torpor

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by torpor 16y ago
Well, RJDJ/Trippy is an app that I've had on my iPhone for years (2?) now, and it includes the Puredata language interpreter, so I don't see how this is new news .. surely there have been exceptions to the Interpreter rule, just that people
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by torpor 16y ago
I just have to ask why? What is so neat about it? Please enlighten ..
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by torpor 16y ago
I love Judy, I have used it for years, its really the only dynamic array a C programmer needs .. ;) Well, okay Judy + list.h (from the linux kernel) == all you need!
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by torpor 16y ago
I pre-ordered, pre-paid, and waited very, very patiently .. ;)
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by torpor 16y ago
I had an Oric-1 in those days, but really wanted a Jupiter Ace as well .. there was something so sexy about that machine, for some reason.
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by torpor 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of Xevious and have it on my Pandora gaming console as a stock-standard go-to for when I need to shoot something. I'd love to see ZXevious - any chance you've still got a copy somewhere? We Pandora fanboix have lots of emula
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by torpor 16y ago
Thankfully, the days of surreal games are here again, the form of homebrew .. see "Pandora Panic!" for example, one of the first homebrew games for the Open Pandora gaming console .. http://open-pandora.org/
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by torpor 16y ago
Just wait until the Creative Labs Zii EGG device gets released and updated a revision or two .. this thing kicks ass and has had all the key features of iPhone 4 already - HD video, front-facing camera, etc. Okay, its not a phone (yet) but
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by torpor 16y ago
>My whole point is that the SD card SHOULD NOT be used as a permanent component in the OS base system at all. It should be removable storage, but the way apps are forced to use it makes it anything but! In the Pandora system, we have PN
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by torpor 16y ago
Yes, its out .. I was one of the very first pre-order customers, however, so I guess I got mine delivered to me kind of early .. had it for a week, and love it immensely, its such an awesome little platform. I don't know how much it is in t
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by torpor 16y ago
The Pandora is awesome .. I have two! The controls are superlative - like nothing I've seen on any other hardware, anywhere, and the community is just kickass! Plus, you can put a compiler on it and use the thing to develop software for it
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by torpor 16y ago
>There are dozens of perfectly valid reasons why a parameter would go unused, so the occasional error just gets lost in the noise. Such as?
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by torpor 16y ago
Everyone can be replaced with a shell script. If you can describe what they do in language, then its just .. a few .. steps from that language to a shell script.
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by torpor 16y ago
Blame Microsoft. If FAT weren't such a trojan horse, the SD-card could be used a lot more effectively, but since FAT is a minefield, the SD card can't be used as a reliable and permanent component in the OS base system ..
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by torpor 16y ago
The only reason I can think of to jailbreak, in spite of your list of interesting tweaks, is to get a carrier unlock. Until thats possible with my iPhone 3G, I won't bother ..
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by torpor 17y ago
Run noise.io. For me the iPad is the next generation ideal in synthesizer technology. It will change the landscape of synth plugins forever.
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by torpor 17y ago
You live in a bubble.
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by torpor 17y ago
I was a co-founder for a major ISP in the 90's, but got treated like the Engineering-Bitch instead of as an equal, so I left .. within a year, the guy I started the company with was worth millions, and I was still churning through startup a
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by torpor 17y ago
This is called the "Gunston Technique": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gunston#Format (Scroll down a bit ..)
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by torpor 17y ago
Here at the Metalab in Vienna, Austria, there is quite a MakerBot clique doing very interesting things .. OpenSCAD integration with MakerBot is also very intriguing, in that OpenSCAD gives you a platform to design things on the basis of for
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by torpor 17y ago
I think it would be quite interesting to know more about how you approached this problem for solution, than the solutions presented by the program itself .. I didn't really get much of the details about how you'd sorted through this from yo
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by torpor 17y ago
Incidentally, there is evidence that the OSMO dongle collects data, also ..
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by torpor 17y ago
I just love the hacking that space hardware designers are allowed to do .. "oh, its already bagged up and installed on the rocket, we've got 2 years to fix it until its going to suffer 45 seconds of insane conditions, so just let it slide f
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by torpor 17y ago
I work in the safety critical/life-saving realm of embedded systems, and it has definitely been an eye-opener to see just how many bugs are 'forgiven' just because there is a software layer on top to make things work as expected instead of
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by torpor 17y ago
I work in embedded. Primarily, my work involves fixing hardware bugs in software. This is not surprising to anyone who works in embedded, but for those of my programmer friends who just see the hardware and have no clue just how much soft
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by torpor 17y ago
I have a Touchbook (I do embedded systems development for a living) and I got it to co-exist with my Beagleboard, which has really become one of my favourite computers in the house. The Touchbook, however, still needs a lot of work .. both
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by torpor 17y ago
This really looks like a wonderful opportunity for visualization freaks to get their blit on .. I'd love to have this massive database visualized in some way ..
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by torpor 17y ago
Sell everything, move to a different country where you don't speak the language. Life will be good again.
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by torpor 17y ago
There are alternatives to the Android Market: http://www.mymarket.cc/ Try it out, see what you think ..
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by torpor 17y ago
WTF, is it normal practice for tech startups to hire their /architects/ to help run the company? I mean, is this really such a great thing?

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