stungeye

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by stungeye 8mo ago
So cool. Thanks for sharing the source! A few years back I made a p5.js ASCII Cloud sketch using the extended ASCII block chars. For those curious what a stripped-down version of noise-based clouds would look like, it's only 50 lines o
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by stungeye 5y ago
If you're interested in working with graphics or sounds, I'd recommend checking out openFrameworks, which bills itself as a "creative coding toolkit". https://openframeworks.cc For a taste of what is possible
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by stungeye 10y ago
As a programming instructor the Eve demo video gave me goosebumps. The emphasis on prose+code, world=data, and the discoverability afforded by the inspector are of particular interest to me. Our current learning stack for folks with zero co
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by stungeye 12y ago
The passwords are decrypted locally on your machine using javascript not on the lastpass servers.
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by stungeye 12y ago
My understanding is that even with their web login process your password isn't sent to their servers in plaintext. From the comments on their heartbleed blog post: "We only use one-way salted hashes (after going through PBKDF2 rou
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by stungeye 13y ago
Impressive. I've been using Tumblr in a similar way, with my self-hosted blog as the "host network". I'll download the app and play around. Any plans for a web-based posting tool?
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by stungeye 13y ago
FYI: CaVirtex (a Canadian BTC exchange) is holding a $500 shopping cart integration contest to attract developers to their API. https://www.cavirtex.com/news
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by stungeye 14y ago
I'm not sure that "the universe as Turing machine" is anything more than a theory. The universe can contain Turing machines -- we're both using one right now -- but I don't think we can say for certain that the universe is one. Also, not
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by stungeye 14y ago
I recommend checking out the Photoswipe source. It uses many of these techniques to create a swipe-based image gallery optimized for iOS and Android. https://github.com/codecomputerlove/PhotoSwipe Here's a simple HTML5/Photoswipe/Phonegap
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by stungeye 14y ago
Knowing and Doing, reflections of an academic and computer scientist: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/index.html
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by stungeye 14y ago
A quick look at the MobiRuby example code worries me. It looks like Objective-C, but awkwardly written using Ruby syntax. In other words, it looks more like an Objective-C wrapper, than a Ruby DSL for writing iPhone apps. However, with plan
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by stungeye 14y ago
Like some others have said, the Turing Test is more a human mimicry test than a test of intelligence or consciousness. We humans love to anthropomorphize, so tricking us into believing a machine is human shouldn't be how we gauge the effect
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by stungeye 15y ago
Many smartphone users are prevented from upgrading their firmware/OS. So even if the device lifecycles are shorter, developers cannot ignore legacy devices. If we look at the current Android stats for top entertainment app users: Android 2.
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by stungeye 15y ago
True enough, it will get better. Old mobile browsers will be to html5 games what IE6 was to web devs.
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by stungeye 15y ago
A continuation of #7: I've seen ad-supported apps targeted to children that include kid-inappropriate ads. I had a 7 year old recently ask me about dieting and weight-loss strategies because of an in-game "one weird trick to lose weight" ad
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by stungeye 15y ago
"So what's in common with these two games? They're both originally mobile games." (Emphasis mine.) The sad part is that once converted to HTML5 these games won't be able to run on many (most?) mobile devices. Current mobile browsers are t
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by stungeye 15y ago
In late 2003 I was laid off from my job as a hardware/firmware design engineer. I spent the next two years away from work. During this time I spent nearly a year on self-study, got married, and then went travelling with my wife in Europe an