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by dleslie 4y ago
> Why would you need to? Well... > You can add PRs and requests in Github or contact the devs on Twitter or wherever. You can fork it and make whatever changes you like. So I don't have to do these things. If I can have someone c
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by dleslie 4y ago
Autodesk and SideFx are doing just fine, and are hardly beaten. It might feel that way when working Indie on a shoestring budget, but their tools are worth the entry fee to many.
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Somehow I own hundreds of games on Itch, through charity bundles, but I find it impossible to play them because quality filtering and discovery assistance just aren't available. It's like walking into a used bookstore that has she
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by dleslie 4y ago
Betting on Godot is appealing from a philosophical position, but there's not much indication that it won't be the Firefox to Epic's Chrome. Likewise, Blender didn't and won't kill commercial 3D suites. In practice,
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by dleslie 4y ago
> If possible saturate the market so that games reach 0$ pricing. Ha, that shipped sailed on mobile many years ago now, and PC and console are slipping. Even now, the best value is to pay for one of the major subscription services.
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by dleslie 4y ago
You mean like this service? https://landtransparency.ca/
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It's all about getting picked up by an influencer of some kind, or going for the long haul with social connectivity.
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by dleslie 4y ago
The question on my mind is: where do I sign up to join this effort?! Edit: I'm Canadian, the question is rhetorical.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Same with the Canadian prairies. They keep wondering why there's drought year after year, but swear it's not because they drained all the wetlands to grow canola.
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Mostly because the huge gains in speed that were desired were found in the native compilation fork. That, and the R5/R6/R7 debacle has alienated many from scheme.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Oof, heavy stack usage is ungood. But that's probably correctable. FWIW, I'm thinking of devices that don't have an MMU - like the Sega 32X. It's a hobby of mine. Having any GC time at all is too much suffering, even 1ms
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by dleslie 4y ago
Woah, I like the solid memory guarantees. Could be useful for embedded projects.
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by dleslie 4y ago
In the PNW, particularly here in BC, Gore-TEX was an absolute game-changer for hikers. Throw on a tank top or tee-shirt, then your Gore-TEX jacket, and you could climb basically any local mountain between March and October, rain or shine. E
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by dleslie 4y ago
As I stare at this comment on my magical handheld slab of light I can't help but wonder how many layers of virtual machines, or other abstractions, are between the pixels and the source data they represent. I can think of more than I c
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by dleslie 4y ago
FWIW, Tannenbaum considers himself vindicated after it was revealed that MINIX was buried in every Intel processor.
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How did it compare to, say, Serenity and Haiku?
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by dleslie 4y ago
In my experience, piracy is worse than DVDs for selection; if it's not recent, and not popular, then piracy won't have it. I also prefer compensating creators.
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by dleslie 4y ago
VLC, and other FOSS DVD players, do not abide by do-not-skip flags.
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by dleslie 4y ago
> I think this technology will allow more people, not less, to make money as a living (so, professionally) in a visual arts related industry. > ... > Whenever something becomes cheaper (in this case, labor for art), its consumpti
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by dleslie 4y ago
DVDs. What you're asking for is DVDs.
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I would also lay a chunk of blame on the use of type inference which causes the information about the behaviour to be hidden from view. Had the author been looking at the type information within the syntax of the code the profile output may
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by dleslie 4y ago
Motorola, too. But you can always add ring tones.
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by dleslie 4y ago
gcc was relevant on DOS and Windows thanks to djgpp; it was basically the only free option for a time.
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by dleslie 4y ago
SBCL is still broken on Windows.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Stallman also chose to build Emacs and Emacs Lisp. He could have made an editor extendable in c only, but did not. Emacs' problem, then and now, was non-existent, then terrible DOS and Windows support. Really, the problem was that ther
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by dleslie 4y ago
Not really, no; they aren't integrated and it's not a single lisp environment from kernel to surface and all the way in between. Symbolics was special. Oberon is similar, and comes close.
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by dleslie 4y ago
Was there an SML implementation available for free on DOS and Windows in the 90s?
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by dleslie 4y ago
Scratch 1.x and 2.x were written in Smalltalk, FWIW. But IMHO the "your whole dev environment is your shipped application" is too unappealing to catch on.
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No, there is not. There's no desktop environment for Linux that supports the runtime extensibility and inspection abilities of a symbolics lisp machine.
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Java was free, too; and at the time, djgpp was effectively the only free c++ toolchain on DOS and Windows. Common Lisp wasn't even available to DOS and Windows users, let alone free or corporately backed. Even now every single free com

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