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darkstalker··on Superformula
I wonder if there is a distance function to it, so you can render it in 3D using sphere tracing.
darkstalker··on Crying
Same. I haven't cried since i was a little kid in the 90's. I've always found strange when people cry at movies and such.
darkstalker··on There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast
I don't eat breakfast since a long time. I wake up at 11am-12pm and sleep at 3-4am. I just sleep through it. Does that mean that my lunch counts as a breakfast?
darkstalker··on Antipersona: Use Twitter from the perspective of another account
What this probably does is enumerating the followings for the target user, then opening a filter stream [1] that watches a list of all of those.

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/fi...

darkstalker··on Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
You can do that already. Storing arbitrary data in long URL's has been possible since the introduction of URL shorteners (play.rust-lang.org uses this extensively)
darkstalker··on 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
I also started with BASIC. First was Commodore BASIC and then QBasic. I remember there was also LOGO, one of the original didactic languages. IMHO, if you want a simple language in the same spirit as BASIC, the closest you can find is Lua.
darkstalker··on MathML is a failed web standard
S-expressions are the better alternative to XML.
darkstalker··on Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server
I used to work for a private server that shut down in 2010 (Phoenix Wow). It was my first exposure ever to a big code base, teamwork with version control and some reverse engineering. The "cores" were usually forks of the Mangos project (TrinityCore, R2) written in C++ and pretty unstable (uptime was usually only hours). If Rust existed in that era it would've been much better.
darkstalker··on How to minimize procrastination
This whole site has amazing reads. Thanks for the link.
darkstalker··on Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1
Several livestream sites (like twitch.tv) depend on flash.
darkstalker··on Go enjoy Python3
Rust version:

    fn main()
    {
        if let Some(arg) = std::env::args().nth(1)
        {
            println!("{}", arg.chars().take(12).collect::<String>()); // chars() iteraters over codepoints
        }
    }
darkstalker··on Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages
So we'll be able to use Twitter DMs as data storage?
darkstalker··on Redis Lua sandbox escape
That's why you should never allow loading Lua bytecode. Disallowing it is trivial, don't know why they didn't do it.
darkstalker··on Yum is dead, long live DNF
Everyone should switch to Portage. It's like a superset of every package manager.
darkstalker··on The MS-DOS Showcase
Can you download something from this page?
darkstalker··on Unicode Text Converter
I've used this page for a long time. Writing stuff in fullwidth unicode for sure makes it look more funny
darkstalker··on Winamp 2 in HTML5
Audacious is the new XMMS.
darkstalker··on Open-source Libraries for Working with Open XML Documents (docx, xlsx, pptx)
For Lua there is xlsxwriter:

https://github.com/jmcnamara/xlsxwriter.lua

darkstalker··on Firefox 30.0
Chrome does the same an no one ever complains about it.
darkstalker··on A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS
It runs really slow for me, like 1 FPS. Firefox 29 on Linux.
darkstalker··on How fast is PDF.js?
For me it's faster than the 32 bit Acrobat Reader plugin that hung the entire browser for 1-2 seconds every time I wanted to open a PDF with it.
darkstalker··on Portal 2 Beta for Linux officially released
Looks like I'm gonna buy a Steam game for the first time.
darkstalker··on Gmail adding prominent 'Unsubscribe' option to marketing emails
If find it silly that someone can defend spam as a legitimate "business". Spam is always undesired and must die. In general all advertising over email is just noise.
darkstalker··on Adobe releases emergency Flash update amid new zero-day drive-by attacks
But they still promote Air, and that's just packaged Flash.
darkstalker··on Multiprocess Firefox
It's needed to attract the die hard Chrome users back to Firefox.
darkstalker··on Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles
- Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the cinema

wut

darkstalker··on Android KitKat ships without browser app. OEMs have to license Chrome
Don't know what are you talking about, Firefox on Android is currently the fastest browser there. Chrome is slower and buggier on every new update.
darkstalker··on Pencil
It probably has a noticeable latency, like most touchscreen inputs. The video just shows silly camera/pen movements and no actual drawing scenes.
darkstalker··on Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (2009)
NetBSD supports Lua in the kernel
darkstalker··on Duetto: a C++ compiler for the Web going beyond Emscripten and Node.js
D has all the features C++ should have, and implemented in a sane way.
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