And to think my team is migrating to CentOS 8 as we speak...
Flow fields are also great for reducing the amount of computation required to generate pathfinding for a large number of entities in a game world. I implemented flow fields as the pathfinding for the enemies in a game I…
Yes, throughout High School. At that point I had become socially disconnected and didn't have many friends. There were a few people who stood out from the usual put-downs and idiotic comments. The problem is that even…
A lot of the people I saw in college who were CS majors didn't really seem to care about CS as a topic and only saw it as a lucrative career path. These same people would constantly struggle to understand the most basic…
These teachers need to know about WolframAlpha...
This is a good point. Given the unreliability of voice recognition, an app would be preferable. But also, even a touchscreen where you can select your order would be a better idea.
I've been really looking forward to this for the last couple years, and am glad to see it finally released, but I must have missed the memo when they put a price tag on it, because I thought it was going to be freeware.…
Only application I've used this for so far is a technique for defining and recognizing gestures. They're called "flash gestures" (or that's what the page where I read about them called them) where you find the closest…
I love how the High School edition of Down and Out in Paris and London says it was edited by Moira Propeat...... in 2105.
I'm working on Grave Wave, a top-down zombie shooter with a dark synthwave aesthetic. I've got most of the core gameplay worked out, but am currently working on overhauling the game's graphics and migrating towards more…
As someone who has been playing games for well over 25 years and who has a Vive, I DO think that VR is the future of gaming, just not in its current state. I think the biggest barrier is the price. The most affordable…
If SCP-3137 is viewed, the subject shall be immediately taken into custody and then fed to SCP-682.
Here are a few recommendations based on things I've read this year and last: - Infinite by Jeremy Robinson - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (this series is a rabbit hole) - Scythe by Neal Shusterman - Snow Crash…
Why the hell would you even use a "virtual" card? With the rate at which personal data is being stolen day after day and companies as large as Equifax being breached, why would you trust your money with an all-virtual…
When I first went to college for my Associate's Degree, we learned C++ and had the option to choose between Java and Visual Basic. I chose Java, obviously, because who the hell wants to know Visual Basic? I really liked…
You could bring in a Raspberry Pi and show them how they can modify Minecraft on the fly with Python.
I don't take any medication for it, but music can help, and over the years, I've gotten better at focusing by simply willing myself to do it. There are definitely a lot of days when I'll end up blankly staring at my…
For that matter, it would be cool to see a breakdown of how even earlier games like Elite for the NES achieved their pseudo-3D using wire mesh graphics and how they packed so much content into such a small cartridge.
I see in the comments that he has been working on a Quake Black Book, but I hope he plans to eventually do books on other types of games as well, instead of just Carmack/Romero-centric, raycasted first-person games.…
Something isn't "coding" just because it involves following a set of instructions... you could argue that a knitting pattern is an algorithm of sorts, but that doesn't make it coding.
Yeah, except that if they were to start failing and needed a bailout, you can bet that would fall on the farmers, because they have enough of a stranglehold on the business that it would be their only option.
I can definitely relate to his feelings of not being taken seriously in school and being put in the spotlight without oversight. I frequently did dumb things when I was in middle school, and it became a self-actualizing…
I can't imagine anyone is surprised by this. I've been hearing horror stories about PayPal since the mid 2000s. They're a garbage company, and the only reason people don't use something else is because they're a…
I've spent the past two years remaking my first game from 2013. I know that even though it has come a LONG way since the original, it probably won't sell, but I do it anyway simply because the original was a pile of hot…
What a load of crap... "why do schools focus on unmarketable skills?" Gee, I don't know? Maybe because we shouldn't be teaching kids that they only exist to learn about a trade so they can be another cog in the machine?…
And to think my team is migrating to CentOS 8 as we speak...
Flow fields are also great for reducing the amount of computation required to generate pathfinding for a large number of entities in a game world. I implemented flow fields as the pathfinding for the enemies in a game I…
Yes, throughout High School. At that point I had become socially disconnected and didn't have many friends. There were a few people who stood out from the usual put-downs and idiotic comments. The problem is that even…
A lot of the people I saw in college who were CS majors didn't really seem to care about CS as a topic and only saw it as a lucrative career path. These same people would constantly struggle to understand the most basic…
These teachers need to know about WolframAlpha...
This is a good point. Given the unreliability of voice recognition, an app would be preferable. But also, even a touchscreen where you can select your order would be a better idea.
I've been really looking forward to this for the last couple years, and am glad to see it finally released, but I must have missed the memo when they put a price tag on it, because I thought it was going to be freeware.…
Only application I've used this for so far is a technique for defining and recognizing gestures. They're called "flash gestures" (or that's what the page where I read about them called them) where you find the closest…
I love how the High School edition of Down and Out in Paris and London says it was edited by Moira Propeat...... in 2105.
I'm working on Grave Wave, a top-down zombie shooter with a dark synthwave aesthetic. I've got most of the core gameplay worked out, but am currently working on overhauling the game's graphics and migrating towards more…
As someone who has been playing games for well over 25 years and who has a Vive, I DO think that VR is the future of gaming, just not in its current state. I think the biggest barrier is the price. The most affordable…
If SCP-3137 is viewed, the subject shall be immediately taken into custody and then fed to SCP-682.
Here are a few recommendations based on things I've read this year and last: - Infinite by Jeremy Robinson - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (this series is a rabbit hole) - Scythe by Neal Shusterman - Snow Crash…
Why the hell would you even use a "virtual" card? With the rate at which personal data is being stolen day after day and companies as large as Equifax being breached, why would you trust your money with an all-virtual…
When I first went to college for my Associate's Degree, we learned C++ and had the option to choose between Java and Visual Basic. I chose Java, obviously, because who the hell wants to know Visual Basic? I really liked…
You could bring in a Raspberry Pi and show them how they can modify Minecraft on the fly with Python.
I don't take any medication for it, but music can help, and over the years, I've gotten better at focusing by simply willing myself to do it. There are definitely a lot of days when I'll end up blankly staring at my…
For that matter, it would be cool to see a breakdown of how even earlier games like Elite for the NES achieved their pseudo-3D using wire mesh graphics and how they packed so much content into such a small cartridge.
I see in the comments that he has been working on a Quake Black Book, but I hope he plans to eventually do books on other types of games as well, instead of just Carmack/Romero-centric, raycasted first-person games.…
Something isn't "coding" just because it involves following a set of instructions... you could argue that a knitting pattern is an algorithm of sorts, but that doesn't make it coding.
Yeah, except that if they were to start failing and needed a bailout, you can bet that would fall on the farmers, because they have enough of a stranglehold on the business that it would be their only option.
I can definitely relate to his feelings of not being taken seriously in school and being put in the spotlight without oversight. I frequently did dumb things when I was in middle school, and it became a self-actualizing…
I can't imagine anyone is surprised by this. I've been hearing horror stories about PayPal since the mid 2000s. They're a garbage company, and the only reason people don't use something else is because they're a…
I've spent the past two years remaking my first game from 2013. I know that even though it has come a LONG way since the original, it probably won't sell, but I do it anyway simply because the original was a pile of hot…
What a load of crap... "why do schools focus on unmarketable skills?" Gee, I don't know? Maybe because we shouldn't be teaching kids that they only exist to learn about a trade so they can be another cog in the machine?…