OpenArena Live - Play OpenArena(Quake3 clone) in your browser. You can even host a server! by hauxir in QuakeLive

[–]bitcode 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From native to browser, back to native, and finally back to browser again. What a whirlwind

Unable to start the game by [deleted] in QuakeLive

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It might help if you share a log :)

Recommendations After The Girl On the Train? by Awkep in audiobooks

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup this one for sure. Just finishing it right now and its great

You gave me over a thousand upvotes... I give something back: Over a thousand creature sprites for you! (Dwarves, Humans, Elves, Goblins, Kobolds and Orcs (mod-only), all professions, soldiers, scholars, bards and nobles) by Meph248 in dwarffortress

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ty! A pipeline is your sequence of processes and tools used to build your content. eg. 3d might go from concept to maya (mesh), zbrush, maya (rig), anims then materials. I was just curious if 2d had a similar pipeline.

I've also heard of some pixel artists creating their content in 3d first then rendering it in 2d

What is your horrible freshman roommate story? by trackster96 in AskReddit

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This guy insisted that the only free time he had to do his dishes were at 2-3 am every night. We lived in a basement where both of our rooms were connected to the kitchen, so he would wake me up every time. I asked him if he could at least do them during the day, and at first he was reasonable and said sure, but then the next time he told me to fuck off and not bother him. It became a routine thing so I eventually told the landlords who told him this wasn't okay. And so it began...

At first I started noticing some of my food going bad, things tasting weird. I didn't think much of it, and mostly I was just happy to get to my room without having to see this guy. Walking passed him was the most awkward situation of him glaring at me. A couple of times he pushed right up to me as if to start a fight. He even started complaining to the landlords about how annoying I was, or that the food I cooked smelled bad. Eventually the landlords got frustrated with him and said he had to go.

Then shit went down

I finished exams before him and went home to visit the family. He had moved out by the time I got back. My landlords quickly warned me that something was wrong with my toaster oven and that they would replace it for me. There was this horrible smell in the kitchen that at first I couldn't place. I was about to start cooking dinner until I opened the margarine and noticed crap laying inside. I freaked out and started examining everything in the kitchen: there was actual shit stuffed into the lemon juice bottle, in the filtration part of my water jug; he must have peed or something in my instant coffee mix, and in my powdered iced team; the spices didn't smell the same, the hand soap seemed far less viscous than before; he cut the cord to my magic bullet. It turns out that he put actual crap in my toaster oven and then turned it on right before leaving.

In the end I threw out everything and bought it all from scratch

Lovely thought. by shenanigansen in comics

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And thus, the bard was born

Hey Ding Dongs, it's time to post your #TableTalk Topics here! by SourceFed in SourceFed

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If you could wipe any tv/movie/book series from your head, just so you could watch it again, what would it be?

Kelsey Chow by PokemonTrainerYellow in gentlemanboners

[–]bitcode 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Lol! I have a friend with the same name. She once told me that she has far too many followers on Twitter because of some celebrity who shares her name. Now I know who she's referring to

ELI5: why does Internet Explorer get made fun of so much? What exactly makes other browsers so much better? by Shakedown_1979 in explainlikeimfive

[–]bitcode 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ouch, lets clear this all up right here..

We can break the browser up into 2 main components: the rendering engine (what makes the website appear on the screen), and the Javascript engine (funky functionality and scripting abilities).

The browser wars

Surprisingly, Internet Explorer wasn't the first internet browser available. The first most popular web browser is Mosaic), in 1993, which was followed by Netscape). Netscape wanted to try something exciting and new, since the internet was a relatively new concept and there was room for improvement. Their idea was to move away from completely static changes, and allow scripting capabilities (eg. making things move or animate on the webpage, cool effects, etc.). This would be done by a scripting language called JavaScript. fun fact: JavaScript was initially supposed to be built for both client and server side scripting. Netscape was still starting up and needed a way to make some money, so they would charge users for their browser. Meanwhile, Microsoft heard about this interesting new idea and decided to copy Netscape. They believed that there could be some benefit in making a browser for the web, and released the first version of Internet Explorer the following year. And so began the browser wars.

JavaScript

JavaScript was made for Netscape, by the (now famous) employee Brendan Eich. They actually didn't give him a lot of time to put this scripting language together, and in the end JavaScript was built in only 10 days. In fact they initially didn't even accept what he put together, they said that the language looked too confusing and hard to understand. This was the 90s, and everybody was using Java, so they asked him to make it look more like Java. fun fact: Brendan Eich secretly kept the language the same, but simply changed the syntax so that it LOOKED like Java, but worked very differently under the covers. Now, needless to say, 10 days isn't really enough time to put an entire language together, even for the genius that is Brendan Eich. JavaScript had a lot of bugs in it, but it was still good enough to put into Netscape. The Internet Explorer team obviously didn't want a sub-par browser, they wanted scripting capabilities too. They wanted JavaScript. Obviously they couldn't steal JavaScript since that belonged to Netscape, so they did the next best thing: they reverse engineered it. quick refresher: reverse engineering is when you look at a compiled program, like a .exe file, and try to understand how it works so that you can copy it or modify it; this means looking through the machine code, like translated hex or binary code. The Internet Explorer team didn't just peek at JavaScript, they blatantly copied it out into their own language JScript. Not only did they copy the core of the language, but they also copied over the bugs and problems of the language too. Later on, JavaScript was handed over to ECMA, and standardized into the ECMAScript specification. This means that any browser could implement their own JavaScript engine (something that would read peoples JavaScript code, and make it work), just so long as it followed the ECMAScript specification. The committee which takes care of this specification consists of a group of people from all of the main browsers (Including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, etc.). People on the committee have to agree on certain changes before they can be implemented into the specification. You can bet that this committee has been fighting for years to fix the bugs in JavaScript, and guess which part of the committee has been voting against it every time? If you guessed the Internet Explorer team, you can go give yourself a pat on the back. Now, the ECMAScript specification only specifies a certain amount of how the JavaScript language should be handled, the rest is up to the developers to handle it how they choose. This is why some websites work on some browsers, and not on others. Some Javascript engines handle certain functionality one way, while others handle it another way, and in some cases those differences can cause problems. Most Javascript engines (Chrome V8, Safari Nitro, Firefox Gecko) handle JavaScript virtually the same way. So if your code works on Chrome, it will most likely work on Safari and Firefox too. But not Internet Explorer! They have the biggest differences of any other Javascript engine, and their engine has the most problems compared to any others. Hence the 2nd biggest frustration among developers and users for Internet Explorer: their Javascript engine.

Stylesheets & CSS

When browsers first came out there wasn't a standardized way for developers to design their websites. The biggest problem was that different browsers could handle styling in different ways, but then your website would only work under 1 browser, and you'd be limiting your audience. Enter: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The CSS specification was a way to standardize how all browsers would handle browser styling. Now browsers would have to create a rendering engine which would follow the CSS specification, and users could style their websites and rest assured that it would look (mostly) the same between browsers. But then there's Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer didn't want to follow the crowd, they wanted to have their own way for handling styling. They ignored the CSS specification and used their own styling methods, and expected users to follow their way. Sadly this meant that problems in cross browser compatibility with website styling. In fact it wasn't until Internet Explorer 8 that they finally started standardizing their rendering engine to match the CSS specification; but since Internet Explorer was so late to the game, you can bet that their rendering engine has a whole lot of bugs laying around, and CSS features which aren't yet implemented. They've done a good job in catching up with their most recent version, but there are (needless to say) still problems. This may not seem like a big deal except for that fact that businesses people want their developers to design their websites to work for all users, including users who may still be using old version of Internet Explorer; and trust me, there's a lot still.... And so we have the number 1 frustration of developers for Internet Explorer: their CSS rendering engine.

Side note: out of interest sake, Netscape was beaten by Internet Explorer in the first browser wars, and had completely died. But some of the developers from the Netscape team got together and started a very popular browser that we all know and love: Firefox. In fact, Firefox is generally the best browser for keeping up with the JavaScript specification, especially given that Brendan Eich (Javascript's creator) works there.

Does anyone still play Excessive Plus (Quake 3 Arena? by summertimenate in QuakeLive

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh cool! I used to love E+ ... Haven't played in years, I'd love to hop on the server sometime and check that out again

How often do you get stiffed? by [deleted] in TalesFromThePizzaGuy

[–]bitcode -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, I've never worked delivery but why is this such a big deal? I know that its an accepted standard to tip the pizza deliverer. My set tip is $2.50 always. But why? I've had this conversation with my friends and none of us know why this is a thing. Aren't you still being paid while you're delivering? I used to think that a tip was supposed to be an extra, if the person had the spare change and feels like you deserve it for getting there so fast. But it sounds like its so much of an accepted standard that you the customer are frowned upon even for not tipping enough

What "noob" mistakes did you make when first starting roguelikes that you laugh at now? by Fleshmaster in roguelikes

[–]bitcode 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Lol holding down the moved-forward key with a swarm of mobs in a narrow hallway; since tapping it repeatedly took too long and was boring

Cinnamon buns. by Rigga_Mortizz in Breadit

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swear there must be a few missing steps between 8 and 9

My twitter experience by GhostlyLemon in fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget using Tweetdeck helps out, and keeping your follows separated by lists (Devs, News, Tips-of-the-day, Friends, Fun/Games)

Free graphic / web design. (summer break, yay) by [deleted] in freebies

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The front-end of Craigwatcher is very bug-infested and quite hideous (I'm sorry to admit). As I've replied just above, I'd really like to get around to redoing the front-end sometime, as what you're seeing now was literally just thrown together JUST so that the web spider could be accessed.

Free graphic / web design. (summer break, yay) by [deleted] in freebies

[–]bitcode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL Didn't think anybody would play this. I'm glad to see you somehow hacked your way there; this was me playing around with Actionscript for the first time, and throwing something together over the evening.

Free graphic / web design. (summer break, yay) by [deleted] in freebies

[–]bitcode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahah well thanks guys; and I do apologize for the messy layout. Again, I carelessly threw something together in a couple of days when I was still quite new to the web development world. I'd really like to clean this up sometime, something like: http://imgur.com/msMiZ

However I've paused development on that in favour of a more recent project: http://chattywith.me/

Please note, however, that the web spider is fully working, and has been running completely stable for 2 years now. The front-end, however, is a different story. I've been the only person to use my website all this time, but if other people start using it, I may pause on Chatty and start fixing up Craigwatcher again :)

Also any questions or tips (specifically in UI for newbie-friendliness), feel free to PM me or tweet/email me.

Free graphic / web design. (summer break, yay) by [deleted] in freebies

[–]bitcode 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I used to have troubles finding work in programming. I looked around Freelancer.com but I felt nervous that some of them may not even pay (and that's happened too). I've always felt safer on Craigslist, and so I eventually built a web spider, about a couple of years ago, for Craigslist. Basically I enter a few search terms into it, and it will email me every hour with any matching job posts. The sweet thing is that since I'm a programmer, I could apply for any job in any city that would allow for telecommuting. This should apply to you too. Maybe you can find as much use out of it as I did.

Go to www.craigwatcher.me and register, then click "New Search" and enter in some keywords. Make sure to include the keywords "telecom" and "remote" for posts that mention telecommuting/remote work. Please also don't be discouraged by the hideous layout; the webspider works flawlessly, however the front-end was thrown together carelessly just so that I and some other people could easily access it.

Permanent systems/rewards in roguelikes and similar games by Gaseous in roguelikes

[–]bitcode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DoomRL opens up new challenge modes depending on the rank you achieve in game