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Re:Superformula on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:43PM (#12141416)
I wonder if there is a distance function to it, so you can render it in 3D using sphere tracing.
Re:Crying on Friday May 27, 2016 @03:26PM (#11788308)
Same. I haven't cried since i was a little kid in the 90's. I've always found strange when people cry at movies and such.
Re:There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast on Monday May 23, 2016 @08:48PM (#11758161)
I don't eat breakfast since a long time. I wake up at 11am-12pm and sleep at 3-4am. I just sleep through it. Does that mean that my lunch counts as a breakfast?
What this probably does is enumerating the followings for the target user, then opening a filter stream [1] that watches a list of all of those.

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/fi...

You can do that already. Storing arbitrary data in long URL's has been possible since the introduction of URL shorteners (play.rust-lang.org uses this extensively)
Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:11PM (#11637939)
I also started with BASIC. First was Commodore BASIC and then QBasic. I remember there was also LOGO, one of the original didactic languages. IMHO, if you want a simple language in the same spirit as BASIC, the closest you can find is Lua.
Re:MathML is a failed web standard on Thursday April 07, 2016 @02:38PM (#11449512)
S-expressions are the better alternative to XML.
I used to work for a private server that shut down in 2010 (Phoenix Wow). It was my first exposure ever to a big code base, teamwork with version control and some reverse engineering. The "cores" were usually forks of the Mangos project (TrinityCore, R2) written in C++ and pretty unstable (uptime was usually only hours). If Rust existed in that era it would've been much better.
Re:How to minimize procrastination on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:54PM (#10563986)
This whole site has amazing reads. Thanks for the link.
Several livestream sites (like twitch.tv) depend on flash.
Re:Go enjoy Python3 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @02:09PM (#10131031)
Rust version:

    fn main()
    {
        if let Some(arg) = std::env::args().nth(1)
        {
            println!("{}", arg.chars().take(12).collect::<String>()); // chars() iteraters over codepoints
        }
    }
Re:Removing the 140-character limit from Direct Messages on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @08:25PM (#10051626)
So we'll be able to use Twitter DMs as data storage?
Re:Redis Lua sandbox escape on Thursday June 04, 2015 @05:53PM (#9662385)
That's why you should never allow loading Lua bytecode. Disallowing it is trivial, don't know why they didn't do it.
Re:Yum is dead, long live DNF on Sunday May 17, 2015 @01:10PM (#9560750)
Everyone should switch to Portage. It's like a superset of every package manager.
Re:The MS-DOS Showcase on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:05PM (#8840792)
Can you download something from this page?
Re:Unicode Text Converter on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:37PM (#8633145)
I've used this page for a long time. Writing stuff in fullwidth unicode for sure makes it look more funny
Re:Winamp 2 in HTML5 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @03:20PM (#8569503)
Audacious is the new XMMS.
Re:Firefox 30.0 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @02:35PM (#7874447)
Chrome does the same an no one ever complains about it.
Re:A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @04:47PM (#7842628)
It runs really slow for me, like 1 FPS. Firefox 29 on Linux.
Re:How fast is PDF.js? on Thursday May 08, 2014 @06:25PM (#7718095)
For me it's faster than the 32 bit Acrobat Reader plugin that hung the entire browser for 1-2 seconds every time I wanted to open a PDF with it.
Re:Portal 2 Beta for Linux officially released on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:28PM (#7307027)
Looks like I'm gonna buy a Steam game for the first time.
If find it silly that someone can defend spam as a legitimate "business". Spam is always undesired and must die. In general all advertising over email is just noise.
But they still promote Air, and that's just packaged Flash.
Re:Multiprocess Firefox on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:05AM (#6855090)
It's needed to attract the die hard Chrome users back to Firefox.
Re:Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles on Thursday November 28, 2013 @02:53PM (#6816113)
- Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the cinema

wut

Don't know what are you talking about, Firefox on Android is currently the fastest browser there. Chrome is slower and buggier on every new update.
Re:Pencil on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:14AM (#6762131)
It probably has a noticeable latency, like most touchscreen inputs. The video just shows silly camera/pen movements and no actual drawing scenes.
Re:Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (2009) on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:05AM (#6762057)
NetBSD supports Lua in the kernel

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