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soylentgraham

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About soylentgraham

20 years coding professionally from PS2,Gamecube,XBox to comptuer vision to VR to AR and everything in between.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43820447

    Ah, I've made the same! I made a very flexible turn-based framework - write the game logic on server in javascript, then state+options are given to clients, so platforms (swiftui, …

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    Comment #37955164

    We did this (as a side effect) for the premier league ~2009-2012 (liquidated JUST before VR appeared, where the content worked fantastically, and then ~2014 with the moverio glasse…

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    Comment #33771348

    I came up with a poker-wordle-ish game idea, and that was higher/lower. You enter a hand, and it told you if your hand was higher or lower. Maybe a bit basic though, adding a texas…

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    Comment #33669737

    I made one specifically for viewing & editing json. Has draggable reordering with rough rules, auto-editable-values, copes with live updates whilst user is using it and other bits …

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    Comment #33406356

    Large blocks of data. (Eg 10,000 floats) Otherwise personally json wins

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    Comment #33406307

    Have you stepped through protobuf processing code? There's a lot of special cases, ifs, branches here and there. Protobufs within protobufs. Its not like its a size, then 100 float…

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    Comment #33382046

    What is a "founder" these days in this context?. The term seems to not mean someone founding a company, but i guess not a vc? Not an angel, ceo... someone with experience building …

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    Comment #33356834

    Wonder why this was built on v8 and not chakra

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    Comment #33240499

    I am appalled at the code I wrote when I was 8 years into the proffesion. I would also be wary of any code I wrote after 16 years (though some I do... the very pure no dependency s…

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    Comment #33045729

    But it is the same tech

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    Comment #32973718

    You do, just learn xcode instead of learning appcode. Get used to instruments, debugger, etc

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    Comment #32973704

    Yeah, nobody should be using UIbuilder and storyboards any more. swiftui is so much better, faster, usable, extensible. But wow, the hoops you jump through to use it with c++ - via…

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    Comment #32936469

    There are lots of other examples too; see the awful red dwarf US pilot with jane leeves as holly

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    Comment #32617156

    It's all about discovery. You like XYZ pizza; how many places did you try before finding them? How did you find XYZ pizza? Thats where these gatekeepers thrive. Its the same as yah…

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    Comment #32372284

    Phones could be fine if 95% of the screen wasn't covered in popups, adverts, mailing list & cookie prompts.

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    Comment #32285958

    We used to have purchase v1, and a cheaper upgrade to v2... but jetbrains' doesnt let you keep the upgrade if you unsubscribe? Or do you then perpetually own v2 after a year?

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    Comment #32283028

    Having this page open for ~10 seconds on my iphone SE (I believe recently hailed as the greatest of phones) crashes safari every time. Can someone able to read the page tell me if …

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    Comment #32248121

    Any chance anyone knows how this compares to magic_enum (which iirc is c++17+ only? Though c++17 seems to be supported every platform i work on now) No string -> enum would probabl…

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    Comment #32248089

    Events and parties (organising and discovery) were something no platform ever got close to being good at. Facebook completely nailed it, probably purely through the social connecti…

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    Comment #32093472

    What is your suggestion? Bad actor in the middle?

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    Comment #31982140

    Oh that would be bliss! Can it remove cookie/newsletter/discount/app promo popups too? :)

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    Comment #31889165

    Marc Riley continues where John Peel left off. Ezra furman's (guest filling for marc riley) shows also uncover a wealth of stuff, but less Now and more the last 5-10 years

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    Comment #31807646

    My 2013 mbp is being retired for a mac studio as I accidentally updated ios to a version that needs xcode13, which i cannot install. It had a good run! (My 2011 imac died last year…

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    Comment #31732871

    More importantly one less uniform slot!