An Unusual Paint Program • Hacker News Board

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by delackner » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 4:37 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #16

abstractbill wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.

I've noticed that too. These comments are in the same category as people complaining about being downmodded; they don't make very interesting reading. Perhaps I should put something in the site guidelines about them.

Perhaps before posting any post that contains red flag words or phrases should require an additional confirmation:

This post contains words that suggest you are being boring. Are you being boring?

Strings that stick out: "belong.*on hacker" "doesn't belong" etc...

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by d0mine » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 4:39 AM UTC

This site uses and javascript, no flash.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by berryg » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 7:40 AM UTC

In the latest Webkit with the squirrelfish javascript engine it runs very smoothly. Really nice program.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by Prrometheus » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 7:43 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #13

rw wrote: post #10

Runs very slowly in Fx3.0_rc1.

weird, runs smoothly on a core 2 quad 2.4 ghz machine with firefox 3.0 rc1, windows xp sp 2.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.01 and have the same problem as the grandparent.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by Prrometheus » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 7:45 AM UTC

abstractbill wrote: post #15

helveticaman wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sarcasm didn't come through, sorry.

Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news... those threads end up being more annoying than the posts imho.

>Recently it seems like almost every post has a comment thread about how the post isn't hacker news...

Most of the ones I've noticed are on stories such as "entertainment celebrity x dies", "politician y does z unrelated to tech", or "OMG we're all going to die as soon as the economy collapses and we devolve into cannibalism and the last survivor is driven insane from Global Warming and kills himself".

I don't read every comment thread, but it's mostly those stories that I see "not Hacker News" on.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by Malcx » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 8:12 AM UTC

ii wrote: post #17

HTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support , and .

Flash 10 has udp support, kinda handy for game connections.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by jacobolus » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 8:46 AM UTC

Malcx wrote: post #26

ii wrote: post #17

HTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support , and .

Flash 10 has udp support, kinda handy for game connections.

HTML 5 will support some kind of raw-ish TCP connection (accessible from JavaScript). I think most games able to run performantly in the browser will be just fine without UDP.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by mattmaroon » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 8:58 AM UTC

ii wrote: post #17

HTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support , and .

The big advantage of Flash is that you write once and it runs everywhere. Anything that leaves it up to browsers to implement will not be able to boast that any time soon.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by philh » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 9:12 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #13

rw wrote: post #10

Runs very slowly in Fx3.0_rc1.

weird, runs smoothly on a core 2 quad 2.4 ghz machine with firefox 3.0 rc1, windows xp sp 2.

Slow for me, but I'm still using opera 9.20 and an 800Mhz Coppermine.

Re: An Unusual Paint Program

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Post by ii » Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 9:30 AM UTC

mattmaroon wrote: post #28

ii wrote: post #17

HTML5 looks to be a real Flash killer. Nobody will ever want Flash or SilverLight when all browsers start to support , and .

The big advantage of Flash is that you write once and it runs everywhere. Anything that leaves it up to browsers to implement will not be able to boast that any time soon.

Flash doesn't run on iPhone and it is often slow and buggy on anything but Windows. I bet that Apple, Google and browser developers will support standards-based alternatives. We can see this happening in the original post.