Once and for All, Is America a Christian Nation?
One counterfeit idea that circulates with frustrating stubbornness is the claim that America was founded as a Christian nation.
american-history  religious-history 
21 days ago
Introduction to Dual Decomposition for Interence
Paper describing Dual Decomposition used to estimate the MAP assignment in Markov random fields (networks)
bayes-network 
4 weeks ago
GDC Talk: How To Explain Your Game To An Asshole, by Tom Francis
Mistakes:
1) Not explaining your game.
2) Explaining your artistic intent.
3) Explaining your story.
4) Explaining that you are awesome.
games  game-marketing  marketing 
9 weeks ago
How Hiring Makes Uniqlo a Successful Retailer : The New Yorker
Route to profitability in retail lies not in having as few workers as you can get away with and paying them as little as possible. Have more staff, pay them more, avoid "phantom stock-out".
business  staffing 
10 weeks ago
TIGSource » TIGArchive » LabChirp
A program for creating sound effects for games, music, videos - whatever you want!
audio-dev  gamedev  game-audio 
10 weeks ago
World of Goo - Drew Davidson | ETC Press
About the history of world of goo, describing the Experimental Gameplay Project where games must be made in less than one day.
gamedev  workflow 
11 weeks ago
davidbau.com: Random Seeds, Coded Hints, and Quintillions
Here is a seedable random number generator in Javascript that you can set up to produce a determinstic sequence of pseudorandom numbers.
javascript  random  prng 
march 2012
Vim and Ctags - Andrew's blog
Article on how to use ctags with vim
vim  ctags 
february 2012
SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
From http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=24038.0
* SFML2 -- it's got a nice and simple API for making games
* Atom Zombie Smasher was built with SFML I think.
gamedev 
february 2012
Books for hacker-minded people - HackerBooks
List of books mentioned on hacker news and stack overflow.
books  programming  hackernews 
february 2012
HN-Books
List of books that a hn reader would find interesting
books  programming  hackernews 
february 2012
carlhuda/janus - GitHub
A distribution of plug-ins and mappings for Vim, Gvim and MacVim.

It is designed to provide minimal working environment using the most popular plug-ins and the most common mappings.
vim 
january 2012
Graphite - Scalable Realtime Graphing - Graphite
Graphite is actually a bit of a niche application. Specifically, it is designed to handle numeric time-series data. For example, Graphite would be good at graphing stock prices because they are numbers that change over time. However Graphite is a complex system, and if you only have a few hundred distinct things you want to graph (stocks prices in the S&P 500) then Graphite is probably overkill. But if you need to graph a lot of different things (like dozens of performance metrics from thousands of servers) and you don't necessarily know the names of those things in advance (who wants to maintain such huge configuration?) then Graphite is for you.
visualization  metrics  analytics  monitoring 
january 2012
About Spline Interpolation - Control points
Describes how to determine the control points for a set of points you want to make smooth with a bezier curve
bezier-curves 
january 2012
Verlet integration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A method for integrating newtons equations of motion.
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods
for finding solutions to ordinary differential equations.
numerical-analysis  physics  math 
january 2012
Battlecode - AI Programming Competition
Battlecode, developed for 6.370, is a real-time strategy game. Two teams of robots roam the screen managing resources and attacking each other with different kinds of weapons. However, in Battlecode each robot functions autonomously; under the hood it runs a Java virtual machine loaded up with its team's player program. Robots in the game communicate by radio and must work together to accomplish their goals.
ai  ai-challenge 
january 2012
Bezier curves - a primer
Excellent resource explaining how to calculate many of the things that may be of interest when using bezier curves.
bezier-curves 
january 2012
Dear procrastinator | Hacker News
Procrastination as an act of resentment over being pressured into doing something by your past self.
procrastination 
january 2012
Your Code is My Hell | Virtuous Code
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2912494
This post talks about the importance of good engineering practice within new languages and platforms which can deny and avoid such existing ideas with the ideal that "this time things are different" and "our new language superseds such old fashioned ideals".
rails  enterprise-development  design-patterns  software-engineering  software-fads 
january 2012
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