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Comment · 2 years ago
The title was changed I think after I submitted it. I don’t have the karma to update it though.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
gobby was/is the testbed editor for the protocol originally called obby (now infinote). As many GNOME based applications of the time, names where usually prefixed with a 'g', hence gobby.
Comment · 11 years ago
To be pedantically correct, CityEngine was a product of Procedural (spin off from ETH) which got acquired by ESRI later.
Comment · 12 years ago
Hi, author here. Thanks to everyone for checking this out. I'm sorry if some of the examples don't work across the board, most of these use WebGL extensions that might not be available everywhere. As some people mention in the comments here, and as mentioned in the introductionary text on the website, I've not been able to test this across a large variety of platforms and browsers and I expected there to be issues in particular on Windows using ANGLE. Please consider filing issues on github intead of/in addition to reporting them here so I can actually track them.
Comment · 12 years ago
I meant to say bicycle lane, not driver lane.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm Dutch, and used to biking everywhere since I've been little. It is true that people in the Netherlands don't usually wear helmets, and the infrastructure and general driving attitude (you do have to pay much more attention to bicyclists when learning to drive) promote this. However, since I've moved to Switzerland I've become accustomed to wearing a helmet. One year ago I was in a pretty serious accident where I broke two vertebrae (one compression fracture and one clean break) and... my helmet. I don't care what studies say, I'm pretty sure that in my case the helmet saved my life.

On a side note, the situation in which the accident happened could have happened likewise in the Netherlands, it was on the flat and I was on a driver lane, except maybe that it was driver negligance that could have been avoided if drivers where more accustomed to bicyclists.

Comment · 12 years ago
I happened to be at the airport when it happened (still am). We got to hear that the airport closed due to "Operational problems". Plenty vague, but the internets prevails.
Comment · 13 years ago
I can't really compare, because I've personally never used pycparser. The nice thing about using libclang is that you're just using the same backend as the actual compiler and you can be sure that you're going to parse complex things correctly and reliably.
Comment · 13 years ago

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