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by dottrap 12y ago
There's an irony or perverse incentive here. The more wrong the article is, the more likely it will be remembered and pointed to through time. This means an article like this will continue to make more ad revenue than a peer that was c
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Feds can read emails after 180 days without warrant(mcclatchydc.com)
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SteamOS talk at Debconf 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWaG9hOvNn0 Valve's presenting GLNext at GDC next month: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/235745/Valve_debuts_the_n...
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Nope. Laid out clearly in the article. "Beatts ran the numbers on the minimum-wage increase early last year, when people started talking about putting it on the citywide ballot. In November, the measure passed overwhelmingly, but Beatt
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by dottrap 12y ago
Since you already know C and are comfortable with it, start with Objective C. The hard part of app development is Cocoa and the other Apple frameworks (because they are huge), not the language. Because Swift is so new, most of the documenta
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Total Recall is based on Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". It is 18 pages. Total Recall (1990, Schwarzenegger) was 113 minutes: 6.3 minutes per page Total Recall (2012, Farrell) was 118 minutes: 6.6 min
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by dottrap 12y ago
This is the follow up to Swift Resistance Explored. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976353
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Swift: The Optimization Game(owensd.io)
3 points by dottrap 12y ago|1 comments
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by dottrap 12y ago
Or maybe they mean (or misinterpret) it was written directly with 386 features in mind (like Doom...remember DOS extenders and protected mode?), not available on the 286 or 8088? A lot of companies were conservative at abandoning older proc
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Situation matters sometimes, but you can perceive the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. Military and commercial aerospace flight simulators learned this early on and they MUST hold 60 fps or pilots get sick. High end digital televisions
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Flappy Bird: The (Authorized) Arcade(baytekgames.com)
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Quaternions are pretty common in 3D graphics.
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I think you would probably want to do it as a userdata and not as a language mod. Roberto addressed the idea of a infinite number type, but it has a lot of downsides which are very un-Lua like, i.e. complicated, slow (no real hardware), and
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by dottrap 12y ago
53 bits (double) is not enough to represent 64-bit integers. It was enough for 32-bit integers, but not 64-bit. There are two main reasons: - Modern systems are now 64-bit and they sometimes have APIs that demand 64-bit integers. (For examp
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by dottrap 12y ago
Additional clarification. The integer reason was the main reason it wasn't in the language, but various libraries have always been available to do bitwise operations. Lua 5.2 included a bitwise library as part of the standard library (
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Lua 5.3: integers, bitwise operators, and a basic UTF-8 library(lua.org)
176 points by dottrap 12y ago|60 comments
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As a former 12" Powerbook owner/lover and current 11" Macbook Air owner, I want my 4:3 aspect ratio back. Screen real estate is at a premium on a machine this small, so I want more pixels (more area). And carrying a elongated
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by dottrap 12y ago
Cocoa was named partly as a pun of Java. Remember when NeXTStep was folded into Apple, Java was getting a lot of attention.
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May be of interest to JavaScript users, because until now, Lua and JavaScript shared the concept of a single number type based on IEEE 'double'.
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Native Integer support in Lua 5.3 by Lua creator R. Ierusalimschy, Moscow 2014(youtube.com)
1 points by dottrap 12y ago|1 comments
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Lua is a language that is designed to be embedded, which is rare in this world, thus it lacks the arrogance that it has to do everything. This allows Lua to focus on specific things so it can excel in those areas like the scripting domain,
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Lua 5.3.0 beta now available(permalink.gmane.org)
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I'm not necessarily saying Apple Pay is going to work, but I don't think these are strong arguments against it. 1) Fees: Everybody charges fees. Any competitor who wants into the market is going to charge a fee. The fact that nobo
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by dottrap 12y ago
Ha. I've love to see them backpedal on this. 'We were wrong to jump right to 10, but wanted to show how much beyond 9 we are. So instead:' Introducing Windows 911
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by dottrap 12y ago
Linus Torvalds was just at Debconf14 and specifically addressed how broken shipping application binaries for Linux desktop is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8 The most relevant parts start at about 6min and 41min
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by dottrap 12y ago
And to really drive the problem home, distributing binary packages for Linux is a complete nightmare. Linus Torvalds just laid out a whole bunch of the problems at DebConf14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8 Go wa
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by dottrap 12y ago
Visual Studio is the only major C++ compiler that is inept at handling C. This is not unreasonable to expect proper C support and there is something terribly broken with Visual Studio in that they can't. Even Stroustrup has called for
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Is this really true? Last I saw, they were adding some the of C99 features (because the C++11/14 spec actually required some of it), but not going all the way. And it was unclear if they were only focusing on the language or the standa
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by dottrap 12y ago
Too bad Microsoft Visual Studio refuses to get with the times and update their antiquated compiler from C89. They are now 2 standards and 25 years behind.
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Yes, you could already do Lua (see LuaCocoa) and other languages like Python (PyObjC), Ruby (RubyCocoa/MacRuby), and even JavaScript (JSCocoa) via ScriptingBridge way back from 10.5.

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