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by primitur 14y ago
.. in the US, according to rules imposed upon the society by the high priests of Industrialized Mental Health. Not everyone wants a pill for their un-normal quirks, yo.
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by primitur 14y ago
I agree with you - I think this bit of advice addresses the effect, not the cause, of an ignored problem: design, design, design. Design your database for your application - if you have some major hassle with your database after App 1.0 is
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by primitur 14y ago
Its always those who have ADHD, or who somehow profit from its existence, who defend the condition vehemently, while those who question the science behind its diagnoses are always considered 'wrong' because 'mainstream society has accepted
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by primitur 14y ago
Genetically transmitted brain chemistry may well be involved, but sleep is necessary for all kinds of brain chemistry, too. You can't have one without the other, perhaps .. perhaps, the reason we have the genetic scenario now, is precisely
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by primitur 14y ago
Honestly, I'm sniffing, but not seeing any reason to go that path. Automated Aesthetics as you offer, indeed, replaces the need .. ;)
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by primitur 14y ago
""How can gaming on linux be taken seriously when the same tired old ports and poor quality games dominate the "top" list by user reviews?"" Well, the answer to this question is this: those making bleeding-edge interesting games for Linux,
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by primitur 14y ago
Why use vim+makefiles to build a big C/C++ project when you can just use VisualStudioC++ to do it? LaTeX is a great way to make quality documents, really appealing, with very little investment beyond an afternoon or two of study - and, with
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by primitur 14y ago
Just wanted to say a big thank you for this site .. its a really wonderful resource, and has solved a question I've had in my mind for a year or two, with regards to how to handle my personal documentation needs: either a) continue to use a
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by primitur 14y ago
Fan clubs. The desire to have them, the desire to participate easily in them. The ability to create new ones, and to connect with other similar clubs. Humans gotta do things to each other, or individually they go mad.
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by primitur 14y ago
""Why do people insist on foisting "software literacy" on the general populace?"" Because under all that complication, there is a big secret, and that secret is that anything you can describe to another human being, you can describe to a co
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by primitur 14y ago
Add another couple of CPU's to make a voting system (2 of 3 configuration)..
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by primitur 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a SIL-4 rated programmer and have worked in safety-critical systems for decades. Yes, its true: radiation can destroy the benefit of having an ECC controller in your design. There are very few hardware methods, short of e
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by primitur 14y ago
Since I got my Open Pandora ( http://openpandora.org/ ) I've stopped playing video games on my workstations and laptops, and gotten a lot more productive! Anyone who wants to revisit their old collections of games and other interesting soft
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by primitur 14y ago
I grew up in Pinjarra, and swam in the Murray River almost every day. So I don't know what your point is, exactly - that Western Australia doesn't have a Murray River? It does.
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by primitur 14y ago
Pop quiz, where did this quote come from: "They are all infiltrators. We must drive them all out." If it walks like a duck ..
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by primitur 14y ago
But an Israeli fascist state having them is okay?
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by primitur 14y ago
If you have one channel in the system audio mixer for every channel that the system is playing then yes: you can just see what channel is active and mute it. Like on any old mixing desk.
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by primitur 14y ago
Never had a problem with 1-based arrays in Lua, and diverted: thanks thanks, in fact I am a huge MOAI fanboix, so .. yeah ..
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by primitur 14y ago
Yeah so this is what I mean exactly: use the OS features instead of hacking the App up to do what, should be in my opinion, something just provided to the App by the OS..
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by primitur 14y ago
Every audio stream in the OS should be backed up with an OS-based Mixer control, is my point. We had it in BeOS and now it seems .. its finally possible in Win7 .. but yeah .. these aren't the only OS's around to run Chrome on ..
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by primitur 14y ago
I've got the same development capabilities with my current MOAI environment - dev on Linux or OSX, deploy to repo, get app for any of the architectures built by my build server: linux-amd64, linux-x86, linux-arm, osx app bundle, ios appbund
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by primitur 14y ago
Great, yet another feature that should be being implemented by the OS VENDOR, intead being implemented in a non-standardized manner by an APP DEVELOPER. See kids, this is what happens when your OS vendors decide that its more important to a
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by primitur 14y ago
Nope, its only in my AR app, which has a very specific set of ImageTargets only I have any interest in. ;) But! Its an awesome tech, and I'm pretty sure its going to hit the store soon enough. I'm currently working on ways to embed tons m
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by primitur 14y ago
Wow, the Tufte template is an excellent resource .. I am going to print it and put it right alongside the real Tufte's, its that good! :) This collection is definitely going to make me use LaTeX one of these days. Of course, I've been say
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by primitur 14y ago
I just shipped my first AR app to a customer, and I have been having serious Snow Crash moments in real-life, lately. As a mobile developer, all I can think about now is the death of the native interface, and the new age of the rule of Aug
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by primitur 14y ago
I'm on the fence about any nation going to Mars for the sake of pride. I don't think the first man on Mars will want to go down in history as an American, personally. At least, if that is how it is pitched and sold - s/American/Indian/g -
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by primitur 14y ago
Hail slack, brother! :)
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by primitur 14y ago
Building emergency shelters as quickly as possible? Repairing wind-blown greenhouses in remote places as quickly as possible? Building a water-pipe as quickly as possible? Elevator-to-the-stars building mechanic?
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by primitur 14y ago
You know what has become the "Best Java" for me? Lua. With the LuaVM, you really can fulfill the absolute promise of 'write codebase once, run anywhere', where "anywhere = wherever you've got your LIBS+LuaVM host code running", of course. Y
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by primitur 14y ago
The Captain is always right, that's why. There are no customers on an airplane: only weight. They're not customers again until they're walking up the gangway ..

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