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by jo_ 12y ago
I've found the only sure-fire way I have is to write my own GUI display[1]. I understand it's a bad idea to do stuff like that, but I heavily on inputs which are outside the standard repertoire. Unless there is a standard widget
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by jo_ 12y ago
You're probably right. I'm not convinced you're right, but I'll operate on the assumption you are and offer a feeble defense with anecdotal (and experiential) evidence to explain why I would rather use Android UI but co
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by jo_ 12y ago
I feel like this overlooks one of the more fundamental problems to Android development. It's not an issue with Java, it's an issue of Android being a cathedral of complexity. There are four dozen ways to accomplish the same task
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by jo_ 12y ago
I remember seeing this during the 'tape to car wheel' test. That was impressive. What, if any, details can you reveal about the implementation? How is the tracking/smoothing different than other SOTA approaches? How tightly
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by jo_ 12y ago
I'll concur with this on most levels. The change I made was from a slightly different place: boxing. I joined a school that did BJJ and Muay Thai. It worked out beautifully. After staring at a screen and sitting down for 8-10 hours,
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by jo_ 12y ago
In a similar vein, I had an idea for a social site where everyone was invited via other people, establishing the chain of invites. Spamming from one of the leaf nodes propagates upwards as bad karma, decreasing exponentially (or by some po
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by jo_ 12y ago
Woww. Such clever. Much compile. I've been trying to get Hamiyoca's JS miner to work with mupool without much success. (Stratum is straitforward. I'm just dumb.) p2pool is way easier from the cursory glance I've giv
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by jo_ 12y ago
If you start calculating the hash in the background, that could be useful. I might not want to wait 100 seconds after I've finished my reply, but I don't imagine I'd mind waiting 100 seconds from the time I first opened the
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by jo_ 12y ago
Thank you for making it. (I'll beg you for an invite later.) I'd experimented with embedding Javascript Bitcoin miners in my website as a means of monetization without ads. I see this as a more intuitive version of that which re
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by jo_ 12y ago
The point of a simulator is it drives deployment time to zero and increases the number of virtual devices on which you can run without adding a new AVD for each. Deploying to a phone takes maybe 40-60 seconds? Maybe less? But I'm no
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by jo_ 12y ago
Your first point is particularly interesting to me. It was my understanding that Javascript was impossibly slow at a few very key operations, like array lookups. (Since it didn't have true numerically backed arrays and instead did ha
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by jo_ 12y ago
Sent. :)
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by jo_ 12y ago
That was my fault. I was fiddling around and played with sending some raw data over the socket, then it crashed.
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by jo_ 12y ago
I'm so sorry. I crashed your room. Can I send you an e-mail saying how I did it? EDIT: I hesitate to post my e-mail to HN or to paste publicly how I did it, but it was trivial. Reply with your e-mail and I'll show you how I did
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by jo_ 12y ago
Writing software is 60% understanding the problem, 25% understanding the tools, 20% understainding requirements, and -5% hacking the solution to make it fit requirements.
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by jo_ 13y ago
Strangely, every one of the links in the downloads page has 404'd for me. I was quite disappointed to see Wave die, since I think it was both incredibly forward looking on Google's part and, all things considered, immensely usefu
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by jo_ 13y ago
Part of the reason I asked if I could cancel my preorder of Dev Kit 2 was some bad experience with Facebook dicking devs early on. Unless they've changed their tune in recent years, I don't understand how this could bode well for
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by jo_ 13y ago
I remember being surprised that the bottleneck for some modern devices (like cell phones) wasn't the number of vertices one could push, but rather the fill rate and number of draw calls. Do consoles these days hit performance bounds a
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by jo_ 13y ago
Speaking purely from the backend, our login function takes the IP address of the requester, the login name, and password, then checks the password against the database. If the password matches up, the current date and time, the current IP,