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unwiredben
8y ago
Roku | Software Development - OS and New Products | Los Gatos, CA; Austin, TX; Cambridge, UK; Arhaus, DK | ONSITE | https://www.roku.com/about/jobs Roku is leading manufacturing of streaming media devices; we also inte
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Anna Anthropy's book about ZZT (and really about the culture of game development that thrived around the game) is very good. https://bossfightbooks.com/products/zzt-by-anna-anthropy
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The Line
(pando.com)
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unwiredben
8y ago
That's a very old link to the Roku privacy policy from back before Roku had streaming video products. The current one is at https://docs.roku.com/doc/userprivacypolicy/en-us
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8y ago
I'd be very interested in seeing your thoughts on Roku :)
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unwiredben
9y ago
I don't think HEVC will go away; there's already a lot of fixed-function embedded hardware out there with HEVC decoders that will never get AV1 support. All the streaming players have to support those for the foreseeable future.
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Why Don't We Have Wayland Yet?
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I work on the TV team at Roku, building software for our smart TV platform. We've been shipping versions of Roku OS for our TV partners since 2014, and the first TVs enabled with Roku OS are still getting regular updates here in 2018,
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unwiredben
9y ago
The Roku devices support a mobile app that allows for keyboard input on your phone in most situations.
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I was one of the small-time investors in TechShop and really believed in their mission. I still do, and I'm sad that they weren't able to get a sustainable business model. I learned a lot at their Austin location and made some p
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The Dash doesn't have to be a brick, as long as it's the original HID-C10 model. Chumby has a software hack that will connect it to their service, see http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=9752
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The Curious Case of the Google Mobile Login Fail
(unwiredben.livejournal.com)
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It's a clone of the Competition Pro, the same design was used for the earlier Commodore DTV See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempston_Micro_Electronics#Com... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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The full list is at https://thec64.com/hello-world/ . Summer Games II is included, but not the first. Maybe there's some sort of weird licensing issue for that, as it's owned by Epyx and all of the other &qu
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Fortunately, Facebook's C++ utility library, folly, has been Apache 2.0 since at least 2012 and never had the BSD+patent license put upon it. https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/LICENSE
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I don't get why the writer would format this as a PDF with a monospaced font but have "fi" ligatures.
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9y ago
Roku | Austin TX, Los Gatos CA, Cambridge UK, New York NY | Full-Time | Onsite Roku is looking for developers to work on a variety of problems. I'm in the new products group working on Roku TV, mostly in modern C++, and I find it to b
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Wow.. was it a RF remote or IR? I don't think I've seen that one in our bug database.
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The BrightScript API for Roku app development is freely available, and any Roku set-top box or Roku TV can be put in developer mode where you can sideload your own channel. You can also upload private channels where users can install your
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Roku | Sr. Software Engineer (New Products - Roku TV) | Austin, TX | ONSITE, full-time | https://www.roku.com/about/jobs/position/sr-software-enginee... Roku has lots of positions open right now, but this is
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This sounds a lot like the language Action! ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/atari-action/ ) which was popular on the Atari 8-bit systems. Very C and Pascal-like, but with tweaks to make it work better on the 650
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Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
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The Atari Game: GLIB by Mike Montana
(2600gamebygamepodcast.blogspot.com)
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Stella at 20 – An Atari 2600 Retrospective
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I went to tag some of my repos and found it suggesting a few useful and a few not-so-useful tags for them. Having a tag that's just my repo's unique name wasn't great, but identifying that some of my repos are Pebble applica
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It looks like the December 23rd archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20161230053202/https://scholarlyo... still has a lot of this information. The January 2017 archiving had it missing.
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Having been at Metrowerks during the launch of Project Builder, I can say that it wasn't just Motorola bungling things. Apple poached a lot of MW's talent and was trying to build a CodeWarrior-killer. They hated being reliant on
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I was the tech lead on CodeWarrior for Palm OS v7, v8, and v9... it was quite a mishmash, and the Windows version was a really big hack on a hack. I ended up rewriting the whole 68K toolchain and linker for the v9 version, but that ended u
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RCA Studio II Emulated by Intellivision
(atariage.com)
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If you're in a recent Firefox, open a new tab to the URL "about:performance" -- it will show you a report on how your add-ins and tabs are affecting the browser. One of my coworkers used it to find that a tab from a IoT dev
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