matthiaskramm

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by matthiaskramm 1y ago
I... might have to try that. :)
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Freespin: C64 demo running on 1541 floppy drive(quiss.org)
174 points by matthiaskramm 5y ago|30 comments
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Looks like Pi is still ahead, in the Tau vs. Pi arms race.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Also, feel free to contact us at botrace@scribd.com if you see any more issues.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Uploading bot revisions is broken right now- you can try to upload a new bot, or wait for our fix which should go live in a couple of hours. :)
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Log into www.scribd.com, that'll make viewing of the bot pages work. We'll deploy a fix for that later today.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Fixed.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
10 seconds as well.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Thanks! We'll fix the API docs. About the bug: Try to trace() out a few messages in your make_move() function, that might tell you whether something went wrong (the logs will appear at the bottom of the game replays.)
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Yeah, we're seeing the first problems with that right now- newly uploaded bots progress faster than they should because they play against a more "diluted" pool of opponents than the oldtimers did. We'll think of something.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Yep! Width and height are between 5 and 15, and there are up to five different types of fruits on the grid.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Fixed, thanks :) We'll deploy a new page tomorrow.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Try creating a new account on www.scribd.com before you go to www.scribd.com/jobs/botrace_upload_bot
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
It's using SpiderMonkey right now. Using nacl as sandbox is a neat idea though.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Aw, that sucks. We're still fixing glitches in the system, but uploading actually should work. What kind of error are you seeing?
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
We're planning to keep this running indefinitely. We may also add additional languages in the future, like Haskell and Lua, and possibly some advanced playing modes.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
We do plan to add some additional languages. Next on our list are: Haskell, Lua, Python.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
You can get half a fruit if you and your opponent pick it up at the exact same time.
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Fixed, thanks! Your bot is doing pretty well already. :)
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by matthiaskramm 14y ago
Btw. here's a game, played between our two best bots so far: http://www.scribd.com/job_game/match/263907
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by matthiaskramm 15y ago
I'll try! I'm a big fan of open source, and I actually have a long list of components I want to open-source at some point, like for example Scribd's PDF to html5 conversion software.
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Why zooming on mobile is broken (and how to fix it)(coding.scribd.com)
21 points by matthiaskramm 15y ago|7 comments
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by matthiaskramm 15y ago
Oh, it's about SOPA, trust me. I felt defenseless when the DMCA (and the "European DMCA", 2004/48/EC) were introduced (I went to a couple of demonstrations, but that only goes so far), and SOPA is even worse. It's nice to work at a place w
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by matthiaskramm 16y ago
Browsers are "smart"- they won't let you select text that's 100% transparent. 99% transparency works... but also looks kind of weird if the texts don't overlap perfectly. You can roll your own text selection in javascript (on top of the bit
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How Scribd's HTML5 conversion works ... even when it shouldn't(coding.scribd.com)
123 points by matthiaskramm 16y ago|19 comments
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by matthiaskramm 16y ago
> but it describes a problem that hasn't been considered 'interesting' for decades Actually, polygon operations on grids is still an active research area, with the latest papers on the topic less than two weeks old: http://www.sci.utah
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by matthiaskramm 16y ago
Absolutely. Modern graphics card hardware can easily process a few hundred million triangles per second. In all fairness, however, that has nothing to do with polygon intersection. Drawing a triangle on the screen with a z-buffer check is s
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How Scribd runs 150,000,000 polygon intersections a day(coding.scribd.com)
138 points by matthiaskramm 16y ago|35 comments
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by matthiaskramm 16y ago
Performance issues, among others. IE's DXImageTransform, as the name suggests, renders an html element to an image and then transforms that entire image.
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by matthiaskramm 16y ago
Well. We're talking about making this work in quite a number of different browsers, including IE6. So yes, it is.

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