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by fmstephe 14y ago
I work on one project at a time. Every night my wife goes to bed at 10. I go to bed at 11. That is my time during the week. On the weekends my son sleeps from 11->1 or 2. So I get a couple of hours in there too (sometimes). I go to the
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by fmstephe 14y ago
This is very exciting to me. I very strongly desire an E-Ink display to work on. I find the LCD displays are a horror on my eyes after a full day at work and hacking in the evening. I don't want to watch videos but a terminal colour that re
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by fmstephe 14y ago
While it is very true that Unity is slow to launch applications I regularly launch a browser with Logo+1 hitting both immediately and releasing. The browser is launched and the side bar never even makes an appearance. You don't need to wait
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Another kiwi here. I have one of the first commercial chromebooks to come out from Samsung. For me the build quality is one of its best features. It's all plastic, but it has a great hinge and a very good keyboard.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I would like to second this question. Is the implementation based on a market where users buy and sell shares from each other, over some kind of exchange, or are we buying and selling shares from the site itself? Great idea. Look forward to
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I was trying to figure this out. Where did you find the information confirming that the cores are general purpose. I had inferred that they were GPU like from the use of the openCL programming language. Perhaps ignorantly.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I cannot offer any kind of sponsorship. But my wife and I are looking at settling in Germany in the future. This makes Berlin a lot more attractive to me.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
When I read articles like this my fears always move straight to a future where it has become harder to program for play. I appreciate that this concern is somewhat superficial compared with some of the issues raised in this article, but I f
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by fmstephe 14y ago
If you don't have anyone to play with. You can open two tabs in your browser to see how it works.
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Show HN: Play games with people nearby
7 points by fmstephe 14y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Tankwars you can play with people nearby
2 points by fmstephe 14y ago|1 comments
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I read the errata about 'first functional language'. My post is irrelevant then :)
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I would strongly back Haskell for this purpose. The reason for this is principally that Haskell is a single install, (whereas Clojure requires the jvm first and then Clojure). Haskell is a single language, Clojure is java with Clojure runni
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I am writing a location service to allow people to add 'local interaction' easily to an application. There is a demo of a multiplayer tankwars clone using it at battlewith.me.uk The initial idea was that when I was young I played games on a
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Confirmed. I can access the terminals via the F* keys, which are just the fancy keys across the top of the keyboard. Cheers.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
My chromebook doesn't have an F1 key (although I read somewhere that the F* keys are the special function keys aross the top of the keyboard). I will see if I can reproduce that behaviour tonight.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll be trying that out tonight.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
As an honourable mention, while trying out various ssh terminals for my chromebook I did try this https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne That is a nifty and fun ssh client, but my poor chromebook struggled to render fast enough. Quite cool fo
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by fmstephe 14y ago
A better ssh client could do wonders. This little thing could be just what the doctor ordered. http://mosh.mit.edu/ Unfortunately for a mobile ssh client it doesn't appear to be available for any mobile OSes (yet). I would be delighted to
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by fmstephe 14y ago
The majority of the time I use wifi. I haven't used 3G for a while. I found it to be flaky and stop/start all the time. It was the freezing of crosh ssh that was my biggest problem. If I was expecting to be away from wifi I would probably n
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I am doing web development mostly from a chromebook. How: Previously I used the ssh found in crosh (ALT+SHIFT+T > ssh ...) but the crosh ssh freezes if you lose your connection. The crosh will freeze for ~5 minutes before you can close
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Agreed.
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by fmstephe 14y ago
Oh man, every time we see this kind of thing it makes life that much harder. :) How can we not suffer with only 24 hours in the day. We have children and jobs and projects already under way. Every week we seem to have something so exciting
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by fmstephe 14y ago
I take my hat off to the guy undertaking this. I wish there had been a Google summer of code when I was at Uni. University was some of the best time for programming I ever had. There is so much hunger and energy, and now there are sponsored
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by fmstephe 15y ago
Amen brother.
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by fmstephe 15y ago
I had felt that the degradation of HN was overstated. Until now.
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by fmstephe 15y ago
This is definitely true. My question is more along the lines of "what scalability lessons will we have to learn now that the World of Warcraft guys already know" (more or less). It'll be a different world from the firestorm of short lived (
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by fmstephe 15y ago
Anyone have visibility on what the support for this looks like?
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by fmstephe 15y ago
Not related to the question of spec and standards processes but it is interesting to ask the question of whether web sockets are architecturally sound. It certainly seems that for games like BrowserQuest they are more or less necessary. But
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by fmstephe 15y ago
For me it is probably this. It works - easy as pie. No problems building, linking or worrying about dependencies. (it should be noted that this is a common property of hobby projects) It's fast, which is nice for the small boy (or girl) in

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