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by primitur 14y ago
This seems really neat .. I have met a few folks who don't share my enthusiasm for MOAI recently, on the basis of not being able to use much Python (I'm a huge MOAI fan and love Lua) so now there is a great option.
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by primitur 14y ago
I make my own modular synthesizers, for fun and creativity. For me, 3D printing represents a chance to build a synth panel of my absolute dreams. Not just knobs, but levers, dials, and so on. The recent revelation that Teenage Engineering
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by primitur 14y ago
Your last point is really spot on .. and I gauge the answer, personally, with one question: do I have a desire to buy a new Apple product? Well, I already upgraded to iPhone5. I'm really not terribly interested in upgrading my aging Macb
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It also fulfills the 'bar of soap' design strategy, wherein, after time, users become less and less enamoured by their 'personal' device, because of the little knicks and dents and impersonal scratches and so on .. leading to 'upgrade desir
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Be right back, off to yoink this into a Tablet app ..
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by primitur 14y ago
No, really, I'm not being snide. I honestly believe that Rust is of great interest, as is the effort and front of new language exploration. However, there is an intrinsic quality of language: it is infinitely useful, or not useful, depend
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by primitur 14y ago
I've been on it for a week, and its not bothered me even in the slightest. Only 'quirk' I've thought about since the upgrade was when I noticed that "Brightness and Background" settings were merged ..
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by primitur 14y ago
I'm a C die-hard as well. Tell you what I'm doing lately, that makes me less and less interested in the new-school elite, and just generally enjoying a language 'enigma' moment: putting Lua in everything. That is, I mean to say, Rust is nea
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by primitur 14y ago
Raspberry Pi is just the new, "hipster", eval board. There have been cheap, affordable, fun eval boards like the Rpi out there for years. Gumstix, Beagle, and so on. Prices are coming down, sure, but don't kid yourself that the RaspberryP
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by primitur 14y ago
I have two Open Pandoras that say you Just Need To Wait A Little More (tm). ;) And yeah, seems like every few years we get more and more college grads who seem to be surprised that there is, in fact, a lot of very cheap hardware out there t
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by primitur 14y ago
.. " an extra $100 to submit a game to a service like Greenlight just for a chance to share it with people " .. The way I see this particular position, is this: if you don't have $100 worth of friends and people locally to you who can at le
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by primitur 14y ago
Valve should get involved with the guys behind the Open Pandora console: http://openpandora.org/ http://icontrolpad.com/ There is a next-gen design in the works, Valve getting involved with it would be a serious wake up call ..
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by primitur 14y ago
I think the Raspberry Pi would be more interesting if it were to ship with LuaOS or some such similar thing. The incompleteness of it as a Linux workstation just doesn't differentiate it well enough from the Pandora, or Beagle, or PandaBoa
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by primitur 14y ago
The maps are not useless. In fact, they are tremendously valuable. If that is not observable, the fault lies in the observer. I believe LIVE versions of the maps are a tremendous idea .. would you consider building a site replete with s
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by primitur 14y ago
Seems to me the answer lays in having the compiler more tightly bound with the nature of the OS - such that, for example, adjustable stack sizes and generalized metrics about application performance, can be used to make apps fill the cache-
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by primitur 14y ago
I really like the idea of multirotors taking off, literally, to be part of a delivery team. Incidentally, I'd really like to be able to use those rotors to recycle things - literally to shred, perhaps, my plastic trash - such that the remai
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by primitur 14y ago
Oops .. sorry about that - and thanks for following up with the correction. Did you try LOAD81? I really love it as a way of getting started with Lua hacking, and I'd love to hear others experiences too ..
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by primitur 14y ago
LOAD81 is good for this purpose too, thanks to antirez: http://github.com/anitrez/load81
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by primitur 14y ago
I'd like to use it as a plugin for email, Reddit Enhancement Suite, and other such things of that nature .. ;)
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by primitur 14y ago
Well, native assembler is always (hopefully?) going to be a given in any serious architecture decision, so it'd be something like: languages_onboard ={} lanuages_onboard[0]="assembly" lanuages_onboard[1]="lua" -- .. &etc.
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by primitur 14y ago
I agree with the first 10 controversial opinions, and I agree with this followup, to boot. All good points, all worthy of discussion. As an autocrat, I'd also add another few, what I conceive to be contemporaneously controversial point of
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by primitur 14y ago
Print statements fit right in with good unit tests.
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by primitur 14y ago
Australians should consume less and build more. The Australian nation has got all the resources, why on Earth is an average Australian salivating for the American cool tech and so on, when the stuff is being designed to be cool to "America
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by primitur 14y ago
It should be GNU+Linux, not GNU/Linux. This is where the attribution people get seized-up and go all fruity-colored, but its a fact: these are not related sub-brands of each other, they are connected components. You cannot divide Linux fr
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by primitur 14y ago
Neat ideas, I hope you continue to make good progress! I'm reminded of LuaOS, of course: http://luaos.net/ As an 8-bit nerd I'd love to return to the days when there was, basically, just one language onboard the computer, and all vendor
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by primitur 14y ago
I tried to use the Mint .debs on my system (Ubuntu 12.04-amd64) but there was a dependency to libc6-amd64, which I didn't feel like fixing, so I downloaded the sources, opened the project in QT Maker, built the project and ran it. Works fa
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by primitur 14y ago
I think you might be missing the point that he's trying to make, which is that having the Lua VM is one thing, and great and everything, but you do still need some interface to the raw devices - input/output - to make use of it in any sense
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by primitur 14y ago
Its simple: it just plain works. Pretty much, always. I plug in a MIDI keyboard and Controller, fire up a synth app, and off we go. Stable, sounds great (comparable by far with any PC plugin), and just plain works. I have two iPads and
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by primitur 14y ago
Well, I have 2 ipads and an iPhone which I use as a portable studio these days, jamming with my band .. and I use the iPads just like VST plugin hosts on my PC .. since I play keyboards in the band, its awesome! Plug in, fire up a few apps
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by primitur 14y ago
Along similar lines, antirez' LOAD81: http://github.com/antirez/load81 Lua sure is a lovely language for this sort of thing!

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