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by stephth 15y ago
Are you sure that comment applies here though? The QR codes it referred to and these are like night and day.
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by stephth 15y ago
It's human readable as far generated code goes. It's not always practical to read (specially with classes), but you can if you have to. It's one of the philosophies behind CoffeeScript. As you can see its translation of OOP is verbose too,
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by stephth 15y ago
Lua is fast as scripting languages go, but saying it's in the same performance ballpark as native code is a stretch [1]. Game developers that use Lua commonly rely on C/C++ for low level routines. There's a space for innovation there. ooc [
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by stephth 15y ago
Why wouldn't this be used for production? It compiles to human readable Lua.
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by stephth 15y ago
This looks very promising. Congrats on the launch. I am enjoying this wave of new programming languages that compile down to existing ones in a human readable way. They are pleasant to write and read and yet performant and don't require a s
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by stephth 15y ago
That's quite a bit of an exaggeration in this case. Look at the simple syntax for OOP or default argument values. That's a lot of cruft removed compared to Lua. The less you need to read the better, as long as it's readable.
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by stephth 15y ago
-- is the Lua syntax for comments. I'm curious about why the author kept it.
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a[5] == 5[a](stackoverflow.com)
21 points by stephth 15y ago|36 comments
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by stephth 15y ago
More coverage: http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2011/07/21/radical-fishing-an... Quote: Moral of the story: If you want to support creative, independent developers, avoid "Ninja Fishing" and wait for "Ridiculous Fishing." The only way to d
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by stephth 15y ago
This is not just borrowing a few ideas, it's a blatant ripoff. And it was released while Vlambeer was developing an iOS version to start monetizing their success. You can be competitive and morally correct, they're not exclusive.
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by stephth 15y ago
Certainly, Gamenauts gets a design that has already proved popular with audiences, but is that really enough incentive to destroy your reputation? I think he's overestimating how much people in general care about clones. Sure, in indie ga
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by stephth 15y ago
I used to think that this content (the new activity feed) being hard to get was an intentional, thoughtful design. It felt nice in contrast with using Facebook, which gives me an unpleasant feeling of everybody observing every single action
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by stephth 15y ago
Looks like we were talking about two different things. wccrawford was talking about the preview, while we were referring to the "sample"... <sigh>.
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by stephth 15y ago
Great, maybe then you can also enlighten me on what's so deeply wrong with the title and dedication page? It can't be about it being the only content of the sample, the main content in there is the introduction to the book.
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by stephth 15y ago
I suppose your own interpretation of it had the same content - maybe you're familiar enough with wccrawford and can guess what he's thinking - but objectively they don't. HORRIBLE and UGH were dropped without an actual explanation, and
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by stephth 15y ago
Your comment on the sample is constructive and I agree with it ( "the Kindle sample could use some actual meat" ), but I don't find " The free preview on Amazon is HORRIBLE. The title page and the dedication page? UGH. " to be conveying wha
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by stephth 15y ago
* HORRIBLE * * UGH * * Also, both un-DRMd formats are separate? * I don't see what's wrong with the title page and the dedication page... It does its job. I admit that the Kindle sample could use some actual meat, but the samples on the web
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by stephth 15y ago
Good point. This is the reason I never listened to my math teacher, his material was too basic and too abstract for me to get motivated, I couldn't see myself using that knowledge in the short term. I went to art school, and only later I re
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synth city - make your code look prettier than m&m's(phest.github.com)
1 points by stephth 15y ago|0 comments
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by stephth 15y ago
The rat the cat the dog bit chased escaped. Googling for literature on this sentence, I found this [1]: Chomsky (1965) expands on this point when he makes a distinction between the acceptability and grammaticalness of sentences like "the
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by stephth 15y ago
You're totally right. Just added. You're the first to note it, so I'm hoping the late addition won't be too prejudicial for that option.
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by stephth 15y ago
As an editor. No project management, no iOS/Mac development. (late addition)
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by stephth 15y ago
I develop for iOS/Mac but rarely use it. I'm surprised to see this one with (currently) almost twice the votes compared to Project management only . If that's your case, what's your workflow?
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by stephth 15y ago
I wouldn't call that using XCode.
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Poll: How do you use XCode?
42 points by stephth 15y ago|67 comments
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by stephth 15y ago
Project management and editor.
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by stephth 15y ago
Project management only. I use an external editor.
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by stephth 15y ago
I develop for iOS/Mac but rarely use it.
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by stephth 15y ago
Also, you need a designer; please don't take it personally, but the design looks like 30 min in Photoshop. Sorry for being harsh, but I love Ruby community and I would not stand a ugly site being the entry-point. The ruby-lang.org site is
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by stephth 15y ago
Do you have an estimate for when you'll announce pricing?

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