nglevin

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by nglevin 14y ago
Someone tried to make an effort. The load icon's arrow is bright green, while the save icon's arrow is teal. Which is downright impossible to see at 1440x900. ...I think the idea might have been better than the implementation.
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by nglevin 14y ago
I always wondered why nobody else seemed to follow the lead of Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows. Use "save" and "load" icons that portray arrows pointing to and from folders [1]. Never have to worry about a floppy again. Turns out, these guys just d
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by nglevin 14y ago
(EDIT): Original post is too long for an HN comment. In lieu of that, here's a Pastebin cache of the original post. http://pastebin.com/LNmWc8LH Let me know if you run into any issues. (2nd EDIT): I just updated the Pastebin cache with th
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Building Photoshop 1.0(basalgangster.macgui.com)
159 points by nglevin 14y ago|39 comments
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Visual effects workers plan Oscar flyover protest(latimes.com)
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by nglevin 14y ago
Last progress update; http://crtags.blogspot.com/2013/02/dtracearm_16.html
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DTrace/ARM for Linux(crtags.blogspot.com)
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by nglevin 14y ago
This is the place. It's HN! I have a strong suspicion that CGAffineTransform and its associated methods are calculated through the ARM NEON co-processor. I don't see anything in the documentation you provided that mentions the GPU. It _coul
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by nglevin 14y ago
Would you care to elaborate, rather than be glib? QuartzGL runs all Core Graphics on the GPU[1]. It's only available on OS X. If you can show me evidence that some API on iOS runs Core Graphics on the GPU, I'd be happy to know. I do a fair
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by nglevin 14y ago
I don't really know what graphics you're drawing in your app, but this approach will kill the performance of anything that relies on the GPU. Since you're only using Core Graphics, this is acceptable. Core Graphics only has a CPU implementa
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by nglevin 14y ago
Depends on where he's coming from. I went to a few private schools (K-8, K-12) staffed with teachers like that, when I was younger.
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by nglevin 14y ago
You're defeating yourself too soon. I think you will be very surprised as to how much people don't know. The regurgitation of information isn't a byproduct of laziness; it's a direct result of two things. 1. People don't like to read. 2. Th
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by nglevin 14y ago
If it's something you're passionate about, write about it. What you love will really show through your writing, give it a bit of color. Don't get too hung up on being an original provider of content. Few people are. Rather, think more about
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Epic closes Infinity Blade: Dungeons developer, Impossible Studios.(epicgames.com)
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Apple Doomed, According to News at 11(tidbits.com)
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Gabe Newell - "Whether we want to or not, we're becoming a bottleneck"(valvetime.net)
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by nglevin 14y ago
I don't think there really is a clearly defined boundary here. I've worked on projects at past jobs where the designs demanded that we duplicate the look and feel of certain iOS system APIs and programs to a T. Apple passed those through ap
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Code68k - resources for classic mac programming(sites.google.com)
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by nglevin 14y ago
There's also the tiny problem that The Daily's content never did much that HTML5 couldn't. The best thing I can say in The Daily's favor is that the app took advantage of the native frameworks for kerning and text layout, even if the hyphen
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by nglevin 14y ago
Nitpicking, but The Daily uses JSON describing page layouts which map pretty closely to UIKit objects and properties. No Postscript, no PDF. You can see this for yourself if you let Charles or any kind of wire sniffer observe the network tr
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by nglevin 14y ago
I regret to admit to knowing this, but that's not correct. The subscription tiers were more like; - iPhone + Android phone sub - iPad AND iPhone + Android phone sub Android phone is equivalent to Kindle Fire. I have no idea why the Kindle w
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by nglevin 14y ago
> I could be wrong, but if The Daily had concentrated on putting out excellent content, quickly, with a minimal interface with excellent sharing options, maybe things would have been different? The Daily was an effort to compete with th
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by nglevin 14y ago
Recently added support for Haiku, too. Midar doesn't slack around when it comes to portability. :)
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by nglevin 14y ago
There is some support for GLSL 3.3, 4.0 and 4.1 in OS X Mountain Lion; http://renderingpipeline.com/2012/11/first-hints-of-opengl-4... GLSL 3.3 was present but hilariously broken in Lion, if you explicitly requested it in your shaders. Ho
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by nglevin 14y ago
For PIX alternatives, you might want to give apitrace a try. Valve's Linux team was raving about it at this year's SIGGRAPH OpenGL BoF. http://apitrace.github.com Still receiving frequent updates and new features. It's been exciting to se
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by nglevin 14y ago
There's less of a performance hit at runtime than using a scripting language like Ruby/Python/Lua/Perl/PHP, since the generated code uses a fair amount of compiled C. You can use Smalltalk-style messaging that C++ and C alone wouldn't give
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by nglevin 14y ago
GNUstep-base is pretty solid if you're looking for an open source Foundation (constructors, destructors, container classes, networking, etc.) that's compatible with Apple's implementation. If all you're looking for is constructors and destr
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by nglevin 14y ago
It's not quite what you describe, but Ivan Vučica is currently working on a GSoC project to implement a subset of UIKit with parts of Quartz and CoreAnimation in GNUstep. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/i... "Th