johnhattan

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by johnhattan 4y ago
Coincidentally, I got a job at Tandy right out of college and I got to see the demise of the VIS firsthand. There was a big warehouse in Fort Worth where un-sellable products ended up, so I definitely could've won that challenge. They
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by johnhattan 4y ago
Oooh I remember having one of these (with OS/2, no less) back when I had a side-job as the Microsoft support rep for Texas A&M. I was tasked with getting it up and working so I could demo it to the department heads who were looking
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by johnhattan 6y ago
Ahh, thanks for the link. The webcam covers I'd seen in the past were just removable plastic stickers, and I was having a hard time visualizing what counts as "thin". One of the photos shows them be about as thick as a credit
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by johnhattan 6y ago
I remember a conversation I had with my daughter in the car when she was starting out with algebra... Me: Is 9.999... the same as 10, or is it just really close to 10? Kid: Really close. It never gets all the way there. Me: Well then how cl
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by johnhattan 7y ago
According to the blog post, one of their tasks is to release a version of the build tool that will work locally.
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by johnhattan 7y ago
If it's a "correct" maze with exactly one way to get from any one square to any other square (as Eller's mazes are), then it doesn't matter where your entry and exit points are -- there's always one solution fo
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by johnhattan 7y ago
It was published in 1922, and the author died in 1945. Seems like that book is PD by any measure. According to the article, it looks like Gutenberg adds a layer of "let a lawyer sign off on it", presumably to keep them from gettin
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by johnhattan 7y ago
Yes I did. I just wanted to relate my personal experience with it. Sometimes I'll see an article about something new just to discover that it's actually for an update that's a couple of weeks away. In this case, I just wanted
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by johnhattan 7y ago
Just tried it. Looks like the latest Windows update installs a stub that sends the Windows app-store to the Python installer page if you type "Python" from the command line. FWIW, the publisher for the MS app-store Python is &quot
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Visual Studio 2019 out of preview(visualstudio.microsoft.com)
2 points by johnhattan 7y ago|0 comments
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by johnhattan 8y ago
There's a good free audiobook version on librivox.org
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by johnhattan 8y ago
Also the Lazarus Pascal IDE is still around and is keeping the old-school VB flame alive. Just looking at the screenshots will make you nostalgic. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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by johnhattan 8y ago
I'd love to try out some old 16-bit and/or MS-DOS games on it. But I don't see a way to copy files into its sandbox. Anyone had any luck doing this?
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by johnhattan 8y ago
That's always my problem when I look at lisp for game programming. If I say "I want to write a standalone 3D iPhone game using C#", there are plenty of sites that'll show me exactly what tools are out there, how they wor
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by johnhattan 8y ago
Actually not having a fully rendered environment worked for Myst. If you were looking out a window or at a door, it was a good bet that there was something important to the plot there. I think if I had a fully VR version, I would've en
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by johnhattan 9y ago
Rather odd that they're only showing the video as a downloadable MP4 file. I didn't see a copyright notice, so I put it up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/R3Ax7U5dvbc Note that the video is silent.
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Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework(github.com)
349 points by johnhattan 9y ago|59 comments
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by johnhattan 9y ago
I just tried today's daily Windows x64 installer, and Windows Defender is blocking it, reporting that it's infected with "Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.D!cl" Might be a false positive, but I'm not moving forward until
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by johnhattan 9y ago
Yeah, I'd been using the Chromecast support in the earlier 3.0 betas. Seemed to be working just fine, although it wasn't getting the "friendly" name that I'd set for the device. So instead of "Living Room TV&qu
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by johnhattan 9y ago
HaxeDevelop is a rebranded version of FlashDevelop. While it's built in .NET, apparently enough of it was built with Windows-only code that porting wasn't in the cards. HaxeDevelop's best (IMHO) feature was that it could swit
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by johnhattan 9y ago
My personal theory is that they're trying to improve the JS engine in Electron so they can improve VSCode. The VSCode people have posted some performance complaints in the past. I would assume this would benefit desktop JS most, so it&
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by johnhattan 9y ago
IIRC, you can use either. Whatever quote you used to start the string is the one that will end the string. var foo:String = "foo"; // foo var bar:String = 'bar'; // bar var fooquotebar:String = "
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by johnhattan 9y ago
A bunch of years ago, there was a "Menuet" product that was a cross-platform C++ UI library for Mac/Windows/Whatever. Did they expand the underpinnings into a complete OS, or is this an unrelated product?
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by johnhattan 9y ago
Yeah, a WHOIS shows that it's owned by Andrew Anglin (the original owner) until 2020. I assume that the registrars (GoDaddy and Google) just aren't letting it point to anything.
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by johnhattan 9y ago
If you want to bulk-download all of the issues, here's how to do it with wget. https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-usin...
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by johnhattan 9y ago
The Gnu Octave page looks pretty good. I was hoping they'd start copying that look everywhere.
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by johnhattan 9y ago
I remember standing in line for Maker Faire in San Mateo several years ago. We arrived a half-hour early, so we had plenty of time to chat with the people around us. Turns out the guy in front of us was a Blue Man, and he was there because
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by johnhattan 9y ago
Here's hoping. Although I'm not sure how well it'll be received, given that (IIRC) there's not a single explosion in the entire series. It might be interesting if they went in more of a direction of "House Of Cards
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by johnhattan 9y ago
Is Rust gaining any traction for system-level programming? When I heard that there was now a memory-safe thread-safe language without a GC, my immediate thought was "Every OS from now on should be written in this thing".
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Enterprise version of Corona (cross-platform game development tool) is now free(coronalabs.com)
2 points by johnhattan 9y ago|0 comments

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