wladimir

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by wladimir 14y ago
Eh, sure, a loading screen is perfectly OK if you have a game or demo or something. But that's the exception not the rule. For forums, blogs and news sites and such it's absolutely a no-go.
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by wladimir 14y ago
I especially agree with regard to loading screens. For example some blogs have this "gears" animation before they display their text. I'm not sure who ever came up with thinking that might be a good idea... even if the site is slow that it
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by wladimir 14y ago
> Haxe NME and Unity3D are similar in that they let you write once and deploy to many. They also in fact let you "deploy to flash". I think you're distorting my argument a bit -- I wouldn't invest in developing new flash app or game, bu
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by wladimir 14y ago
> Well, I think this demo kind of proves why not: it doesn't work the same way on everyones browser. Still, you are comparing this to flash, which has only one complete implementation at all which is only available on a subset of plat
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by wladimir 14y ago
someone can (in theory) develop a mobile friendly, efficient (and open source) runtime I don't think the format is documented to that level. And even if it is, it is very complex and hard to get right for other implementations (and it is
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by wladimir 14y ago
Is that ever a choice, though? In my experience with open source I've seen two classes of users: - people that join the community as developer, show interest in the code, just implement a feature/fix and push the patch - people that demand
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by wladimir 14y ago
How do people feel about open source projects asking for payment for features? I agree that it's presumptuous for people to expect features to be implemented for free just because they want it. It's pretty scary how toxic some open source
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by wladimir 14y ago
I can't speak for the others but at least Android allows you to use any web browser you want (for example Firefox, Opera, Chrome). And it does give you a "browser selection screen" when you have multiple browsers installed AND open a link.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Normally the DF executable works like a terminal emulator, rendering the glyphs using GL or such. You can however run dwarf fortress in a console (ie, to run it over SSH) by changing the configuration file, and then it is a true text game
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by wladimir 14y ago
A jarring thing to me is that we're talking about technical obsolescence for people at all... workers (especially in tech) can become obsolete so fast, just like gadgets are outdated in a year and obsolete in a few years. You can't just lea
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by wladimir 14y ago
That was, at least for me, the promise of all this communication technology, and one of the reasons for me to go into software: to work from home or any other place, spend more time with people I care about, no more commuting, no need to si
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by wladimir 14y ago
I think you're reading too much into it, I'm sure he didn't mean to offend high school dropouts specifically, and that he means that too much discretionary power is put into the hands of a random person that happens to be employed by homel
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by wladimir 14y ago
Did you know that the output can be customized in many ways, for example using CSS and templates? Many organizations use doxygen for their documentation, even though you wouldn't recognize it at first. Also, whether the tool uses clang or a
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by wladimir 14y ago
What is wrong with that?
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by wladimir 14y ago
Can you explain why you think that doxygen is horrible?
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by wladimir 14y ago
Indeed. The client "mIRC" has a few well-known security bugs and hasn't been maintained for ages, but there indeed is nothing wrong with the protocol when using more modern clients. It can be as secure as necessary through various extension
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by wladimir 14y ago
Sorry that I was unclear. I always use a C99 supporting (gcc/clang) compiler for my own C projects. However, the problem is that because MS doesn't adopt it, a lot of companies and projects still have coding standards that forbid the use of
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by wladimir 14y ago
It's sad that C99 was never widely adopted. It's 2013 and MSVC still doesn't implement it. I really like the constructs that were added, especially with regard to named structure and array initialization. It manages to make programming in C
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by wladimir 14y ago
ipython can also be pretty at least when using the Qt console, for example it can embed pymatlib plots and sympy formulas inline instead of opening them in a window. I'm not sure whether bpython can do this.
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by wladimir 14y ago
IDA Pro is crazily expensive though, and probably not worth it unless you're doing reverse engineering / exploit finding for a living. For example it's a bit overkill for just looking at disassembly to see what code the compiler has written
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by wladimir 14y ago
On the other hand, one may enjoy playing violin in the subway. The money will then be very welcome but just a means to keep on playing, not a goal.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Moore's law is about the number of transistors. The 6502 had ~3500. Modern desktop CPUs have ~2,500,000,000 (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore... ). So that's more like 1,000,000x (thus six orders of ma
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by wladimir 14y ago
Indeed. Having personally experienced power supply issues a few times (either due to malfunction or the mentioned problem of super-hungry GPU) and the resulting random crashes, I would have been greatly helped by this kind of detection in t
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by wladimir 14y ago
That's my experience too. In addition to that, there are hardware companies that have always seen software as necessary but uninteresting, thus trying to cut costs on it as much as possible, and not knowing how to set up an environment cond
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by wladimir 14y ago
This is why the alternative build systems seem to never catch on. Everyone rolls their own, or forks, or rewrites instead of working together to improve one enough to "disrupt" autotools (though cmake comes close enough...). A sad but com
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by wladimir 14y ago
Human nature doesn't change over 18 months. From my experience this has been the case for non-Zynga games as well, such as MMO's which allow buying ingame items with real money. People that put real money into the game are releatively rare,
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by wladimir 14y ago
Fully agreed! Personally, I'm really annoyed by the Skype login sound that's impossible to disable in the Android app.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Linux is very slow with removing old drivers and CPUs compared to the commercial operating systems, which is nice because it allows it to run almost everywhere on the cheapest hardware. But they cannot keep everything forever (maintainabili
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by wladimir 14y ago
I'm not sure about Ghostery, but the TOR Browser bundle (based on Firefox, see https://blog.torproject.org/blog/effs-panopticlick-and-torbu... ) does apply a few tricks to normalize the browser fingerprint.
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by wladimir 14y ago
True, but don't forget that the longer you wait with upgrading, the more compatibility issues you may run into when you finally have to upgrade. Linux has changed a lot since 2005.

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