mattlarge

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by mattlarge 16y ago
Ada was the first language I learned properly, 1996 first year Computer Science. It was the last year that they taught Ada as the starter language at that University, they moved to Java after that.
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by mattlarge 17y ago
Totally agree with KWD. Freemind is the first app I open before starting anything new (project/proposal/article etc). I love mind mapping, Freemind's keyboard controls mean you can quickly produce a complex map without ever having to touch
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by mattlarge 17y ago
Check out some of the demos on the http://www.tinmith.net site, or http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/Projects/ . I love the demo where a group of people draw on a virtual map and the person on campus sees the draw arrows to guide them.
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by mattlarge 17y ago
I'd like some decent Augmented Reality apps/games, proper AR rather than the barcode based stuff. Something that could recognise an environment and overlay cool stuff. A decent camera, GPS, compass and good processing power are all required
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by mattlarge 17y ago
True, but I was being a little ham fisted in my original reply. They did win out by executing better than their competitors in the competition of the moment, but what I was trying to suggest was that, in all probability, no-one could have s
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by mattlarge 17y ago
I think Zepolen is correct, so much comes down to timing. If you look at a lot of the "successes" that you would want to get there before they were reaching slightly beyond current tech/social environment. For example, Flickr/YouTube were p
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by mattlarge 18y ago
I normally draw a prototype in Inkscape using layers to show different states of a site.