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by stephth 15y ago
LevelDB is for if you need ordered data LevelDB is slower with random reads, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use it for unordered data - it's still quite fast.
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by stephth 15y ago
Exactly. BDB is GPL with an (non-publicly priced) commercial license to embed in apps, and LevelDB is BSD. With LevelDb, one of the most practical use case of a serverless db - embedding it in a client-side application - isn't crippled by i
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by stephth 15y ago
you don't need to pay anyone to use it in your commercial software.
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by stephth 15y ago
Redis. :) But more importantly, it runs as a server. I think what @jcapote meant is being able to use Redis operations without a server, like Leveldb or sqlite. I would love to see that. There's already some effort towards that direction [1
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by stephth 15y ago
Of those examples only Jak and Dexter is actually about functional programming in game dev. It's a good example though. But the outcome of using FP didn't turn out that great for them, it did not make them more productive: A single program
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by stephth 15y ago
I've read some of James Hague's more recent posts on FP, and I got the same idea from them than @radarsat1. But more importantly, until I see someone adopting FP for the game logic in a innovative game - re-writing Pacman doesn't have the c
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by stephth 15y ago
Good read, thanks. But in practice , with all its problems, C++ has been proven to work over and over, and the author's - Tim Sweeney - work is proof of that. Today, 6 years after this talk, has anyone successfully made a commercial game
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by stephth 15y ago
Do you use any naming convention to differentiate between pure and non-pure functions?
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by stephth 15y ago
I do like the idea of functional programming as a paradigm - that can be used in any language - and dodged when needed - much better than pure functional programming/languages. As a game designer, with so many state-dependent parts, and wit
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by stephth 15y ago
This looks promising, thanks for the tip. I didn't know you could use $ in macros. Does the C preprocessor accept any other special characters?
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by stephth 15y ago
Yes! I have nothing to add to this, but I believe this is an important right, too important to up-vote this comment in silence.
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by stephth 15y ago
If that's considered a solution [1], this answers @kloncks' "Why is this special?" question. [1] http://imgur.com/lQuYT
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by stephth 15y ago
Third or fourth time someone's cracked this, this year. Couldn't find those. Where did you read about them?
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by stephth 15y ago
The approach of mixing it all together - not just html/css/js, but also MVC - but still clearly separate those semantically, is very interesting. Thanks for sharing, @arturadib. What flavors of server-side frameworks would go well with it?
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by stephth 15y ago
I could live without human readable code, that was more about bypassing the need for an intermediate debugger; and readable code is a good proof that the language doesn't try to do too much. Shedskin looks like a very cool project, and it's
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by stephth 15y ago
If I understand correctly, Cython generates C code that still depends on a Python runtime.
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by stephth 15y ago
I have no experience building languages, but as someone who has to build relatively performant code and longs for a clean, DRY language, I completely agree with you about picking a target language that closely fits the semantics. Rolling ou
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by stephth 15y ago
works on my iPad and iPhone with iOS 4.
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C as a Portable Intermediate Language(cybertiggyr.com)
8 points by stephth 15y ago|6 comments
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by stephth 15y ago
This is awesome. This concept of building elastic layouts with ASCII code is new to me and I agree with @jamesaguilar that it's one of those obvious yet genius ideas. Has anything been done towards this direction to generate CSS layouts? It
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by stephth 15y ago
Textmate is the saddest example of abandonware Or a happy example of abandonware. Abandonware means no longer sold or supported. TM is still being sold and maintained by its author.
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by stephth 15y ago
Nevermind all the plugins and bundles Whether it fits your taste or not, ignoring the plugins and bundles is missing the whole picture. The bundle system together with the fact that it has had a large and strong community backing it up fo
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by stephth 15y ago
It was an observation from what is currently in the wiki.
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by stephth 15y ago
Some minor issues but no deal breakers, so far.
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by stephth 15y ago
It is a pretty good naming scheme. Looking forward for steveholt, featherbottom, annyong and nevernude.
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by stephth 15y ago
That does shed a new light to their statement. Seems like both parties made some lousy calls which led to a very ugly situation. I don't understand the legal mechanisms that could lead to JSTOR not showing any public support for Aaron, and
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by stephth 15y ago
You're right, thanks. Replace suing by charging and strike make them a little richer and . The rest of the point still stands.
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by stephth 15y ago
This sounds very hypocritical. If their "Mission and Work" is to support scholarly work and academic usage, and encourage usage of large sets of data, why are they suing Aaron's ass instead of working with him to further understand what wer
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by stephth 15y ago
I highlighted an interesting part of a 2 page long article, pointing out it's worth the read, for those who skipped the article or part of it. I believe it does add value. I understand not voting up, but voting down without any explanation
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by stephth 15y ago
Downvoters, would you like to share your reasoning? I don't care about my hn karma, I'm just really curious.

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