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by ttuominen 14y ago
It should be noted that globally, fossil fuels are also heavily subsidized. [1] [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/27/i...
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Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down(forbes.com)
108 points by ttuominen 14y ago|138 comments
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Rewind: Analyzing Git History With Bash(gilesbowkett.blogspot.fi)
1 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ttuominen 14y ago
It was just a good excuse to talk about our favorite games. I haven't played any of the Double Fine games yet, but to my knowledge they haven't made any classic point-and-click graphic adventures - before the kickstarter-backed Broken Age t
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by ttuominen 14y ago
Yeah, gameplay wise they're like manually solving a makefile's dependencies. Of course we know the whole point is not in the structure of the solution but in the written content of the story. It's in the way the game world starts living ins
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Why are We Still Talking about LucasArts' Old Adventure Games?(gamasutra.com)
110 points by ttuominen 14y ago|71 comments
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Goodbye Lucasfilm Games(grumpygamer.com)
2 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ttuominen 14y ago
I also read it, and I think you summarize it well. I'd like to add that the author's main aim seems to be in revealing a strong technocratic tendency underlying O'Reilly's thought. The technocracy is shown for example in the naive assumptio
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Shippin’(ouya.tv)
1 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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The Android console race begins today with Green Throttle's launch(gamasutra.com)
2 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ttuominen 14y ago
For CPU profiling, the Android Open Source Project includes both oprofile and Linux perf tools in the source tree. You would need to compile your own kernel and Android to include them. Some options need to be set in the kernel config to en
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Ouya following mobile model: 'There will be a new Ouya every year'(engadget.com)
3 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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Design Lessons from Star Trek(io9.com)
4 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ttuominen 14y ago
You're right, and I have to clarify that I don't necessarily agree with the idea that new display technology is the real cause of this new trend. But I do think we will be able to get better results from simpler, minimalistic designs with
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by ttuominen 14y ago
Trying to make the best out of the argument, I think you could put it this way: discrete, identifiable vector-like shapes with sharp edges (not only straight rectangles but also rotated ones and other shapes - he also emphasizes typefaces)
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The Grime Behind the Crime(monbiot.com)
1 points by ttuominen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ttuominen 14y ago
Many features, not all: https://lwn.net/Articles/514901/
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by ttuominen 14y ago
This, and also Android's overall userspace design is kind of idiosyncratic. I'm sure there are other legitimate designs of a Linux-based mobile OS, which don't rely so heavily on Java and a virtual machine. Ubuntu will be Qt-based, for exam
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by ttuominen 14y ago
I would absolutely love to see Ubuntu and others (Jolla) succeed. Unfortunately I'm also highly skeptical they will. The reason is that currently their marketing story seems so far removed from actual consumers: think about the fact that th
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by ttuominen 14y ago
Minor point, but technically a JIT compiler doesn't replace an interpreter. The latter is still there (written in assembly nowadays), and the VM has to trace hotspots and balance the cost of run time compiling vs. the cost of normal inter
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by ttuominen 14y ago
Yes, and QML (declarative syntax + Javascript logic) for UI-heavy parts or even complete apps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML
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by ttuominen 14y ago
I agree: within the Android ecosystem and even within the ARM family, bytecode provides portability: you don't have to compile and distribute apps for different versions of the ARM architecture. It's paradoxical however that to increase the
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by ttuominen 14y ago
My sources tell me that Busybox is actually not included in at least vanilla Android. Not in the AOSP tree at least (just checked (v4.1.2)). I'm not sure if OEMs have included it in actual products, but why would they have? I might be wro
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by ttuominen 14y ago
Android is far from a typical Linux distribution. In addition to custom kernel features (see https://lwn.net/Articles/514901/ ), most of the rest of the system hasn't got anything to do with GNU or GPL and is structured very differently f