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by dottrap 13y ago
One more thing. Sometimes modifying Lua is desired. Modifying vanilla Lua is easy. Modifying LuaJIT is not so easy.
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Some games use it. I'm under the impression the number is much larger than 3. There are competing interpreters like Havok. However, vanilla Lua is pretty fast to begin with. Additionally, the types of optimization you do with vanilla L
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Some interesting, non-game uses: Adobe is using it for some of their products. Lightroom was the first and its usage is extensive. http://thesoftwarelife.blogspot.com/2008/11/lightroom-and-lu... http://
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Here's a positive article on SteamOS from InformationWeek. http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-applications/wh...
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No. Here's a video that gives a lot of video game historical context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-W5CWj7Ic
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Nope. John Doe is most frequently used as a placeholder name often assigned by a 3rd party. Satoshi Nakamoto is a self-ascribed name used for anonymous speech. -Publius
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Not once did the article talk about the C++ ABI which is one of the most important things a library developer needs to be aware of (as opposed to an application developer). The C++ ABI is unstable. You can't effectively deploy 3rd part
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I happened to know about the mechanical license, but didn't realize it had been extended to covers. But this is really beside the original point. The point is that copyright was intended to promote the progress of science/arts&#x2
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Here's an additional idea to shorter copyright periods (not mutually exclusive). Weaken protection for a copyrighted item over its duration. For example, when the subject is first copyrighted, it enjoys all the protections we have toda
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That's a false dilemma. Mac OS X has dynamic library support and there isn't a vast sea of viruses and exploits coming from the Mac App Store.
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Roberto Ierusalimschy (best known as the creator of Lua). On the science/research side, his work with Lua has explored language interoperability in a methodical way. He also brought about the first real-world implementation of a regist
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Zeroconf is confusing. That name is already taken for a standard network service discovery protocol (e.g. Bonjour, Avahi). http://zeroconf.org
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How do these numbers compare to television (sincere question)? My understanding that in the US, news programs get ratings in single digit percentages. This number is tied to the number of households with televisions (I'm seeing the nu
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Likely outcome: Samsung gets fined, costing their shareholders, while the board and lawyers never blink. Fair outcome: Find those responsible for leaking the documents, fire them, and throw them in jail for contempt of court.
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In Titanium, you code both the business logic and UI in Javascript. The Javascript UI APIs Titanium provides call native APIs under the hood. Titanium is open source; the repository can be found on GitHub.
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This Apple iPad Air commercial is timely. (Yes, I'm lumping Google and Apple and all engineering companies together.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gLqh8tmPA Somebody should juxtapose this quote with this ad right a
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I was completely distracted by the use of Gartner's 2015 marketshare predictions. They have a terrible track record. http://www.zdnet.com/why-does-the-it-industry-continue-to-li... http://www.gsmdome.com&#x2
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Actually, the iPhone Obj-C runtime has undergone very little changes since the launch of the iPhone. Apple had already debuted Obj-C 2.0 (which was the most significant change) in OS X 10.5 , before the iPhone launch. Apple's clang&#x2
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by dottrap 13y ago
The article didn't get its facts straight about who did what. Adobe owns/makes/ships Flash, not Apple. Apple doesn't ship Flash with the OS. It is not Apple's job to sandbox Flash. Apple provided a sandboxing system
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Apple always trusted people to buy the Family Pack on the honor system. They never put enforcement or checks like license keys for this. I greatly respected this trust and always bought the family pack for my Macs.
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Hyperloop: Next-gen Javascript to native code compiler(ceogeek.tumblr.com)
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Oh, make sure you've gathered all your personal belongings beforehand or make them easy to grab as you are being led out the door.
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And some (paranoid?, hostile?) companies will escort you out the door the moment you offer two weeks (or whatever) notice.
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The SWIG effort is struggling with the changing API too. https://github.com/oliver----/swig-v8/pull/9
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NetBSD 7.0 announced it will allow people to write kernel modules in Lua. http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/13/02/16/2329259/netbsd-to-sup...
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I concur it is probably not a good idea. I know from other benchmarks that Dalvik in general has terrible performance and adding a layer on top of it is just going to make it worse. [3 days ago on HN] Dalvik vs. SpiderMonkey vs. Native htt
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I never got past initial investigation of kahlua and luaj. However, they were appealing because I had a large server application based in Java that utilized spawning off other processes to help map/reduce data. We had written Lua scrip
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Don't forget Angry Birds (among literally thousands of others).
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Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) just adopted and rolled out Lua for its scripting language for MediaWiki end users.
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Games can't be emphasized enough. Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island in the late 90's were the first known corporate games that used Lua. After word got out at GDC, the entire industry started using Lua. Big profile hits

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