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by zoul 15y ago
That’s a non-issue for the vast majority of people. As an example, I have written games in Objective-C for the first iPhones. In a game running at 50 fps you have about 20 ms to get a single frame out, and still I could freely use message p
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by zoul 15y ago
It’s a great pity that Objective-C doesn’t get more attention in this regard. It’s C, so it features all the simplicity, elegance and existing APIs. And at the same time it offers a good, simple and flexible object model with almost no surp
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by zoul 15y ago
On related note, it surprises me that client-side frameworks like cappuccino.org are not used more often for building full-featured web apps. It seems to me that the abstraction from HTML and CSS is quite a desirable thing, I find the exper
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by zoul 15y ago
If you hit an URL with an HTTP client library and get a decent JSON object back, isn't it better than parsing the information from an HTML page?
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by zoul 15y ago
Sounds like a social/process problem, not a technical one. Bad company can fuck up any technology, no matter how brilliant.
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by zoul 15y ago
I have moved from webdesign so that I no longer need the design features I admired on Fireworks. What I liked most about Fireworks was the blend between the vector and bitmap graphics, and I don’t think that Pixelmator is getting anywhere c
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by zoul 15y ago
I hate Adobe software with passion. I used to love Macromedia Fireworks, so that I bought a copy of Fireworks after Adobe acquired Macromedia. I had to jump through some crazy hoops to prove that I did not steal the product, and that was no
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by zoul 15y ago
Indeed. Even [NSDictionary allKeys] returns an array instead of a set.
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How Mechanical Typesetting Works(archive.org)
1 points by zoul 15y ago|0 comments
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by zoul 15y ago
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
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by zoul 15y ago
I think the bigger titles already account for the hardware advancements and aim for beefy, top-of-the line machines that are going to be common in the several years it takes to develop the title or engine.
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by zoul 15y ago
Inheritance is not a design methodology, it’s a tool. As a tool it does not “view the world”, unless it’s meant in the sense that when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail to you. When you only have inheritance in your to
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by zoul 15y ago
What are the main advantages of screen/tmux in comparison with simple terminal tabs?
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Prokofiev Visualized: creating a concert invitation(zmotula.tumblr.com)
1 points by zoul 15y ago|0 comments
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by zoul 15y ago
DVD is a huge cocktail of patented technologies. You either license it properly or perish by the lawyers, that’s my understanding of it.
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by zoul 15y ago
As far as I know DVD is a licensed technology and the companies that produce DVD players probably have some draconic measures in the license to prevent them from doing this. I think there used to be some players with an easily accessible fa
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by zoul 15y ago
It seems like the current Vundle version does not play well with .vimrc under version control. That’s why I like Pathogen more, since I can simply insert the bundles as Git submodules into .vim/bundle. (Submodule support for Vundle is alrea
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by zoul 15y ago
"If the URL auto-completes to a site you’re very likely to visit, Chrome will begin to prerender the page," so I guess the interesting question is how the "likeliness" algorithm looks like.
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by zoul 15y ago
Objective-C has a very sweet expressivity/complexity ratio.
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by zoul 15y ago
They seem to have come with some nice algorithm to connect the graph dots. The problem: When you draw the graph using a naive formula putPixel(x, y(x)) you get isolated dots. Therefore you have to draw tiny lines between the points to get a
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by zoul 15y ago
You mean that people just don’t sort their garbage at all, the company does it for them? Is it technically plausible, with decent material recovery levels? Don’t the recyclable materials lose value by putting them together with regular garb
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by zoul 15y ago
You can’t ship your own frameworks when building for the App Store, so there are mostly just static libraries available for the iOS. And these can be a bit of a pain to set up right, I wrote two short articles about it: http://zmotula.tumb
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by zoul 15y ago
There is no reason to support anything earlier than iOS 4.3 for an app being released today. For whatever reasons, some users still stick with older firmware versions. 100% of our userbase is iOS 4+, but about 10% of it is below 4.3.
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by zoul 15y ago
Doing unit testing to reduce testing effort before releases sounds fishy to me. Unit tests should be fast and you should run them often. I even have them tied to the main target build, so that the compiler immediately tells me when I brea
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by zoul 15y ago
Problem definition is a part of the problem solution, especially in software design. To prototype is to partially solve a problem to find a better definition of it. I guess modelling is simply a synonym or a slightly different approach with
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by zoul 15y ago
I think people should not use awkward code in tutorials and then say it was for the sake of illustrating a point. Otherwise the readers can pick up bad idioms just as in a natural language. In this case I doubt the author wanted to showcase
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by zoul 15y ago
Please note that the tutorial was written some three years ago. It starts to show on some parts, for example people starting to learn Objective-C today can spare themselves the trouble of manual memory management and use Automatic Reference
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by zoul 15y ago
I love GitHub and when our company recently migrated its code to Git, we were much interested in hosting the code on GitHub. I was surprised that they have a repository size limit, or more precisely I was surprised by how low the limit is.
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by zoul 15y ago
The review looks credible and the temperature graphs are devastating. If they had a prototype that performed like this, it would be just a plain scam. Maybe there is some manufacturing fault? That's the only explanation that wouldn't say so
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by zoul 15y ago
The metal is just a wrapping for some kind of wax or whatever. And I must say that I really thought that the idea of removing the initial "hot spike" in favour of longer decent temperature would work.

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