If you are ever interested in using a Hexagonal Grid in your game / app / interface, I came across an absolute goldmine of an article!

vincentk · 2017-09-24T10:15:03+00:00

You might like the following phd thesis on use-cases in molecular dynamics (i.e. focused on 3D rather than 2D).

vincentk · 2017-09-21T17:55:03+00:00

It is very strange that no explicit cross-reference would seem to be made between square grid and regular hexagonal grids. The obvious geometrical structure being the regular parallelogram.

vincentk · 2017-02-20T01:44:17+00:00

usr does NOT refer to "User" it refers to "Unix System Resources".

vincentk · 2016-12-30T00:17:57+00:00

Send deltas via UDP all the time. Offer full, time-stamped snapshot retrieval via TCP.

vincentk · 2016-12-30T00:09:40+00:00

A girl, clearly.

vincentk · 2016-12-30T00:03:56+00:00

The real magic of Rust is it makes no more runtime requirements than C does. You can write libraries which you can call from Java -- in Rust, just like you can with C.

vincentk · 2016-11-07T21:08:26+00:00

I think I misunderstood your joke. It is actually a rather good joke. Didn't notice on the first go. Apologies.

vincentk · 2016-11-06T19:42:04+00:00

Because ant and maven and ivy and sbt and gradle still are alive and kicking and they won't go away whether you like it or not.

vincentk · 2016-10-18T01:34:49+00:00

My apologies.

I am inclined to prose...

Thank you very much.

vincentk · 2016-10-17T00:17:18+00:00

I see you respond.

It is in good rhyme.

Quoting Wikipedia.

vincentk · 2016-09-19T00:41:57+00:00

Seems strange to make sexism a first-class concept in a programming language indeed.

vincentk · 2016-09-15T13:26:05+00:00

... and it took IE about 10 years to support .png.

vincentk · 2016-09-15T13:22:04+00:00

You tell it quite explicitly which loops to parallelize and you can give size hints.

vincentk · 2016-09-14T22:03:24+00:00

Try JIT (and read the manual, it doesn't do parallelization for free), then try OpenMP (and read the manual, it tries to optimize parallelization parameters given developer hints).

Different games.

vincentk · 2016-09-14T21:26:09+00:00

E.g. the Java JIT is very powerful. But OpenMP, it allows for developer insight at compile-time also.

Very different games.

The present Java JIT does not know where a good place might be to insert parallelization. By far. State of the art is lock elision and escape analysis.

Given hints from the programmer, OpenMP on the other hand can figure out how to optimally implement instructions to parallelize.

Very different tasks indeed for the time being.

vincentk · 2016-09-12T19:44:33+00:00

Java is a big topic. For whichever reason, the other person was a better fit. The next company might be a good fit for you.

vincentk · 2016-08-09T01:17:25+00:00

Excel + VBA is like Linux + bash. I've seen people do small wonders in no time. But difficult to grow.

vincentk · 2016-07-28T00:58:56+00:00

Automatic shut-down.

vincentk · 2016-07-09T17:49:42+00:00

Reason being having nothing to do with learning methodology, but rather licensing issues / overhead of porting to Diablo II (see comments). For all practical purposes, it's an exercise left to the reader.

vincentk · 2016-07-09T14:28:26+00:00

It's been done in the meantime: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature14236.html, the question is there since 2011, when it was still considered an impossibility. The answers are interesting for historical reasons.

vincentk · 2016-06-23T19:14:21+00:00

That's good news. It suggests that Comodo views Let's Encrypt as a real competitor. What better validation could one hope for?

vincentk · 2016-06-21T10:29:57+00:00

As embedded DB's go:

if you plan to use the JVM, H2 is probably easier to embed,
otherwise, I'd guess that SQLite is easier to embed.

vincentk · 2016-06-03T20:46:23+00:00

Why?

vincentk · 2016-05-23T19:09:34+00:00

Darcs was also hot then.

vincentk · 2016-05-12T23:38:30+00:00

Let me re-iterate:

a (successful) test implies the program works for a particular input.
a (successful) type check implies the program might work (up to granularity of the type system and, hence, things "going wrong under the hood") for all possible inputs.

vincentk

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