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by rtf 18y ago
The JVM should be acceptable for client apps, but its implementation footprint is bulky in most respects(download, memory consumption and startup times) and it has never attained the kind of first-class browser integration and bundling that
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by rtf 18y ago
I'm still waiting on the type system.
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by rtf 18y ago
Yesterday I was riding my kick scooter home and the front wheel caught on a crack and I fell and got one stitch in my left knee and some minor cuts and bruises on the face and hand. My lesson: one can't be overprepared for an accident. Also
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by rtf 18y ago
I use Mint. It's Ubuntu plus a better initial configuration and some custom desktop tools. My first impression of it, some years ago, was that it was the first distro I had used that correctly played back all my movies out of the box.
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by rtf 18y ago
It's something in our society that makes us feel obligated to save the world. But it's not as if our lives can be played like a video game where whoever does the most for others gets a high score. We just live in the world, and pursue our g
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by rtf 18y ago
This is good advice. Founding a business takes skills, desire, and vision. Knowing what people actually need(rather than guessing) is part of the vision.
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by rtf 18y ago
Things that have worked for me: -Stop using a mouse. Use a trackball or a trackpad or anything else. I have a death grip on mice and I bet others do too. -If you have to use a mouse switch your mousing hand. Deal with the fumbling and inacc
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by rtf 18y ago
I've studied the ideas around Subtext for a while. It's worth reiterating(if the videos and papers don't make it clear enough) that Subtext is really focused on exploiting the benefits of decision tables by expanding upon them and adding th
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by rtf 18y ago
The internet is built on free-or-nearly-free operation. That's the beauty of it and I don't think Web 2.0 is likely to fall apart any time soon because of it. As the author says, the VC-funded "get big fast" sites will face some major chall
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by rtf 18y ago
My diet principles: 1. Eat a variety, particularly with respect to fruits, nuts, and vegetables. If you can't get them in natural forms then at least go for processed combinations. Uniformity of diet is a symptom of agricultural society and
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by rtf 18y ago
There is an interesting catch in the C/C++ part of that comment. Why is the game industry using C/C++? "Because they need the highest possible performance." Why do they need that performance? "To look better than the competition." Why is lo
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by rtf 18y ago
I don't really see a need for this; I can use haXe to get the additional interoperability Yegge refers to with Rhino/Javascript, and I won't have to use the JVM to get it. That he pooh-poohs all static languages by pointing to some excess o
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by rtf 18y ago
I integrated Lua once for a project of my own. But on this project the choice wasn't mine - we ported over existing technology to a new console to meet a five-month ship deadline. Also, Lua is imperfect for games: Squirrel is considerably m
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by rtf 18y ago
Forcing a market to commodify by being the first to offer a commodity product is a reasonable goal for a business... I've been toying with this as a source of startup ideas and in the last week or so I've gotten seriously interested in a st
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by rtf 18y ago
On the game project I'm working on(as a designer) we use an internally developed scripting language that was originally meant for simple timelined cinematics. It was, according to the author, made in one day. Each line gets a time in second
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by rtf 18y ago
Not a whole lot, but compiling to the machine is a more difficult task than writing an interpreter. "Just-In-Time" VMs (Java and Flash 9 both do this) do some amount of this compilation as the program starts and executes. That lets them str
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by rtf 18y ago
Some notes: -It's built in tandem with a OS, Isaac, that is using the OO features as a central part of the design. -It's not complete yet. It's a few years into the project, but the specification may still change. So it's more interesting t
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Lisaac - prototype OO for systems programming. C-like performance.(isaacproject.u-strasbg.fr)
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by rtf 18y ago
pngout does slightly more aggressive compression.
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by rtf 18y ago
If you meant Blender then your offhand remark of "was it ever improved" kind of missed the mark: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ is the second open movie project based around Blender - this one and the first, Elephant's Dream, have pushed ma
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by rtf 18y ago
I don't know, how about every subject? Multiplication. Long division. Algebra. Geometry. Trig. Calc. I was never very motivated to study math. The problem was, my older brother was very into it(and now is a math grad student, ever-so-slowly
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by rtf 18y ago
Another vote for Flash. FlashIDE and Flex aren't the only options too, haXe ( http://haxe.org ) is quite viable as well and has a lot of features and flexibility that make it my first choice. With swfmill the graphics can be made as svgs.
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by rtf 18y ago
There are two extremes, neither one better than the other: The proposed extreme is to encourage community via personalization. I personally disagree with this: web sites are typically too big to be communities in a natural sense. What you w
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by rtf 18y ago
My experience as a native resident of San Francisco(22 years, but the last few mostly spent out of town for college/work) is that most of the people residing there are _tourists_. That is, people who come there(and many different people do,
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by rtf 18y ago
I've been using a model n200 from Lenovo's 3000 series(the consumer ones, a grade below Thinkpads) and am relatively pleased. Build quality is lower than a Thinkpad, but I've had no trouble using it daily since last summer, toting it around
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by rtf 18y ago
Last Sunday I walked through San Jose, about five or six miles. I got sunburned.
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by rtf 18y ago
Ads are uploader-controllable. Almost every feature in blip.tv is optional and that's what I love about it. Far more featureful than Vimeo or anything else I've seen.
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by rtf 18y ago
This is a somewhat blunt way to put it, but it has to do with "you weren't paying attention to the Adobe Open Screen announcement on May 1st." SWF, FLV, and AMF were all freed then and, apart from developers already working with Flash, it d
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by rtf 18y ago
I habitually put my feet on the edge of the desk at work. I find that I just can't stand the stress of other positions. I already have scoliosis; why should I make my suffering worse?
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by rtf 18y ago
The endgame for any "platform" software technology is an open, freely available, ubiquitous spec. Flash is, within its current domain, ubiquitous and free-as-in-beer. Only the open part is missing... And that means that it could be dethrone

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