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revolvingcur | 3 years ago | on: Mesh Shaders and Meshlet Culling in Metal 3

Tessellation debuted in Metal in 2016, so yeah, relatively shortly after the first release on iOS (2014) and macOS (2015).

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Why Open Source Your Secrets

Regrettably, the video and audio quality are quite poor, and the slides contain few clues as to the content. A previously posted article by Martin Fowler: http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html. Obviously it covers different ground from a talk about motivations for opening up the design, but does a good job of describing the LMAX architecture.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show

I think you and your GP are right on. I edited a short-lived podcast and regularly spent 1.5 hours producing and editing each 25 minute show. Even if you're using good equipment and have a solid connection, producing a tight podcast necessarily takes more effort than is obvious to the listener. That's kind of the point.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Try PTMono, a beautiful monospace font that looks like serif

"Looks like serif"? Did you mean to say it looks like a proportional-width font?

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Tumblr President Steps Down

It feels more like one side of an IM conversation than an essay, what with the missing periods and stilted

spacing

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Make your own 'prime factorization' diagram

"This tries to find visually distinct colors that humans will be able to distinguish."

Which are also vomitously ugly. There's a reason graphic designers don't rely purely on algorithms to select their palettes for them.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: We created an iPhone app that lets you share your plans for tonight

Strikes me as somewhat similar to MyNyte.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Technical Books Are Broken

I felt a sharp pang of nostalgia seeing the cover of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs". That book, and similar titles, were already old by the time I came across ragged copies of them in my public library, but I spent countless hours of my middle school years painstakingly typing out their listings and seeing the results on my second-hand 386's amber monochrome CRT.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Apple has been focusing on the wrong problems with the iPad3

Neither is more correct than the other (in this context) without further qualification. He means linear pixel density, you mean area pixel density or total number of pixels (the latter of which isn't a technically valid definition of resolution).

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: I want to help you learn or practice iOS development

The reason for the one-on-one format is that I want to get a feel for where different people are in their learning. Already, I've heard from total newbies, people with programming experience wanting to move into iOS, and people who have tried doing iOS development and found difficulty.

I totally agree that if you could vet your audience (which might be as simple as slapping a price tag on it and posting a syllabus), you could take a more homogeneous approach. I'll certainly be looking in this in the future.

For the moment, I guess I've created a wildly "unscalable" experience in order to give everyone personalized attention wherever they may be.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: I want to help you learn or practice iOS development

The response to this has been literally overwhelming, but I'm really excited to talk with everyone who has signed up.

If you're still interested, there are several slots on Tuesday and Friday.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Homer, God and Beautiful Code

TL;DR: "Skilled and experienced practitioners are able to find elegant solutions to problems both because they are able to consider a broad range of possible solutions and because they can correctly analyze the possible repercussions of adopting each of these solutions."

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Werewolf

I played this game as an intern at Microsoft in the summer of 2006 and subsequently introduced it to many students in the computer engineering department at the University of Florida. It makes for an interesting study in group psych if you can find people who are tolerant of how unfair it can sometimes be.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you reading right now?

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: IOS 4 vs. 5, Pixel by Pixel (jp)

The purpose is probably to make the home screen symmetrical. Moving the two rightmost columns of app icons two pixels to the right achieves this. Note that previously the outer margins were asymmetrical.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: The Free World Charter: Let's make everything free

Your final statement only holds if (a) all environments in which people live are equally rich in opportunity/resources or (b) there are sufficient environments with adequate opportunity/resources to which people can move cheaply. That is not the world we currently occupy.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Online course: Build your own simulated computer, assembler, lang, OS, & game

I acquired this book when it was published in 2008, and I firmly believe my CS education would have been better for having had it several years before that. It's a very well-constructed course that can be completed by an amateur at a casual pace, or by a hardcore student in a couple of weeks of dedicated work.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Ten things to achieve when starting 3D programming

I had done all of this by the time I hit 10th grade. I hated my 10th grade geometry class because I preferred spending my time writing 3D games to applying the law of cosines and proving millenias-old theorems. I'm now confident that was the right choice.

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean is abstract

If you don't like long method names, stay away from Cocoa.

  -willAnimateSecondHalfOfRotationFromInterfaceOrientation:duration:
  -gestureRecognizer:shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:
  -initWithBitmapDataPlanes:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:bitsPerSample:samplesPerPixel:hasAlpha:isPlanar:colorSpaceName:bitmapFormat:bytesPerRow:bitsPerPixel:

revolvingcur | 14 years ago | on: Taking Down The Bitcoin Network

This is mentioned only tangentially, but how essential are exchanges to the liquidity of Bitcoin today? If most trading is done through exchanges, as opposed to P2P, then couldn't the market be seriously disrupted by DDoSing the primary exchanges (Mt.Gox and the like) for a few days, thus freezing out most casual users and causing a panic?

edit: I'm only a casual user myself, so there may be reasons why this isn't a practical concern, but I am curious.