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by webjprgm 13y ago
Which version of Xbox360Controller and what Mac OS version? You might want to try an older pre-64bit version of the driver if that will work on your OS. Or you could try to debug the source if you're up for that. I would try but don&
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by webjprgm 13y ago
A couple years ago I bought a Logitech gamepad that happened to use Xbox protocol (I didn't read the label well enough, I just saw the name brand). I tried to use this Xbox360Controller driver but it didn't recognize my gamepad.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Why is the Ouya's bad? It doesn't look as comfortable as an Xbox controller, but I haven't held one. I like the idea of a touch pad for configurable interface elements. That's what I first thought of when the Valve modul
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by webjprgm 13y ago
He said the distributor that ships books to local bookstores would also have to ship them to Amazon. So he can't both stay out of Amazon's channel and be in the local bookseller's channel. Presumably he wants his book in loca
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by webjprgm 13y ago
> 1 flight per day across the country Don't we already have same-day delivery? So the next tier would have to be quicker delivery than that, which would necessitate more than one flight a day. Is it still economically viable in that
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by webjprgm 13y ago
No IMs definitely can't be kept private from the companies themselves because those companies make their money by knowing what it's users talk about. This is part of why I never trusted GMail from the beginning. (But I'm stil
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I've gotten to the point where I'm not sucked in and addicted to MC anymore, but since it was the building part that I got stuck on, never modding or multi-player, I still get plenty of enjoyment when I periodically think of somet
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Actually, I can pinch-to-zoom using my thumb and pointer-finger on the screen with my remaining three fingers holding the phone. It's awkward, but works in a pinch (haha). I much prefer a gesture that makes intuitive sense. Pinch-to-zo
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Yuck yuck yuck. And yuck to ctrl-Insert / shift-Insert too, though that's better. I very much like the fact that on OS X the default copy-paste keys are command-c / command-v which don't conflict with UNIX's use of
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by webjprgm 13y ago
This looks pretty awesome. It's also the first time I've heard of Vala, so I read through the tutorial of that too. It's also interesting. I don't suppose there's a way to use this with Windows, either as the shell
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Could Google Analytics data be used as "something other than links"? They can track traffic, bounce rates, how long people stay, how often the same people return. Would that provide a better indicator of quality pages? It would on
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I've been watching "PubNub-World-4" for a while (28 generations, animation is still on). It has a nasty hill to climb that stops all cars at about 160 meters. I saw one almost make it over. So now I don't want to refr
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I think I misread this the first time. You mean a "big data" framework not a big "data framework", right? The idea of using a programming language as a database language: MUMPS (aka M), JavaScript as query language to so
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I tried to find a way to store a function in an object to call later, and after fighting the syntax I hit a bus error. I guess that is only possible with full closures. I was trying to have a vector of behaviors for my sprites, which would
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I did a little playing with it last night. I find that one can do object-oriented things, but constructors are a bit of a catch. struct A : [a, defaulted] struct B : A [b] //You can do it this way, /&#x
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by webjprgm 13y ago
At first glance I love this syntax. I'll have to pull out some of my hypothetical syntax notes to see if any holes I came up with for my language attempts apply here, but I very much like it. Using high-level function constructs for ma
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Yeah, 4 years later when a whistle blower said something.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
No, but I have my own mental model of how it works, and if I were trying to preserve my own Perl code I'd only need the subset of Perl that I understand and use. I could reconstruct that from scratch with no reference other than my own Per
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I get the same feeling. That's why I always have this idea in the back of my head that I should learn to make a computer from the sand on a beach in case I'm ever marooned on an island on an alien planet. But I recognize that it's entirely
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by webjprgm 13y ago
That just means the semantics are not precisely defined. Have a look at the C specification for things that are left undefined. The same C program, when interpreted by different compilers (esp. on different architectures) will have differen
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Which further proves the author's point that adding syntax makes things easier, since even the pure Lisp land is speckled with extra syntax to make it work.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
One comment on the article mentioned that programming languages need to have many concepts, and concepts built on concepts, and concepts built on those. So you can't have a new symbol for each concept since you build more and more concepts.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I agree that I'd like to have the chance to get really good in a language that I use for a long time. (As long as it's enjoyable, e.g. I wouldn't want to be stuck in VB forever.) At one point I worked almost entirely in Java (up until aroun
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by webjprgm 13y ago
It also partly depends on how often you switch jobs that require you to learn a new programming language. So far in my career I've had to learn new languages quite often, esp. on hacked-together projects with 3+ languages. It's not just l
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Ugh, please no. The real problem is that startups can't decide to open up shop somewhere else, like Pleasanton or Napa. Somewhere that's just as accessible to all the VCs and conferences but not so short on housing. I don't want mega city.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Impossible. You could only cite cases where it did, not where it didn't. Or you could give personal witness of seeing a case that did not make it on the news. But no citation.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Ninite isn't an expensive paid Adobe Flash updater. It's a useful sysadmin tool for automating several painful processes. I think it should exist and other companies should not be able to bully them to shut down. As a consumer you can pay
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Yup. And trying to shut it down is litigating, legislating, and dealing down to "no-real-competition".
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Not to mention a larger, longer download. Then you realize it and have to re-download it all over for the flash-only one. (It's happened to me a few times.)
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by webjprgm 13y ago
Graphics drivers aren't open source either. A very large amount of actual Mac OS X performance problems and crashes come from the combination of the graphics drivers and CoreGraphics/Aqua. Both of these systems can use main memory and ther

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