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by cturner 14y ago
Something that impressed me with minecraft was the audio quality. Generally Java audio is rubbish: very rough at the edges and even unstable. Minecraft is using paulscode and it seems to be solid.
812.
by cturner 14y ago
Until recently, users and developers seemed to put a lot of importance on graphics that were as realistic as possible. I think SL seeks realism. But now, not so much. Maybe Minecraft has something to do with that, or maybe the saturation of
813.
by cturner 14y ago
The big one - forking is far too slow. Others - you can't use select(..) on files. Nasty file-locking model. No good remote filesystem solution out of the box (CIFS is slow and unstable) and the third party solutions are nasty. No native wo
814.
by cturner 14y ago
I think this narrative of food-bowl control is so enticing to people who think about power that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. "Everything is linked to control of food bowls!" People believe in it and then act on it, and only then d
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by cturner 14y ago
I think z92 is on to something. Ease of install is part of the same pattern. PHP has always been easy (with connections to a free database), and got easier with good package management systems. What's coldfusion like for ease of install, ea
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by cturner 14y ago
Agree - HSBC - good experience for me. I've been with HSBC UK for personal use for about five years. Their online banking is what I'd expect - allows for low-hassle international FX transfers, security seems solid, stuff works, no user inte
817.
by cturner 14y ago
How do you package games to run? Something that seems to be a disadvantage with Java over native builds is the way it complicates the task flow for users trying to install your software. Either they have to download a large distribution tha
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by cturner 14y ago
Copyright hampers rapid repackaging of ideas, which is a major vector for innovation. Wagner's Ring Cycle plot was a refactor - a repackaging of existing stories and ideas. Much of Handel's _Israel in Egypt_ (and many other works) is a repa
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by cturner 14y ago
I remember it being kind of the opposite to how you describe it. In the 80s and early 90s, unix enthusiasts could be smug about the rise of unix being inevitable. Maybe that wouldn't have been true of linux ppl. But unix systems didn't meet
820.
by cturner 14y ago
I'm surprised by the large Android figures there. For a time OSX became the most widely distributed unix-like consumer system and that was exciting. But despite a strong play, it's being overtaken by android. Looking at these numbers, if I
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by cturner 14y ago
> You can see who is the opposition: the four > huge electicity producers. And responsible-budget people. Germany is running in defecit beyond it's European treaty obligations. A factor contributing to the bottom line
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by cturner 14y ago
Theere's a basic role of government that's widely agreed upon - that it keeps us from hurting one another and clarity on the use of roads and telecommunications channels and the like. And I realise that opinions diverge above that, but I'll
823.
by cturner 14y ago
I use ed frequently for writing quick scripts. Its edge is that you can use it while retaining visual history of the prompt. Though, you could instead just redirect cat to a file and then do any tidy-up in your usual editor. It's also somet
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by cturner 14y ago
You can get lisp to interact more like a console language. Write a parser to accept python-ish whitespace syntax (whilst still allowing parens syntax), and transform that s-expressions so you can pass to the interpreter To imply: (def
825.
by cturner 14y ago
Users generally dislike java on the client side because the widgets don't integrate with their platform quite right. Java apps don't "feel right". A good web app is generally easier and cheaper to build and better than a bad GUI app. I thin
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by cturner 14y ago
You might find this entertaining - I'm watching a speech by Alan Kay at the moment where he says that computing is more pop-culture than science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc
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by cturner 14y ago
Rationally there's no point in living at all. I've found it's a good idea to avoid thinking too hard at the level you're taking.
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by cturner 14y ago
I would imagine that no matter how small the operation (well aside of operations executed directly by the cpu), there's still the possibility to break it up into smaller parts. The scripting system could have been desi
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Today's Google frontpage is a javascript mix panel(google.co.uk)
2 points by cturner 14y ago|1 comments
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by cturner 14y ago
(I like the idea of a pressure-sensitive keyboard. Could be useful for music. Probably hard to engineer in a way that would be useful and which wouldn't compromise button input. Blue-switch cherry keyboards are annoying to type on. Still, i
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John Clements unimpressed at shovelware he found on Amazon(amazon.co.uk)
7 points by cturner 14y ago|2 comments
832.
by cturner 14y ago
Could you be thinking of housing allowance scandals? This is where elected politicians claim rent from the government for rent for houses they're not really living in.
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by cturner 14y ago
Users need to be able to get the functions they need. But the unix-way provides a mechanism for getting ls plus the functionality you want: have a shell macro run the minimalist ls and pipe it through a formatter. Unfortunately, although un
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by cturner 14y ago
With sufficient processing power, they could hamper this by tracking the region that each number is. If a plate pops up over the other side of town too quickly, or fails to pass through intermediate sectors, it could raise a flag.
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by cturner 14y ago
Why would you do that? Is it because you're told to by a priest to be charitable or because your sense of guilt push you into making the world a worse place. Or sympathy? Look at the long view. It only takes a few people to keep doing that,
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by cturner 14y ago
I don't think there's much you can do to help someone on the street in a way that gets them off the street. That's not to say that nothing can be done, just that the initiative has to come from the person on the street to get out of that pa
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by cturner 14y ago
How did you set your self up for this unhappiness? Why did you go to Australia expecting to find something and turn out to find something so different?
838.
by cturner 15y ago
Markets that require detailed interaction with customers are a minefield. I can't see Apple wanting to be there. Consumer telecoms is a brutal, low-margin business. The service providers are doing them a favour by being there, because they
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by cturner 15y ago
There's nostalgia for the era when hackers completely understood a machine architecture, and worked by manually writing machine code. Notch released an invented machine architecture - 0x10c. Many people who'd been thinking about these thing
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by cturner 15y ago
Firefox is an interesting example, because on little things it behaves differently in windows to linux. For example - double click the address bar in Windows - highlights a token. Do it in linux, highlights the whole link.

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