triplefox

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by triplefox 17y ago
I've met and spoken with some of the "instant successes" in Flash gaming. DTD, Filler, etc. From the little bit of discussion I had, I got the impression that they didn't really have any profound understanding of how or why the game they ma
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by triplefox 17y ago
It took me a while to figure out what I wasn't seeing on these results pages. SEO spam. So I searched for "SEO spam" and it asked me to build a Square for it. No thanks >:(
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by triplefox 17y ago
Type systems have been getting better - more nuanced, more accurate/helpful static checking, though the mainstream is proving very, very slow to go away from the C model.
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by triplefox 17y ago
If you want Flex/JS interoperability: haXe.
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by triplefox 17y ago
This was written back in 1997 and is a timely read even today.
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Internet Currencies for Virtual Communities(transaction.net)
10 points by triplefox 17y ago|2 comments
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by triplefox 17y ago
I'm going to speak in terms of techniques rather than tools. These are the best/fastest techniques I've found: 1. Procedural generation in your own code. People forget about this option because classical 2D games were too processing/memory-
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by triplefox 17y ago
The default state of the world is free. Non-free happened because people decided that controlling content distribution for profit was a good idea, several hundred years ago. What if it isn't, or isn't anymore? I can provide an example of ho
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by triplefox 17y ago
This is an essay on revising civilization's economy in the face of abundant technology: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-2.php He starts from the thesis(previously established) that money earning interest is the source of our mass
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by triplefox 17y ago
The one that always bugged me but seems to be true for most dynamic languages is immutable types being passed by value and everything else passed by reference.
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by triplefox 17y ago
Also see: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-10.php
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by triplefox 17y ago
A similar-looking symptom I've seen with IE6 is that links won't "take" if I click and then move the cursor away. IE will display a message in the status bar when I click, but for some reason it is noticeably less likely to actually load th
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by triplefox 17y ago
My dad knew someone who aimed to walk the full length of every street in San Francisco, at least one per day. There are several thousand streets in the city, so it took a few years but the guy did complete his mission.
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by triplefox 17y ago
Hackerspaces now are what computer clubs were in the 1970's.
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by triplefox 17y ago
I think this more or less describes the life I'm perpetually trying(and only succeeding in brief snatches) to live.
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by triplefox 17y ago
I've been deep in the depths of hacking a new feature into an existing language - adding a reflective/referential data definition language on top of haXe. (It's called XReflect, if curious you can get it off haxelib) Essentially, the proble
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by triplefox 17y ago
Ionic air purifiers emit a significant (potentially harmful) level of ozone. That might also be a problem with this.
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by triplefox 17y ago
Or if you want a strictly economic explanation: The law is a cosmetic blemish upon what could be a top-to-bottom free system. The high level would be original free software and media - tools and inspiration. The medium level is derivatives;
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by triplefox 17y ago
Unsalted nuts. They store really well. Walnuts in particular have plenty of calories but if you have too many in a day you'll be overloaded on omega-3, which will make your hands and feet swell painfully as pressure is applied; the blood ve
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by triplefox 17y ago
It's like going back to the days when ROM BASIC was built into every "microcomputer." Only this time they're going for a full OS instead of just BASIC.
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by triplefox 17y ago
How dare they make money!!!!!!!!
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by triplefox 17y ago
If this view persists, the entire site's direction is going to change because some proportion will upvote only from "classic" and others only from "main."
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by triplefox 17y ago
On the other hand, I find that oftentimes I will try to discuss a programming topic in an online forum and people will say "Oh, just do x, that is the best practice." And then I will say "but it doesn't completely solve the problem, I'm try
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by triplefox 17y ago
It's an overly simplistic interpretation. The more poignant way to frame this would be a specialist-vs-generalist view; if you're overly specialized and never crawl out of your hole you miss opportunities for synergy. Programming is a good
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by triplefox 17y ago
My personal experience with this bears it out; an HFCS soda will be consumed quickly (and I feel unsatisfied) but a sugar one is better to sip through, and I get a better sense of its impact as well.
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by triplefox 17y ago
I discussed this yesterday (elsewhere) with respect to games. I couch it in terms of "permission economy" (the present strong IP situation) versus "remix economy" (the weak IP situation) My analysis is that, first of all, there is a lot of
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by triplefox 17y ago
Little-known fact: BART has been using 8-track technology for its ticketing since the system was created in the 1970's. You can see this when the kiosks need repairs.
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by triplefox 17y ago
This is why I've started adapting my desk to allow standing most of the time. I feel fresh even at 6 or 7pm. I tried standing all of the time for a day or two but I find that sometimes I want to sit too.
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by triplefox 17y ago
Indeed, the article doesn't really address anything. It basically concludes on the "sufficiently smart compiler" fallacy. Compilers only get better after you throw tons of engineering resources on them, and that situation only occurs after
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by triplefox 17y ago
OT: I was in Michigan to see my brother graduate with his PhD. Soon before we left we found out that he couldn't walk because of rules and regulations(he still had to defend his thesis)and so we didn't attend commencement, just visited, ate

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