joneil

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   by joneil 12y ago

   I'm sorry about your friend... That is devastating. Hope you're okay.
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   by joneil 12y ago

   Haha, I was the one that wrote that example for the homepage. It was never meant to be a comment on the ideal data structures for different use cases. Rather it's just there to give developers a taste of the syntax: there's more s
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   by joneil 12y ago

   Done, thank you!
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   by joneil 12y ago

   On Android I keep getting "Sorry, legacy Guest/Member accounts are not supported. Please upgrade your account to use the FastMail app". I only signed up a few months ago, and can't find any options for an upgrade. Help
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   by joneil 12y ago

   It's good to see this in the works. Some of the apps I build are simple enough that a web-app is sufficient for almost everything, except that users really want push notifications. If this API becomes implemented (widely enough) that&
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   by joneil 12y ago

   I don't think this is the case for everyone. With my wife and I, I'm great at expressing loves in some ways (time together, helping out, general affection) but gift giving is not one of them - I never really got excited by gifts,
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   by joneil 12y ago

   Adding to all the other answers, here is what Haxe can do: class Metric { static function main() { var coinRadius:Millimeters = 12; var myHeight:Centimeters = 180; var raceLength:Meters = 20
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   by joneil 12y ago

   > So we ended up creating our very own text renderer. Just like Flash did 15 years ago. I remember Lorant giving a talk[1] at the Haxe conference last year about this, really impressive. A truly mammoth effort, congrats on finally shipp
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   by joneil 12y ago

   I don't seem to have the ability to edit, and I forgot to reply to the first part of your comment. I use Apache/mod_neko on the server, though after the high traffic last night we might switch to nginx/mod_tora. Either way,
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    by joneil 12y ago

    Thanks, I'll look into it. I had a redirect for any 404s that existed on the old wiki to go to "old.haxe.org/$1", but it looks like it didn't work for the "/file/*" downloads. I'll look int
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    by joneil 12y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out - where were those links from? The new URLs should be: http://haxe.org/community/community-support.html http://haxe.org/foundation/support-plans.html http:/&#x2F
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    by joneil 12y ago

    Yes, Nicolas Cannasse is still involved. He helped keep the server alive last night ;) These days he is no longer the #1 contributor [1], but he maintains the "benevolent dictator for life" role and certainly still commits plenty
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    by joneil 12y ago

    There is a history article [1], but essentially, the founding developer made the MTASC AS2 compiler back in the day before making Haxe, and the SWF target (AVM bytecode) was the first target Haxe supported. To this day it remains popular w
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    by joneil 12y ago

    If the curly brackets and semicolons (and lack of short lambdas, which I am still grumpy about) are always going to turn you off, then Haxe might not be promising for you. But in particular macros [1], abstract types [2], algebraic data typ
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    by joneil 12y ago

    Out of the box Haxe's metadata[1] to me doesn't appear as powerful as C#'s attributes. The big difference is that they are not type safe and are not type-checked by the compiler. You can however use any expression you want i
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    by joneil 12y ago

    Plenty of game developers are using Haxe in production [1]. Tivo [2] and Massive Interactive [3] are doing some large scale UI work for embedded systems. Personally I have built a student management system for 4 schools as a web app in Haxe
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    by joneil 12y ago

    I think the honest reason was along the lines of "because I/we can". Many people (myself included) use the Sublime Text Haxe bundle[1], and the plugin is written in Python. Someone started a weekend project to create the Pyth
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    by joneil 12y ago

    One of the developers of the new site here. Simon Krajewski did an amazing job writing the manual - it's a great resource and has all the gory technical detail - I'd encourage you to take a look. A number of other people have cont
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    by joneil 13y ago

    The review systems on the app stores, and internet comments more generally do have a tenancy to bring out the hate, and the article does a great job of exploring the effects of this. As people who designs user interfaces and interactions, I
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    by joneil 13y ago

    For payments, you could check out pin.net.au They're monthly rate is pretty steep but they've got a pretty convincing clone of the stripe API and they accept AUD and work without needing a merchant account... My email is jason.one
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    by joneil 13y ago

    Hey... nice site, and beautiful interface design. I'd probably make it a little more obvious you are Perth-only at the moment, maybe change the tagline "Connecting tutors and students" to "Connecting West Australian tuto
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    by joneil 13y ago

    That is so fancy... I'm impressed. Didn't even realise firefox supported webcams yet.
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    by joneil 14y ago

    I really, really like this. Thanks for making it, and thanks for putting it on github too. It's the sort of thing that's so simple that it's not really that a big enough thing to make a business off, so nobody puts much effort into it. But
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    by joneil 14y ago

    One thing I can immediately see this being useful for is guessing a companies logo: http://mebe.co/macdonalds_logo.jpg http://mebe.co/curtin_uni_logo.jpg http://mebe.co/guzman_gomez_logo.jpg http://mebe.co/target_logo.jpg http://me
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    by joneil 14y ago

    Haha, some of them are hilarious. Some more obviously generated than others, but still... good job. How are they generated? I managed to get some gems like this: > The earliest Nordic settlers in the Old Northwest were shocked when the
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    by joneil 14y ago

    Hi... Love the idea and you've got a strong landing page... I like it, and have wanted to work on something similar for some time. I tried to sign up, but wasn't able to. The sign up form just loaded to the same page, no error messages, no
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    by joneil 14y ago

    Nice! Was not expecting it to work internationally, so was pleasantly surprised when my Australian postcode showed up flawlessly. Beautiful design and interaction too, you've really nailed "the best ui is no ui"concept.
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    by joneil 14y ago

    I don't think it's a big issue. I agree with this blog post from 2004: > We think "users" is exactly the right word. It makes the USER the important thing. The one who cares about USEability and USEfullness, two words we really like. W
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    by joneil 14y ago

    In Australia our politicians seem no more sophisticated. While the leaders of the political parties dominate the media, come election time you only vote for a member in your local area, not the leader you've seen on TV. And at the Ballot
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    by joneil 14y ago

    I started using Phoenix at v0.3 and remember just how "new" it felt. At the time I was still running Windows (maybe even 98?) and was experimenting with Linux, but hated the netscape/mozilla options. Phoenix was fast, had tabs, a popup bl