rockdoe

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by rockdoe 12y ago
One of these games was designed to be hard for computers, the others are way less popular than go and have far less history, and hence competition/interest. It's an exaggeration but a pretty minor one.
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by rockdoe 12y ago
He presents the post as if he was learning something new, when he's really a seasoned Dart expert which has access to resources most of us don't have. Then there's the background that he could cherry pick his project to make
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by rockdoe 12y ago
record the timing in MS for the update and draw stages of every frame This tells you nothing about when the frame actually makes it to the screen. It's ok for optimizing your own code, not so useful for comparing across devices, plat
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Sounds like it's a round of optimizations, see the changelog. It's both software and a .0 release, of course there will be bugs :)
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by rockdoe 13y ago
So GCC takes longer to compile but produces a better optimized binary? That makes the comparison pretty useless as you can probably just reduce the GCC optimization level.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
The reasoning there is, certainly post-Heartbleed, very scary. Their conclusion boils down to that they want to use the system-provided OpenSSL on Android, rather than shipping NSS. This might be fine if you're running a Nexus device t
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Many of the review peers work at Google, so eh...
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by rockdoe 13y ago
No. Unless you're implying gay people are less important than women?
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by rockdoe 13y ago
The problem is that it's not healthy for Firefox to be seen as pro or anti gay rights, or whatever not-directly-web-related political issue, really. That's the point of the parent post. What does the fox say about assault rifle ow
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by rockdoe 13y ago
This seems a quite sane and simple answer.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
What I'd like is granularity on this. Well, that makes two of us. I'm sure all Android developers would like the option to request permissions at point of use, so users who want to use the feature can give the permission, and th
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by rockdoe 13y ago
I am pretty sure that webdevs touting the victory of HTML5 have no idea what native offers and how many years behind even the best web-based offering is. It's just an example of worse-is-better in action. Many webapps offer mediocre
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by rockdoe 13y ago
I never had a Symbian device...but always had a bit of a soft spot for them. As someone who had and had to develop for it in the early days: those two things are directly correlated.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Requesting 50M+ of storage for a single player game is a good enough reason, that's not outrageous for graphics resources, music etc. But would you understand that this necessarily leads to the app having to request: <uses-p
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by rockdoe 13y ago
You might reasonably argue that Firefox OS will not get much traction, but denying it's existence as you're doing is foolish, because it obviously exists. There is no difference between apps and webpages. None. Zero. That's t
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by rockdoe 13y ago
You misunderstood. If the app has any other users that want to use a feature that needs it on their phone the app maker has to request it on your phone too even if you would never use it. There are way more people that want new feat
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Sure. The point is that mining wouldn't have helped if you sold at the wrong moment.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
The problem, as I've been trying to explain, is that if any other user does want a feature that somehow uses those perms, the app has to request them at install . There is just no other way on Android. Realistically you can only u
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by rockdoe 13y ago
You didn't need to mine any coins. You just had to pick your buy and sell points correctly.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
I agree there's no point in getting a Firefox OS phone if you have a phone with a decently modern browser. Their pricing and hardware positioning appear to be squarely aimed at those places where those are not available. However, tha
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Firefox absolutely does.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
And how much of the apps written with such frameworks will feel remotely like a native app? How much of the frameworks you mention even support a reasonable amount of target platforms? I don't disagree HTML5 has porting problems betwee
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by rockdoe 13y ago
You're right, nobody uses websites except for some guys @ CERN.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
I wish I lived in your Europe. In mine all those venues still have websites built on Flash.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
has always been a Frankenstein mess cough Android gargle Or for that matter, rewriting your app for every phone platform.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
The full comment in the source explains it fine, but that's not what I'm replying to; who's not paying attention here? The abbreviated quote I was replying to just confuses things by leaving out critical parts.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Fastest way to get your app removed from my phone? Request additional permissions. Unfortunately there's little the developers can do about it, short of not adding any features. You have to ask for every permissions your app could po
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Only with SIM locked phones for specific providers, I presume. Otherwise cert pinning will alert pretty quickly.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
Doesn't explain why it's not 1, 1, 1 or 1, 5, 49.
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by rockdoe 13y ago
From quick reading: 1) I agree the time-based skilling isn't necessarily a good thing. 2) You didn't seem to realize you could get your stuff FedExed, by any of the player-operated services. The latter illustrates the good point o

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