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by udp 15y ago
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/hp_mb_lo... Seems to imply this is some kind of joke?
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by udp 15y ago
I may be wrong, but I always thought stderr was for diagnostic messages as well as errors, in which case red wouldn't really be appropriate. I almost think we need another output stream for something that's neither an error nor output of th
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by udp 15y ago
It's a shame the Android emulator doesn't use x86 and wrap the host OpenGL APIs. Currently it emulates ARM (with qemu IIRC?) and then has the emulated ARM processor emulate OpenGL with "PixelFlinger". I'm another Android developer who only
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by udp 15y ago
I notice that in the Windows dialogs, the wrong button is often highlighted - for example, No is highlighted in "Do you want to allow changes", and Cancel is highlighted in the Firefox "Opening" dialog. Maybe it'd be better to highlig
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by udp 15y ago
Funny, but sound on a 404 page? That could get annoying fast.
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by udp 15y ago
I think it's some kind of watch.
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by udp 15y ago
Handy, but I don't see the point in this being anything to do with CoffeeScript until it's an extension to the syntax itself. It currently seems to be a simple addition to the Function prototype for Javascript, and happens to be written in
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by udp 15y ago
I hope they can pull this off, because my experience with Vim emulation plugins is they don't even come close to being Vim. Vim is so vast that everyone has their own way of using it, and what one person might consider an obscure feature co
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by udp 15y ago
Nope. Good diet, plenty of exercise. :-)
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by udp 15y ago
Hell no. I enjoy a drink or a cup of coffee, but I wouldn't touch any kind of supplement or nootropic with a barge pole.
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by udp 15y ago
I'm the other way round - I try not to send emails etc when I'm drinking, because I think my social behaviour changes a lot more than my programming ability does (it's easier to write a message, but much more difficult to judge if it's the
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by udp 15y ago
What do you need that Firefox can't do? I get the same message in Opera.
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by udp 15y ago
Why didn't you call it something non-controversial like "A visualisation of open-source software dependencies" instead of "A nice picture of (dependency) hell" , then?
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by udp 15y ago
In my opinion, that's the very definition of dependency hell - when the system is so badly designed, software is forced to bundle everything and never share it.
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by udp 15y ago
Exactly. This is code reuse done properly, not "dependency hell".
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Signal picked up from Russia's stranded Mars probe(bbc.co.uk)
89 points by udp 15y ago|26 comments
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by udp 15y ago
I wonder whether your huge[1] runtime had any effect on the benchmarks. Wouldn't using pure Javascript have been a better idea? I also notice your "C++" version used Direct3D. Shouldn't you have used OpenGL with the exact same calls as the
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by udp 15y ago
Well, you do (as of Flash Player 9) need a policy server [1] running, so connecting to existing services is still pretty much impossible. [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_poli...
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by udp 15y ago
Pretty cool, but the method for "downloading" looks painful (converting the generated ZIP to base64 in order to use it as an URL). I wonder what the size limit is?
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by udp 15y ago
I remember when you first launched news.usethesource.com as a HN for programmers, and then closed it due to inactivity. I hope it has more success as a job board.
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by udp 15y ago
I don't agree - You look at the CPU and GPU specs to see how fast a game will run, not something like Siri. You look at the storage to see how many MP3s you can fit on there, not how many calendar entries. Sure, a lot of the applications
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by udp 15y ago
The comment was in response to "Why switch to XFCE? Can't you just install Gnome?" . GNOME 3 most definitely "pulls the UI rug" with massive, controversial changes from previous versions. XFCE has yet to do anything like this.
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by udp 15y ago
> it’s Ubuntu without someone else telling you what to do or taking the OS into a direction that you’re unwilling to follow Debian, anyone?
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by udp 15y ago
> And best of all, it's not going to pull the UI rug out from under you at a moment's notice.
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by udp 15y ago
I agree with this, but whenever I use my MBP I'm forced to use the trackpad because the mouse acceleration in OS X is so bad . I've tried things like Decelerate and had no joy - the movement of the cursor just seems not to match up with my
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by udp 15y ago
I don't think presenting a retro platformer (which, FWIW, crawls here in FF 8) really argues your case much. Why should developers go back to making simpler games to get adequate HTML5 performance when they could develop directly for the ta
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by udp 15y ago
> That, alone, is not really an issue. I suppose you could do the same as native games. If a demand is there, an API or libraries to do that will appear. How do you propose to obfuscate images and audio in a way that's going to work a
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by udp 15y ago
> 2D games don't tend to have really complicated logic though. Your demo asteroids game certainly doesn't, but what about a 2D game that's actually worth playing? Things like physics or flocking algorithms are going to be very expensive
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by udp 15y ago
Well, because the web, by nature, is open . Javascript is source, not some kind of bytecode. You can easily look at the source of any web page and do whatever you want with it (granted there are obfuscators available, but run it through a
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by udp 15y ago
But I thought the future was now ;-)

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