Goladus

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by Goladus 13y ago
First, they want games about birds. What kind of conclusion is this? It's a 2-d side-scrolling game with basic sinking/gravity dynamics. There are only a few ways to make a game with those rules. (1) use a flying object/
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by Goladus 13y ago
That's not really the problem, though. Free demos have been around for ages. The issue is integrating cash payments into the core gameplay. This necessarily undermines the integrity of any game that uses it, unless it's really
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by Goladus 13y ago
Should be noted that it's not impossible to create a game with an FTP+Subscription+IAP pricing model where IAP has a strictly limited effect on actual gameplay and most of the core game is accessible either at the free tier or a modest
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by Goladus 13y ago
Gamers have voted with their wallets for this outcome. (Dungeon Keeper retailed for $60, not $6, at launch. I couldn't afford it so I checked back weekly, and then found the best deal of my life six months later: $9.99 with a $20 manu
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by Goladus 13y ago
> Do you feel it's ethical to take $30k a year from 'the whales'? I don't have any essential ethical problems with the question. I have two concerns. (1) They're called "games" when they're not r
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by Goladus 13y ago
My theory is that a lot of it is back-rationalization. People just have a gut reaction against it and search for any reason they can find to argue that it's bad. The main reason it's different for game developers is that in most
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by Goladus 13y ago
Right, because normal, balanced people don't expect customer service anymore.
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by Goladus 13y ago
I see people using portable game systems on the subway. But then whipping it out in public for 5 minutes at a time is not particularly conducive to the kind of deep games that we're talking about.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Or a portable game system (Whatever the most recent DS/PSP thing is). On the one hand it sucks to carry two devices on the other hand, many of the really good games are designed to be played with D-pads and buttons, not a touch screen
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by Goladus 13y ago
What someone really thinks is “honne”, but what they actually express is “tatemae”. In Western countries we could call it hypocrisy, but in Japan knowing how to express tatemae and honne at the right time is considered a virtue. In wester
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by Goladus 13y ago
This is a simple question that very likely has no simple answer. They probably have a mess of different identity management solutions within the various departments, schools, and collaborators; with lots of really old security policies. I
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by Goladus 13y ago
I've been reading this site regularly for almost 7 years. 6-Jan-2014 is the only downtime I remember, and it was really a very minor inconvenience. Sucks about the data loss though, always hard to own that when doing system administr
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by Goladus 13y ago
The speaker makes the following case: 1. PHP's "programmer workflow" is unmatched. The development model is: "modify code, reload page." That's it. Simple and effective-- nearly optimal in fact for rapid de
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by Goladus 13y ago
Of course not. It only runs a paltry ~80% of the web. Just ignore it. Maybe it'll go away. One of the nicest things about Kieth's talk is that he specifically did not make the case that network effect is a reason to take PHP ser
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by Goladus 13y ago
>It's just that it isn't a crash course, or a course of any kind for any meaningful meaning of "course". It absolutely is a crash course, for the most common colloquial definition of the term "crash course,"
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by Goladus 13y ago
Yes that's a classic tradeoff, a proficient programmer will have to pick one. Personally I always read entire files into memory first unless I have reason to believe memory will be an issue or need to program defensively against malici
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by Goladus 13y ago
Actually after a quick search I realized my problem was ignorance. I did not know about PEP 308 (conditional expressions) which is a workaround for the issue I described. And yes technically it's a statement/expression issue not
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by Goladus 13y ago
the parser is usually really good at spotting those errors and once they've been pointed out are trivial to correct.
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by Goladus 13y ago
2) It's cramping my style. My code is art, and restricting how I can structure my code is an affront to my very being. To be fair, there are quite a few common cases where Python's syntax is rather inelegant. The need to break
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by Goladus 13y ago
I'm not making a mountain out of a molehill but I don't understand why the python crowd refuse to acknowledge that having significant whitespace does cause some issues and the benefits are completely subjective. Here's what
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by Goladus 13y ago
The editor cannot know how to indent that properly. It's not a problem in most other languages. It will have a pretty good idea. If you paste the snippet, then hit 'tab', odds are high that a good editor (I use emacs pytho
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by Goladus 13y ago
It's ironic that you say that, given that if you don't get the whitespace correct, you'll have a syntax error. That's one of the big reason Python rubs me the wrong way: white space is semantic. Not to pile on but this
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by Goladus 13y ago
I like this one. Though I would do it like this to keep the lines under 80 characters: words=open('test.txt').read().lower().split() for word, count in Counter(words).most_common(): print word, count (edited
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by Goladus 13y ago
I've worked in the US since 2001 and have never had less than 15 days paid vacation.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Clearly, not a very nuanced understanding of what those statistics actually say (see post from mikeash above) or an intelligent perspective on the relevance of gun control.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Murder rate thing is probably because an Australian national named Christopher Lane, in the US playing Baseball at college, was randomly murdered in Oklahoma this year. He was out jogging when a couple of teenagers ran up and shot him in t
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by Goladus 13y ago
There are no free speech issues when a company does not wish to be associated with certain kinds of discourse on their servers. As usual, it's difficult to discuss this when there's no distinction between first-amendment style f
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by Goladus 13y ago
If they made a mistake, it was in trying to be friendly about it, which gave a misleading impression No, their mistake was being lazy. They did not effectively explain their application of the terms of service and how, specifically, his
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by Goladus 13y ago
Yes it does, because everyone participates in culture and culture is an ongoing thing. Or rather: it can be interpreted that way quite easily so don't make a statement like that and then blame people for talking about guilt. If you do
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by Goladus 13y ago
> I'll point out that we could have a conversation about diversity in hiring without ever introducing the subject of guilt. The concept of blame was implied with the comment (paraphrased) startup culture is bad for women . That is

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