jjs

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by jjs 7y ago
> This Zen parable is faulty wisdom (like so much of Mahayana and Vajrayana fanfiction) Please don't promote sectarian strife here.
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by jjs 13y ago
> When shading, the artist will just have to be very conscious of the angle of incidence from the light source. The artist should be doing this already!
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by jjs 13y ago
As it happens, I'm working on something like this right now... My current best solution is to use mouse/pen movement as cspline sample points, even when not drawing. The motion as you swing into a curve, even before the pen tou
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by jjs 13y ago
Try the Droid Sans Mono variant with slashed zero. http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/10/27/a-slashed-zero-droid-sans-...
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by jjs 13y ago
Your mention of Kanji is particularly salient, as the blog post catches these skeuomorphic icons in the act of evolving from pictograms to ideograms...
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by jjs 13y ago
You say idiom, I say chronic lack of imagination.
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by jjs 13y ago
> In a perfect world having a list where 25% of the names are potential trouble-makers [...] ... would be pointless, as a perfect world would have no concept of "trouble".
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by jjs 13y ago
> down to Costa Rica and overland to Ecuador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_Gap
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by jjs 13y ago
Should it be improved this way? A hard real-time system can fail by running a piece of code too soon as well as too late. OTOH, a soft real-time program like a video game or voice chat could profit from this.
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by jjs 13y ago
So the box was more fun without the game cartridge...
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by jjs 13y ago
Because of their life experience, I wouldn't be so quick to reject either of these fellows' advice out of hand.
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by jjs 13y ago
You can prototype with the null-GC until you run out of memory...
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by jjs 13y ago
> I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative. As someone who's just read your comment, I'd like to say: calm down, and re-read the parent comment with an open mind. It's
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by jjs 13y ago
... but if it does all three, put a ring on it!
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by jjs 13y ago
Interesting. The OP got me thinking along the lines of manually tagging salient features of each model (as well as ranking models by salience, either manually or automatically based on criteria related to the object that the model represent
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by jjs 13y ago
Maybe a solver for classic Nintendo games? http://jeremykun.com/2012/03/22/nintendo-np-hard/ (Caveat: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Com... )
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by jjs 13y ago
His attempt to restore a culture of listening to users is not a non-contribution; it could have saved GNOME.
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by jjs 13y ago
GNOME needs a gadfly like him. Or rather, needed. If GNOME's developers have truly become indifferent or outright hostile to the needs of actual users, then the project is doomed to irrelevance.
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by jjs 13y ago
Ah, ok. I somehow got the impression from your comments that you were the Olav mentioned in the blog post.
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by jjs 13y ago
It reveals the culture behind the infamous "No.", so it's topical. (And presumably the ban is still in effect.)
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by jjs 13y ago
I can sympathize. Just don't burn out... let yourself code for fun every now and then. :)
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by jjs 13y ago
> FWIW, I totally agree that just a "No." is bad, entirely understand what it resulted in. However, going after a developer in a bugreport is not tolerable behaviour as well. So why did you go after him? (I realize that by "a develope
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by jjs 13y ago
> Bottom line: These people, [whether] they are arrogant, impolite or unsympathetic to users does not refute the fact that they are giving their time to the project. > GNOME has been under fire since the famous GNOME 3 release an
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by jjs 13y ago
Have you considered that your day job is a revenue stream that lets you work on the personal projects you want? If that's the case, then just give yourself permission to make what you really want to make.
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by jjs 13y ago
Not quite. http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=3454 When the humanist hand was invented, the prevailing hand for illuminated manuscripts was blackletter. While either is aesthetically pleasing, the humanist hand caught on
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by jjs 13y ago
> Well, a shiv is a homemade knife-like implement, such as one created and used in a prison environment. You've clearly never done hard time up at IE6 Zero-Security Penitentiary.
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by jjs 13y ago
Fair enough. The enums themselves aren't a problem; they just seem symptomatic of a pile-on-more-stuff mentality.
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by jjs 13y ago
Python has been getting bloated in recent years. Why not just do the following? def enum(*args): return dict(zip(args, range(len(args)))) colors = enum('red', 'green', 'blue') # {'blue': 2, 'green': 1, 'red': 0}
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by jjs 13y ago
Modern OpenGL exploits immutable data for parallelism all over the place. It also lets (and expects!) you to upload model data (vertices, colors, texture-coords, etc) to the GPU, so you only need to re-upload things that have changed. You
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by jjs 13y ago
Next step: run a genetic meta-algorithm to optimize the initial parameters... judge fitness based on, say, result_quality / runtime... (Or fastest-to-achieve-reasonable-result...)

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