taharvey

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by taharvey 8y ago
I've spent the last week trying to get good file transfer between two applictions, just for static 3D scenes - and I don't know if there isn existing file format. Heck, I can't even get two applications from Autodesk to wholl
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by taharvey 8y ago
Your assumptions underscore your bias. Perhaps they have bigger dreams then the rest of industry. Apple stands out from the rest of those industry players by historically having much longer range architectural vision. They have also been in
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by taharvey 10y ago
Technically under the covers HFS isn't anything great. But from a users point of view apple has extended it in ways that it hasn't materss to customers.
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by taharvey 10y ago
ummmm... metal cames out 2 years before vulkan. Vulkan was inspired by metal.
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by taharvey 12y ago
Why does Google get kudos for inventing new languages (Go), and Apple gets mocked? (Swift)
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by taharvey 12y ago
You mean an API than you can actually read and understand? How dare them take your 1970s 80-char display away from you!
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by taharvey 12y ago
What about the special snowflake projects of google, mozilla, or sun? Apples language development is no less valid than google developing Go, or mozilla developing rust. This just shows your inherent bias. I've been amazed recently how
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by taharvey 12y ago
reference counting != garbage collection. Garbage collection take CPU and lots of memory. Reference counting just ++ the pointer count on allocation, and -- on free. Essentially no overhead.
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by taharvey 12y ago
No I'd say Apples approach was: methodically develop until very polished first, then announce after. You just didn't get to see the 0.1, 0.2, 0.3... versions. This is actually nice, because knowing about languages years before the