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by stephth 15y ago
Precompilation: by compiling ahead of time a small subset of Java's core library, the startup performance have been highly optimized to the point that running a 'Hello World' program takes less than 30 milliseconds. Sounds faster than the
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by stephth 15y ago
As an avid reader of HN I'm surprised it's the first time I hear of many of these many (LLVM backed) projects. Some that stood out to me: - The VMKit project is an implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for
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by stephth 15y ago
* the hardware, however, does not work like that.* Could you explain that?
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by stephth 15y ago
Fun site. But why haven't you written credits to the music?
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by stephth 15y ago
So what comes after Haskell? After I had used Haskell for a couple of months and had got a few projects under my belt, it was time for a new step. I felt that my next logical step was a Lisp. This strikes me as an odd "next step". I don't
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by stephth 15y ago
Woah. What? The iOS market is a 2.5 billion per year and growing. No shit. I'm talking about Objective-C. If more developers could use it and more often, we'd have better libraries, better developers, a better community. Look at the mom
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by stephth 15y ago
Thank you, I really appreciated this read. Viruses that kill quickly and efficiently do not spread as well as those that cause some disease but allow their host to continue functioning more or less normally (all the while exposing many mor
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by stephth 15y ago
Any idea why Apple hasn't open sourced anything beyond CFLite? Without multiplatform, objc's ecosystem doesn't get a real chance to flourish, so efforts like this one are great; but I don't get why Apple is making this so hard. Their open-s
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by stephth 15y ago
Add to the list the story where a large sperm whale managed to sink a whaleship that was attacking multiple of its kin [1] (story which later inspired Moby-Dick). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)#Whale_attack
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by stephth 15y ago
It was #1 (and ~ one hour old) when I commented, and stayed #1 for a couple hours, in a highly popular thread (3 hours old and almost 400 votes at the time I believe). My comment stuck as the top child with just a couple votes, hence all ch
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by stephth 15y ago
For political/military strategists to take an morning stroll on? See if any bright ideas pop up? It's eerie.
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by stephth 15y ago
What's wrong with asking for suggestions on how to act?
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by stephth 15y ago
Be careful what you wish for. This is not Tron or the Matrix where hacking against the system takes you to magical adventures. Censorship sucks no matter how you look at it. And I don't get your drug analogy. Buying drugs legally means you
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by stephth 15y ago
Ingenuitas got me curious too. It looks like an interesting team and company, and all your existing products are open source and free of charge, you don't seem to be selling anything. How do you make money?
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by stephth 15y ago
I like the visualization of goals feature, it seems like a useful self-analysis and reward system. I might give it a go. Thank you.
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by stephth 15y ago
This is quite amazing. I have a hard time visualizing time, Im often arriving late, or surprised that the month was over so soon, and have a hard time visualizing the progress of a project over time. To cope with this, I spend quite some en
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by stephth 15y ago
In case you missed it, the original report is largely better informed and prosed than the bite size, watered-down, borderline misleading, linked article: http://kotaku.com/5853665/vimeo-vs-indie-game-developers
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by stephth 15y ago
Nice catch. "Random Reward Schedule" and "variable interval reinforcement schedule" look like different names for the same concept, but looking closer the former seems to cover both time and reward, and the latter focuses on the time compon
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by stephth 15y ago
This could effectively be a programming sketchbook - which is not a new idea (see the Processing IDE), but this integrates within a device that's basically the digital equivalent of a notebook. This is such an amazing and beautiful concept.
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by stephth 15y ago
#define KV(KEY,VALUE) VALUE, KEY myDict = MD(KV(key,val), KV(key2,val2)); Ugly but a case can be made that this end justifies the means. Another option is implementing your own dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys where you flip the va
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by stephth 15y ago
That ## vals syntax is new to me. What's the difference with the following? #define MD(...) [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:__VA_ARGS__, nil]
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by stephth 15y ago
you don't need to use XCode. I keep it open to manage, build, etc, but use textmate to do the editing.
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by stephth 15y ago
How do you explain games that have basically no mechanics at all? I'm talking about simple point and click games like Myst. what exactly are you talking about? myst has significant game mechanics. all games have game mechanics.
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by stephth 15y ago
Some of the most critically acclaimed games, as well as highest selling games, have stories. He's not saying games don't have stories, of course they do, he's saying that some game designers get distracted from making good mechanics, whic
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by stephth 15y ago
Source code: http://teagueduino.org/index.php?p=/discussion/22
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by stephth 15y ago
Nice! Beautiful well thought design, nicely balanced game, and such an intuitive way to understand kerning: let your visual intuition guide you. One suggestion: a way to move multiple letters at the same time.
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by stephth 15y ago
Yeah, it's important to keep sight of that, and frankly in that case it makes me wonder why I should continue to come back here? Same here. That's why I'm so interested in what happened backstage with these stories. I've contacted the mai
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by stephth 15y ago
letting all those articles on the HN frontpage would do the exact opposite to provide him more attention that he is avoiding. So you're saying those stories were removed because Mark Pilgrim wished they were? Is that how things actually w
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by stephth 15y ago
Mark didn't want them there, obviously, and neither did anyone except rubbernecking thrill-chasers. Or people interested on the subject of mark pirlgrim's work going 401, or the subject of info suicide. There seems to be some kind of cens
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by stephth 15y ago
Both stories have more than 200 votes and are only a few hours old. Mark Pilgrim doing an info suicide is newsworthy and obviously a lot of people care about it, so can someone explain how and why those stories have been kicked out of the f

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