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by psionski 12y ago
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history” ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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by psionski 12y ago
I know it's stupid, but the other alternative is calling it "HTML5&friends Game Engine", like the Mozilla guide suggests... Technically correct, but just as vague and now it sounds like a kid's show... I think we can
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by psionski 12y ago
HTML 5 - the number in the name is important, this is a brand that represents a set of supported APIs and tags ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/web/Guide/HTML/HTML5 ). They are obviously not t
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by psionski 12y ago
Try http://fingerball.mobi/ , it should be very infuriating too :D Works best on a physically large touchscreen (small tablet and up).
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by psionski 12y ago
It's a game engine that relies on HTML5 elements for rendering, audio and scripting. I don't find that misleading :)
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by psionski 12y ago
No, "pure HTML5" has a specific meaning in the gamedev community - it's the combination of HTML5 elements like canvas, video and audio with JavaScript for the game logic, i.e. using the browser as a game engine (it's act
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Ask HN: Audio-visual programming for tablets?
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by psionski 12y ago
The interesting thing to note is that he has different results for people that come from Google - maybe people have different expectations about the website depending on whether they're looking for it on Google or just sitting in an ap
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by psionski 12y ago
Buy a $3000 Mac computer so you can write software in a language that doesn't work anywhere else (and for a good reason)? Sure, where do I sign up :D
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by psionski 12y ago
Also it spares you from having to write Java, or worse - Objective C. I went for HTML5 just because I could use a (relatively) sane language and not be forced in walled gardens in the process - like having to buy a $3000 Mac to use a langua
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by psionski 13y ago
I like my fantasy about how things were back then better, thankyouverymuch. At least this way I can believe they didn't unleash the flood of pwnage on the world while knowing better.
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by psionski 13y ago
The guy in the second screenshot does not correspond to his picture in the passport... in fact, I think that's a spy.
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by psionski 13y ago
C was designed way before security was a concern. If somebody exploited your program, you could just slap them because they'd be sitting at a terminal in the same room with you - no need for fancy ASLR or controlling how many character
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by psionski 13y ago
It's stealing when a company takes your hard-earned cash (not "copies", but "takes") and doesn't deliver a product you actually enjoy using.
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by psionski 13y ago
General AI is not only possible, if you are to believe a TED talk it's already a solved problem. We already know how to make programs that determine their own goals and how to accomplish them. If it's true, http://www.t
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by psionski 13y ago
No, it's not. Drive is the desire to maximise future available options (e.g. to not get trapped). There is already software that decides what to do without a human telling it what to do. For more see http://www.ted.com/
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by psionski 13y ago
I was amazed by the production value of a recent League of Legends tournament - I mean, look at the stage: http://i.imgur.com/pSpoBjWl.jpg This is the crowd - http://cdn0.sbnation.com/assets/3517059&#x2
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by psionski 13y ago
"privacy protections for U.S. persons exist across the entire process" Gee, thanks for letting me know that at least some people might get some degree of protection. I might be a paying customer, sponsoring USA's economy as m
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by psionski 13y ago
It's sad times we live in when creating culture is labeled "labor", "work" and so forth... About the "stealing" part - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/lady-gaga-jack
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by psionski 13y ago
The reason for piracy is simply bad salesmanship. Nobody would bother with torrents if there is a much easier and correctly priced alternative - when Steam started selling games in Bulgaria I stopped pirating games. When Spotify started sel
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by psionski 13y ago
You are NEVER forced to steal bread. Don't want to participate in gathering seeds and wild fruits for free legally and choosing to steal bread, not ok, ever. I guess "essential" has many definitions, huh...
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by psionski 13y ago
Or just sell and swap CDs like we did before the (broadband) Internet? This could be more lucrative as you're not giving out the source.
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by psionski 13y ago
Or teach them to use their own heads and respect the fact that children are mostly just small adults? Nah, who has time for that... Besides we really like the idea that children are somehow innocent and pure, the same way we dress up dogs a
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by psionski 13y ago
Don't... don't do that. There are people insisting that you can't buy anything with Bitcoin, you're ruining it for them.
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by psionski 13y ago
These mini-states sound fun, I bet many more people would understand why they're paying taxes when it's not called "taxes", but instead giving directly to the person that needs help... Especially since you at least vague
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by psionski 13y ago
Also, if you're selling stuff on the Internet, you can finally accept payments from countries that didn't receive Visa's "blessing".
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by psionski 13y ago
Foursquare? Yeah, right... and Instagram is basically imgur with filters... Compared to peer-to-peer money, your examples aren't very good.
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by psionski 13y ago
That's a pretty irrational fear... If my money grows all the time, why wouldn't I buy stuff? I'm buying most of my Humble Bundles with Bitcoin and it's great - every time you pay less and less and by the time the next Hu
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by psionski 13y ago
HP has two /8s... No idea what they're doing with >33 million IP addresses....
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by psionski 13y ago
The merchants have their prices fixed in USD, when I pay Coinbase tells me how much Bitcoins I should send to transfer the equivalent of say $10 and then they directly convert it to the merchant's preferred currency and deposit it at t

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