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by primitur 14y ago
pfft, you had blue? ;) I was happy to finally, one day, have a CURSOR! Oh crap, it blinks! Wow, high tech type! Well, all this fun talk of SublimeText2, and my .2c .. I have been using ST2 for a long time now as an editor for MOAI, in w
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The point is, between "totally tyrannically rulled wall garden", and "nicely maintained arena of culture", is a big difference! I'm perfectly fine with Linux as a dev platform. Steam on Linux is an admission that in fact, you can use Linux
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Disclaimer: I am a C programmer. C is straightforward to compile on pretty much every single CPU out there. A C compiler is required to certify many very common CPU's before they go into manufacturing, in fact. You cannot go to silicon, i
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My boys have Duplo, Lego, and Mindstorms part-recovery parties regularly, and we just chuck everything in the dish washer. Things fit surprisingly better after that!
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The secret about Lego is that the parts that don't make it through their quality-control, are all recycled. You can melt a Lego, use it as a paste, and form something else. If you know the right way to cook it, of course .. and Lego do. So
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The days of walled-developer-gardens are over! The barrier to entry into the lucrative console markets are lower and lower with every day that passes .. as a developer who could never afford a PS3 or XBox dev license, I've been participati
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I always ask myself why I'm thinking about these things in the first place. Its a failure of the language, in my opinion, a deep design flaw that isn't being recognized. Why do things need to be synthesized in this day and age. I know why
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Run with the pack and eventually become de-marginalized on the slippery platform being controlled by Apple, or work a bit harder and gain traction on every platform you can. This has always been a strategic decision for developers, large a
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1.g5hz Quad-Core, 2gigs of RAM. Its not enough RAM .. if this catches on, I hope that mfr's will allow us to deck these things out with 16Gigs .. that'd be amazing. http://www.cloudsto.com/new-mk802iiis.html ^^ nice, and cheap! Also real
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I'm really more trying to point out that there is a great way to escape the trap being laid for you by Apple and their plans for Objective-C, which is indeed to keep the language in their own privileged domain. And it really is important en
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Purely software development work - Lua, C, some Python, a little Ruby, node.js at times.. but most Lua (in MOAI). This rig functions at least as well as my Linux workstation for my work needs, and is upgradable to boot .. I really love it,
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Yes, I built a user-upgradable ultra-notebook out of an MK808 and the (strangely) discontinued Lapdock, for ~$150. Had to make a cable, though.. The MK808 is a TV device! But its also an Ubuntu workstation. It runs Android and Ubuntu. I
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If you're going to take C more seriously, then I suggest you take Lua and the Lua VM more seriously, too. The reasons why: * You can put the LuaVM in any C project, quite easily. * The Lua VM is exceptionally easy to understand C, and is h
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I concur, I wonder honestly whether this is a matter of hubris becoming more important than accuracy. The accurate fact is that K&R C is a book about C. It is not the end-all, but rather an introduction to the language. Sure, it has t
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I'm using a Motorola Lapdock with an MK808 PC-on-a-stick right now to post this message. I'll never buy an Apple machine again; instead I'll just upgrade the PC-on-a-stick to something new, in a few months. Everything my mega-Linux DAW wor
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I think its important for the non-Embedded people to understand something: there is nothing in the iOS Systems Criticality design which wasn't already figured out, 20 years previously, in the history of computing. Nada. iOS was, essentiall
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C pretty much still Rules the System Layer. Its never going to go away for as long as its easy, and efficient, to write very good C code which performs well. In spite of the hate, there is a lot of really good C code out there still runni
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Its earth-shattering because its an entirely volunteer project, where once there was nothing but proprietary blobs for us to run. This is significant because 3D-acceleration has been an Achilles heel in the Linux desktop world for ages ..
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Speaking of l33tness, there was recently (2010) a version of Elite finally made for the Oric-1/Atmos family of machines, which never got the game franchise back in the 80's, when they were on the market, and it .. too .. is an act of pure
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The 5 year old computer can easily run Ubuntu and now Mobile phones will, also. What don't you get: this is Canonical running ahead of the pack?
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There is absolutely nothing stopping us developers from sensing when it occurs and switching accordingly. This is really the point: we can choose to scale from Desktop to Mobile UI's, sanely, without having the market separation enforced u
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Do you know how easy it is to port touch-friendly UI frameworks/SDK's such as MOAI ( http://getmoai.com/ ) to Ubuntu? Damn easy. In fact, its already done: and right now, MOAI - and similar tools, just like it (Love2D, Cocos2D, &etc.)
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I'm experiencing a small personal 'netbook revival' myself, with the recent hacking of a Motorola Lapdock to accomodate small miniPC's like the MK802 and so on .. you can see a picture of it here: http://seclorum.minus.com/mGeislSULuCVd T
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Oh its a lot more straightforward. For starters, you only need three things: a decent text editor, the MOAI host executable, and the MOAI SDK docs. All of these things can be found on Windows, Mac, Linux .. Second of all, the MOAI API and
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I've always wondered if we paeons truly know what the heck is going on in our chips. I mean, the basis of trust is pretty large .. but there is really nothing we can do to ascertain whether there isn't a backdoor in every single chip packa
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by primitur 14y ago
I'm in Austria, a C/C++ developer (Java, Android variant too, but I'd rather not work in it) with systems programming experience, and now 4 years of mobile work. The salaries around these parts are close to the GP scale, but not quite ther
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Nice offer, I'll pass it on to some of the British Java guys I know. ;)
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Where in Europe is EU3000/mo. the norm? I've got 25 years of experience as a developer, and I'm finding it hard to get 2/3rds of that ..
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I've been playing with these for a while .. here's my favourite one so far: #include <math.h> int main() { int v, i, z, n, u, t; for (v = -1;;) { for (n = pow(1.05946309, "CWG[Cgcg[eYcb^bV^eW^be^bVecb^"[++v & 31] + (v
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Well, I must confess that what I propose isn't necessarily native iOS development - but rather, VM-based. In my case, I'm using MOAI ( http://getmoai.com ). If you check my comment history, you will see I'm quite the MOAI fanboix, and I've

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