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by praeclarum 15y ago
If you haven't had the chance to look, OpenCL is a really nice way to write parallel tasks using a language that might as well be C. If your problem can be split into tasks that all execute the same code, you're in heaven. It's baked into O
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by praeclarum 15y ago
In the article he says you will see about a tenth of a second improvement on a 1 MB codebase. That's fantastic, but I wouldn't call it a bottleneck.
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by praeclarum 15y ago
My reading of the title followed the first commenter. For years we've been begging for locally bound function declarations so we don't have to explicitly pass variables to callbacks and so we don't pollute the global namespace with worker f
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Why? "You should donate all your money to praeclarum." "Why?" "Because I said so."
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by praeclarum 15y ago
This is a nice SDK. It's biggest improvement over the Open Source ones is the inclusion of the skeletal tracking. This high level interface opens a lot of great opportunities in human behavior tracking. I'm just going to miss libfreenect an
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by praeclarum 15y ago
You're not too much of an elitist, you're too much of a crank. Does it really dishearten you to see a bunch of people having a good laugh? Does every word written on the internet need to be researched/profound to be worthy of reading? This
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Speak for yourself, I have to proofread and edit everything I write! :-)
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Funny, I didn't notice until you mentioned that. It is nicely written, and apostrophe use seems all right. :-) Not sure if I buy the "as a kid would write" bit, but it is surprising to see this. Maybe the hacker just took 10 mins and proofr
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by praeclarum 15y ago
You're absolutely right about the costs of running real iron - Windows adds $1,000 per machine. But Windows virtual machines cost the same as Linux: about $20/mo for a lowend VPS. Plus the code is compiled and tends to run more efficiently
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by praeclarum 15y ago
iCircuit is a performance hungry application so it's completely valid to ask about perf. Some points: 1. The majority (99%) of your app is not perf-circital. It's just setting some properties on UIViews and letting CoreAnimation do the rest
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by praeclarum 15y ago
My iOS app iCircuit ( http://icircuitapp.com ) was written using MonoTouch. It's the #242 grossing productivity app in the store. I know, I know, #242 doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a big store. :-) I use Mono for the ease of developmen
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by praeclarum 16y ago
College is an opportunity to learn. Better colleges are better opportunities. It's on the kids' backs whether they actually take the time to learn or slide through the system. If you didn't learn, it's most likely your fault, not the colleg
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by praeclarum 16y ago
guest@goosh.org:/web> calculate 1 inch in m Error: could not calculate that. :-( fail. But still a really great concept!
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by praeclarum 16y ago
I don't see how exclusivity has anything at all to do with a technical point (I am considering "native" a technical point.) But I'm tired of defending them. I honestly just don't understand people's negativity. I'll say it again, better bro
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by praeclarum 16y ago
Yeah you have a point. But as a technically apt person, I ignore the marketing speak and look this stuff up. It's published all over their blogs, podcasts, etc. They have great developer relations and there's tons of info out there.
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by praeclarum 16y ago
I really don't understand why people are whining so much about this. I think native is justified given that (1) they are (finally) JITing their JS and (2) their graphics renderer in using the new DirectWrite lib which is very close to what
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by praeclarum 16y ago
FYI, you don't need to jailbreak your phone to see what apps are on your phone or what they're doing. Just load up Instruments.app
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Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket - exciting new intrasolar engine(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by praeclarum 16y ago|0 comments
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by praeclarum 16y ago
Checkout the Programming category (on the left frame) from 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20001203052300/http://unreal.epic... His article on the scripting language was also my first realization of the power of DSLs. I should also say t
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by praeclarum 16y ago
This is a fantastic article - as are most of the technical materials that Tim Sweeney wrote way-back-when. The Unreal system was my first introduction to the architecture of "real" object oriented apps and I refer back to these articles fro
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by praeclarum 16y ago
Such a "game" has been tried - Secondlife. And it's boring boring boring. Best give up these game things and find some real world hobby/job with a variable reward system. :-)
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by praeclarum 16y ago
> No server-side processing. You lost me at hello. While it might seem like a cool P2P idea to remove the central authority of the server, its removal leaves a vacuum of responsibilities. How do you prevent cheating (setting personal ba
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by praeclarum 16y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the app and a fellow startup nerd. I'm very happy to see my app listed on here. I was at the first startup school in Boston, any of those old timers still here? :-)
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by praeclarum 16y ago
MonoDroid
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by praeclarum 16y ago
All these tags mean the same thing to me. 3.75 inches 3.75 inches tall 3.75 x 3.75 x 5.75 inches 3.75 x 4.5 x 7 inches The problem with human entered / non moderated data is that these lists will become longer and longer over time and the d
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Martin Fowler's Domain-Specific Languages book is out(martinfowler.com)
63 points by praeclarum 16y ago|21 comments
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by praeclarum 16y ago
Geeze, does this guy understand the word prosperity? We should be happy that "the computer problem" is solved (at least for now). Computer technology has plateaued and there is no hard engineering required right now. This is a good thing!
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by praeclarum 16y ago
Completely possible. Except the posts to call for the attack were made prior to the world-known outages. But I can't argue your point. I just found it curious that no one mentioned the planned attack.
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by praeclarum 16y ago
While I agree, in general, with your statements/sentiments, such logic will keep us perpetually in a loop of beginner's mechanics. You advance knowledge and skill by challenging yourself - you don't do it by repeating beginner's materials.
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by praeclarum 16y ago
What's up with this being an introductory course to Python? Shouldn't the experts be giving expert level instruction? I understand the desire of programmers to start from ground zero, but come on. The internet is full of easy beginner tutor

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