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by zwetan 8y ago
The latest TIOBE index [0] put both ActionScript and TypeScript in "The Next 50 Programming Languages", from rank 51 to rank 100 also Pascal is mentioned at rank 204 based on that yes ActionScript do make the cut in term of popula
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by zwetan 8y ago
Let me correct that for you That is essentially the way it is done in Scala (2004), F# (2005), *ActionScript 3 (2006)*, Go (2009), Rust (2010), Kotlin (2011), TypeScript (2012), and Swift (2014) programming languages.
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by zwetan 8y ago
let's add the obvious one a long list of tech, skills, requirements, "must have", etc. with a low salary
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by zwetan 8y ago
Very interesting, in a different context I had to tackle a pretty similar problem with Redtamarin [0] Traditionally under the CLI you will manage key input wih a readline() command or something similar to kbhit() and depending on your needs
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by zwetan 8y ago
doesn't work when you can not access the machine where the cron is supposed to run for security reason or whatever there crontab is not an anti-pattern at all
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by zwetan 8y ago
I do too so far the best setup that works with me is 3 monitors: 1x landscape (left) and 2x portrait (right) using something like Spectacle [0] to arrange the windows quickly VSCode spread on the 2 portraits in a grid (2x2) layout is pretty
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by zwetan 8y ago
I like it, being able to start with a shell script and then evolve the tool to a static binary is pretty neat, I do that all the time with ActionScript I don't think it's trying to be a "jack of all trades", sure Bash ca
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by zwetan 8y ago
it is exactly the opposite imho the idea can already be there, already implemented and even already successful and an incredible execution can just take over you don't take over on ideas, you do take over on implementation few examples
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by zwetan 8y ago
listening to an idea is entertainment showing the idea is proof
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by zwetan 8y ago
ideas have no values, implementation does the very same idea could be implemented in different ways, some would work, some other would fail the only way to be sure is to build it and ship it, eg. "does my implementation provide value t
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by zwetan 8y ago
No it does not work like that. To be able to publish on iOS, there Adobe AIR compile to native binary. On Android, Windows, and macOS (also Linux) it does not to do that (eg. it is fast enough), so instead you have the choice to publish an
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by zwetan 8y ago
you're comparing apples and oranges Flash (a browser plugin) being dead does not make ActionScript (a programming language) dead you can use ActionScript to publish with Adobe AIR and Haxe AFAIK can do that too
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by zwetan 8y ago
Dart is not designed only to program web apps you can target mobile with Flutter, and also command-line etc.
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by zwetan 8y ago
next: code signing certificates under Windows a lot of B.S. there too
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by zwetan 8y ago
Let this be a warning to young developers tying into browser platforms. For all the openness of web standards, let's remember that browsers are proprietary. If a browser vendor decide to do something (whatever it is, good or bad), ther
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by zwetan 8y ago
> Install and configure weirdo bespoke software for the smart card. It opens an SSH-server-hanging popup asking for a PIN, so I can't have headless automatic builds. You can automate this with scsigntool.exe check out https:/&
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by zwetan 9y ago
support has stopped true but it does not prevent to publish on Linux desktop targeting AIR 2.6 ironically you can also embed Flash into an Electron app to use the latest v28 runtime other workaround exists with the latest NPAPI that you can
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by zwetan 9y ago
first, you can also get HTML ads that uses 100% CPU any technology can be abused with ads second, Adobe AIR using 100% CPU is completely false
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by zwetan 9y ago
"New features and bug fixes take ages." ORLY? It has been many years that Adobe AIR is updated on a quarterly basis, every March, June, September and December https://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/flashpl
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by zwetan 9y ago
You just described Adobe AIR eg. "something that has consistent, cross platform (desktop and mobile [...]), responsive ui, without the huge web stack"
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by zwetan 9y ago
like any other social network: you are the product
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by zwetan 9y ago
Here my answer: I'm cheating on you and still have no regrets. ps: my last year hackintosh build with 64GB RAM for < 5K is not impressed by those 128GB RAM
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by zwetan 9y ago
> The only way to solve in the short term is to spread the risk across many banks, and never keep your money in one place. not only banks, you also have paypal, prepaid cards, etc. and not only "short term" eg. always avoid the
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by zwetan 9y ago
Your view on sugar is wrong and quite dangerous. First, human beings need sugar to survive, yep it's like water, without sugar you die, in particular your muscle and your brain. There are good and bad sugar, artificial sugar in food an
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by zwetan 9y ago
what about petitioning Google so they open source Swiffy ? To me Google Chrome is the one responsible for killing Flash, Adobe is just playing catch up.
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by zwetan 9y ago
You have Flash on iOS with Adobe AIR which take your AS3/SWF and cross-compile them to a native iOS binary (ipa).
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by zwetan 9y ago
Don't forget E4X, it's here in AS3 as a first class citizen, while every single browser vendors either did not bother to implement it (google) or deprecated it after some times (mozilla). It was quite nice to use client-side in Fl
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by zwetan 9y ago
I have seen experiment who took the code base of Redtamarin (based on AVM2 sources) https://github.com/Corsaair/redtamarin and added native implementations to render UI with OpenGL API, QT API, etc. Now, even if it is
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by zwetan 9y ago
> "I'd love to have AS3 now as a language of useful programming." You still have Adobe AIR to target desktop and mobile GUI apps. And you have a also the open source project Redtamarin https://github.com/Co
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by zwetan 9y ago
how do you make that work for a "remote team" ?

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