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by babuskov 8y ago
"We lose money of every sale, but we make it up on volume"
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by babuskov 8y ago
> Google is so strong with ML today, and not stopping, I don't know what will allow smaller competitors to stay differentiated. If they use the same algorithm YouTube uses to pick videos for me, Spotify doesn't have to worry at
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by babuskov 8y ago
> The server runs on node That's interesting. The game looks like a straightforward single player game. Why did you need the server? Since it's a JavaScript game, couldn't you just simply provide an bunch of HTML and .js f
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by babuskov 8y ago
The demo looks cool, but for I really expected to read which libraries were used, what IDE did you use for programming, how did you package it for Steam release, etc. Could you at least give some of those details here in the comments?
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by babuskov 9y ago
Those super-rare cases are something the press can write about. Nobody would read a headline titled "A 40-year old man spent $500 on virtual in-game stuff". Now, just replace 40YO man with a 10YO kid and you have a story. The mere
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by babuskov 9y ago
> gambling tendencies in children I believe adults are the real whales they're after. Most children have no way to pay for virtual goods. It's adults who even know they are gambling, but they enjoy it just like adults enjoy gam
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by babuskov 9y ago
I'm actually very loyal to Ryanair because I know I can book late and still get any seat I want (because most people never book their seats). The only issue I have with RA is that some airports they use are far outside the cities they
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by babuskov 9y ago
I'm curious. If you have 20 electron apps running, does that mean you would have 20 copies of the completely same thing wasting your disk space and RAM? How would that work if all the application developers decided that native sucks an
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by babuskov 9y ago
I browse the mobile reddit all the time and constant nagging to use the app was a real PITA until I discovered that I don't have to press the link to hide the "browse with the app overlay". You can simply scroll down and it w
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by babuskov 9y ago
Graphics support is only a part of the puzzle. Many devs have never used Linux and know nothing about it. And they hate to learn a new operating system just to support 1% of the players. Building a game for Linux is easy if you already know
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by babuskov 9y ago
> Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy. Facebook already locked down their platform in 2014-2015. There's no use asking Facebook to do anything now. What needs to be done is to hunt d
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by babuskov 9y ago
> I wonder if regulators will just decide the split up facebook. I keep hearing this suggestion and it makes no sense. Split into what? It would be like asking to split Google into one company doing the search and another one doing the a
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by babuskov 9y ago
> How low has the SW development bar gone, if "it's okay" now means "at least it's not directly killing people"? I though that was the way ever since OS/2 failed. Getting stuff out to customers has prio
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by babuskov 9y ago
Yes, that's it. Removing a .h file from your project would trigger errors without that switch. I looked at clang manual when I searched for it, but unlike GCC it does not explain it.
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by babuskov 9y ago
This looks very similar to the Makefile I'm using except that beside -MMD I also have -MP flag. I created this Makefile a couple years back and I'm reusing it for every new project, but I cannot recall really why I needed to add -
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by babuskov 9y ago
> In 20 years you've never started work on something and after a bit said damn it I think I'll use that library that other guy developed? I can't speak for him and I don't know about you, but while deciding whether I
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by babuskov 9y ago
> You don't need a map for that, just a sense of direction and distance. Without map you also need time. In some cases, a lot of it. Not all cities have perfect grid structure and there are one-way streets that can mess you up a lot
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by babuskov 9y ago
I never looked into it before, but their basic game loop is flawed. It would work fine on Windows, but Linux and Mac have high resolution system timers and SDL_Delay(1) which is called underneath would really sleep 1ms (or maybe 2-3ms, but
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by babuskov 9y ago
> People just don’t care and won’t listen. Not consciously. But when you get into a store and want to buy a shampoo or toothpaste, you are more likely to buy a brand you have heard of than something completely unknown.
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by babuskov 9y ago
I don't know what translation engine Bing is using, but I find that combining Google Translate and Bing results gets me pretty close to the real thing. I wish teams making those two could work together :(
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by babuskov 9y ago
> It is better than iMovie in this regard because it doesn't require copying the giant file into some "project" directory like iMovie seems to. This is my biggest gripe with iMovie. You need to have double the space just t
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by babuskov 9y ago
You can freeze a VPS, save its state and restore it later without affecting the uptime. The clock would get skewed (system time vs hardware time difference), but unless you have something that detects that you won't even notice it.
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by babuskov 9y ago
That's strange. I remember getting an e-mail from them about it some time ago. Perhaps they had issues e-mailing you. Check your spam folder.
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by babuskov 9y ago
They could form a separate company to handle US operations only.
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by babuskov 9y ago
> work out its popularity Or controversy.
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by babuskov 9y ago
Yup, transliterating PECTOPAH from Cyrillic to Latin you would get RESTORAN.
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by babuskov 9y ago
Yeah, before using any ORM I always first check how it inserts the parameter values. If it's a string replacement, you need to be very careful.
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by babuskov 9y ago
I agree with the rest of your points, but that "shitty" high school hacker managed to hide his identity from CIA. You're underestimating him. Majority of wannabe hackers would screw up some detail and get discovered.
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by babuskov 9y ago
Something as simple as Apple shares doesn't follow your pattern.
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by babuskov 9y ago
> Does that help clear up the confusion? No, it adds. > So in this case Goldman is relevant as they do the same function that coinbase does with respect to holding securities on behalf of a client. Then why did you write in your other

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