kilon

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by kilon 8y ago
I am a lawyer and a coder and I have to disappoint you that that hype is very real indeed. The problem is two fold a) Lawyers completely underestimated the decision making abilities of software even without AI b) People who are not lawyers
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by kilon 8y ago
So first Mac is dead, because of iOS then we have iMac 5k . Then macbook is dead, because of iOS, we have new macbooks. Then mac pro is dead, because of iOS we have iMac Pro. Is shouting "dead" the new password for upgrade request
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by kilon 8y ago
I agree unique naming is one of the fundamental pillars of modern coding , or else we would have chaos with stupid generic completely unrelated names like Python, C, Java, Go, Swift, Ruby, Assembly, Basic, JavaScript ... It would have been
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by kilon 8y ago
Well I will just mention that i am an iMac user since 2007 and I replying to your message with Win 10 via Bootcamp. Mac gamers choose the bootcamp route because its an easy solution and gives access to more games and software. I am willing
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by kilon 8y ago
The backend plays a minor role, as I repeatedly say and I am repeatedly downvoted by ignorant people. Unreal supports on MacOS not one but 3 technologies. OpenGL, Vulkan and Metal and that is just for graphics. There is also CUDA, OpenCL, P
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by kilon 8y ago
Not an impressive update I am afraid , apart from the dark theme I could not care less about the rest
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by kilon 8y ago
Nope most of them use some sort of game Engine, unreal and Unity dominate. MacOS gaming is not only not dead it’s flourishing rapidly. Take a trip to Steam shop. You will find a massive amount of games are made for MacOS and the numbers are
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by kilon 8y ago
No they are not , they are both APIs. The fact they run on top of drivers is nothing impressive if anything they make a tiny fraction of the APIs Unreal depends on because it’s so much more than a 3D Engine. Unreal runs on top of Vulkan and
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by kilon 8y ago
Apple killed Flash and now they kill OpenGL. Both incredibly crappy technologies that survived for so long because of their popularity. Nowadays Unreal Engine fill the role very well and can sit on top of any platform easily. Popularity wis
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by kilon 8y ago
Currently, the only thing that designers have shown general interest for is visual coding languages. Unreal engine has Blueprints which probably the most advanced visual coding language out there and in both and 2d graphics visual coding wo
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by kilon 8y ago
"In 2018, web browsers offer vast potential to interactive designers, as revolutionary as what PostScript and desktop publishing offered for print thirty years ago." No they don't , almost half a century after the creation of
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by kilon 8y ago
Nope, C++ is the undisputed king of coding and I have no love for C++. Not only Windows is mostly written in C++ (and I would not be surprised if they use some C and Assembly as well) but even external projects like Unity (a popular game en
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by kilon 8y ago
Nope, I am afraid that won't protect you from the curse of abandonware. Only an emulator can. Your problem is not related to what type of hardware, software, OS you use but how old they are. Nothing is supported forever. With emulators
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by kilon 8y ago
As an ambient composer, myself I understand your pain but that is the unavoidable fate of all abandoware technologies. Abandonware technologies however can be used through the use of emulators. If I can use my first computer that my father
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by kilon 9y ago
I am Greek and no it’s not , gg , is pronounce as g in gamma, and one g is pronounced as y in yellow
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by kilon 9y ago
Earth’s Moon in Greek is actually “Feggari”, from the verb “feggo” which means to radiate light. Moon in general in Greek is “Selini”, a natural satellite orbiting a planet.
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by kilon 9y ago
No thanks, I prefer my Libreoffice. I like markdown for simple stuff but other than that, nope.
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by kilon 9y ago
Looks like a title of a horror movie
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by kilon 9y ago
Damn it’s 2000 all over again. Cybermagedon is the most annoying thing. It always appears when I am in low supply of pop corn.
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by kilon 9y ago
"The iMac Pro isn’t running iOS apps" I always find this kind of remarks funny because iOS is essentially a specialised strip down version of MacOS. So basically any accusation of MacOS copying iOS , however exaggerated, is an acc
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by kilon 9y ago
Open source visibility is hugely exaggerated, are you going to read one million lines of code or more ? You think others will do when every open source project struggles to even find contributors to fix small bugs ? Sure its more visible th
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by kilon 9y ago
Well software has been able to recreate analog sound sine 1997 when I started working seriously with computer mudic. The problem back then was that in order to make a faithful emulation that would need quite a lot of processing power. But b
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by kilon 9y ago
Not really, .NET is heavily tied to its IDE and winforms are very similar to VCL. Not to exclude the fact that Microsoft was already heavily copying Delphi way before .NET. Java is simply another programming language.
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by kilon 9y ago
It’s funny when Java devs mention that C# and .NET is a copy cat. The irony is the other way around , even though Java predates .NET , the same creator was then one that created Delphi which Java pretty much copy pasted not as elegantly. It
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by kilon 9y ago
For me the hard part is finding what to automate. Automation is not only about saving time but taking away the annoying stuff as well making your efforts more efficient. There is no silly graph to predict how valuable an automation will be.
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by kilon 9y ago
I actually I mentioned this 10 hours ago. So no need to be suprised ;)
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by kilon 9y ago
I don’t keep a log but I use pen a paper to create diagrams which visualize my problem and potential solutions. It has been very helpful and good excuse to rest my eyes from the monitor. I don’t care about dates cause I like to work in a ch
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by kilon 9y ago
CLI is nothing more than a form of GUI. Hence GUI is fundamentally superior and the only ones willing to live in the Stone Age of CLI are some coders. What is more ironic is people who think that any CLI can come remotely close to the power
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by kilon 9y ago
Truthfully as a lawyer , well I am pretty close to be an ex-lawyer cause I now code for living we really dont need software so much. In my office we had an old database running on DOS when I became a lawyer in 2008. I got rid of it and repl
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by kilon 9y ago
I use blender, Blender has multiple VPLs that each specialize in one area. Texture, Material and Compositor. Blender VPLs are fully upgradable with Python code that allows the creation of new nodes . This allowed developers to create new VP

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