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by primitur 14y ago
I think the only way forward is for some manufacturer to step up and design hardware that will run Linux, yet be competitive with the features of Surface. We're only worrying about this entire issue because the mass market, presumably, will
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by primitur 14y ago
Are you sure you haven't got that around the wrong way? If I check Facebook right now, I will have missed everything that happened in between now and the last time .. unless I scroll and scroll and scroll. But if I check email right now, I
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by primitur 14y ago
In my case the personal answer is that there is simply nothing productive, at all, about using Facebook. It is indeed a total waste of time - for everyone. I've yet to see anyone actually get any work done while facebook.com is up on the
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by primitur 14y ago
Another vote for kupfer here, I'm a huge fan of it, and install it instantly on receipt of a new linux workstation .. terrific tool, lots of nice plugins and very usable.
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by primitur 14y ago
If you want to develop apps for iOS on Linux, use something like MOAI or Love2D, or COCOS2D, and so on .. I use Linux as my main development machine, and regularly deploy directly to Android and iOS devices from this very seat. Of course,
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by primitur 14y ago
One reason why "ifs are smelly" has become a maxim in some circles is because they represent an under-tested code path. In such areas as safety-critical/life systems, where a different codepath can be taken on the basis of a single var, th
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by primitur 14y ago
If you're talking to me, I'm not part of the MOAI team, I'm just an independent developer who wants to contribute to the effort of getting MOAI running smoothly on Ouya .. my offer stands for anyone else is interested.
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by primitur 14y ago
Maybe they'd like to be using MOAI productively as well, and besides that: I'm not "a company" but rather an individual developer who is willing to contribute to the community - of Ouya developers, Ouya users, and MOAI developers. Understo
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by primitur 14y ago
Hardware game controller support on Android (within MOAI) is not implemented, and would need to be done according to the ODK. Also, it very definitely needs to be tested ..
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by primitur 14y ago
I don't need hardware, but if you've got it, then you could do the work and I could assist you. I don't need access to hardware, but I'd sure like to know that MOAI is running smoothly with the Ouya ODK as soon as possible .. ;) (I'm work
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by primitur 14y ago
Want to collaborate on getting MOAI working?
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by primitur 14y ago
Does anyone who has one already, want to collaborate on getting MOAI on it? ( http://getmoai.com/ ) If so, drop me an email and I'll gladly assist ..
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by primitur 14y ago
I just wanted to add that the LOAD81 project is another great way to learn Lua: http://github.com/antirez/load81 (Yes, that antirez..) I strongly encourage anyone who wants to learn Lua to check out LOAD81 - its a lot simpler than MOAI,
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by primitur 14y ago
Personally, I'm 100% a raving MOAI fanboix, I can't stop promoting it as a neat way to develop cross-platform apps. Okay, its not a way to get a native app developed - other frameworks are better for that, although I'm hesitant to recommend
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by primitur 14y ago
Write a nice, clean C library and export a decent header. Then, use the tolua tool to read that header and generate the bindings for the Lua VM. Build the LuaVM with those bindings, and suddenly you have the features of your C library ava
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by primitur 14y ago
Yes, you can write some functionality in C/C++, and export it to the Lua VM, and access those features from within the Lua language environment. This is really awesome! A really good example for you is MOAI: http://getmoai.com/ Look und
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by primitur 14y ago
Others have contributed good answers to this question in your sub-thread, so I will just clear this up for you: domain tool - a tool which can be applied to, and adjusted according to the needs of the domain of your application. You can em
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by primitur 14y ago
Fortunately, it is very easy to implement these structures in Lua, if they haven't already. The basic datatype of Lua - the table - can be treated as a hash map, a sorted set, a priority queue, very, very easily .. in fact if you think the
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by primitur 14y ago
I don't know what you mean by C being extreme .. for me, its not extreme at all, and rather I find working in C to be a comfortable, rewarding experience pretty much 100% of the time. But being able to extend beyond the scope of a static C
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by primitur 14y ago
You got my message pretty well 100%, I was just about to type a sentence very close to this one: "You really should try to use this in close cooperation with C, and not just as a stand-alone language. If you don't you'll miss a significant
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by primitur 14y ago
I'm using mine as a synthesizer .. its the cheapest digital synth platform I own (and I have a few..) Its pretty neat to be able to build onboard as well .. just having a compiler onboard means so much, in terms of power and functionality.
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by primitur 14y ago
Learn Lua. I went through the same basic phase as you described, and once I'd gotten my competence with implementing Lua bindings up and running, I never looked back. For me, Lua+C is the most elegant combination of language tools I've us
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by primitur 14y ago
I've been a C programmer since 1984, and have been happily ignoring a lot of new-school language fads as a consequence. I've found that there's very little reason not to use C - it is small, it is fast, and with 30+ years of experience now
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by primitur 14y ago
I think you don't know what unlimited means. It doesn't mean "infinite" - it means - there was no limit placed on it. Sorry, but you didn't understand that word, plain and simple, and now you really have created an ass-thread for yourself.
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by primitur 14y ago
Well, here comes the Grey Goo! ;) Seriously, this is cool. I think we're going to try to make some graphene locally, on the basis of this research .. it'd sure be nice to be able to make super-capacitors real cheap! Imagine if we could p
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by primitur 14y ago
My new development laptop is a re-purposed Motorola Lapdock, which cost me $50, paired with an MK802 PC-on-a-stick, running Ubuntu, which cost me $65. About $12 worth of cables and adapters later, and I have a totally enviable, snappy Ubun
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by primitur 14y ago
When they do, it will be news. Otherwise its just PR control of a potential disaster for Instagram.
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by primitur 14y ago
>This whole event shows me (or at least, reminds me) that there are limits to what words can fix. I think it should show you that there are limits to what people will understand. This is an APOLOGY from Instagram. It cannot be construe
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by primitur 14y ago
There is a huge abundance of civilian drone tech available in the hobby world. Don't forget that the whole feasability of drones in the first place was demonstrated in the hobby crowd. Many military drones do in fact derive their designs
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by primitur 14y ago
Its quite possible to build a drone using off the shelf parts that can stay up for a few hours, at least. The rcgroups.com forums are full of such things, and whats interesting is that the pace of drone technology is really represented in

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