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The game industry's disposable workers(polygon.com)
4 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Raspberry Pi makers release own-brand OS(bbc.com)
3 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
> In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports ... unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, ... That sounds really cool. I wish I could install DEB packages just for my local user, without needing root
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by alxmdev 10y ago
I think there are intangible things that get lost when you watch someone else do something as opposed to doing it yourself. The exercise is about going through the mental motions of understanding the problem, designing a solution, and itera
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Questions like "Why do we have to write X, when framework Y does it for you?" are why I dislike the reinventing the wheel analogy, especially when it finds its way in education. There's no substitute for the deep understand
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The Death and Rebirth of 'The Matrix Online'(waypoint.vice.com)
4 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Why Some Video Games Are in Danger of Disappearing Forever(kotaku.com)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images(insights.ubuntu.com)
17 points by alxmdev 10y ago|5 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Sure used Gameboys are cheaper, but the supply of usable ones will surely dwindle in the coming years as old hardware inevitably breaks down. It's good to see efforts to create new devices with personality that are fun to work with, no
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by alxmdev 10y ago
I took "assembly language layer" in the parent comment to mean the "lowest-level high-level language" commonly available on the platform.
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Linux on NES Classic Mini – Current Progress and HowTo(reddit.com)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Five Neglected Computer Science Classics(medium.com)
2 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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How working on gross, violent games can mess with developers (2015)(gamasutra.com)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|1 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Excellent! I tried out Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi 3 a few months ago, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it runs. The 1GB RAM is an unfortunate limitation, but even so the Pi is a viable little desktop. Great to see upstrea
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Shadow Warrior 2 developers say DRM is a waste of time(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Happy 20th Birthday, KDE(dot.kde.org)
4 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Why Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds prefers x86 chips over ARM processors(pcworld.com)
3 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix, funding scientists to break us out(independent.co.uk)
13 points by alxmdev 10y ago|14 comments
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How Exactly Does Sonic and Knuckles' 'Lock-On Technology' Work?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
19 points by alxmdev 10y ago|2 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Very cool! I wasn't aware of the cleanup attribute, can't wait to try it out: The cleanup attribute runs a function when the variable goes out of scope. This attribute can only be applied to auto function scope variables; it may
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Looks like Ubuntu 16.04 runs fine on it [1], you could turn it into a small personal server, put GitLab on it, whatever :-) I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with Ubuntu MATE sitting around and am likewise looking to put it to good use. [1] http:&#x
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by alxmdev 10y ago
How about using the password manager to store security question answers too? It's mildly inconvenient because each site seems to require at least three, but then you wouldn't risk forgetting them and you could use random generated
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Spelunky by Derek Yu(bossfightbooks.com)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|1 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
One example that jumps to mind are all the documents and man pages hosted on die.net ( http://linux.die.net/ )
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Article says Android and iOS have 84% and 15% respectively of the market. It's still hard to sink in the fact of how strong a duopoly the mobile market is. All of WP, Blackberry, Ubuntu, Sailfish, Tizen, and probably more, all share th
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Drowning in Problems(game.notch.net)
2 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
I had the pleasure of dealing with C++ classes with a dozen or more gratuitously overloaded operators, including overloaded cast operators. You'd cast an object to a certain type in order to access a member of that type, instead of acc
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by alxmdev 10y ago
I fall in this category, I use neither Vim nor Emacs because I never had a need to learn them and I'm happy with lightweight GUI editors like Geany and Notepad++. Nano on the other hand was the default command line editor in the univer
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by alxmdev 11y ago
While 12MHz sounds weak, the heavy lifting was done by dedicated graphics hardware. Once you relieve the CPU from the burden of blitting, you're left with more than enough cycles for almost any sort of game. Even the GBA only had a 16M
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by alxmdev 11y ago
We are still in the first century of software development, I doubt any code written today will be relevant by the time we enter the second. The computer science class of 2065 will enjoy seeing all these chaotic things we made, running in vi

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