Sam Hocevar

821 reputation

bio	website	sam.zoy.org
	location	Paris, France
	age	34
visits	member for	1 year, 5 months
	seen	Mar 2 at 20:04
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I live in Paris, France.

I work on PlayStation, Xbox and computer games for a living. I write free software and all kind of crazy shit for fun. My interests: image processing, video coding, game development, maths, physics, compression, cryptography.

	821 reputation	bio	website	sam.zoy.org	visits	member for	1 year, 5 months
36 badges		location	Paris, France		seen	Mar 2 at 20:04

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Jan 3	awarded	Good Answer
Jan 3	comment	Do people really want to look at multiple windows at once? @Shauna There is (mediocre but usable) undocumented support for focus-follows-mouse in all versions of Windows until at least Win7 through a simple registry key. See for instance TXMouse.
Jan 2	comment	Do people really want to look at multiple windows at once? @mikebabcock But how many browsers let you display several websites at once, each page able to get focus, potentially focus-follows-mouse, or with drag-and-drop between those pages?
Jan 2	awarded	Nice Answer
Jan 2	answered	Do people really want to look at multiple windows at once?
Dec 7	awarded	Yearling
Dec 12	awarded	Good Answer
Dec 10	comment	How could one prevent drunk users from using a mobile application? Since the best answer to your question is probably “by preventing anyone from using it”, can you maybe hint on the impact of false positives versus false negatives?
Dec 8	comment	Is clockwise or counter-clockwise rotated text easier to read? @Kris: My observation is that there is a link with the way of "selling" the book through its appearance. It seems to me that a lot of modern novels attempt to print the title or author's name as large as possible on the spine, thus always writing vertically. The books that do not rotate the text, printing it in much smaller characters, are usually from publishers considered more prestigious, such as the French "Nouvelle Revue Française".
Dec 8	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 8	revised	Is clockwise or counter-clockwise rotated text easier to read? add another note about orientation
Dec 7	comment	Is clockwise or counter-clockwise rotated text easier to read? It could be that the rationale is different for the two configurations, and that European book spines are easier to read when the book is on a shelf, and American book spines are easier to read when the book is lying flat.
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Dec 7	awarded	Teacher
Dec 7	awarded	Editor
Dec 7	revised	Is clockwise or counter-clockwise rotated text easier to read? add comment about my library
Dec 7	answered	Is clockwise or counter-clockwise rotated text easier to read?
Dec 7	awarded	Autobiographer