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by Jare 6y ago
I remember so well being ashamed that PC users were still typing docs in such primitive UIs while I was "desktop publishing" with WYSIWYG on my Atari ST. "Reveal codes" blergh a modern computer should be better than that
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by Jare 6y ago
Their YouTube channel is an immense resource, and IIRC all their talks are made public after 2 years (many also before that). So there's plenty to listen before you need to pay for the most recent stuff.
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by Jare 6y ago
> when Microsoft/Epic approaches the studios for games on their platforms they front the entire development cost We once had a Microsoft rep come visit us to get us to publish our upcoming mobile games for Windows Mobile Tablet notr
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by Jare 6y ago
Also its less spectacular but more long term, "revolving door".
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by Jare 6y ago
I agree with that in the same way that I agree with strong anti-monopolistic laws, and with the expanded understanding of de-facto monopoly where (for example) Apple/iOS is one despite billions of Android devices. But I do not think Di
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by Jare 6y ago
That was the right frame of thinking before "onto the internet" came to mean "with the capability to reach, engage and influence millions of normal people". Also, receiving thousands of threats and being doxed "onto
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by Jare 6y ago
In most significant decisions in gamedev you want art, design and engineering (at least - QA, audio, animation and a number of others as well) to be involved. Some people from one discipline may be versed enough in another to cover the role
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by Jare 6y ago
I remember back in 1984 or so, we once had snow in Madrid in May. Younger people laugh at me as if I'm just making that up, but what has just happened is way more unusual.
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by Jare 6y ago
Trump?
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by Jare 6y ago
WhatsApp does not have multi-device, so technically it has no issues with it. (for any sensible definition of multi-device)
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by Jare 6y ago
A good time to remember this interview: https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinku... > I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. It's not specific
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by Jare 6y ago
FWIW I spent nearly two weeks marking "the great reset" on my twitter trends as "not interested", only for it to still show up, both in the forms I had already blocked and in new ones (#thegreatreset, "great reset&q
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by Jare 6y ago
> 2020-12-03 Microsoft advises that due to issues identified in testing, the fix will now slip to January 2021. > 2020-12-08 Meeting between MSRC and Project Zero leadership to determine details and discuss next steps. The 14-day grac
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by Jare 6y ago
May I instead ask for scientific evidence that it's a waste of time?
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> Why don't we instead just auction off visas to improve efficiency? The areas with lower cost and wages can't compete attracting local talent, but auctions would make it even harder for them to attract foreign talent as well.
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by Jare 6y ago
Because they don't know. > your availability information is meaningless.
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by Jare 6y ago
Based on their success, that's exactly what they are already doing, presumably thanks to the choices they are making.
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by Jare 6y ago
If only the issue was limited to Electron... I often feel like Electron is more a declaration of defeat, like: hey no matter where you look at, software bloat keeps eating the precious advances in power provided by hardware. So let's a
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by Jare 6y ago
But that's completely different from having someone tell your your problem is minuscule compared to theirs. I mean, technically any possible angle might possibly work for someone somewhere sometime, but this does not feel to me like th
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by Jare 6y ago
Any known names?
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by Jare 6y ago
> the scale of stuff you are talking about is miniscule This is NOT a competition.
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by Jare 6y ago
The amount of tests performed in Madrid in that same period went down from 2500 to nearly 1000, so it's only natural that the amount of cases is going to go down or stay steady. Is there a dataset that disputes this? If testing has ind
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by Jare 6y ago
> Why charge customers based on value you provide, but pay employees by what their own expenses are? This is incorrect. Costs and salaries are market based, shaped by supply and demand.
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by Jare 6y ago
I'm improvising here, but if pins can be switched from read to write (but can only be in one of those at a time), then in Rust you should be able to use the borrow checker to provide additional guarantees. As long as a pin is borrowed
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by Jare 6y ago
ECS changes the way you access and mutate the world, compared to classic data graph / reference tree, more classic pervasive singletons ("managers"), or even more classic straight global variables. But in ECS engines you stil
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by Jare 6y ago
You still get +1 for providing a pointer to the explanation while remaining clear and succinct.
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by Jare 6y ago
> So you think Apple is abusing its extraordinary monopoly power by... charging what everyone else is charging? By not allowing anyone to charge differently on iDevices.
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by Jare 6y ago
This is true as an explanation why it happens. I would expect the focused control to be visible and obviously marked (highlight, rectangle, etc). When all that's visible on the screen is the movie, or when the last thing you did was hi
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by Jare 6y ago
"Pulcritud" and "pulcro" are not everyday words in Spanish, but pretty frequent. Mostly used to describe something that has been cared for and set up in a deliberately clean and orderly way. A guy with an unshaven face,
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by Jare 6y ago
Amazon Prime web player uses it but does not force keyboard focus on the place where it can detect it, so many times you have to click first before it will pause on space bar. Focus handling is generally terrible in web apps, but few instan

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