joneil

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by joneil 14y ago
Ubuntu Software Center doesn't prompt about dependencies... it just goes ahead and installs them. At least that's the default behaviour on 12.04 on my two machines.
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by joneil 14y ago
I haven't used much Scala, but Haxe (haxe.org) sits somewhere between Javascript and Java. I enjoy it, ymmv.
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by joneil 14y ago
One of the interesting things of Mozilla's approach is that their entire stack is standard HTML (or, it is planned to get it standardised). Assuming they stick to this, and other browsers adopt the standard, it means that developing an app
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by joneil 14y ago
Very cool idea! Been wondering if something like this exists. You say "Professional features coming soon"... a feature that I would pay for is turning an RSS feed (or a group of RSS feeds!) into a podcast. Great way to receive your news e
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by joneil 14y ago
The short answer is that Haxe isn't very good here yet. Many of the companies using Haxe are game studios, and so they just invent their own UI and it doesn't matter if it doesn't feel "native". In terms of the two approaches you mentioned:
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by joneil 14y ago
I'm a haxe user. What exactly are you wanting to know? If by reliability you are talking about it consistently not breaking between versions, then it's fine. Between versions the compiler does add new features but for the most part backwa
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by joneil 14y ago
What sort of advanced features are you hoping for? Genuinely interested, I use Haxe and find it's type system advanced enough for me - but maybe there's awesome features in other languages that I don't know about yet.
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by joneil 14y ago
Ouch. It's always sad to see someone forfeit their intellect and take someone else's thoughts as absolute truth. And I say this as a churh-attending Christian. Shame on my religion.
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by joneil 14y ago
Haxe (www.haxe.org) also has ported a decent subset of the API, and can simultaneously target Flash, JS and C++ (native). Not sure about who has better coverage of the full API.
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by joneil 14y ago
As someone attempting to create a MVP and then bootstrap in Perth, thanks for helping me feel less-bad about my efforts :) It is possible to have a startup here (one of my day jobs is at one), but it is certainly less common than I imagine
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by joneil 14y ago
I live in Perth where this guy is from, and Wesley is one of the most expensive and most highly regarded schools around. Given the sentiment of the headmaster, I'm not surprised it's doing so well... Seeing beyond "get my school's average
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by joneil 14y ago
The defacto-standard already seems to be happening with Twitter Bootstrap. Give it another few years and I expect this will spread into more well-known apps (or the current startups using it will become more prominent). And I do think peop
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by joneil 14y ago
That would be the ideal interface. 1) Open camera from lock screen 2) Take photo 3) If QR code is detected, offer to open it. 4) Later when browsing photos, remember it's a QR code, offer the link again, so that we can come back to it later
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by joneil 14y ago
> A prophecy: The first entity to put a state-of-the-art UI on top of Linux will have an opportunity to compete with Apple directly. I think this is Canonical's current strategy: they're not relying on KDE/Gnome to get their act togethe
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by joneil 14y ago
I'm guessing the server is under some load at the moment as it's running pretty slow. But very cool demo page, been using it the last few days. I'm impressed with how small Haxe's JS output has gotten lately. Clément hacked this together
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by joneil 14y ago
I came in expecting to hear people ranting about why jQuery is inferior to some other Javascript framework / coding style. Instead the people are positive and the sample code is sweet...
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by joneil 14y ago
My laptop is in for repair and is taking a disturbingly long time, but my friend lent me his out-of-use EeePC with a 10" inch screen. I'm amazed at how much work I have actually managed to get done. When I'm in the office I dock it to a ke