zwetan

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by zwetan 12y ago
here you go http://www.redtamarin.com/ and the g+ community https://plus.google.com/communities/111596731002136630496 and yeah it's kind of why I'm doing that, AS3 is for me a good balance as
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by zwetan 12y ago
I completely buy the idea "write everything in one language", even if I do it with a different language for completely different reasons. In general I think "use the best tool/language for the job" and anyway any to
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by zwetan 12y ago
AS3 - with AIR for publishing on mobile - with SWF to publish on the web (for desktop browsers) and I would argue with the added bonus that you can share the UI without an horrible result
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by zwetan 12y ago
wow, take a good hard look at what would be the software world without OSS I don't want to go into a rant or anything but really your comment is wrong at so many level dumpster ? as if open source could only result from some failed att
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by zwetan 16y ago
well sure it is confusing if you never used C (as most of the other language does not give access to pointers at all) but when you see something tagged as 'C', 'pointers', 'challenge' I guess you can fairly assume it is an "advanced subject
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by zwetan 16y ago
no, but you will certainly never be a skilled C programmer if you don't reckonize a reference even me a noob in C I can see that it is indeed a reference (as I said I m a noob =))
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by zwetan 16y ago
except that here '&' is for the reference operator and any C/C++ programmer who have spent few days with the language will never be confused by that see http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/pointers/ ---- This reference to a variable
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by zwetan 16y ago
it's when I see story like this that I remember I really hate assholes ... what's killing me too is that they get away with that but something like google streetview have to blur people face for privacy reason their TOS (see 3.1.7) consider
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by zwetan 16y ago
this video Google container data center tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I provide even more details on the cooling system etc. and yep that's NOT an april fool
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by zwetan 16y ago
let me add a little something programming is about languages and tools, whatever is your anger or need, some are more approachable than others my dark beast for 10 years have been C and by extension C++, got this kind of stupid idea that to
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by zwetan 16y ago
a "hacker" is closer to a programmer that think "out of the box" than to a "cracker" that "breaks into other people computers" the media has given this defintion to the word "hacker" and I always rejected it!
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by zwetan 16y ago
I never did it but once, as I think even the worst interview on earth is something you use to learn. But for the one time when it happened, long long time ago, it went like that: I was sitting at a round table with 4/5 personn in front of m
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by zwetan 16y ago
I've nerver worn a suit to an interview either (I'm based in London so it's not really ingrained in the culture), but I do not think at all that people wearing suits try to hide anything. I don't like suit for myself, it make me feel I wear
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by zwetan 16y ago
here an idea, hire a very very very good programmer or world-class talent, however you want to name them, and yeah pay them the dough that they deserve. And have them train/teach those rookies. that is called: "building a team" it always am
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by zwetan 16y ago
agreed but imho programming is not only art , it is also science. It would be like to say to be good at programming you need to be good at art and math, which are both considered "hard to master", which make programming even harder. And the
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by zwetan 16y ago
love this story :)
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by zwetan 16y ago
> those who code C++, Java and ActionScript 3.0 just love piling on > boilerplate code and long names like FactoryBuilderFacadeInterface boilerplate code is not caused by the language, but by the programmer, I know more th
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by zwetan 16y ago
> I see no reason to use a language that eliminates run-time types euh... even if a language is considered dynamically typed and/or using weak types, the language still have types.
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by zwetan 16y ago
to sum it up very quickly statically typed: is-a, has-a dynamically typed: is-like-a, has-like-a Read the introduction from Dynamic Typing in a Statically Typed Language http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Dyn.ps "Even in a staticall
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by zwetan 16y ago
> If you think about what made YouTube, Facebook et alsuccessful, > it wasn't some magic new technology, > it was the right implementation and market acceptance. I would have put that as the right implementation at the right tim
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by zwetan 16y ago
so ? there is a 100MB extern drive accessible via FTP, and rsync is your friend at the very worst, when your server is on a 100MBps link then it's dirt cheap (in time and money) to do the backup on the cloud
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by zwetan 16y ago
why oh why people does not look around for dedicated host price before going into that much trouble ? see this for example http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ks/ (note: I don't work for OVH) that's about 25$/month, look at the specs for yourself. t
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by zwetan 16y ago
tests for those environments Sure sticking to ECMA-262 can help http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... you can read, re-read, etc. the spec to get a good feel of the language but at the end of the day, some hosts
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by zwetan 16y ago
and that's bullcrap the really important part of html5 at the end of the day is for CONSUMER, not developers. Here Apple doing exactly what dumb people did when they started the browsers war 10 years ago "this site is best viewed with X", w
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by zwetan 16y ago
you can find already a lot of videos showing flash player 10.1 running on Android, and next week with Google I/O you will see even more I guess and user will be able to download a preview (or beta) of that.
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by zwetan 16y ago
Flash is certainly running as native code on the device as they do CPU and GPU optimization see http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-camp-san-francisco/flash-pla... for more details also because Google is part of the Open Screen Project http: