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SimHacker (180785)

SimHacker
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http://www.donhopkins.com/
Hacking TomTom, OLPC, SimCity, OpenLaszlo. Developed pie menus (http://www.PieMenu.com) for many platforms. Worked with Will Wright at Maxis on The Sims, designed and implemented the 3D character animation system, graphics and user interface stuff (pie menus, house editing tools, censorship), object editing and programming tools (Edith, SimShow, SimTransmogrifier). Developed tools and content for The Sims, ported The Sims Online server to Linux, developed multi player SimCity Classic on Linux. Programmed Will Wright's robot brain. Hacking cellular automata, real time video, image processing, audio, speech synthesis and recognition, programming languages and tools. Favorites: OpenLaszlo, Python, TurboGears, SQLObject, Kid, SWIG, Lua, Lisp.

SimHacker (180785)

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My blog's at http://www.DonHopkins.com , Monday February 23 2004, @10:48AM (0 comments)

My blog's at http://www.DonHopkins.com. Please go there instead of here!

SimHacker's Latest 24 of 1207 Comments

Subject Datestamp Replies Score
Re:Lua and Python will free your mind  Tuesday July 22, @11:44AM  2
Re:PHP will ruin your mind  Tuesday July 22, @11:35AM 2 2
Re:PHP will ruin your mind  Tuesday July 22, @08:49AM 5 5, Informative
Re:PHP will ruin your mind  Tuesday July 22, @06:32AM 17 5, Insightful
   attached to How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming?
Linux is only free if your time is worthless.  Sunday July 20, @12:55PM 3 2, Interesting
   attached to Linux Needs More Haters
Re:Object Oriented PostScript programming  *Tuesday July 08, @11:17AM  2
Object Oriented PostScript programming  *Saturday July 05, @08:59AM 1 2
   attached to Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language
HyperCard Smut Stack  *Sunday May 25, @09:37AM 1 5, Interesting
Re:HyperCard?  *Sunday May 25, @09:05AM 5 2, Insightful
GoodNeWS / HyperNeWS / HyperLook  *Sunday May 25, @08:43AM 2 5, Informative
   attached to HyperCard, What Could Have Been
Negropontification  *Monday April 28, @12:20PM  -1, Offtopic
   attached to Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists
SimShow tool was released before The Sims  *Monday April 28, @12:12PM 1 4, Interesting
   attached to Spore Editor Available June 17th
GPL Micropolis (SimCity) on Google Code  *Saturday April 26, @04:52AM  2
   attached to GPL Edutainment Software
SimMars  *Thursday April 24, @04:02AM  5, Informative
   attached to NASA Responds To MMO Concerns
Re:Except  *Wednesday April 16, @12:56PM 1 2
No SimCity/Micropolis for iPhone  *Wednesday April 16, @12:03PM 8 5, Insightful
   attached to iPhone SDK and Free Software Don't Match
Re:Firefox Plugin?  *Saturday April 05, @06:06PM 1 3, Interesting
Re:Bittorrent  *Saturday April 05, @11:03AM  3, Informative
Korsakoff's Syndrome  *Saturday April 05, @10:52AM  2
   attached to ApacheCon Europe'08 Live Video Streaming
Micropolis (SimCity) for OLPC/Linux/Mac/Windows  *Wednesday April 02, @05:43AM  2
   attached to Summer of Code Deadline Extended 6 Days
PSI Menus!  *Sunday March 02, @05:48AM  1, Redundant
   attached to OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping
Re:It's fine that the source is closed, for them..  *Thursday February 14, @03:29PM 1 2
Re:It's fine that the source is closed, for them..  *Thursday February 14, @03:22PM 1 2
Re:It's fine that the source is closed, for them..  *Thursday February 14, @02:46PM  1
   attached to Spore Hands-On Preview
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SimHacker's Recently Accepted Submissions

Title Datestamp
One SimCity Per Child Thursday November 08 2007, @03:40PM
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