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by octopus 12y ago
PhoneGap uses the underlying OS WebView. If the WebView is slow your PhoneGap application will be slow.
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by octopus 13y ago
Yes, you right, GTW is a Java translator to JavaScript and HTML.
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by octopus 13y ago
If you prefer C++, Cocos2d-X may be a good fit for you. I've tried it, but I just couldn't stand it, because of the way they've translated the Objective-C object model and bolted this on top of C++. To me it looks hardly idio
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by octopus 13y ago
You already can, just be warned that if you use something different than Java you won't be able to export to the web. From my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) LibGDX converts only Java code to JavaScript and HTML5.
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LibGDX 1.0 released(badlogicgames.com)
171 points by octopus 13y ago|34 comments
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by octopus 13y ago
Probably has something to do with the 3D acceleration Unity needs. In my case (MacBook Air 2013 with 8GB of RAM I run Ubuntu 12.04.4 without a problem).
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by octopus 13y ago
Try Elance :). The escrow is guaranteed for most projects. Same goes for oDesk if you work by the hour.
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by octopus 13y ago
Nobody stops you to install an alternate GUI on top of Ubuntu or install other Linux distro. HN is not the place for ad hominem attacks (even if you don't like the way Mark changes Ubuntu).
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by octopus 13y ago
To be fair, VirtualBox runs flawlessly on OSX and Windows. I've also used VirtualBox without problems on Ubuntu. What Linux distribution you use ?
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by octopus 13y ago
QEMU lets you emulate ARM architecture on x86 for example, which is not possible with VirtualBox. I've played with a Raspbian image running on QEMU hosted on Windows 7 a few months ago.
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by octopus 13y ago
I feel the system is flawed and can be manipulated by anyone. This is, unfortunately, true. You can however make some money on Freelancer if you offer quality and keep your prices at a medium level.
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by octopus 13y ago
The difference is that RAC protected both the interest of the coder and the buyer. Freelancer seems to be only interested in taking money from both sides. If a buyer cancel his credit card used to pay for a project, the coder is not protect
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by octopus 13y ago
I couldn't get a gig against every Indian and other third world country scamming the system with 10 accounts a piece I'm not Indian, but some HN readers may find offensive that you equate Indian with scammer.
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by octopus 13y ago
Pity they have such a horrible site design and poor documentation (scattered in too many places). For e.g. the code example on this page could be made easier to read/understand with a simple syntax highlighter: http://suppor
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by octopus 13y ago
A possible solution: - Block all machines from accessing the web, let them access only the intranet; - Install a lightweight VM with a browser on every machine and use this to access the Internet (for e.g. you could use a VM with a small Li
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by octopus 13y ago
They recommend to buy this 4K display (it is not produced by Apple) if you own a Mac Pro 2013 or a MacBook Pro 2013: http://store.apple.com/ca/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321...
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by octopus 13y ago
Best Lua "class" example I've seen is in the PIL 3rd edition it is about 10 lines of code and lets you use inheritance and some other nice OOP concepts.
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by octopus 13y ago
They already have a good shell, it is named PowerShell. The problem for most old Unix beards with it is that it is not a Bash like shell.
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Microsoft Build 2014 Day 1 live(channel9.msdn.com)
102 points by octopus 13y ago|43 comments
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by octopus 13y ago
If you don't have a touchscreen you can set Windows 8.1 to boot (start) directly in Desktop mode, basically you can bypass the Metro interface.
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by octopus 13y ago
I think Windows 8.1 is a lot closer to the classic Windows experience than Windows 8 for e.g. If you select the option to boot directly in the Desktop mode. My mother (55) recently switched from XP to Windows 8.1. Except for 1 - 2 days of i
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by octopus 13y ago
From my own experience Crosswalk gives you about 60 fps for simple canvas based games on Android 4.3 and 4.4. It is an interesting framework to use.
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by octopus 13y ago
I was born in Eastern Europe, under the influence of Soviets, but a different country, Romania. We learned planar classical geometry (Euclidean) in the 6th grade. If someone wants to take a pick (the manual is in Romanian, but you can see t
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by octopus 13y ago
Maybe in the future, I doubt anyone, except Android developers, even knows about Art. Art is still experimental and not enabled by default.
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by octopus 13y ago
Actually they use Java the language, except that the code doesn't run on JVM but on a different VM (Dalvik at this time). Dalvik supports Java 6 and parts from Java 7.
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by octopus 13y ago
Fortran is the oldest programming language in existence today, because of this it has a lot of cruft. However, if you put your compiler in standard mode (2003 or 2008 standard) you have a pretty modern language: modules, interfaces, functi
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by octopus 13y ago
Don't bother with PhoneGap on Android, the experience is terrible (especially on Android 4.4). A good alternative is the CrossWalk project. On iOS PhoneGap runs reasonably well.
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by octopus 13y ago
Don't know about iOS but it runs on Android: https://love2d.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=11
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Ernest Cline ["Ready Player One"'s author] is the luckiest geek alive(theverge.com)
1 points by octopus 13y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 13y ago
Nice list of books. I think I read Fundamentals of interactive Computer graphics (1st edition) around 1999 :).

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