Linked by Kaj-de-Vos on Thu 20th Dec 2012 00:22 UTC
As the Syllable project predicted many years ago, version 3 of the REBOL programming language has finally been open sourced, under the Apache 2 licence (screenshot on Syllable Desktop). Also, the alpha version of the high-level Red programming language, supporting Syllable Desktop, has been released, by now in version 0.3.1 (screenshot, demo program, video at the Science Park in Amsterdam).
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RE[13]: Comment by cipri
by Kaj-de-Vos on Tue 25th Dec 2012 14:24
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Member since:2010-06-09
You have a very selective memory. Do you call this staying quiet?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?488246
There are many others like it. Be a man and get your own fork to work, instead of bashing Syllable and me to hide your own incompetence.
RE[14]: Comment by cipri
by demetrioussharpe on Tue 25th Dec 2012 19:50
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Member since:2009-01-09
You have a very selective memory. Do you call this staying quiet?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?488246
There are many others like it. Be a man and get your own fork to work, instead of bashing Syllable and me to hide your own incompetence.
http://www.osnews.com/thread?488246
There are many others like it. Be a man and get your own fork to work, instead of bashing Syllable and me to hide your own incompetence.
So, you're trying to use this as some kind of proof? A person defending himself from being dragged into bullshit that's got YOU at the center of it? Your weak attempt is laughable. Every single time you attempt to drag us into your shit, we'll defend ourselves & out you as the poser that you so clearly are. As far as getting my own fork, why don't you get your own OS? You talk a big game in public, but all of us who were in the Syllable community know that you basically hijacked & siderailed Syllable's development. You claim it as your own, but you've done virtually NOTHING to the actual OS itself. So, it looks like Ciprian was absolutely correct. As far as my own fork, I'm already a core developer of a fork, why would I fork it again?
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RE[14]: Comment by cipri
by demetrioussharpe on Tue 25th Dec 2012 21:28
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Member since:2009-01-09
"The funny thing is that you used to talk about how far ahead of Haiku we were. The whole time, Haiku was blowing past us at lightening speed.
Looking at the bickering between Syllable and Pyro camps, Haiku looks even better now... (with how friendly and lively it is) "
I was referring to back when we were all Syllable developers. Well, all of us except for Kaj, who's never actually developed an actual piece of Syllable. At that point, we hadn't forked.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 13:17 UTC
"Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, up 59.1% from the 125.4 million units shipped during 1Q12." Windows Phone doubles from a few to twice few, iOS loser market share as its growth is slower than that of the overall market. BlackBerry continues slide into irrelevance.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 12:06 UTC
"According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies service, global Android smartphone profits reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits." Wow.More News »
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You know, not one single Pyro developer has commented on this story. We've stood on the sidelines & occasionally glanced at the arguments thrown back & forth, but we didn't get involved. In fact, since the fork, none of us have said anything negative to or about you. But now, you sit there & point at us in a mocking manner. However, you should know that we're actually not doing worse than Syllable. We're spending our time working on the actual OS, not on bullshit snatched from the far reaches of the web. Sure, defend your group, I can't blame you for that. But don't you dare try to do it at the expense of Pyro! We're quiet, because we're actually doing work. We're actually trying to take what we forked & actually make it more usable. By looking at your repository, it might actually seem as if you've done a lot of work, since you do commits. But, let's be honest here, you do commits to the core system for developers who don't actually have commit access. Once again, you're sitting here spreading lies about your developmental prowess, but nothing's actually being accomplished. Also, if you ported Mesa3D, why are you using PicoGL running against SDL as your libGL.so??? Somehow, you think that putting EVERYTHING on top of SDL will solve all of your problems, but you're sadly mistaken. I supposed you thought that you could create Syllable Server, & use it to control the direction of both Server AND Desktop. Unfortunately for you, you only succeeded in driving almost everyone away. Who knows, maybe the sun has set on Syllable Desktop, since you're not a system developer.
You've made your bed, so now it's time for you to lie in it, Kaj. You did this to yourself. Pyro WILL NOT take any of the heat for you. Instead, we'll continue to work on improving the system. When we're ready to make an announcement, we'll do so. When we do so, it'll be an announcement of substance, not smoke & mirrors.
The funny thing is that you used to talk about how far ahead of Haiku we were. The whole time, Haiku was blowing past us at lightening speed. Now, Pyro's doing the same thing to Syllable. Hmmm.....I wonder...will you guys still be stuck using less than 2GB of system ram in 2015 or even 2020? Sure, it's fine to have a system that can function with such limited ram; but, why should it have to???