DougHaber

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by DougHaber 3mo ago
I have two projects that I'm hoping to release in the months ahead. These are both pretty pointless but fun projects. One is a TRS-80 Model I emulator in JavaScript called Trash80. About 10 months ago I started this project just for fu
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by DougHaber 1y ago
Years ago, I made one of these at an hackathon style event for developing HTML5 gamedev tools. I didn't know much about audio programming at the time, so I read descriptions of what parameters were and then wrote code that I thought wo
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by DougHaber 1y ago
I did some experimenting with this a little while back and was disappointed in how poorly LLMs played games. I made some AI tools ( https://github.com/DougHaber/lair ) and added in a tmux tool so that LLMs could interact
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Show HN: Lair – CLI Tools for working with generative AI(github.com)
2 points by DougHaber 1y ago|0 comments
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by DougHaber 6y ago
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by DougHaber 7y ago
Sadly, most of the replies you've gotten are terribly biased or uniformed. It is a good question. I'm not connected to any of this, so this answer is solely from my own understanding. For those that don't know, the Brave br
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by DougHaber 7y ago
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by DougHaber 8y ago
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by DougHaber 8y ago
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by DougHaber 9y ago
As pointed out, 25 years later was in the 80s. I wonder if some of the delay in adoption was due to the relevant patents, which were filed around 1959. Maybe that gave a two decade monopoly to Texas Instruments making it hard for others to
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by DougHaber 9y ago
This article misses a point as to why the community was outraged at the license change from LGPL to GPL. I was testing switching an application to EXT JS at the time, and I was really liking it. The prototype worked so well that we were
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by DougHaber 9y ago
According to Wikipedia: Udo of Aachen (c.1200–1270) is a fictional monk, a creation of British technical writer Ray Girvan, who introduced him in an April Fool's hoax article in 1999. According to the article, Udo was an i
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by DougHaber 10y ago
This is a Pitfall! playing agent. The emulator Javatari.js was used as a platform for this and modified to have the needed hooks and behaviors. The algorithm is very simple. Each screen is treated as a separate level. Commands are randoml
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Show HN: A Pitfall Playing Agent(github.com)
2 points by DougHaber 10y ago|1 comments
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by DougHaber 10y ago
In a sense, I think you are right and perhaps my bias is showing. From the perspective of a judge or prosecutor, they followed a legal process and gave a legal order, so there is no violation of due process in their eyes. Through the eyes
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by DougHaber 10y ago
That isn't always true. In the U.S. legal system, a person can be granted immunity, and in doing so have their 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination terminated. With that, they could be forced to provide testimony, and
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by DougHaber 11y ago
I'm a little confused about the way the article is using numbers. They say their generous worst case calculation of losses is $550 billion, based off of the number of angel investors, throwing out a 1 million number against each, and t
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by DougHaber 11y ago
I wanted to say something very similar about the judging. At hackathons with prizes the criteria really needs to be very clear upfront and strictly adhered to. Everyone works really hard during the event, and if the attendees feel the ju
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by DougHaber 12y ago
What if I prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Can I be upset then? I'm sure this will be possible to hack around, but we shouldn't have to hack our own computers to use them. A simple option to disable secure boot would solve all the p
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by DougHaber 12y ago
Sorry if anything has come off as being too argumentative. I just feel like you are downplaying the large impact that Perl 6 has had on Perl 5 and the public perception of Perl, and the impact that will come when a 1.0 version is officiall
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by DougHaber 12y ago
> And the "Perl" brand is still very strong, so we are loath to give it up. That is great for you as a Perl 6 developer that gets extra attention for the new language by leveraging the Perl brand, but it is absolutely awful for
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by DougHaber 12y ago
Forgive me for this, but why is it still called Perl 6? I've been a professional Perl developer for a long time, and I've followed Perl 6 since the first announcements. There is some impressive and really interesting work going on
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by DougHaber 12y ago
I have written a lot of Perl code over the years, and I also hold the uncommon opinion that it is a great language, and often a far better choice than other similar languages for a lot of tasks. I agree with the author of this article that
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by DougHaber 12y ago
I had recently been evaluating JavaScript charting packages, and ended up moving forward developing with HighCharts, just a couple days ago. The demos for Echarts are impressive, so when I saw this today I spent a little time trying it out
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by DougHaber 12y ago
I've been considering migrating a bunch of things to Linode. I have read a lot of reviews and have not seen too many negative things. Do you have any more information or advice on where I can look to find out about what you are referr
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by DougHaber 12y ago
Sure. This was based on a life program I wrote in JavaScript a long time ago that used DIVs, because canvas didn't yet exist at the time. The color version was made a few years later by taking the nLife code, switching it to use can
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by DougHaber 12y ago
I always liked the idea of color life. I like that this did one game for each bit. That's an interesting take on it and the results look nice. I made a quick color life a few years ago. I wanted the rules to be simple like life itse
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by DougHaber 12y ago
I definitely agree. It was a groundbreaking game too. He gave a great postmortem talk about it: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014630/Classic-Game-Postmortem...
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by DougHaber 12y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I use Rackspace for their servers and CDN, and Linode is definitely starting to look nice. It could actually be cheaper to go with Linode and a separate CDN provider, such as MaxCDN. MaxCDN has some of the fe
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by DougHaber 13y ago
I also made and released a chromatic instrument tuner using web audio input a while back: http://www.leshylabs.com/apps/tuner/ I haven't looked too closely, but my technique is probably a bit different. I us

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