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by allenbrunson 8y ago
if you have to explain a joke, you've ruined it.
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
> Thing is, Objective-C was the official language on iOS, and yes they did release C++ support, it is called Objective-C++ and exists since NeXTSTEP days. I am well aware, I have used Objective-C++ myself, but it's irrelevant. No, y
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
Because Dart is also used for compiled Flutter apps, which are meant to compete with native apps written in Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift. This gives us the obvious advantage of not turning people's phones into space heaters, wh
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
> I guess if Google want Fuchsia / Flutter to really take off, they will have to port Flutter to Javascript. just like that time when iOS was suddenly hot, but there were no apps for it, because programmers hated Objective-C and wer
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
ios and android are currently well supported. the rest are somewhere off in the future. in the google keynote today, they revealed that the app they were using for showing slides was a flutter app running on a mac.
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
in today's keynote, google announced that you'll eventually be able to use one dart/flutter codebase for ios, android, mac, windows, linux, and the web. you can't get much more cross-platform than that.
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
strongly agree. i am looking at this laptop: https://system76.com/laptops/galago it's obvious these guys took their design cues from apple's laptops, but they've paid about a tenth as much attention to t
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
have you actually tried it? because i did, when i was trying to close out my flickr account, and it failed miserably. every third or fourth photo downloaded was corrupted. all the free options i tried weren't much better. i wound up pa
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
you could ask him yourself. these days he goes by the name "ron garret," and he commented right here on this site only an hour ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lisper
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
asteroids did not have a dial. you must be thinking of some other game.
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
oddly enough, i also wrote an asteroids clone, in C for DOS, using VGA graphics. i am not mathematically inclined, so writing the routines that allowed the ship to act exactly as it did in the original, subject to friction and thrust, nearl
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
huh, i always wondered about that! he seemed in a pretty big hurry to unload it at the time. i suggested some people who might actually want it, but i didn’t email with him for very long.
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
oh boy, can't believe i am going to do this. but. if there is one topic i am qualified to write about, it is asteroids. in my early twenties, i was good enough that i could play for hours. i could have like 50 or 60 extra ships piled u
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
and yet. pg has been cheerleading for lisp since 2002 or so, and almost nobody has followed in his footsteps. the reddit guys believed him, tried it, and wound up doing a complete rewrite in python. https://redditblog.com/20
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
i think there are way too many widely divergent CPUs for that statement to make any sense. there is 6809 assembler, 8086 assembler, 68000 assembler, etc. some of them are simple, quite a few are not.
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
hey Brendan, I can see you're getting a lot of negative feedback here, so as a hopefully countervailing force: this was the thread that finally got me to try Brave on my iPad, iPhone, and mac. I like it so far! I never thought I'd
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by allenbrunson 8y ago
"And how much do you think a really good programmer should get paid? Around here we pay our best programmers around two thousand dollars per week. Do you think you should be paid more than that?" "I don't know," I r
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How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (2014)(priceonomics.com)
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
i had trouble falling asleep for about the first 35 years of my life. then i hit on a technique i call “scenarios.” i have various made-up fantasy settings, like an island nation surrounded by a sea of mud, and i make up stories about its i
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
if you use Qt, why do you limit yourself to android? wouldn’t it be fairly simple to set up ios builds as well? (i just recently evaluated, and rejected, qt for a project i’m about to start. i found it to be buggy and poorly organized. and
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
also, for the record, i started watching the videos. i heard that guy tell the same story, twice, about the woman who is far better prepared to invest (or not invest) in microsoft than i am, because she's steeped in it, day in, day out
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
> Inflation is always eating away at your money there, no matter how thick your mattress is ;) while that's true, if i'd kept my money under a mattress for the last two years, i'd have 300 bucks more than i have now. and w
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
see, those are the exact sort of questions, and answers, that you are prepared to provide. and you're probably pretty good at it! i am not. that's why vanguard didn't work for me. i am going to pay an actual human being to gi
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
Here’s my own anecdote ... After hearing so many people say positive things about Vanguard for so long, I set up an account there. They had pretty much all my disposable cash, in a Roth IRA, for about two years. Rather than begin the predic
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
I had completely forgotten about that "crushed" business, but you just reminded me. If I am remembering correctly, we used uncrushed binaries and a non-crushing kernel while developing on our own PCs. (We used plain-vanilla garden
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
I suppose it would have been possible to build some kind of API shim that would allow for two or more ABIs. Alas, the technical details of how to make that work are above my pay grade. I can say that it never came up in the heated debates I
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
I worked at Be for almost a year, and used BeOS for a couple of years before that. I am not an expert, but I can mention a couple of things. The biggest one was: freedom from backward compatibility. You can't comprehend how much cruft
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
Nope, not a typo. That's how Scot Hacker spells his name.
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
Indeed! I was working at Be Inc at the point when they were absorbed by Palm and went out of business. Along about 1998, I decided I'd had enough of Microsoft's antics, and started looking for an alternative OS ecosystem I could p
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by allenbrunson 9y ago
Unfortunately, I didn't do much to move BeOS further down the field. By the time I got there, the company had given up on BeOS as a standalone consumer product and was squarely focused on BeIA, specifically the Sony eVilla. (you can go

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