maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Poll: How long have you been programming?
Wrote a word processor in C in the mornings before school on my parents' Mac (OS7) when I was 14.
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maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Andro.js
Thank you for your excellent feedback.
Yes, andro.eventer is there to avoid polluting the owner object. However, your idea of passing andro to the behaviour's setup() method is a great one. I'm going to give it a try.
The reason I require the behaviour to be passed to bind() is so that the passed function can be run with `this` set to the behaviour. I couldn't see another way to let bind know which behaviour should be bound to the event.
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Andro.js
Yes, I agree.
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Andro.js
Excellent point. I would normally do this, but I wanted to reduce the amount of indirection in the code as much as possible. But, it may still be worth doing so people aren't distracted by thinking "Wow, this girl should use constants".
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Andro.js
I'm very open to critique. Can you elaborate?
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Advanced emacs user: Mary Rose Cook Setup
Yes, Ableton only have offices in Berlin and New York City.
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Advanced emacs user: Mary Rose Cook Setup
Thanks, Tom :)
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Advanced emacs user: Mary Rose Cook Setup
I think the learning curve for emacs is a little bit to do with its unusualness, but mostly to do with figuring out how you and it work together. This latter is a long process of discovery.
maryrosecook | 14 years ago | on: Advanced emacs user: Mary Rose Cook Setup
The choice for devs at Ableton is Linux or Windows. The company has Macs, too, but not for primary development machines.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: Making of Crash Bandicoot - GOOL
This series is fascinating. Loads of stories about weird hacks to make the graphics cleaner, to up the polygon count, to make the animation more cartoonish, writing a dialect of Lisp to define the gameplay.
Related: an article about making Ratchet and Clank using some Jak and Daxter rendering code which Naughty Dog basically gave Insomniac for free. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2842/postmortem_insomn...
Another great series: Jordan Mechner's diary about making the original Prince of Persia.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language?
I would just write your next proper (non-toy) project in the language you want to learn. That way, you learn the language and you've made something.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut
Thanks!
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut
That's a nice idea. The grid stuff is actually done by the Render Engine. If I remember correctly, it's a spatial grid implemented as an array of arrays where the indexes are the row/column numbers of the nodes.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut
Great. I'll check out the separating axis test, too - thanks. Incidentally, I believe The Render Engine, the framework I used, has just introduced support for this technique.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut
Oh wow, I hadn't heard of that. Thanks a lot.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: How I implemented 2D collision detection in Pistol Slut
The recursive technique you talk about is a nice one I hadn't heard of - thanks.
I actually find that collision detection does affect performance. For example, in Pistol Slut, when an exploding grenade throws out forty pieces of shrapnel, there was a noticeable slow-down before I did some optimisation.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: Impact HTML5 Game Engine released
I used The Render Engine (not in the list above http://code.google.com/p/renderengine/) to make http://pistolslut.com It's pretty nice.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science
Rather unusually, the issues covered by the media have actually been the most important ones. The battle over the privacy of information is far more important than the facts revealed by a small number of actual information leaks.
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Berlin - costs of living, python jobs?
No, it does not. If you pay taxes here, you have to have health insurance. For a permanent employee, this is about 14% of your salary. All in, I pay about a third of my income in tax (which includes health insurance).
maryrosecook | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Berlin - costs of living, python jobs?
Point (1) does not fit with my experience here at all. Kreuzberg is central, cheap and very lively.