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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by 0942v8653 on Friday May 08, 2015 @06:01PM (#9514395)
Great article. (Unfortunately I had to finish it in w3m because the gifs were so huge.)

I remember doing lerp and projected-focus before I knew what they were called. It definitely has more depth than it seems, and as I was reading I was surprised at how much thought went into some of these decisions, especially Super Mario World where I had never noticed it. I suppose it's like UX design -- you only notice it if it's bad.

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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by jzymbaluk on Saturday May 09, 2015 @02:46AM (#9515737)
I was also having a major issue reading this article on mobile. Every app I tried to read it on was crashing repeatedly, with increasing frequency as I got to the bottom of the page.
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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by scott_karana on Friday May 08, 2015 @08:09PM (#9514847)
This article is a strong candidate for in-focus GIFs, or webm, or both. I had similar issues :)
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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by listic on Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:12PM (#9516756)
How does w3m compare to lynx?
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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by 0942v8653 on Saturday May 09, 2015 @01:05PM (#9516931)
I use it mainly because it defaults to http; I never took the time to actually compare the two.
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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by listic on Saturday May 09, 2015 @03:27PM (#9517400)
What's good in defaulting to http?
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Re:Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-S... by 0942v8653 on Sunday May 10, 2015 @07:09AM (#9519556)
I suppose it wasn't as bad as I thought. If you type

    lynx news.ycombinator.com
it tries to "intelligently" choose the news:// protocol, which I have never used and probably never will. With w3m, it just goes to http no matter what the subdomain is.
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