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Comment on Spore’s Brilliant Trick For Uploading/Downloading Creatures by Chill

Chill — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:16:38 +0000

I’ve been sharing books embedded in images for a while now (weeks? months?). A JPEG on the book cover joined with a rar containing the book is a sweet way of exchanging amongst the more literary internet types. I always thought this was a cool way of distributing something, and it even looks inconspicuous. Unless they look at the file size.

Comment on Pixel-Perfect Collision Detection in ActionScript3 by Tink

Tink — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:20:28 +0000

we wrote a version here too http://www.tink.ws/blog/as-30-hittest/

Comment on This is why I use Flash. by Clinton Keith

Clinton Keith — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:17:38 +0000

I wish I could mind-meld this concept with game programmers. Some of the slooowest programmers I’ve seen were “language snobs”.

Comment on An Interesting Theory of Code Stability by Clinton Keith

Clinton Keith — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:15:57 +0000

I think it would be best if used as a general guideline that can be occasionally broken for the “better good”. “No getters”, Demter and Data Driven design, etc work well if not taken as an absolute rule IMO.

Comment on Pixel-Perfect Collision Detection in ActionScript3 by CISNKY » links for 2008-06-23

CISNKY » links for 2008-06-23 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:32:21 +0000

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Comment on An Interesting Theory of Code Stability by Troy

Troy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:45:23 +0000

Yeah, it’s incredibly Smalltalk-y: objects sending messages to each other. The original OO.

I hear Apple has an official port of Squeak (Smalltalk VM) for the iPhone. In fact, Smalltalk seems to be bubbling through the cracks in a lot of places lately. Maybe it’s just a local trend on Reddit, or maybe it’s the beginning of Smalltalk’s (re-)ascension to the OO throne?

Comment on An Interesting Theory of Code Stability by Marc Majcher

Marc Majcher — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:28:28 +0000

That’s a pretty interesting concept. Very smalltalk-y, if I’m correctly remembering how that all works. I should try putting my head in that mindset for a while and seeing what happens.

~~(It looks like the primary link up there is a trackback thinger, not a link to the article, btw. Very curious to see what else is there…)~~ FIXED.

Comment on Functional Programming in AS3 by Erik

Erik — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:44:53 +0000

I scanned through the sample code since I was curious as to what was “interesting” about Eckel’s code style. While I definitely agree with you - don’t use that approach where I work - I think Eckel wouldn’t actually use it either, on a real project, and it’s something he did simply for pedagogical reasons.