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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 ha…

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 >:(

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.

If you want Flex/JS interoperability: haXe.

This was written back in 1997 and is a timely read even today.

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 o…

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 i…

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 establis…

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.

Also see: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter4-10.php

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 …

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…

Hackerspaces now are what computer clubs were in the 1970's.

I think this more or less describes the life I'm perpetually trying(and only succeeding in brief snatches) to live.

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…

Ionic air purifiers emit a significant (potentially harmful) level of ozone. That might also be a problem with this.

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 med…

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 a…

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.

How dare they make money!!!!!!!!

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."

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 wi…

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 hol…

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 …