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There used to be a site called Forgotify that would only play songs from Spotify that had zero listens. So each song played, of course, removed that song from the set that could ev…

I'm with you, came here to ask this too. This is how I would have read it: "Crack engineer" someone who is an excellent engineer, I feel like this goes back to at least the early 2…

The Merchant Princes series is fun, and I really enjoy the story of why he wrote it. It starts out as fantasy for basically the whole first novel and then some. But you can find so…

"Moving left" is NOT an input. An input is "The controller is pushed to the left" (with perhaps a numeric value of how far it is pushed to the left). "Firing once" is similarly NOT…

You can handle orders of magnitude more users with the same hardware if you don't have to run the game simulation on the server.

Don't know about those, but here's an Apple ][ still in use in 2009 (How it's made - player piano rolls of all things) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9NudhhSQE It's like an obsole…

Just today I was arguing for not moving something off of Oracle. No one's really happy the thing in question is on Oracle, but it is live in production and most of the time does wh…

The author also created SpaceChem, which is one of the best programming/engineering games out there. For just programming games, I'd call it my second all time favorite just behind…

I only skimmed it, but I didn't see anyone in there who took years. They were all on the order of months. Entirely possible I missed it. That said, adding networked multiplayer to …

> So ruby and perl are specifically designed to be a handler of untrusted data? Perl actually is when used in taint mode. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html

In the 1990s, people used to write these things called plugins to add features, like support for specific video containers and codecs, to browsers. Now I guess browsers have to hav…

Yeah, see my reply to myself, I beat you by a few minutes =) Whether 6X the searches is worth it or not is something only testing can answer, I think.

Partly answering my own question after mulling it over, the difference in the pre-pass is that you're not actually coming "from" an edge or going "to" one when you're doing the flo…

For the actual occlusion test, you have a "don't go backwards" rule. If you have to go backwards to reach a chunk, you know it's not visible along that path (but may be on a differ…

Glitchiness of occlusion may be driver or hardware dependent. I've been using it successfully, but haven't tested on a variety of hardware. The bigger issue is the two way communic…

I approve of people trying to improve the editor experience. This is a good project! I have a nitpick though: "forking the current panel using Ctrl+F is a game changer, as you don’…

It's likely coming to PC as well. It was announced last year without any console attached. At E3, it was at Sony's keynote, but it wasn't announced as an exclusive. On the other ha…

For MacBooks there's these things: http://hengedocks.com I had one for an older laptop. Worked fine, but I didn't use it much just because I wasn't at my desk at home very much.

I can't speak for all games, but this sort of visualization is something I believe to be common in large AAA games, and is something I've had (and continue to have) in the small su…

Something you can do with components if you set some strict restrictions is do static or runtime analysis to determine which sets of components are disjoint in terms of systems tha…

Powersnap was amazing. I seem to recall it was usually able to figure out what font each program was using and only had to search for letters for that specific font, and only fall …

I did this a few years ago using text messages and Twilio. Not quite as slick as "Siri, open the garage", but it worked! http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door…

I thought it was kind of hard to take the article seriously after that. I know it's the guy's real name, so I feel bad about this (as bad as I can feel for someone with an awesome …

Maybe it's not uncommon, but it is against FTC guidelines. (I claim that because it's in the article too) I don't know if being "against FTC guidelines" is equivalent to "illegal" …

It's really not much like Lode Runner at all. Lode Runner itself was a "clone" of Space Panic much more so than this is a "clone" of Lode Runner. In both cases, there is clear insp…