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by mrspeaker 2y ago
I've been playing with this for 30 minutes, and I'm still smiling my head off. It's just so much fun. I have used Pico-8 a bunch in the past (so it was easy to jump into making stuff). Pico-8 is one of four bits of software t
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by mrspeaker 3y ago
Damn, really fantastic article - there goes the rest of my day playing with this!
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by mrspeaker 3y ago
Not sure why you'd turn this into a game (it's awesome though!), but for anyone who hasn't seen the movie - I'd recommend it. It really has stuck with me long after I saw it. Starts out with "Father Ted" vibes,
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
I can't believe you posted that - just yesterday I was thinking about how dark that song was. The bit that really stood out was how "anti-Billy" it was: "He says his name is William, but I'm sure it's Bill or B
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
Woah. I've spent the last year-or-so messing with coding the C64 and hoovering up any information I could find... and I never found this site/ftp. So much good stuff - there goes my evening!
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
I'd argue that CoffeeScript was dead before Typescript went mainstream, and that JavaScript killed CoffeeScript: or rather, CoffeeScript killed itself. Many of the features that made CoffeeScript fun and useful were incorporated direct
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
I felt the same way last year, and had just moved countries. I decided I wouldn't apply for any jobs that were "normal": the normal work I would do. No IT consultants/agencies, no web-dev companies, no finance, no advert
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
I like the "const TodoStore = class extends EventTarget" idea to trigger rendering... neat trick!
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
I think the article's argument of "...at a specific moment between 1688 and 1690" might be prior art.
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
Some feedback: "This is the first test on our app", "Option1, Option2, Option3, Option4", random pictures of fingers, "Dddd, "Eeee"... doesn't really give any indication on what this app is about or w
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
This is great! I've been trying to learn audio programming for ages and this (along with repo: https://github.com/yamadapc/augmented-audio ) look like really fantastic resources!
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
My blog has been going since 2004, I add between 3 and 20 posts a year. I write the articles for me, in the future. I enjoy writing, and I'm pretty much the only person who will ever read the posts. I don't care if zero other peop
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by mrspeaker 4y ago
Another great "foley" movie is Rajio no jikan (Radio Time) or sometimes called "Welcome Back, Mr McDonald: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133170/ Its the story about a team of B-list celebs putting o
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I use this as a productivity tool: See something interesting on HN, click the link... it's a blank page. Close the page, do something else. Often I remember I'm procrastinating and use it as the bell to get back to working on my s
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Just wondering... (really interested, not being snarky!) I see this opinion with family members and other people who aren't in tech/computers (the majority of people). I figured it was because they don't know how impressive d
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
It's in the faq under "can I post a job ad?" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html "Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories:
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I felt the same. During my last job search I decided to click on anything that looked like it wasn't "regular-old" web - no web tech companies, no agencies etc. I looked for different industries that needed (close to) my sk
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Your Last Ever Computer(mrspeaker.net)
2 points by mrspeaker 5y ago|1 comments
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
You got me wondering what was going on - 425Kb seemed pretty high. I imagined there would only be around 50K of non-compressed source code. Turns out the 200Kb+ culprit is the texture atlas I nabbed off the internet: https://gith
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Nothing at all - rewriting it for WebGL1 would be trivial (if you rely on OES_vertex_array_object being present). But really it was just me learning, and I naively assumed WebGL2.0 would be ready "any day now". The only non-suppor
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I can't believe it's actually happening - I was resigned to the fact it was dead. I once (4 years ago, sheesh) made a "Pure-JS, no-build-step-required Minecraft Thing": https://github.com/mrspeaker/w
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Oh boy, I dread when someone goes to show me something on their phone! (Here, let me show you a youtube video about it xD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9EWf-wXQ3o ).
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I think it's a bit of a hack for people like me: everyone has been taught to sound super-confident, make everything super glossy and slick and over-produced. Almost always it's to cover the lack of original or substantial content
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Ask HN: A computer that lasts as long as you?
2 points by mrspeaker 5y ago|0 comments
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I think they are intentionally being obtuse - everyone in the community just calls it G19A and gets on with it.
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Which comments here?
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Hmm, I've read it a bunch of times now but am still unsure: they ARE sending every bit of data - position, scale, rotation etc - about every cube/model/asset for a scene ("Since the scene is marked for replication [...yo
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Great article - couple of questions: "when the server adds the scene to the SceneTree, it automatically sends that information remotely. Each connected client will then instantiate the scene automatically," What information does i
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
Also "Youtube Video Skip Ad Trigger" is handy one for automatically pressing the "skip ad" button - so you don't have to!
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by mrspeaker 5y ago
I think the biggest problem the art project will face is that nobody actually wants 19.5TB of not-terribly-good art. If there wasn't a fun speculative element, then most of the artists would have trouble getting anyone to download thei

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