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tamriel
9y ago
It's a nice respite from regulatory bodies reassuring people with fidget spinners and memes.
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tamriel
9y ago
Deleting insidious social media accounts (Facebook for example) half a decade ago when it became clear which way the wind was blowing. I seriously doubt I would be as happy, or even alive, it I hadn't.
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tamriel
9y ago
If you don't need to touch shaders, then you're doing something trivial, like drawing models with a camera. Once you dip your toes into even something like alpha transparency, or z fighting, depth buffer precision, or texture uplo
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tamriel
9y ago
I would actually just recommend diving into THREE.js. It's truly one of the best documented and most "obvious" codebases out there. If all you've got is a solid understanding of JS, you can just start hacking up somethin
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tamriel
9y ago
No, he would not. As mentioned in the article he was reputedly celibate by choice for this reason.
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tamriel
9y ago
The person checking out the book is a program, so they aren't the brightest. They check out the book called "how to go to facebook.com". Then they check out "how to type a password". Then they check out "Typing
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tamriel
9y ago
Can you elaborate where in the wild you found it?
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tamriel
9y ago
If the yardstick for Mozilla's mission is how fast they can make a browser, why do we need Mozilla? There are arguably better equipped entities doing that. Their whole mission is to have better judgement and management, advocating for
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tamriel
9y ago
The key word is "just". That's not a misconception I share. I understand Mozilla can and should make money to further its mission. But unlike a for-profit, making money isn't the mission of Mozilla. So needing to make mo
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tamriel
9y ago
I agree. I merely challenge the notion that a nonprofit -- which proudly tumpets its benevolence and non-profitness -- should get a free pass for covertly installing advertising arrangements, just because they need to "make money"
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tamriel
9y ago
> Mozilla's gotta make money somehow They're a nonprofit; they're not allowed to just "make money". And, they already take donations.