rileya

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by rileya 12y ago
As a Seattle resident I've found the OneBusAway app extremely useful, it's never been off by more than a couple minutes. Getting widespread realtime transit info into a mainstream app like gmaps could be a complete game-changer
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by rileya 14y ago
Thinkpad x230 I've had one for a few months now and it's been excellent, good keyboard, great Linux support and really good battery life (with the 9-cell battery I can get 8hrs+). It's nice and compact, and pretty darn light, if a little on
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by rileya 14y ago
It is actually exactly stereo, except one of the cameras is replaced with an IR projector; you basically do the standard stereo math as though the projector is a camera 'seeing' the image that is being projected.
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by rileya 15y ago
This is an awesome program. I did it last year, and having it on my otherwise empty resume really helped in the internship hunt this year (I don't know if they used my GSoC evaluations or anything during the process, but I ended up landing
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by rileya 15y ago
Thanks! It's not the prettiest of code, but it's up on my github: https://github.com/RileyA/VoxelsAndPortals
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by rileya 15y ago
Cool stuff! It looks like you're just rendering plain cubes, I'd be curious to see how much performance could be had by doing things the same as Minecraft (batching only the visible surfaces into larger 'chunk' meshes). I've been interested
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by rileya 15y ago
Very true. As a current CS student, I couldn't agree more. From what I've seen thus far, most school assignments are pretty easy to stumble through without really understanding what you're doing. As much useful stuff as I've learned in cl
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by rileya 15y ago
Cool, I got 39th. Ludum Dare is always a blast, I encourage anyone with even the slightest interest in game dev to give it a go sometime. It's an awesome excuse to write some really ugly code and not feel guilty about it. It's great to see
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by rileya 15y ago
This is spot on. The whole "I've been programming since X" attitude is BS and does nothing but continue stereotypes, I suspect stuff like this is a big part of why there's such a lack of diversity in CS. As someone who "started programming