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by seclorum 14y ago
Because I'm using MOAI for my projects (5 so far..) I am able to ship high-performance software on: * Mac OSX * Linux * Windows * iOS * Android Please note: MOAI targets BOTH mobile and desktop markets, and in that respect is much more po
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by seclorum 14y ago
Its a good choice for serious projects. Nobody serious would ever bother with complaining about the low-level nature of the MOAI runtime without understanding its design. Having done 5 projects in MOAI so far, I can tell you this: what y
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by seclorum 14y ago
BCPL = the programming language that became C. GP2X = open-source handheld gaming platform from a few years back. EDSAC = one of the first programmable computers ever made, upon which the very first video game was programmed: XOX, a game of
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by seclorum 14y ago
I once ported BCPL to the GP2X. BCPL came with an EDSAC simulator, so I used it as the test app for the BCPL port .. so for a while, I had an EDSAC in my pocket. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp2x X
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by seclorum 14y ago
MOAI also (now) supports Linux. So, you have exactly one set of code to run on MacOSX, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS.
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by seclorum 14y ago
I'm using MOAI professionally, and none of your points are of any concern so far .. we've definitely been very productive with MOAI, and sure - the documentation needs work, but for a 1.0 release, MOAI packs an immensely powerful punch. If
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by seclorum 14y ago
Why don't you have any users? One thing you must always do in startup land is focus on the users of your company. IF you truly have none, well. No great loss if you bail. But if you could have more, just haven't actually focused on the us
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by seclorum 14y ago
Yeah, thats the point of the article: two people going bear-hunting, one better be prepared to lure and the other one better be prepared to kill and prep. Unless they're communicating about the best way to do it, its gonna be all bear-scra
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by seclorum 14y ago
Come now, lets not all be wichsers about this. The Edit feature is there for a reason, and the OP definitely had a good reason to edit his post. As do you.
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by seclorum 14y ago
Hmmm .. "devops" angle .. "developer profiles" .. these things don't seem necessary.
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by seclorum 14y ago
Yes, but its still Ubuntu underneath and can be tuned/tweaked/used for anything else .. its just go the realtime stuff nailed for media production.
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by seclorum 14y ago
Ubuntu Studio - its Ubuntu without the crap.
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by seclorum 14y ago
The point is that compared to Ruby, Objective-C is just aging, bloated, and incomprehensibly loaded with special traps designed to keep you wedded to the platform. Ruby skills: applicable across a very broad range of computing devices. Obj
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by seclorum 14y ago
Its definitely a point. Unfortunately I moved to this country, and have gotten too involved in it to be able to move easily (house, wife, kids..) or else I'd definitely move to a country where programmers are paid more what they're worth
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by seclorum 14y ago
I'm in Vienna and work for a local startup in the mobile application development scene .. and yeah. Pay-rates are definitely not what they should be, here in Austria. I think it has a lot to do with the "Kollektiv-vertrag" prices being se
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by seclorum 14y ago
MOAI is very similar to Love2D in some ways (Box2D, etc.) but the general application programming model is different - you don't have callbacks to implement features in MOAI, you simply set up the state of various game objects and layers an
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by seclorum 14y ago
Its allowed.
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by seclorum 14y ago
I've used both Unity and MOAI. Unity is too heavy for a cross-platform 2D game engine - whereas MOAI is absolutely light and tasty. No question, there is big power in the Unity tools. But if you want to build a 2D game with physics and ac
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by seclorum 14y ago
Maybe that would be different if Valve got behind the project. As it stands, the Pandora guys haven't done such a bad job for a grass-roots, community-led effort with no funding and all the problems of a hardware manufacturer, starting wit
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by seclorum 14y ago
I just boot from disk so I can get the upgrade done as quickly as possible. This way, my machine does everything it needs to upgrade, without anything else going on. Then when its done, I let it update in the background while I make sure
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by seclorum 14y ago
I'm truly happy to sill be being paid to write brand new C code, and its 2012. Of course, its 2012, so C isn't the only language I write and work in, but it is still a very strong contender in certain pro software industries, for good reas
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by seclorum 14y ago
Boot from the disk and tell it to upgrade your 11.10 installation, saving your /home folder and so on. I did exactly this on two workstations and found it works quite well ..
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by seclorum 14y ago
Resistive touchscreen? Big deal, it works great for most games. Nintendo have a patent on anything that holds open at a 135° angle, blame them. The keyboard is great for what its supposed to do - give you keys that you can use with all
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by seclorum 14y ago
Just the idea that the installation of an "app development environment" starts with modifying my bashrc, and thus my entire shell, bothers me. This may not be a rational fear, but as a crufty old Unix guy, it a 'smell' to me. Its just not
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by seclorum 14y ago
I have two, and I fail to see any of your points. Its awesome!
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by seclorum 14y ago
I really wish Valve would get behind the Open Pandora gaming console: http://openpandora.org/ Its a fantastic machine, with a great community, and an awesome technology for single-file game distribution, or PND-files (Pandora .pnd files a
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by seclorum 14y ago
I agree with you - every time I see some new fancy GIT shell, and all the accoutrements that must be set up in the shell to get some sort of 'application intelligent integrated development shell' I feel like its 1983 and we're building GUI'
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by seclorum 14y ago
I still use my Oric-1 and Atmos for fun .. got my 2 year old and 4 year old sons hooked up with them, and they're very kid-friendly computers, still to this day. We have a blast with the 8-bit world, quite!
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by seclorum 14y ago
Pathetic, really. Whats so 'ancient' about a P4? Its still just as functional as it was the day it was minted - a manufacturing process that cost the earth a LOT in terms of resources. The carbon debt of producing last years computing
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by seclorum 14y ago
As an avid dumpster diver, nothing irks me more than seeing people throw away perfectly functional equipment that they just don't have a 'fashion sense' for, any more. I'm rapidly accruing enough material for my own data center. My kids ha

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