knotty66

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   by knotty66 16y ago

   The history of Llamasoft by Jeff Minter is a great read. Not exactly what you asked for as he begins in 1978 as a 16 year old just starting college and he learns most of it by himself rather than being taught. http://www.wayoftherodent.com
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   by knotty66 16y ago

   MRI still sucks on Windows. If you HAVE to use Windows, you'd better off using JRuby.
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   by knotty66 16y ago

   You can get decent Android phones like the T-Mobile Pulse Mini for £79 now here in the UK, on PAYG. Or you can spend a little more - £99 - and get an Orange San Francisco with an OLED display and capacitive touchscreen. The prices have real
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   by knotty66 16y ago

   I am just using this now. It seems very nice - cleaner than SDL. One thing to watch out for if you use the unreleased 2.0 branch of the library, is that the OS X port is not quite there yet. So if you want to target that platform it may be
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   by knotty66 16y ago

   I had a similar situation once where a character set encoding bug in a cron script I wrote and was told to put live late on a Friday caused one lucky customer to receive an SMS message every minute for over 60 hours. I got away with that on
6. 126.▲
   by knotty66 16y ago

   Wow, things have changed a lot in the last six months. That's a pretty respectable gaming lineup.
7. 127.▲
   by knotty66 16y ago

   I've heard it said that modern American English is closer to that common ancestor than modern British English.
8. 128.▲
   by knotty66 16y ago

   I'd like to see him shipped off to the ISS.
9. 129.▲
   by knotty66 16y ago

   I tried melatonin for a cpouple of weeks and it didn't work for me. I experienced frequent bouts of sleep paralysis and felt MORE tired in the mornings than usual.
10. 130.▲
    by knotty66 17y ago

    Rails itself is actually installed by default on Leopard - I am not sure about Snow Leopard though ...
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    by knotty66 17y ago

    Never seen Lucky Louie but the similar scene from Louis C.K. standup is fantastic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA#t=7m00s
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    by knotty66 17y ago

    But lots of people just refer to it as 'Rails' ...