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by airfoil 4y ago
I had no idea! Very cool. Thank you so much for this!
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by airfoil 4y ago
I don’t have a ton of value to add since the parent comment did a wonderful job of laying things out. I wanted to mention that I also perked up and paid closer attention when I saw that this was designed for solos and small teams. I’ll defi
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I’m the developer of a text based pro wrestling simulator. AMA(reddit.com)
2 points by airfoil 7y ago|0 comments
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by airfoil 7y ago
Love Airmash. I started playing it again on Thanksgiving day after being away from it for over a year and it's been a blast!
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by airfoil 8y ago
It’s happened to me. I’m terrible at the whiteboard in these situations. I have a severe disdain for whiteboard sessions. I’m an experienced engineer, but I’m likely to fumble at the whiteboard. When I’ve interviewed candidates I make it a
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by airfoil 8y ago
This was even more fun at a place like Sears or K-Mart where the sales folk were generally less technically savvy than Radio Shack.
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by airfoil 9y ago
Yes, that strategy works well. I've also found that "hitting the brakes and they'll fly right by" works really well in a knife fight.
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by airfoil 9y ago
I can't wait to try this out! The introduction video is incredibly compelling and it looks like an amazing product. Nice work!
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by airfoil 9y ago
man perl | grep -iA 1 laziness :)
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by airfoil 10y ago
A pro wrestling simulator in 2003. It's terrible. The code is absolutely horrible. There is a small community of folks that still play it.
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by airfoil 12y ago
I was two semesters away from finishing my degree. I quit. As a result I was unable to pursue the job that I had dreamed about as a child (joining the Navy as an officer and flying). I've also been turned down for opportunities, that I
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Will the indie games market crash and burn?(positech.co.uk)
2 points by airfoil 12y ago|0 comments
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by airfoil 12y ago
There's kind of a Python-To-Dart translator: https://github.com/PythonJS/PythonJS
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by airfoil 12y ago
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm building a game/simulation so I don't need a "native" UI. I've played with QML a bit and it's very nice to work with. I've also discovered that PyQt5 can be deployed to
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Ask HN: Is anyone using LiveCode?
1 points by airfoil 12y ago|3 comments
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by airfoil 12y ago
California Department of Motor Vehicles
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by airfoil 12y ago
I'm sorry for not adding much value to the conversation but I just wanted to say that this was an excellent reply jblow. So much of this is spot on, particularly the parts about personal identity. I've stayed in jobs where I becam
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by airfoil 12y ago
Agree. I was surprised not to see DOOM as well. Another MC I think would score pretty highly is Chino XL.
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by airfoil 12y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. I found that I was laser focused on a particular chunk of code when working in Clojure. Functions were logically grouped together. I never found myself jumping around.
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by airfoil 13y ago
http://www.pyinstaller.org/
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by airfoil 13y ago
I think this is the crux of the article: "Greenwald and Banaji are not suggesting that people stop helping their friends, relatives and neighbors. Rather, they suggest that we direct some effort to people we may not naturally think to help.
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by airfoil 13y ago
This is correct. Once the Disney deal was announced, LucasArts folks had a feeling there wasn't much time left. I know a few people who left LucasArts for exactly the reason you describe.
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by airfoil 14y ago
Not well versed in both, but I think desktop apps are an area where Clojure shines. Let's say I want to write a cross platform desktop GUI app in Haskell. What do I use? wxHaskell seems to be actively maintained, but a lot of the projects l
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by airfoil 14y ago
It looks like there is some sort of plan in place as I received a "SourceForge Project Upgrade Notification" a few days ago letting me know that they've upgraded an old project of mine to the new platform. My project is small, really old, a
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by airfoil 14y ago
I wonder if Python's metaclasses would get you what you're describing. Some thought would have to go into the primitives required to generate the constructs for the destination language(s), but metaclasses would allow you to serialize to di
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by airfoil 14y ago
Why generate Java code if Clojure runs on the JVM? Why is it "pretty much impossible" generate the game engine C code in a non-lisp language? What is it about Lisp that makes it possible?
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by airfoil 14y ago
Good to hear. Yours is the first kickstarter project I've ever backed. Thanks again for making this available.
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by airfoil 14y ago
Nice work! I played with it for a bit and one thing I noticed was that the "Home" key took me to the beginning of the line/prompt instead of the start of my input. Also if I backspace far enough it will start to kill my prompt. One thing th
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by airfoil 14y ago
PySide with QtWebkit would work for a desktop html gui: http://srinikom.github.com/pyside-docs/PySide/QtWebKit/index...
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by airfoil 14y ago
Ha! I think you may be on to something. I've always had a "fear of rejection" with the compiler and I tend to get more enjoyment when coding in Python, Lisp, etc..

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