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by optforfon 10y ago
As far as I know Lumina is a one man project. I remember listening to a podcast with him. It sounded very much like a guy started messing around and trying stuff out and ended up with Lumina. Kinda like Hammer2 is also mostly a one man proj
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by optforfon 10y ago
If it came out tomorrow it'd be 10 years too late. Cellphones seem to have hit a plateau. All the parts are now good enough in a cheap phone that no one really needs this. I got a $150 aluminum phone with a huge battery, nice enough ca
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by optforfon 10y ago
Even if you don't reuse a function it still encapsulates certain things. By looking at the name you know what it does (self-documenting-code). The interface tells you what variables it depends on. And finally it logically segregates yo
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by optforfon 10y ago
Okay, growing lettuce in space is better than not doing it at all... but how many billions of dollars are you willing to pay for it? Lots of research helps with "beyond cis-lunar" exploration. Maybe building a biosphere in antarct
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by optforfon 10y ago
So are there are any cool applications? Maybe I'm having a lack of imagination... but I have no idea what I'd do with one even if I wasn't constrained by size. Even on the ISS they seem to have run out of interesting things t
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by optforfon 10y ago
No one remembers how Linode tried to cover up getting hacked?
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by optforfon 10y ago
Am I misremembering something, or weren't they planning to replace the "Projects" files with CMake?
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by optforfon 10y ago
right, but once you start writing inline assembly it's no longer a "cross platform assembly" - and I think there is a demand for that. For instance the Linux kernel supports a mind-boggling amount of different architectures a
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by optforfon 10y ago
I respectfully disagree. I think C is a giant disaster that will continue to plague us entirely due to inertia. You're really underestimating how entrenched it is. Try to go program on micro in something other than C. Try programming a
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by optforfon 10y ago
By giving everything away for free? The only related revenue stream M$ seems to have left is Azure with some vague notion that giving away their ecosystem will drive people to use their cloud more
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by optforfon 10y ago
Some people are just much better organized. I studied physics at a pretty good school. A lot of my classmates were very smart and hard workings. We spend easily 8 hours a day doing problem sets. Then we had an exchange student who cam from
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by optforfon 10y ago
I've been using Debian for ever .. but honestly it's mostly b/c the critical mass it has. If I have a problem it's pretty straightforward to find solutions. I think there are distributions that are more advanced and inte
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by optforfon 10y ago
I dunno what the extensiblity features are of this game, it would be cool if you could write scripts for a planet's creatures. Try to build ecosystems. And then you can share those online with others. Kinda like those AI competitions b
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by optforfon 10y ago
Sure. There are tons. Starbucks is everywhere, KFC, McDonalds, Walmart is doing okay along with Carrefour. Apple ofcourse is completely crushing the phone market (and it's not just so they can employ a few factories of manual laborers)
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by optforfon 10y ago
You're right, but you're also thinking way too big-picture were saving face and corruption play a daily role. You're missing the crazy chaos that happens on a daily basis on a small scale - which is both positive and negative
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by optforfon 10y ago
One of my buddies here in China (who's been here for ever) told me that the China always say that we in the West talk too much. That we talk talk talk and never actually get anything done. In China people just do thing - often stupid t
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by optforfon 10y ago
the problem is on the merchant side. if you're selling $1 bowls of noodle in a small town, buying a POS to read cards is pretty darn expensive, the CC fees are expensive, and there is no real incentive to be the first guy on the block
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by optforfon 10y ago
Money doesn't buy you happiness, but at some point you prolly stop blaming it on your employer haha
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by optforfon 10y ago
it sounds a bit too idealistic. How about if someone is hired at a hire rate because "well we needed someone with his skill set ASAP, so we agreed to pay him a premium" (but we can't afford to pay everyone at that rate) or &q
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by optforfon 10y ago
Infants, people in comas, and the severely disabled probably don't have wechat
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by optforfon 10y ago
I think that's simplistic. All of the points are important together Like I said, Facebook has the social graph and no one uses their payment system b/c 1 - you pay with credit cards and they're super entrenched and you don&#x
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by optforfon 10y ago
Lovely article, and a great introduction to the red envelope culture. But I think the real reason WeChat's payment system has taken off is much simpler: - People pay for everything with cash - Sometimes you don't bring enough cash
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by optforfon 10y ago
I have an artist friend who does everything in Max/MSP. At first I was rather dismissive and thought he should just learn to code properly - but the patching environment makes him able to get results incredibly fast - much much faster
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by optforfon 10y ago
You can get a cheap Chromebook (which, though inexpensive are actually quite nice quality wise), install crouton on the chromebook, install Lil'Debi on the phone and have an X-server connection over USB. It'd cost about the same a
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by optforfon 10y ago
“Now they manufacture without our oversight” I know several people who's job is overseeing Chinese manufacturing. They need constant oversight and quality inspection otherwise everything falls apart very very fast. I'm currently l
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by optforfon 10y ago
here was an interesting proposal for a solution in C++ https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/C-PP-Con-2014/0007-Acce...
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by optforfon 10y ago
People that are scared seek asylum I think? I think the smartest people in a country can be very formative of that country's future. Doesn't take a lot of people to form whole industries. I don't have a source for you, but th
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by optforfon 10y ago
That's such a myopic view of immigration. Countries are delighted that the US isn't causing a massive brain drain in the 3rd world. It's why US immigration is so difficult for skilled workers, and for the less skilled it&#x27
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by optforfon 10y ago
I guess i'm more envisioning something like a SQL container. So if you have multiple instances of a pImpl class you would keep the actual state-variables/implementation in a DB. When you want to say do some complicated look up (ex
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by optforfon 10y ago
oh, sorry, has to due with the way windows switches between chinese and english. Sometimes it goes into a weird mode monospaced mode for some reason. Thought that would get stripped

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