SimHacker

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by SimHacker 13y ago
Why isn't your user name visible? How did you do that???
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Would that be tin or aluminum foil hat nonsense?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
What is the name of the law that requires them to cancel having conversations they were otherwise looking forward to having, if people wear t-shirts that hurt their feelings?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
We were TOTALLY planning on having a fair and balanced conversation with you, and listening to everything you had to say, and telling you the truth. But those darn T-shirts have ruined everything, by hurting our feelings. Now there can be n
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by SimHacker 13y ago
If the NSA put their resources towards educating and empowering third world children instead of perpetuating their oppression and spying on them, they could easily fund and equip the "One Supercomputer Per Child" project.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
If not popular names like Candy and Crystal, then what do strippers in the UK call themselves?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Perfect! Thanks for the link. I want to run this over the classic SimCity tile set (and the additional ones in the add-on graphics sets like the moon base, etc), to generate high resolution pixel and vector tiles for the JavaScript browser
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by SimHacker 13y ago
And not everyone who claims to be a libertarian gold-hoarder is actually a libertarian, even if they're into bitcoin. That's just a term that disgraced embarrassed republicans who want to snort coke and party with hookers call the
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Maybe you should go back around to wherever you've been around, and not be around here, where you have nothing of value to contribute and no interest in the discussion at hand. The way things work, in case you didn't learn that by
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by SimHacker 13y ago
What you wrote made me think, "What would anyone in their right mind write on their blog that would make people think something like that?" So I clicked through, and read the first four words, that struck me in the face like a fou
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The Atlantic is on the other side of the Atlantic.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
That's because "for (;;) ;" is and idiom that's commonly used in a programming pattern called the "for(;;);ce field", to work around other C and C preprocessor quirks, by syntactically insulating and protecting
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Whether it was incompetence or malice, whoever was responsible for the extra goto, as well as whoever was responsible for ANY of that code not following common practices including ALWAYS using brackets, should be fired. And that fact that t
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I'd love to see the git blame logs for that one. Whoever wrote that code even before it had the bug was an incompetent cowboy hotshot who wanted to show off how pedantically he knew and could surf the nuances of syntax and optimize the
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Yes, he's a really nice personal guy who listens well and is great at writing and talking. He loves to wave his hands around and gesture as he talks, so it's really fun to watch his talks on fast forward, and guess what he's
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Thank you! I still ask Ben Shneiderman to review stuff that I write, and value his feedback -- I've learned a lot from him, and he really cares a lot for users and is great at explaining stuff. He's the one who insisted on calling
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by SimHacker 13y ago
They prefer to invent their own protocols and busses for the different systems of the car to communicate with each other, that aren't compatible with phones or even protocols like http. For example, TomTom had a big emotional investmen
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by SimHacker 13y ago
In a conference room at Sun in the 1980's, I saw a touch screen control panel on the speaker's podium for raising and lowering the lights, projector screen, controlling the projector, etc. It has a small solenoid with a rubber mal
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Say what? ;)
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Since when did something not really being illegal prevent a cop from booking or at least harassing people doing something he didn't like? ;) Not that I totally disagree with him in this case, though. ;(
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by SimHacker 13y ago
When designing pie menus, there are both physical (articulatory) and mental (cognitive) factors that you should consider when choosing the number of items and their directions. Gordon Kurtenbach and Bill Buxton did an experiment that varied
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I've found that pie menus with four different directions are quite reliable (see the description I posted here of the ConnectedTV palm app, which supported buttons with four different stroke directions plus tap). Eight different direct
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by SimHacker 13y ago
From my experience working at TomTom, which uses touch screen as well as voice commands and feedback, and has purchased automotive oriented companies and integrated their products and employees into their own, I've learned that the aut
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Memorably differentiating the possible commands is the reason I designed the layout of the pie menus in SimCity the way I did. SimCity has a tool pallet of various building and editing tools, which are related to each other in various ways,
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Pie menus frame this kind of interaction as pop-up menus, which provide a "self revealing gestural user interface". The menu pops up and leads you through the possible selections. That feedback trains you to rehearse the gestures.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
This builds on the basic idea behind pie menus, which is to exploit Fitt's Law, by lowering the target distance by centering the menu around the point of contact, and increasing the target area by basing the selection on the direction
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Friends don't let friends launch drunk.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
>Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful... That's funny, since when the iPhone first came out, Apple claimed there wasn't gonna be a native SDK, and developers would just write all th
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by SimHacker 13y ago
That's because the US Army is still fighting the cold war, and thought it was "Red Hate Linux".
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by SimHacker 13y ago
That's "mechanism, not policy" for you!

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