jjs

I love this site, but I miss classic Slashdot

> This Zen parable is faulty wisdom (like so much of Mahayana and Vajrayana fanfiction)

Please don't promote sectarian strife here.

> When shading, the artist will just have to be very conscious of the angle of incidence from the light source.

The artist should be doing this already!

As it happens, I'm working on something like this right now...

My current best solution is to use mouse/pen movement as cspline sample points, even when not drawing. The motion as you swing into a curve, even before the pen touches down, often predicts the trajectory of the pen stroke. (This also lets you "swing in" a circle without getting ugly linear segments).

This may be of limited utility on a touch-based device, however.

Your mention of Kanji is particularly salient, as the blog post catches these skeuomorphic icons in the act of evolving from pictograms to ideograms...

You say idiom, I say chronic lack of imagination.

> In a perfect world having a list where 25% of the names are potential trouble-makers [...]

... would be pointless, as a perfect world would have no concept of "trouble".

Should it be improved this way?

A hard real-time system can fail by running a piece of code too soon as well as too late.

OTOH, a soft real-time program like a video game or voice chat could profit from this.

So the box was more fun without the game cartridge...

Because of their life experience, I wouldn't be so quick to reject either of these fellows' advice out of hand.

You can prototype with the null-GC until you run out of memory...

> I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative.

As someone who's just read your comment, I'd like to say: calm down, and re-read the parent comment with an open mind. It's dripping with life experience.

... but if it does all three, put a ring on it!