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Comment Re:That fits with what I think (Score 2) 222

by hitchhacker on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:10PM (#56015361) Attached to: Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds

Netscape originally wanted to embed Scheme in the browser, Sun wanted them to use Java.. they settled on creating something new with syntax similar to Java: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In 1995, Netscape Communications recruited Brendan Eich with the goal of embedding the Scheme programming language into its Netscape Navigator.[8] Before he could get started, Netscape Communications collaborated with Sun Microsystems to include in Netscape Navigator Sun's more static programming language Java, in order to compete with Microsoft for user adoption of Web technologies and platforms.[9] Netscape Communications then decided that the scripting language they wanted to create would complement Java and should have a similar syntax, which excluded adopting other languages such as Perl, Python, TCL, or Scheme. To defend the idea of JavaScript against competing proposals, the company needed a prototype. Eich wrote one in 10 days, in May 1995.

Comment Re:Bitcoin's dominance (Score 1) 120

by hitchhacker on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:40PM (#55405081) Attached to: Bitcoin Nears $6,000 For the First Time

Two words: Segregated Witness.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 239

by hitchhacker on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:06PM (#54950739) Attached to: GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers

I can't speak for gedit, but that isn't correct about root canals. The point of the operation is to remove the nerves/pulp from the tooth canals so it doesn't cause pain anymore. The nerves are definitely there and shouting loudly when they are removed.

Comment Re:Anything with David Attenborough! (Score 1) 278

by hitchhacker on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:08PM (#54572627) Attached to: What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others?

Correction, I meant Kingdom of Plants

Comment Re:Anything with David Attenborough! (Score 1) 278

by hitchhacker on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:58PM (#54572555) Attached to: What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others?

My favorites with him, especially if you have a 3D tv, is 'The private life of plants'

Comment The Planets (BBC) (Score 1) 278

by hitchhacker on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:51PM (#54572493) Attached to: What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others?

The Planets
You'll want the British version because the US version, incredibly, cuts out a hell of a lot of the Soviet accomplishments! Pretty much have to torrent to find that copy. I was completely unaware of how close the Russians were in the space race before this series. Well directed too.

Comment Re:nice video, but the launch seems backwards (Score 3, Informative) 202

by hitchhacker on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:35PM (#52972341) Attached to: SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video

The ship going to mars is fueled multiple times while in earth's orbit. I guess the fuel is too heavy, so they are spreading it out over multiple launches. They are talking about reusing the same tanker to do this too:

LOREN GRUSH 3:21:49 PM EDT Tanker will go up 3 to 5 times to fill up the ship.

https://live.theverge.com/elon...

Comment Re:Open world city (Score 1) 281

by hitchhacker on Sunday September 20, 2015 @02:06PM (#50561967) Attached to: Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux

TuxRacer VR running on the Oculus Rift. :)

Comment Re:Software using OpenGL (Score 1) 88

by hitchhacker on Monday September 14, 2015 @06:36PM (#50522109) Attached to: OpenGL Library Mesa 11.0 Brings Open Source OpenGL 4

I believe you meant to reply to the post above me? I was arguing the same thing as you. Development for the Playstation, apparently can use either their own GCM library or an OpenGL ES compatible api called psGL... so that would be another exception in addition to Apple's Metal api.

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Comment Re:Software using OpenGL (Score 4, Informative) 88

by hitchhacker on Saturday September 12, 2015 @04:43PM (#50510861) Attached to: OpenGL Library Mesa 11.0 Brings Open Source OpenGL 4

Sorry for that obvious question but is there left any software still using OpenGL? :-) (mesa demos do not count)

The first things that come to mind would be any hardware accelerated 3D graphics not targeting a Microsoft-only platform. Any software or games that are compiled against D3D and run through Wine are implicitly using OpenGL. All iphone and android apps are using OpenGL. Scientific visualization applications are most likely using OpenGL along with any other industry that goes back to the early 90's or before. I don't see a whole lot wrong with OpenGL for my needs, and Vulkan doesn't seem to add a whole lot that I can't do already though it is apparently necessary for pushing the envelope wrt next generation game engines. -metric

Comment Re:Missing the point again... (Score 2) 25

by hitchhacker on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:56PM (#50119729) Attached to: Virtual Reality Tech and Openness

You completely left out the difficult parts of the Oculus SDK like corrections for lens distortion and chromatic aberration. Their SDK also does a ton of work when your app can't meet the 75 fps vsync target of the hmd and starts doing its "time warp" frame interpolation based on current head orientation. There's a hell of a lot more they are planning before the final release next year with things like layers for distant objects which shouldn't need to be rendered twice and their custom spatial input controllers.

There's OSVR.. though it appears that they are doing the lens correction via shaders and I don't think they have a driver for the Oculus head tracking yet. I build against the Oculus SDK 0.4.4 on Linux because that's the _only_ thing available to me right now. If only I had the luxury of choice.

Comment Re:Adoption (Score 3, Insightful) 383

by hitchhacker on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:34PM (#49987759) Attached to: Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question

What are your thoughts on why it is that Linux doesn't have a higher adoption rate?

You might want to limit that question to some subset like just "desktops". afaik, Linux still has the highest install base of any operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Wow (Score 4, Informative) 105

by hitchhacker on Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:01PM (#49895979) Attached to: Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft

They didn't just pause development. They ripped the whole thing out of their source distribution along with the build utilities except for msvc project files. "Pause" would have meant at least keeping and accepting patches for what they had.

Comment Re:Intensely private? (Score 2) 61

by hitchhacker on Monday May 18, 2015 @08:42AM (#49717017) Attached to: Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto

uhh.. there's a link right there on his page to b money.

Comment Re: Mac/Linux support removed... mildly surprised (Score 1) 227

by hitchhacker on Saturday May 16, 2015 @01:08PM (#49706067) Attached to: Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted

Even if they support Linux, you still need people producing content for it that also supports Linux. I have a DK1, and while I did manage to get it going on my gentoo install, there was (and honestly still is) very little to actually play with. I ended up just installing Windows on a second drive.

Extreme Tux Racer for Oculus Rift (released a few days ago): http://jdtaylor.github.io/tuxr...

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