nglevin

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by nglevin 13y ago
Another thought. Turn on the computer, turn it into something that frees you. And if you want to be a little less selfish, make it something that frees more than just you. (bye for now)
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by nglevin 13y ago
Good job, and I regret to hear that it seems you were given some bad advice from authority. There's a lesson I learned at around 12 or so, good to learn sooner than later. Don't trust the experts, for the sake of being experts. I probably h
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by nglevin 13y ago
nijk, I'd like to upvote your comment, but you've been hellbanned. For those who can't see the dead; "We have no need for 7 billion Einsteins. Humanity is a team project."
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by nglevin 13y ago
Context, sir! We can't help if we aren't provided sufficient nouns and verbs.
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by nglevin 13y ago
Start with smaller projects, something simple based on either what you already know, or an existing lesson/blog/book. Then adjust it a little bit, work iteratively, towards the new stuff. It's really easy to get lost in the big picture of w
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by nglevin 13y ago
I use -drawRect any time I need a UIView's CGContext. For everything else, I use -layoutSubviews. When you do anything in Core Animation in -drawRect, that throws all drawing on CPU, instead of dividing the work between the CPU and GPU. Whi
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by nglevin 13y ago
Keep calm. Reach out to people, old and new. Plan, and work towards a better tomorrow. Do not give in to fear. Be sure to call your parents at least once a day. It makes a difference. And remember, the best way you can help others — especia
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by nglevin 13y ago
You may be in luck, sir or ma'am. It looks like the one man army behind Mobiruby found a copy; https://github.com/mobiruby/BridgeSupport Which he found from a really neat looking archive for popular open source projects, at that. Bookmark
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by nglevin 13y ago
Which is what I meant by "within the bundle of your app." That may have been a bit too iOS developer-centric, I apologize. In Foundation, [NSBundle mainBundle] returns a reference to an object representing your application's root directory,
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by nglevin 13y ago
As I recall, BridgeSupport created indexes to C symbols, enumerations and functions by producing XML files [1] that corresponded to C APIs like CoreGraphics, and code you produced yourself. You don't necessarily need BridgeSupport to call o
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by nglevin 13y ago
That's fair. This does save one ugly, extra step that I didn't mention, which would be to call into the Objective-C runtime's C API [1] to dispatch messages and introspect Objective-C classes. Should make it easier for developers to build t
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by nglevin 13y ago
Functionally, this appears to be identical to JavaScriptCore's longstanding C bridge [1]. If Objective-C isn't your preference, there's nothing stopping you from calling into the C bridge from C++ or just plain C. On iOS, developers have ha
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by nglevin 13y ago
Just one nitpick for an excellent comment. GNUstep/Clang would be the only way to get support for array, dictionary and number literals, as well as ARC. GNUstep/GCC is possible, but you lose support for all of the above, blocks, and several
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by nglevin 13y ago
That's a good observation, some inefficiencies are quite intentional. I didn't even know that about Linux until just the other night, when I was looking for non-GNU GPL projects that didn't require this process. LWN.net has covered both sid
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by nglevin 13y ago
Interesting. Do you have details on which jurisdictions do not allow this, and why? I admit that I'm not familiar with international copyright law. I do know that several GNU projects, and other high profile open source projects, have a pol
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by nglevin 13y ago
Ideally, a well-organized project would have a copyright assignment process to resolve those sorts of issues. However, as far as I know you're right. If there's no clear authority as to who retains ownership and licensing rights to the code
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by nglevin 13y ago
It's possible, though it depends on the wishes of the original authors. Stockfish Chess [1] is the one GPL v3 licensed app that I know of which has been available for... quite some time, now. I've seen several other Chess apps build on that
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by nglevin 13y ago
WindowMaker split off from the GNUstep project quite some time ago, IIRC. They don't even use Objective-C, they use their own framework for widgets built on WM called "WINGs." There's still activity on the GNUstep front. Just a few things I
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by nglevin 13y ago
Is this the one? http://nextstuff.info/mirrors/ftp.peak.org/next/apps/games/m... (tar.gz file)
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Twenty years of a free, open web(info.cern.ch)
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by nglevin 13y ago
> They need a vastly bigger space, or multiple conferences throughout the year, or a higher price, or something to manage the insane demand, if they actually want to improve this stuff. Regarding multiple conferences, Apple decided not
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by nglevin 13y ago
I believe that's true, regarding Developer Relations. I did get into a Tech Talk one year that was sold out through a large media company, thanks to that. However, that's a tricky road to go down. I have no idea what Apple's criteria is for
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by nglevin 13y ago
Back in 2011, there was one guy who waited a few minutes before deciding to purchase, checked the site again minutes later. Then Apple gave the "we're all sold out" message. He goes to check the Apple Store. It still says that there's somet
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by nglevin 13y ago
Moscone North alone would be an improvement from Moscone West. Heck, just take over all of Moscone for the week! I've been told the reason the event has been kept small is to maintain the same ratio of Apple developers to attendees. But I t
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by nglevin 13y ago
Well, every year's a full house. It used to be a great event where you could meet people in IT, web developers, Objective-C developers, Mac developers and iOS developers. Now, it's pretty skewed towards iOS development, but it's still fun.
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by nglevin 13y ago
As I recall, this shop was run by Eric Shepherd up until 2011 [1] before he transferred control to Tony Diaz. Shepherd is an author of many fine Apple II and Apple IIgs apps, including the excellent IIgs emulator Sweet16 [2]. Now, he's a te
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by nglevin 13y ago
Yes, bitrot is _addressed_, but not resolved. That's the source of my frustration whenever the open source solution is brought up. It only works when there are hands present to maintain the source. Which is much more effort than, say, writi
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by nglevin 13y ago
It may be old news to you, but Kai Krause's "Software is merely a Performance Art"[1] treads much the same territory, framing software as an ongoing framework to influence future generations. Open source can be a solution, but it's limited
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Smalltalk Industry Conference '13(stic.st)
5 points by nglevin 13y ago|0 comments
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Dark matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues(bbc.co.uk)
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