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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…

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 spe…

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…

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 goof…

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 blo…

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 …

> 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 creatio…

>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 belabo…

>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 spee…

@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 a…

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 ment…

@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 impos…

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 r…

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, …