I probably would have actually enjoyed the Ouya, but it had such terrible input lag that it was effectively unplayable. Couldn't find any way to fix it, so it just sits on a shelf in my apartment now.
1) Flipping the unit on its side so that the power button is facing me and the wires stick up in the air. Apparently the original run units had a metal base which affected signal from the antenna.
2) Switching the Bluetooth controllers to get the priority no matter if there's a game downloading or not. This feature/option was included in a recent update and you can find it in the Controllers->Settings menu.
I have a chocolate brown Kickstarter-backer model and I no longer get controller lag.
You may have some luck opening a support ticket[1]. I had the same issue and they sent me a shipping label to send the controllers in for a firmware update. I haven't turned the console on since I've gotten the controllers back, so I don't know if it fixed the issue but they claimed it would.
I don't know the exact numbers, but I definitely feel like brain surgery carries a much higher risk with it than a new spoon. Some people might prefer not to take that risk, especially in cases of elderly people who may not be strong enough to survive surgery.
As a 19 year old software engineer who started writing code when he was 13 because it was fun, I don't think this quite hits the mark.
I didn't give up everything in life to be a programmer, but it was my passion (and it looks like it's this guy's passion as well). It is fun. I still played outside, had friends, and lived a childhood. What I got out of it are skills that are in demand, a head start on life, and adult, mature friends who kept me out of trouble and helped me build a fun, happy life for myself.
I owe everything to programming. I was a kid from a small town in Alabama and now I'm a happy software engineer in Los Angeles. I got to go to the first Clojure Conj conference when I was 16, speak at the second at 17, and get an internship that led to a job at around the same time. I met the best friends I could have ever met through it and have had more fun that I could have ever imagined having as a direct result of it.
That said, we're not entirely at odds. It is important to keep yourself healthy and such and not let it completely take over your life. I just felt it important to provide a different perspective on the matter.
Different perspectives are definitely useful and thanks for taking the time to share yours. It sounds like you have figured out the priorities in your life and have balanced things out. That's really all I was advocating for, balance.
Similarly I started programming very young. You do need to pursue other interests to be well rounded, though. But hey, not everyone is well rounded. However, I will say I think there is a difference if you are doing it because it is fun or you are feeding a thirst for knowledge vs you are trying to become the next Zuckerberg. There's a place for that, sure, but 13? I'm not saying this person is doing this, just remarking generally.
To be fair, a lot of the syntax magic of core.async happens in its macros -- in js that is supported by the cljs compiler. As I understand it, because of this it'd be impossible for core.async to be used as a js "library" (a global namespace with a public interface).
This device is really appealing, but I am extremely disappointed that it can only mirror chrome tabs. I'd be much more interested in this device if they would throw out some native applications to mirror a whole screen like Apple's Airplay can.
I specifically mean desktop. I'd be surprised to learn that VNC clients and such can manage it but something like this wouldn't, but I've been known to be wrong before.
As once a poor schmuck in not-even-that-rural Alabama, we never could and still cannot get decent anything there. Best I could come up with when I still lived there and what my mother still uses is mobile internet with a small cap.
I say this as a former customer... Hughesnet is an absolute joke. Looking past their incompetent installers (who provided me with a major leak in the roof over my kitchen) and their horrible uptime (clouds in the sky = service outage), at it's best the internet service could only be described as painfully slow. Super high latency, constant dropped connections, poor throughput and to top it all off customer service that I'd rate as equivalent to cell phone providers.
The technology has gone through an iteration or two, with the latest coming in the last year. Your judgement may have been valid in the past (though you're providing a far worse perspective than I've heard from anyone else), but if you haven't been a customer for a while, your past experience is not a predictor of current performance.
As for the incompetent installers, they're probably the exact same local contractors working for Dish Network or DirecTV. Results will vary by area.
Hey (long time no see, btw) there. I played it recently. You've definitely got to go into it expecting what it is to enjoy it. Exactly nothing happens in the game. You don't really interact with anything, you just walk around a beautiful set of landscapes on the island and listen to the story. The game is just short enough that it doesn't become too boring to play in my experience, and it's an excellent experience to relax to.
Nailgun is not a good solution to the problem. If the JVM startup speed is a problem, your best option is to use something not on the JVM and not use hacks that make it feel faster.
That's not true. Yes, it's worth considering outside of the JVM if being on the JVM means your application isn't interactive enough (startup speed doesn't matter for long running, fire & forget tasks).
At the same time, splitting your application into a client/server architecture is not a hack but an engineering decision. There are times when this decision is natural e.g. Music Player Daemon (MPD)[1]. For most CLI applications, there's no clear benefit (but the general approach has no clear downside either - the code overhead of this approach can be brought very low).
Certainly, in a production application you would want to secure the messaging channel (Nailgun doesn't).
