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by w0utert 11y ago
>> And let's face it, the tech world is as guilty as any other when it comes to inflated language over plain speaking I would say even more so ;-)
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by w0utert 11y ago
Agree, similar arguments came to my mind when I read the article. Two other relevant points: 4. Even if a game like the one in the article performs reasonably well using HTML5 Canvas + JavaScript, that still doesn't mean it's &#x2
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by w0utert 12y ago
I see, so a security update with the same version number does not contain the same patches on all OS X versions it rolls out on, that's... peculiar. I can't really believe Apple will actually leave this unpatched, as opposed to ju
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by w0utert 12y ago
Interestingly, the release notes for the 2015-004 patch that includes the fix specifically mention it is also available for Mavericks and Mountain Lion. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
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by w0utert 12y ago
>> It's not a matter of technology, it's a matter of physical impossibility. I would say (and I've been saying this all along) is that it's first and foremost a matter of economic impossibility. Under the assumpt
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by w0utert 12y ago
Eh? The Federal funds rate has been at 0.25% since 2008, if it were to go any lower we'd be in negative interest rate territory. The fed has only just started scaling back their asset repurchase program (aka 'QE' for 'qu
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by w0utert 12y ago
The monetary system hasn't been about 'me and my savings', for at least 3 decades. Reasoning about banks, capital, supply/demand, return on investment, in terms of whether consumers spend their savings or leave it sittin
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by w0utert 12y ago
>> The GIL is definitely no source of unicorns and rainbows, but I think the case against it is usually overstated. There are numerous ways of sidestepping it (multiprocessing, pypy, C extensions, etc.), and it does serve a useful pu
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by w0utert 12y ago
Mu guess would be that iPad sales are down simply because a) hundreds of millions have been sold already, b) even more competing (primarily Android-based) tablets have been sold, and c) contrary to smartphones, tablets aren't typically
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by w0utert 12y ago
Obviously I understand that nobody reads EULA's, and I completely agree that its crazy they even exist. Judging from the fact that I got downvoted for simply stating the obvious it appears people assume I'm ok with EULA's, bu
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by w0utert 12y ago
I always assumed most movies were ripped using exploits at various points in the playback software stack? At some point the unencrypted bitstream needs to be available to decode, if you hacked the player or GPU driver code to dump it at tha
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by w0utert 12y ago
You acknowledged that you were aware of these facts when you read the EULA (you did read it, right?) at some point in the past when installing or updating iTunes (or whatever other service). I know it's ridiculous but that's how i
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by w0utert 12y ago
Very much agreed, the point you're making is exactly why I hate languages that try to hide the fact that programming is difficult, to make the life of the developer easy. This almost inevitably encourages bad programming practices, and
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by w0utert 12y ago
In my experience kids will watch almost anything as long as it's colorful, it moves and it makes funny sounds. Surely Angry Birds animated shorts are popular because kids recognize the birds, but I'd say that's hardly a basis
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by w0utert 12y ago
I wonder whether the same 'warmness' people associate with vinyl couldn't be reproduced just as easily using equalizer settings or post-processing of a digital source. The 'information' on a vinyl record is for all
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by w0utert 12y ago
AppleScript [1] was introduced in 1993, the fact that you can now do the same things AppleScript does using a different scripting language is (for virtually all practical purposes) a matter of semantics. But nice try anyway /s [1] htt
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by w0utert 12y ago
It's pretty efficient, O(N), where N is the number of cells (partially) covered by something (which means some pruning of the cells that need to be processed is desirable otherwise you'd have to evaluate all of them for quadratic
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by w0utert 12y ago
I don't think airport security is interested in a bunch of wires, pcb's and buttons as long as there aren't any explosives attached to it. The idea of the scanner is to see the explosives, not the detonator (you could use abo
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by w0utert 12y ago
Thanks, maybe I'll have a look this weekend if I can find some time, and let you know how I fare. I don't think I can actually use the simplified version though, as I'm using OpenGL ES 2.0, but I should be able to figure it o
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by w0utert 12y ago
To be fair, Intel has made a lot of progress with their IGP's over the last few years. I have been slamming Intel graphics for exactly the same reasons you and the commenter before you (and rightly so), but times do change. HD3000
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by w0utert 12y ago
Thanks for the explanation :-) A stripped-down minimal example would be very helpful to show how to use the library, just a simple popover with a single control and the absolute minimum required render calls for example. I agree that the fa
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by w0utert 12y ago
I was totally sold on this and already preparing to try this out on a simple game using OpenGL I'm working on as a pet project, until I saw the code examples. The amount of highly-specific OpenGL code that's apparently needed to e
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by w0utert 12y ago
Was it one of the first retina 13" models? I've tried one of those in the store when they were just released, and I have to admit the scrolling performance was terrible. If you put it next to a much lower-specced, much older, much
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by w0utert 12y ago
> Zero sympathy. Well done to Google on taking down one of the many people spamming the Play store with junk. Yes, also, I find it highly amusing how his long-winded whine about 'programmer freedom' makes me appreciate the wa
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by w0utert 12y ago
It's a bit contrived but it's not even as useless as it would appear to be (if you forget about the likely intentional mismatch between the default value and its documented value). The purpose of this comment is obviously not to c
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by w0utert 12y ago
I read this from top to bottom and really have no idea what the message of this article is about. It has the word 'sex' in it so it must be interesting, right?
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by w0utert 12y ago
>> With this kind of logic, you should bill your customers your years of education, from the time you started to read, and effectively charge them millions of dollars per product. This is so ridiculous I don't even know if there
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by w0utert 12y ago
If these numbers aren't at least a tiny bit exaggerated (which I doubt), let's see how you think about work days like these after 10 years of doing them.
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by w0utert 12y ago
>> I'd like to read people treating languages and platforms as tools and not as cargo cults. I really like how you put that, it basically summarizes my own opinions on programming languages and development methodologies, in mor
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by w0utert 12y ago
This is exactly how I implemented almost the exact same thing in the iOS clone of a classic DOS game (Snipes!) I made (shameless plug: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/snipes!/id428845764?mt=8 ) The linked arti

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