johnswamps

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by johnswamps 15y ago
Here's a quick summary for anyone who is not familiar with the Mass Effect series. Mass Effect is a 3 part RPG shooter series of blockbuster video games developed by Bioware, which is owned by Electronic Arts. The first 2 games were very po
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by johnswamps 15y ago
Great site. But if you're interested in roguelikes I'd suggest starting with Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup instead ( http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ ). Nethack's really showing its age these days and is missing a lot of key features. Crawl i
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by johnswamps 15y ago
A lot. Much of it isn't really relevant to beginners, but here's a quick list off the top of my head. Maybe broken wasn't the right word, these are just general problems with the game 1. The endgame is too easy and boring. 2. Elbereth and #
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by johnswamps 15y ago
I would try playing Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup instead. It's another roguelike that is heavily inspired by nethack but is more modern and more beginner friendly. I love nethack (I've ascended twice) but it's definitely showing it's age (not
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by johnswamps 15y ago
I don't think that's true. There's 51 volumes of 400-450 pages, or ~23,000 pages. Let's say you can read half a page a minute, or 7.5 pages per day (at 15 minutes of reading per day). (23,000 pages)/(7.5 pages / day) = ~3,000 days or a bit
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Ask HN: what still sucks about web development?
12 points by johnswamps 15y ago|27 comments
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by johnswamps 15y ago
Yeah, the same thing happened to me a couple of years ago and at the time I thought I was the coolest guy on the planet when I recovered most of my data. I had accidentally deleted all my chat logs. Luckily, all the chat logs had a timestam
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by johnswamps 15y ago
The counter is a large image with every possible score ( http://ndruger.lolipop.jp//hatena/20110429/css_game/images/c... ). Initially only the top of the image is shown, but as the radio buttons are clicked it makes visible some spacing ele
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by johnswamps 15y ago
Clearly any semi-decent programmer can mentally translate 5 * 60 * 1000 into 5 minutes. So what? This is nonetheless a more intuitive and less error prone way to write times. This is about making readers of your code spend less cognitive ef
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by johnswamps 15y ago
Here are mine (minus the silly time wasting ones): art, askscience, books, buddhism, cfb, coding (it's dead these days though), cooking, fitness, frugal, listentothis, lgbt, longtext, netsec, oney, philosophyofscience, scifi, skeptic, spac
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by johnswamps 15y ago
This happens every bundle. Most people in my experience have concluded that 1. Linux users having fewer games to choose from so they are willing to pay more for whatever games do come out 2. Linux users want Linux to seem like a viable plat
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by johnswamps 15y ago
That would be difficult to implement in javascript, I think. Once you zoom in far enough using a float/double doesn't give you enough precision to calculate each pixel accurately. The typical solution is to switch to some sort of bignum lib
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by johnswamps 16y ago
These sorts of questions are a popularity contest. Books aren't upvoted based on how influential they are, but based on how many voters have read and liked them. So _because_ it is chosen by the whole community you can expect a book like Co
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Adelle Beatty?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Here's a direct link to geohot's blog posting: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-round-of-don...
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by johnswamps 16y ago
What maps are you referring to? They've tweaked the map pool a little bit (Shakura's Plateau is not bad) but I still see the same complaints people have been making. The GSL is thinking of adding new custom maps for this reason ( http://wik
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I'm not the parent, but lots of people complain that the SC2 maps are too small. You can quickly get to your opponents base on small maps which making early agression powerful, resulting in a lot of short games. If you've watched the last t
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Nope, maybe the domain name "socialcam" triggered it
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by johnswamps 16y ago
onomatopoeic -> alliterative? I don't think anything makes a sound like "pizza profitable" :)
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by johnswamps 16y ago
If done deliberately, could this be a useful feature so that users can typo a password (say levenshtein distance <= 1 or 2) and still login? Obviously the major downside is that you would need a longer password to get the same level of
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's probably requesting "tabs" permissions. The Chrome security permissions aren't fine grained enough so often you need to request permission for a lot more than you actually need. For some reason requesting "tabs" shows a scary warning a
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by johnswamps 16y ago
> Also, it does this with a high learning curve and without using any kind of reward schedule mechanics that are in vogue now. The game has a reward schedule in the form of hard to find materials (diamond). It's not uncommon to spend ha
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Perhaps you missed the "Analytics by Mixpanel" logo at the bottom of the page? :) (Yes I realize it's not actually being used)
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Yes and no. I spend a lot of time on HN because it's one of the best places to spend my time when I'm not being productive and in that sense it does hurt my productivity. But if HN didn't exist I'd just be spending the time on other sites i
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Minimum Viable Product
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Here are CNN's top stories for comparison: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/12/specials/timeline.yea... (warning: uses a timeline that you have to click through instead of a list, but it's fairly painless for a timeline)
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I agree with the statement, but I disagree that it's responsible for the income and wealth disparity beween the rich and poor. Yes, money will make you more money, but by definition that increases your income.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
No, it means that if you're poor, you're spending a larger percentage of your income and saving less of it. Poor people have to spend a higher percentage of their money on basic necessities such as rent, food, clothing, transportation, etc.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
You can see a timelapse of him working from a couple of months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629810 The amount of work this guy can get done by just sitting down and working non-stop is incredible.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
If anyone is curious, here are the median starting salaries for graduates from Stanford's CS/EE departments (survey was self selecting so the numbers are probably skewed up, but there were a large number of responses): Undergrad: 80k Master

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