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Re:Making Noise (1999) on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:22AM (#8166653)
Perlin actually improved his original algorithm by creating the Simplex Noise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise which runs much faster. As a matter of interest, Voronoi noise is also quite popular
Re:2013 Resolutions: a man page a day makes the newb go away on Monday December 31, 2012 @02:16PM (#4990443)
I hope this works out for you. I've taken up learning vim this year, but my main problem is forgetting the things I've learned. I tried cue cards but they fill up far too quickly; so my answer was to store my notes on a wiki: http://wiki.jbud.me/index.php?title=Vim
Re:Show HN: Working on my wife's idea on Sunday April 15, 2012 @02:59PM (#3844345)
Cool idea. This took about 5 mins of my day; although if it were about cats, the tab would be open all day lol
Re:iframe, you are dead to me on Saturday March 10, 2012 @07:17PM (#3689154)
Lol, amusing post.. But in all seriousness the iFrame is incredibly useful when developing Comet-based webapps
Re:Why don't we have password standards? on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @01:11PM (#2869186)
I find that some of these limitations put me in a worse position than if I were to have full control. eg. you MUST use a symbol, or using both lower AND upper case characters.

This is a joke! We're in the 21st century, people should be able to have their own set of password standards. I know we, as programmers, are always looking out for the most noobish of the end-users. But is it really necessary to go as far as to FORCE EVERYONE into picking a blatantly obviously brute-force-safe password?

In the end, the bulk of these users are just going to forget their password, add it to their password manager, and become frustrated with this chosen system. This in turn is insecure for its own reasons.. I think what we need is to remove these silly limitations altogether (although a set standard minimum/maximum character limit is completely understandable imo), and allow people to pick their own standards. The newbies out there will eventually get their accounts hacked, its inevitable imo. And when that happens they will learn to set better passwords.

Re:Poll: How fast do you type? on Thursday March 24, 2011 @11:44PM (#2367140)
The last official test I did, a couple years ago, stated just over 100wpm..however just last year I had a data entry job which required some SERIOUS typing speed. New employees would get introuble if they couldn't keep up with the others (who, most of which, had been there since before I was even BORN!). I can feel I've definitely gone up since that summer
Re:Poll: What language do you use primarily? on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:42AM (#2349882)
The main 3? You're actually missing ASP .NET which is quite popular (in fact, isn't it 2nd place in popularity to server side languages?) .. Please add this, otherwise you'll be getting A LOT of 'Other' votes
Re:MongoDB interactive tutorial on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @10:06PM (#2330373)
This tutorial was totally cool! Props to the guy who made this, and for doing something like this while in his bored spare time... 1 complaint however is that it doesn't explain much about the difference between MongoDB and MySQL, or other databases. I was really hoping to get to hear how it compares, what the pros and cons are out of using this vs. other databases