HeyChinaski

323 karma · joined March 19, 2007

HeyChinaski··on The Redis criticism thread

Salvatore is admirably proactive at garnering criticism for his project. He's also incredibly gracious when accepting it.

HeyChinaski··on Tofu – Twitter bot

I made a very similar bot a few years ago. http://twitter.com/markovator

HeyChinaski··on Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly

Absolutely.

HeyChinaski··on Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly

How would one hard code SAT cases? Just curious I've got the general code working now.

HeyChinaski··on Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly

Now I feel bad for slowing up my current pet project by getting bogged down writing polygon collision detection when axis aligned bounding boxes would have done for prototyping. (I'm not as quick as Notch!)

HeyChinaski··on A quick look at the Redis source code

In defence of the technique, the command table is quite succinct and arguably more readable at a glance than if there were a bunch of constants |ed together. I have no idea whether this was the original motivation though.

HeyChinaski··on A quick look at the Redis source code

I was quite surprised to see the tcl tests. I'm reserving judgement until I've tried writing one though.

HeyChinaski··on A quick look at the Redis source code

Ah yes, I remember the interval sets article. The first post is a lot more in depth than mine. Both great links, thanks.

HeyChinaski··on A quick look at the Redis source code

Yeah, it's a pretty shallow introduction. I'd like to write more articles on the Redis code. The sorted set skiplist stuff is really interesting.

HeyChinaski··on Ask HN: The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers

Professor Power and Powerbot

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

Terrible name I know. Platformer built in Javascript. No frameworks or libraries other than a sprinkling of jquery. SunVox for music, sound in bfxr, graphics in Inkscape.