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by mbel 13y ago
Actually, I've had a chance to use it quite a few times, and I was surprisingly happy with the results. Still I might have not tested all possible scenarios (like searching for a song knowing only a part of the lyrics with some errors)
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by mbel 13y ago
> and when I search lyrics in Google, I really want to go to rap genius. So, isn't it easier (and faster) to go directly to rapgenius or create custom search keyword in the browser, than ask google for the lyrics?
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by mbel 13y ago
It was using some kind of custom browser plugin. Which on one hand allowed it to run normal, compiled-to-binary Quake III engine, on the other it worked only in selected browsers.
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by mbel 13y ago
I would argue it's not _most_ parts of the world (imo roughly half) [0]. But surely it is a better idea to use comma here as the sentence is in English. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20130228DecimalSeparato
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by mbel 13y ago
Actually I would prefer to write the length at creation time and don't mutate the string at all (and yes I'm aware that the line of code above is quite far from ensuring immutability); afaik most of those "OOP languages"
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by mbel 13y ago
Storing length with pointer to array has nothing to do with OOP, strings can be defined as simple records (aka structs, product types) you don't need OOP for that: struct string_t { const char * buffer; int lenght }; And reall
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by mbel 13y ago
> I think the lesson is, if your business model MUST involve pulling stuff from the Internet arbitrarily, it is no less your responsibility as if you had crafted it yourself if you intend to commercially repurpose it. I totally agree. If
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by mbel 13y ago
Here [0] are some, together with development history (I hope OP won't mind me posting it). [0] http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=21997.0
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by mbel 13y ago
Oh ok, I haven't thought about it this way. You are surely right.
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by mbel 13y ago
> In practice you need a texture atlas (...)to reduce number of meshes. I believe you meant "to reduce number of texutre swaps"? Otherwise I fail to find how texture atlas is helping in reducing number of meshes in the drawn sc
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by mbel 13y ago
Actually, I think, disabling JS in default web browser is a very neat feature for smartphone to have.
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by mbel 13y ago
As long as they are getting substantial amounts of karma for it, I suppose that's what most of the people want to read.
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by mbel 13y ago
On the other hand, the latest revelations may be an "inspiration" for making up[0] such stories. As the demand for ominous surveillance themed news seems to be rather high right now, I guess it's one of the easiest way to gai
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by mbel 13y ago
Do they really need to fake it? It surely might be a part of the famous indirectly accessed data.
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by mbel 13y ago
I totally agree; actually a small, incomplete Scheme interpreter (which may be used to develop a lisp compiler later on) can be easily created in few hours (depending on used language) [0], without any prior experience. It's surely not as d
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by mbel 13y ago
It's maybe me being subjective, but the last one seems to have a bit of meaning too.
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by mbel 14y ago
> For a lot of developers, learning Haskell is a little bit like learning to program from scratch all over again. I find this to be the greatest joy of learning a new paradigm, everything is new and unknown, so even simple things are fu
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by mbel 14y ago
It is quite well written and takes 2-3 minutes to read, if you find this piece too long, why are you browsing hacker news in the first place? Seriously, I'm not sarcastic, I'm curious. Most of articles linked here seem to be longer.
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by mbel 14y ago
Not really, apart from the other software utilizing this icon, this "inspiration" might have come form a quick search [0] :(. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=preferences+icon&tbm=isc... (this particular icon is one of the topmost
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by mbel 14y ago
Another mobile framework, but not a new thing by any means. There are already plenty of Qt apps and libs (desktop + Symbian apps written with Qt4.8 + QML) out there. But yes, porting from Android/Windows/iOS might be painfull.
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by mbel 14y ago
I had an occasion to participate in project of a museum app which allowed people to use NFC-enabled phones as kind of interactive guides. There were NFC tags placed beside artworks and visitors with app installed on their phone could bring
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by mbel 14y ago
"Navigate Different" -- remember the details, Apple loves details.
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by mbel 14y ago
I find the 7th point to be really great piece of advice, I simply love the subtle way, in which author is pointing out advantages of functional programming.
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by mbel 14y ago
Has anyone suceeded in running it in any browser on any smartphone? It seems to fail on Windows Phone's IE. However, it works perfectly in few desktop browsers (including IE9), I've tried. Anyway it seemes, that gameboy game format could be
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by mbel 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying; although I don't really like this feature, compilation failure seems to be the best solution (and well I guess I should have RTFM to begin with, sorry).
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by mbel 14y ago
I might be missing something, but what I see as a problem is a situation where: class C implements interfaces IA and IB, which both contain method doSomething() with default implementations, class C doesn't overrides this method, so which i
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by mbel 14y ago
The idea of 'default methods' looks quite disturbing. It seems to allow implementation of some methods inside interfaces. Which is against the basic idea of interface, isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but multiple inheritance problems fo
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by mbel 14y ago
Well, he gave quite specific example of `sandwich design': "This is your typical cutscene-gameplay-cutescene sandwich." Where cutscenes are arcs as player is to watch them once and actual gameplay is build by looped actions. I haven't playe
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by mbel 15y ago
SQL isn't really general purpose programming language, it's hard to call it `programming' language at all. It doesn't really feel comparable to the other ones. Also Lisps could be merged into single entry since all shell languages are one.
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by mbel 15y ago
Could you explain why? I might be looking at it a bit too naively, but how system build for running interpreted JavaScript apps can perform better than one designed for compiled ones?

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