MichaelEGR

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by MichaelEGR 12y ago
Closing the very recent and ongoing with no hope in sight BLE bugs which are very real and heinous is BS: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=58381 BLE stack is even worse in Lollipop.
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by MichaelEGR 12y ago
Glad I could get my first open source effort up after all these years. There are few if any modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / 3.1 demos for Java with Android and this is important tech. I spent a good chunk of the last week pulling out code from
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Show HN: Modern OpenGL ES (3.0 / 3.1 compute shaders) with Java for Android 5.0+(github.com)
1 points by MichaelEGR 12y ago|1 comments
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by MichaelEGR 12y ago
Hi, my name is Michael and I'm the founder of TyphonRT Media, Inc. It's just me and I have been bootstrapping various game and performance middleware for Java for over 10 years. My story is one of a consultancy attempting to turn
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Show HN: TyphonRT Video Suite, Next-gen Video Apps for Android(kickstarter.com)
2 points by MichaelEGR 12y ago|1 comments
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by MichaelEGR 14y ago
Art school students and cool.. ;P There are always trade offs in life.. On the dating front at least. If I spent more time in general hanging out and out and about on weekends goofing around like many folks I'm sure things would work out di
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by MichaelEGR 14y ago
Oh my... Well, meh perhaps this is longer than it needs to be.. I didn't think my post to Erik's blog would be reposted here in entirety. I felt moved to post quickly on Erik's blog FWIW and didn't mince words. His post reminds me of certai
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
Nice.. I too was working with embedded C++ dev w/ a Blackfin & Sharc combo and yes the standard build cycle was kind of lame. I attended a Blackfin course that just happened to be located at Analog Devices HQ. In the 4 days that I was t
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
> OK, just going to answer a few points, to try to wrap this up. :) And for the wrap up wrap up ;P > I write a lot of the core "engine" in C++ for speed and lack of garbage creation. Most definitely. That was all I was getting at is
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
>Hmm...getting very much off topic here, so I want to keep this brief ... the problems of the language being very verbose and missing a lot of useful features Yes, let's not belabor things, but I do want to point out that Scala essentia
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
>Thanks, but I guess I didn't get across how much I still hate Java. ;) Can't solve that.. ;) ;) >I feel it has 95% of the problems of C++, without the advantages (predictable speed, mostly). I suppose you'd have to get a little mor
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
@SomeCallMeTim >I submit it would be better for everyone if there were a single cross-platform engine that everyone used. >What would have been better is a library that abstracts away the fact that Android is its own unique OS, peri
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
I commented on the linked articles in more depth regarding performance game dev w/ Java. I see someone mentioned libgdx in a comment here which is awesome. Also awesome to see mention of Slick. I'll just mention that I have been working for
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
@ChuckMcM - "Disclaimer though is that I was one of the Java guys and I had completely bought into the notion of 'write once, run anywhere'. Making that true turned out to be impossible for a number of reasons, not the least of which that t
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
Glad to see the comments flood in for this and see it hit #1 on HN so quickly as I was beginning to wonder when it would ship. I was contracted to work on the Amazon MP3 v2.0 app rearchitecting the download architecture and adding cloud dri
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by MichaelEGR 15y ago
Yeah account sharing is watched and when detected the suspect account will get flagged for a TOS violation. I can't tell you how quickly the ban hammer may come down as things go, but 2 devices is likely not going to trigger it.