peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Google's MathFu: a x-platform geometry math library for C++
Taking a course on OpenGL Graphics programming in university right now. We use GLM. It seems pretty good. If I'm not mistaken this is a (potential) replacement for GLM? If anyone knows GLM well could they discuss the differences between the two libraries? Is this worth investing time into?
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: CSS-only plotting
Why do you bring this up? Is this more ideal? I thought writing inline css was an accepted awful thing to do. Or is that just a simplification for new developers? Why do you benefit from doing this?
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Live map of Russia advancing into Ukraine
Wow, I guess this is what would have happened online during World War II if it happened in modern times. Interesting historic landmark as far as information dissemination during confrontations/wars.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go
For the young dudes like me could you explain why?
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Paletton – Color Scheme Designer
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: CSS Variables in Firefox 31 – new syntax
I see, thanks for pointing that out.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: I've never seen a language's style guide recommend avoiding comments before
Maybe my view of NLP is more sci-fi than reality, but I think you're missing what I meant. If you can use NLP to prove that your comment - ie the intent - which IS invisible to the compiler and IDE, then that might be cool. Practical, probably not. But I'd still be very impressed at the implications if this was possible within some error margin.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: I've never seen a language's style guide recommend avoiding comments before
Do you really think the time spend writing a comment is comparable to improving the code? Personally, I can't think of an occasion where that would have been true.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: I've never seen a language's style guide recommend avoiding comments before
I don't mean this negatively, but in my experience as a high schooler and in college, the programming crowd tended to be lacking in written (communication) skills. This is certainly a huge blanket statement, but for younger programmers today I think the stereotype has at least some truth.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: I've never seen a language's style guide recommend avoiding comments before
Brings up an interesting point about perhaps using natural language processing to determine correctness of a comment. That would be prettty cool.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: CSS Variables in Firefox 31 – new syntax
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: Please Don't Rob Me
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
Then you misunderstood, or I am perpetually misunderstanding. The comment that I responded to asked for a way to use this product to send actual text messages. He wanted to relay a message to another phone via this product and then have his phone send an actual text message using information from the initial message. I gave a suggestion about how to do that.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
I mean, I know it's not secure. But I had no clue it was down-vote-not-secure!
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
It could be a whole lot simpler than this. (And a whole less secure.) In high school I had a server running that scanned email for a keyword and my cellphone number; I didn't have a smartphone. So I texted a keyword and some code to my email. Then my server would read the email, see it contained the keyword, then interpret the rest of the code I sent and execute it. This would be insanely easy (and not too secure) to implement on Android for instance.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Nimrod by Example
Could you elaborate on why you think it would be a good HDL?
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub
As you said, big grains of salt... It would be probably more helpful if they were normalized by the percentage any particular language is used overall on Github.
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
The biggest problem I've had with bootstrap is that it is so large. There is so much overhead. My company is working on a project and it would have taken a ton of work to port to bootstrap.
For lightweight grids that support dynamically sized containers, masonry was great. But there a ton of issues with keeping the content centered when the container changes size.
We dealt with this by using inline-blocked elements with tex-align: center, then appending invisible elements to maintain an apparent left-oriented grid: https://github.com/hangify/Central
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: Papa Parse 3
Ok! Interesting. Are web workers gaining traction? This is the first time I've heard of them. Are there any major users/libraries that depend on ww?
peaton
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11 years ago
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on: Show HN: Papa Parse 3
Hm, could somebody explain the multi-threaded part to me? I'm a little confused. I didn't think multiple threads were possible in js. Furthermore, does this only work on Firefox?
