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Re:Gimp 3 Beta Released on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:47AM (#31421589)
This is the issue!

>. For the geekiest of us: by default, this uses simple text search, but in Preferences, tab “Interface”, you can also set the search entry to use the Glob or Regular Expression syntaxes!

You don't find this kind of language in Photoshop documentation

Re:Viz Studio: code-based live animation editor on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:43AM (#31337364)
Awesome!

It's a shame you can't browse other peoples work thouugh (like in shadertoy)

Re:Viz Studio: code-based live animation editor on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:41AM (#31337350)
Tell that to codepen etc

I think this site is fantastic, and the live editing is great for visual feedback.

And as a plus, it doesn't use Java

I very much doubt you would ever work with or for me.
All I did was give advice. If you don't like it it's fine.
Don't worry about all that - there isn't a developer worth their salt that hasn't made a mistake. But I'd consider having this blog post and HN post retracted purely for future internet checks. It isn't a reflection on you, and your honesty is fantastic. But there is a lot to be said about using a pseudonym when it comes this close to your employers
Owning the mistake would be fine if he did that - he did'nt. He blamed the company he was contracting for. That's a big no from me
"What does this teach us? Well, it teaches me to do more diverse tests when doing destructive operations. It also should probably teach something to Vimeo and to my contractor but I doubt it will (and yes, the upload for some reason is still manual to this day. Go figure!)"

So you wrote bad code, didn't test it properly, ran it on production on the Friday before a release and are blaming Vimeo and [name redacted]?

And your resolution was yet another cobbled together script that you probably didn't test?

This isn't a great article to have attached your name to

Re:The Cube Rule (2017) on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:12AM (#30800002)
We call sausages wrapped in pastry Sausage Rolls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_roll

in the UK

"Prioritising the longevity of data can sacrifice the authenticity of what it tries to capture and preserve. When I say authenticity, I refer to how accurate and detailed the data in question preserves a particular state. An original raw image, for example, will capture a landscape much more authentically than written text would. Written text will inevitably comprise of ambiguity and even bias, if not distortion."

Or, you need to become a better writer.

Well, Facebook do use accelerometer for 360 panorama view. Could be as simple and they initialise coroMotion when the app becomes active in order to have their render react without a new initialisation each time?
Re:The Problem with Macros on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:09AM (#28852265)
I know what it is - I don't think its relevant in this project
Re:The Problem with Macros on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:18AM (#28849984)
"So we’re supposed to be writing a game, right? But in order to make progress, we have to fix a bug. And in order to fix the bug, we have to write a test. And in order to write a test, we have to write a test framework. And in order to write a test framework, we have to understand a thing or two about macros."

You could just fix the bug?

Game development is a different architecture to 'regular' system development (especially if it is a solo project).

If you are testing to ensure the bug isn't reintroduced then you haven't fixed the bug.

Re:Simulator of digging a tunnel through the earth on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:18AM (#28315295)
This really doesn't simulate anything.
Seems to use the EXIF data to display the image, so if uploading an image from a portait image you might want to strip that or it breaks.

Its pretty cool, but one thing that always bugs me - why is the demo page so bad?

For the majority of people, this is the only way they are going to see this thing working - would it really have hurt to have had an actual frontend dev nock something together for this? It takes away from the great work behind the scenes imho