every diagram I've seen for git history uses arrows pointing to the past instead of the future, which is a bit confusing.
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by zephjc 14y ago
If ever there was something that needed a technical manual, Dwarf Fortress is it.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Re. your first paragraph, here is a counter-example: go to another town where they don't know you, purely to obtain your coke; problem solved. Besides, haven't you heard the saying: "Always know your dealer"?
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by zephjc 14y ago
Impressive, though some of the machining around the various ports looks a little naff.
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by zephjc 14y ago
If you view 3D printing as a baby-step to Trek-like replicator technology^, then you may see that its more of a moral imperative that 3D printing technology become as cheap and elaborate as possible, as quickly as possible. The only bottlen
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by zephjc 14y ago
Romulans
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by zephjc 14y ago
I like how he supposedly did it to prevent his car from being vandalized. I don't think vandals could do much worse to it than what he did. A cool project, but there's no reason to dress it up in a BS story.
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by zephjc 14y ago
My friends and I in high school loved the game, and we frequently played it at LAN parties on our PPC macs. Unfortunately if it crashed, it would crash on ALL the computers and bring them all down, requiring system restarts. (Ah, the joys
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by zephjc 14y ago
Him spell chucker work grate, need gramma chicken.

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