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rileya

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About rileya

Seattle. Google. I work on Chrome audio/video.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7930930

    As a Seattle resident I've found the OneBusAway app extremely useful, it's never been off by more than a couple minutes. Getting widespread realtime transit info into a mainstream …

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    Comment #4860736

    Thinkpad x230 I've had one for a few months now and it's been excellent, good keyboard, great Linux support and really good battery life (with the 9-cell battery I can get 8hrs+). …

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    Comment #4006966

    It is actually exactly stereo, except one of the cameras is replaced with an IR projector; you basically do the standard stereo math as though the projector is a camera 'seeing' th…

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    Comment #3551993

    This is an awesome program. I did it last year, and having it on my otherwise empty resume really helped in the internship hunt this year (I don't know if they used my GSoC evaluat…

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    Comment #3377013

    Thanks! It's not the prettiest of code, but it's up on my github: https://github.com/RileyA/VoxelsAndPortals

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    Comment #3376964

    Cool stuff! It looks like you're just rendering plain cubes, I'd be curious to see how much performance could be had by doing things the same as Minecraft (batching only the visibl…

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    Comment #3376068

    Very true. As a current CS student, I couldn't agree more. From what I've seen thus far, most school assignments are pretty easy to stumble through without really understanding wha…

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    Comment #2991750

    Cool, I got 39th. Ludum Dare is always a blast, I encourage anyone with even the slightest interest in game dev to give it a go sometime. It's an awesome excuse to write some reall…

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    Comment #2951301

    This is spot on. The whole "I've been programming since X" attitude is BS and does nothing but continue stereotypes, I suspect stuff like this is a big part of why there's such a l…