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OSX fundamentally doesn't support robust tiling window managers. they exist only as a pale shadow of the real thing.

My current obsession is finding a way to filter an image to display using the sharp MZ-series character set: http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/codetable.htm Very interesting symbol tab…

Yes, wanting some other language in the browser is a very common wish on hacker news. It's just completely and utterly impractical in real life. Even if you found some way to get s…

>How's that offline web apps thing going? it was going just fine until apple disabled it in iOS7 but despite that setback, google continues to bank its entire business on offline w…

Yep. just compile it to javascript/asm.js and you get basically native speed, same security sandbox as javascript, and all the same problems with the web; the vast majority of whic…

the performance and memory bottleneck in the web is not, as it is commonly believed, javascript, or html. It's the increasingly complicated DOM, and CSS3 layout model. Web Apps go …

It's the worst web platform except for all other platforms.

curl http://www.perfectly-safe.com/script.sh?whoops&rm""-rf""/""

This is a philosophical problem. What is the difference really between: 1. a prewritten engine, and 2. some hypothetical language each where you write commander keen with 3k loc. W…

33k sounds like a lot. I should think a game like this today would be more like 3k, or maybe 10k at most + engine code + content. Nowadays you see, it's wasteful to write an engine…

What about ditching the caps-lock key and making it a "command" key, that you hold down to type in a command?

I thought for a moment you'd "stolen" my idea. (stolen in quotes, because I never told anyone, and ideas can be arrived at independantly, why not?) The idea I had was extending ans…

Hey great work. I wonder how hard it would be to adapt this to creating teletext art as well?

>> "document.querySelectorAll" must be called on the document object, and reassigning it to a variable like this will make it be called with "this" assigned to the global object, o…

>> since a flat file could be binary data...

Well I suppose then maybe I have the wrong idea of what "flat file database" means. To you anyway. I would not actually describe sqlite as a flat file database system... Since the …

Do you think in theory that it is possible to create a flat file based system that is multi-thread/multiuser safe? My somewhat ignorant inclination is to suggest that maildir fits …

not to mention things like hblank interrupt based parallax scrolling!

this is way cool. I wonder if there's an easier way to find those entry points. For videoram for instance, isn't it possible to set a break point on a write to some spot in vram, a…

would you have done just a straight clone or would you improve the visual output in some way? what sorts of things could you do while retaining pinout compatibility?

sometimes the barrier to entry is simply not knowing anyone you can ask. I'd almost suggest something like 99 designs but, the problem with that site is it significantly devalues t…

The original motivation for SFXR is the number of games produced that were simply silent . SFXR changed that to not silent. It sounds cheap to say this, I'll admit. But if you want…

it started out with sfxr [1] then the clones started the mac clone cfxr [2] the flash clone, you linked to. the fork of that, called bfxr [3] the ios port [4] the (much better, in …

Interesting. What did freehand have that illustrator does not?

"this book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning" What I find in practice with these (quite popular) lists of logical fallacies, is that they are usually written …