chris_p

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by chris_p 14y ago
I really like this! I recently started making simple cocktails, and I am certainly going to use this. Things I'd like to see: * I prefer milliliters over oz (I didn't even know what it was before I googled it, since I live in Europe), pleas
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by chris_p 14y ago
> and come from divorced families What does this have to do with the rest of your sentence? Are you implying that people who come from divorced families are more self-centered?
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by chris_p 14y ago
The iPod, maybe?
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by chris_p 14y ago
> If you think being famous is what makes someone qualified to create a product you want to buy, then you're not going to buy his product. That's not what he said. He only asked for some evidence that the writer is really good at "Desi
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by chris_p 14y ago
In that sense, all games are rendering in 2D, because screens are 2D. They just do it in a much more complicated way. What I'm seeing in this demo is 3D in every sense, the code is basically a very simple 3D engine, and it requires knowledg
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by chris_p 14y ago
> It's great that we see youth influenced and impacted by HN. So this is the HN version of "We did it, reddit!".
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by chris_p 14y ago
Who is insulting him? People are just saying that his age is not relavent to what he did, and I agree. His post should describe the project. It should be about how awesome his project is, not about how awesome he is.
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by chris_p 14y ago
That's awesome, but I don't like the UI. A slider would be nice!
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by chris_p 14y ago
Here's how I see it if I don't resize my window: http://i.imgur.com/WeV5K.png
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by chris_p 14y ago
On the other hand, today everybody has access to MOOCs, google, communities like HN, reddit, stackoverflow and organizations like MakeGamesWithUs.
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by chris_p 14y ago
I totally agree. If anything, 14 year olds have more free time to spend on their hobbies and can learn new things much more easily than adults.
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by chris_p 14y ago
> Granted the web as it exists today makes it infinitely easier to learn today than it was when I was a kid, but I'm not going to use that as an excuse. You should. It's not just Google: Communities like HN, stackoverflow and reddit pro
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by chris_p 14y ago
That's what I noticed too! I don't think there will ever be a merge, but they're definitely doing it on purpose. Brand awareness?
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by chris_p 14y ago
I meant older people didn't have that chance when they were my age. 15 years ago computers weren't that common. Nowdays, almost every child in the western world has access to a computer from a very young age. Even if you're right, even if
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by chris_p 14y ago
It's interesting how the Instagram profile pages look kinda like facebook's. The cover photo, the layout and the way everything is arranged.
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by chris_p 14y ago
That doesn't make sense. Everybody knows that the number of views a post has is an integer, it doesn't really cause that much of a confusion for anyone. Most europeans are used to it. What they should do is display the right separating symb
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by chris_p 14y ago
I sometimes see commas on YouTube's views count, seriously. I think it depends on your location.
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by chris_p 14y ago
> I'm pretty sure your age matters if it drastically deviates from the norm. No, it doesn't. Most people deviate from the norm on something. Age, gender, disabilities. So what? As a teenage programmer, I can say that teenage programmers
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by chris_p 14y ago
> You didn't get to the front page. I did, but that's not the point. > Why do you think the problem is with the way that he describes his project, and not with the way that you describe your project? Because successful marketing isn
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by chris_p 14y ago
> Why are so many HNers being dismissive of this young fella? I feel like I should explain my reasons: He acts as if his age is very important in his accomplishment. Why is it in the title? Why does it matter so much that he is 14? May
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by chris_p 14y ago
> Because he's 14 and super stoked about accomplishing something that many people twice his age couldn't do So what? Why does age matter so much? A 28 year old may have less programming experience and help from sites like MakeGamesWithU
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by chris_p 14y ago
It's the number of neighbors each boid considers to calculate its velocity. There's also an option that defines the maximum distance for collision detection, but it's not accessible through the UI.
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by chris_p 14y ago
Thank you! Do you think there's any way to not rewrite the entire thing?
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by chris_p 14y ago
This sounds very interesting. Drop me an email if you want, my email is in my profile.
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by chris_p 14y ago
Truth is I didn't spend much time choosing the default values. And there are still a few configuration variable in the code that are not accessible through the GUI.
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by chris_p 14y ago
Bird flocks are actually much simpler. It's just three simple rules that define how each boid moves.
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by chris_p 14y ago
Yes, they do. They're not meant to completely avoid each other, theoretically there's a Z-axis that's not visible. Try increasing the collision avoidance importance in the options and decreasing everything else. Generally, playing with the
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by chris_p 14y ago
Thanks, I fixed it!
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Show HN: HTML5 Bird Flocks Simulation in CoffeeScript(chrisp.gr)
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by chris_p 14y ago
Depends on where you live, there's no standard.

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