jplur | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
Tools aren't a zero sum game, go make your thing ;)
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jplur | 9 years ago | on: Valve’s Gabe Newell: VR could “turn out to be a complete failure”
If you're into digital sculpting/painting the killer apps are already out :)
jplur | 9 years ago | on: Choosing Functional Programming for Our Game
So I've shipped a few small games with clojure and unity. GC does come up, but it's very easy to optimize your tight update functions with Unity's profiler.
As for finding answers, the clojure CLR interop is pretty similar to JVM. I spend most my time looking at the Unity scripting docs.
jplur | 9 years ago | on: Choosing Functional Programming for Our Game
Pretty mature. There's open issues, but nothing that hinders publishing to desktop and android. If you like clojure and unity I highly recommend it :)
jplur | 9 years ago | on: Toward a URL for every function
Strongly agree! One of the reasons I'm excited about IPFS is for content addressable code linking. For example, running single js functions through google's closure compiler to normalize the symbols and using a package manager that would recursively replace IPFS links with the code.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: I've Just Liberated My Modules
Yes the IPFS implementation might change but not the content multihash addressing. Linking to data with those addresses is the generic 'package management' that solves all these problems (references to mutable data at mutable origins, circular dependencies, data caching, namespace conflicts). The specifics of resolving links will hopefully be something we don't think about much.
I've played around with ipfs.js for resolving links into eval'd js at runtime and imagine a npm replacement would be pretty trivial. The IPFS peer to peer swarm seems stable to me but you could also dump all your hash-named files into a s3 bucket or something as a fallback repo.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: StringBean – 4K Featherweight Framework
The code boxes with the ::before and ::after shadows are gorgeous.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: ReactOS 0.4.0 Released
I use the web to build applications and very much need to set scroll points and capture key input thank you very much.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: 80 front-end job applications – nearly no one had basic HTML/CSS/A11y skills
Took me a minute to get that this is a mailing list newsletter with a random selection of interesting links from the past week, not a blog post listing things front end developers should know.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity
Wouldn't mind a web browser with a tiling UI.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Instant Web Application
You're suggesting people send their html back to the server when they've finished reading it.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released
I believe it was originally displaying extended ASCII in a nCurses console, and switched to bitmaps with SDL. The majority of the world is still visualized by those character codes and two colors, but entities can be assigned arbitrary sprites http://i.imgur.com/zuMdqbv.jpg
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released
So Guncho interfaces a mud server to inform7 runtimes? I used inform7's function dispatching as the basis for a python MUD engine, fun stuff - https://github.com/selfsame/mud.tilde.town
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 released
Fun to note DF is a massive voxel simulation that displays a 2D slice as ascii. There's some neat third party visualizers that can hook into it's memory to show more. http://i.imgur.com/PTj1QpL.jpg
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Razer Acquires Ouya’s Software, Tech and Dev Teams in All-Cash Deal
My super hexagon score says otherwise.
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there microscope equivalent for sounds?
At a party I met an artist at residence at MIT who claimed to have a Eukaryote sized hook stepping force up to a man sized fly fishing rod.
But, I think at small scales sound is closer to buffeting (like how water is the consistency of gelatin for microscopic organisms, waves can't propagate)
jplur | 10 years ago | on: Live-Coding Blender with Hy
yes, it is: http://blendernews.org/xe/Feature_Articles/8524
jplur | 10 years ago | on: JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web (2014)
I've been thinking about how to format meta data for my creative files - JSON-LD with my personal @context spec is an interesting idea.
jplur | 11 years ago | on: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)
(for Europe and Asia)
jplur | 11 years ago | on: How To Scroll
I just gave up trying to read a newsweek mobile form article because of this (site kept resetting the scrollpoint to the top of page). If I can't read a text article on my $500 pocket super computer, I'm beyond annoyed.
And I agree, even if your scroll .js works perfectly, the callbacks leave a perceptible pause on most phones.
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