SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
OK, just going to answer a few points, to try to wrap this up. :) >I'd argue it's not a silver bullet as a primary language to write an entire game / engine in w/ more discussion continuing along those lines; there seems to be flexibili
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
To be fair, it seems that it's only the Market team (or, if you use AdMob, the advertising team as well) that is so silent. There are a number of Google Android developers who post to the various lists on a regular basis, answering tons of
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
>>I feel it has 95% of the problems of C++, without the advantages (predictable speed, mostly). >I suppose you'd have to get a little more particular in the 95% of problems angle. Hmm...getting very much off topic here, so I wan
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Not fond of C# or Unity, really, but there are plenty of cross platform game engines at this point; see my other post. [1] Java is still annoying to me, even JITed. It's most of the cruft of C++/OOP without the speed. I'm a Lua fan, and a c
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Thanks, but I guess I didn't get across how much I still hate Java. ;) I feel it has 95% of the problems of C++, without the advantages (predictable speed, mostly). I'm sure your platform will be useful for anyone porting J2SE code to Andro
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Ummm....move to the East Bay. Past the Oakland/Berkeley hills it's between 80 and 100 through the summer, and you can always Bart into SF. Rent is going to be a lot less too. Of course it will never be as HUMID as in Michigan, but...do you
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
I'm a long-time game programmer, and not at all an Apple fan (somewhat the opposite, in fact). When I picked up Android I really, really wanted to like it. Every time I turned around, the Android platform surprised me. In a bad way. Full di
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
It's very, very true that you need to be solid out of the gate on Android OR iPhone. Android's app rankings, in particular, seem to be tuned to give an advantage to new apps, so apps that get good ratings and a bunch of downloads out of the
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
At least on AirBNB you can always decline a (potential) booking, so if you always want [x] days, you can simply always decline if the booking is that soon.
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
I've also been using a standing desk for a while -- maybe six months at this point. I built my standing desk out of scrap wood, and quickly determined that I wanted a place to put a foot up: At about 12" off the floor I added a horizontal s
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Sure there are plenty of "ideas," but you don't base a company on a bunch of "ideas", you base it on an "Idea". From the article: "Well, it is about the idea. The idea is the seed. It is the kernel that is the start of something new." There
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
He doesn't even do a consistent job of building the strawman. For example, his example of the iPad doesn't support his premise: People HAD been doing tablet computers (the "idea") for years (including Apple with the Newton), and it took the
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
>reductio ad absurdum iPhone and Android developers are being sued by a patent troll for using in-app payments [1], based on technology developed by Apple and Google, using a patent that doesn't even apply to any of the code written by
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Eliezer; I've known the details behind a half dozen stories or so personally, and in almost every case in the MSM there have been factual errors reported as truth. One time is an anecdote; two times start
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Tell that to Android developers who are writing simulation apps that need to work on ARMv6 phones, like the LG Optimus series. No FPU there.
1426.
by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Actually, by default numeric values are doubles, which can easily handle a 32-bit int without losing precision. And as I posted above, the Lua bitop library (which is standard in LuaJIT and Lua 5.2) gives you bitwise operations.
1427.
by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
I know, I read the article about sugar as well. And I think there's a good chance it's probably right, and as a result I'm eating less sugar. It was actually when I went from drinking a six-pack of soda a day to none at all that I immediate
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
The big thing is that I feel better working for longer stretches. I was feeling almost claustrophobic after sitting for long periods, and I suspect it was a circulation issue, though it could be that the small amount of exercise that you ge
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
See http://bitop.luajit.org/ It comes standard as part of LuaJIT, which is likely what should be used for anything like a wireshark plugin (I don't know what wireshark actually uses, but LuaJIT is a drop-in replacement for the most part).
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
I see "health scare meme" as a potentially dangerous meme in and of itself. YES, the media can exaggerate the result of a single study and people will overreact to it (see: "margarine is healthier than butter," then more recently the revers
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
I'm another data point. Built my own standing desk and bought a drafting chair; I frequently stand most of the day, and it's improved my posture markedly. I'd gone through a series of various expensive "ergo" chairs, and yet I would get a f
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by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
Lua's ability to bind a closure to a mutable variable is a very powerful ability that I use all the time. But due to the way loop variables are handled, the example that's "broken" in Python works "as expected" in Lua: fns = {} for
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
If it turns out that one of the installed apps was taking pictures without the user's knowledge, then that's one reason to like the permissions that Android shows you for every app you install: No app can take a picture without requesting t
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
Playing of the quote in the comment I replied to: "trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
>everything not mentioned in the Constitution is a right of the people. Prior to the Bill of Rights, that was not the case. As I mentioned elsewhere, the "everything else is a right of the states or the people" clause is in the tenth am
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
>Doesn't it also have a clause that says anything not declared in here are relegated to the states, or to the people? That would be the tenth amendment, yes.
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
Copyright is actually more deeply rooted in the Constitution (of the US) than those other rights; the Bill of Rights happened later, after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
Hmm...well, then maybe there's hope: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825174102.ht... (article on "dry water")
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
You're just over 500 karma; I'm around 140 as I write this. So I guess I have a ways to go. :) Not that I'm really worried about it one way or another, though.
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by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
Downvoting does more than that. It can hide a discussion, and regardless, it certainly buries it. Not that I have been able to figure out the magic that gets you the ability to downvote, but I don't really feel the need.

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