aaronetz | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Recently made a difficult word game for personal use, as a side project. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...
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aaronetz | 1 year ago | on: Direct-Drive Bicycle
It looks like you should be able to fit two baskets under the seat. The question remains whether it would interfere with your riding or reduce ground clearance too much. Using larger wheels could help.
aaronetz | 1 year ago | on: Direct-Drive Bicycle
Not affiliated in any way --- I was just wondering whether a direct-drive bicycle with gears was practical, and found this.
aaronetz | 4 years ago | on: Fluid Paint
This is awesome, and I'm a bit surprised at the lack of more "dynamic" painting software in general (i.e where the paint keeps changing over time, affected by gravity, etc). I've made my own attempt at this[1] although my actual simulation code is quite primitive.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...
aaronetz | 4 years ago | on: Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
There's a 5,000 human player experimental event happening tomorrow [1]. As a participant in a previous invite-only event, I can assure you that it works very well.
Disclaimer: I work under the same company as the developers of this tech (although I am not involved in this product). My opinions are entirely my own.
[1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/scavengers-large-scale-m...
aaronetz | 5 years ago | on: Interactive Generative Art
This is cool. I once made an app in the same vein [1]. I think that generative/immersive art software has a lot of potential. A large part of making art is enjoying the process, whereas most digital art software is about getting results efficiently.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: The rise of fake engine noise
In a hypothetical future where all city vehicles are electric, tire noise would be much more noticeable (whereas now it is drowning in engine noise).
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Java 8: No more loops
In the last example's "for" loop, a Set would probably be clearer and more efficient than a List for gathering distinct elements, at least for large data sets. I haven't tried the functional Java yet, but I wonder if using Collectors.toSet() and skipping the distinct() stage would be better?
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Ten seconds of math
Thanks for the feedback! If the hard level is pretty hard, wouldn't adding more operations make it even harder? I kept the number range small because I felt it would be too hard to do mentally otherwise, but I'm definitely open to extending it.
The idea was novel for me but I was quite certain it has been done before in one way or another.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Ten seconds of math
I actually made a mental math game for Android not long ago. The concept is different though - it's about choosing the operations to reach a target number. I would appreciate any feedback!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodenclos...
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Sprout
Reminds me of the augmented reality sandbox [1] I've played with at a museum [2] and which was really cool.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: John Carmack on Inlined Code
As a fellow game developer, I have to agree. I find that inheritance is a form of abstraction which sounds nice on paper and may work well within some domains, but in large and diverse code bases (like in games), it makes code harder to reason about and harder to safely modify (e.g. changing a base class can have a lot of subtle effects on subclasses that are hard to detect). The same goes for operator overloading, implicit constructors... Basically almost anything implicit that is done by the compiler for you and isn't immediately obvious from reading the code.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Ncollide − a Rust 2D and 3D collision detection library
I think it's a matter of scale: The cubes are set to be quite large in size, and so the camera is quite far from them and things seem to be moving slowly. Think about a pile of large crates VS a pile of wooden toy blocks.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch
I'm not so sure about the utility of this in my case. I usually end up using python for scripts, with perhaps a one line batch file that runs it with some default arguments for convenience.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web
Actually, that was my first thought - that the ISPs could pay royalties to websites, but that reminded me too much of cable companies -- too centralized. But who knows, this may actually happen with wireless internet providers offering unlimited Facebook bundles and the like...
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web
I would definitely be more inclined to pay a single entity and get a "bundle" than make individual purchasing decisions. But you're right, it is all dependent on the content that would be offered. Something like this would probably need a big upfront investment to get going...
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web
I've just thought of a crazy idea: what if there was a subscription service, like Netflix for websites, where you'd pay a fixed monthly amount and get unlimited access to premium websites / webapps, with guaranteed privacy and no advertising? The said service would then pay royalties to the participating websites, depending on the usage.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: OpenStreetMap Then and Now
I've been using OSM for some time for offline navigation on my tablet but never made an edit, because I thought it would be difficult to do. After reading your comment, I signed up and marked my street one-way (which it wasn't on OSM). It was so easy - thank you!
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Math Machine – a game based on the concept of a stack machine
Thanks. I'm actually working on a programming game, light-bot style. I don't have any specific math idea right now, but I'd love to make another one.
aaronetz | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Math Machine – a game based on the concept of a stack machine
That's a good idea. I'll think where I can add this without having people press it by mistake and getting lost. About the search, that's an unfortunate part of the play store discovery problem. They prioritize ratings/downloads over keywords...
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