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by babuskov 11y ago
Yup. I also resolved my issue with Ubisoft UPlay much faster via Twitter message.
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by babuskov 11y ago
Strange. I played a lot of games on Amiga and do not count SotB in the great ones. My list of great Amiga games is: - Perihelion - P.P. Hammer - Blues Brothers - Sensible Soccer - Lemmings - Alien Breed - Another World Mo
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by babuskov 11y ago
I still remember playing Shadows Over Riva where you had magic to see through walls or teleport to a distance thus completely avoiding combat with though enemies. Sure, if none of the mages in your party had those it made the game much hard
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by babuskov 11y ago
Mandrake 7 was the Linux distro that made me switch away from Windows. I used Windows 98 at the time and did not like XP much. Although there was lot to be desired, it worked much better than Win98, so I made the switch and never looked bac
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by babuskov 11y ago
Yes. I've had such moments in Nuclear Throne very often.
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by babuskov 11y ago
I wish every game developer read this. Some really popular games have bad camera movement. For example, Limbo has poor vertical camera and you have to make "leap of faith" often. Trine has problem with scene transition with multip
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Ask HN: How does Saved stories feature work?
1 points by babuskov 11y ago|2 comments
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by babuskov 11y ago
Actually I see PHP's duct-tape interface as an advantage. It allows you to express the data structures and manipulate them in less verbose manner, which results in less code, which is easier to debug and maintain.
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by babuskov 11y ago
Separate the data you are sure you need often and only store that in the database. Store everything else in the textual logs.
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by babuskov 11y ago
So, what do you reckon is the right tool this time?
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by babuskov 11y ago
This reminds me of people who say: "JavaScript is designed for embedding in web pages. Node.js developers are crazy too." The Right Tool for the job is not the same for everyone. Unless you can state exact reasons what makes PHP b
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by babuskov 11y ago
If you need to grep logs on regular basis, you're doing it wrong. Store important data in the database so that you can query it efficiently. Keep logs for random searches when something unexpected happens. I log gigabytes per day, but
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by babuskov 11y ago
I think a better analogy would be what Oracle does to MySQL.
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by babuskov 12y ago
Take a loot at some open source projects. The Battle For Wesnoth (c++) has many more contributors than FreeCol (Java). I'm sure that number of C# developers in the world who develop open source stuff is even smaller. If your main goal
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by babuskov 12y ago
It's just one of the components. For EPIC game you need some extraordinary game mechanics or graphics or story. Well, probably a combination of at least two of those three.
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Audi E-diesel made from water, CO2 and green power(audi-mediaservices.com)
6 points by babuskov 12y ago|2 comments
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10GB compression benchmark(mattmahoney.net)
1 points by babuskov 12y ago|0 comments
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by babuskov 12y ago
There's a reason why queues are more performant than threads. See node.js and nginx for real-world examples. The OS is dumb and does not understand the nature of load. If we applied your logic, everyone would still run Apache instead o
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by babuskov 12y ago
To sum it up: node.js runs only 4 background threads. Be aware of this. No big deal really. I have multiple servers running node.js under load for 3+ years and never had an issue with this. In fact, I found it helpful. If your database is u
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by babuskov 12y ago
The point was that it is larger than some existing countries.
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by babuskov 12y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. In the company I worked for for 10+ years (2002-2013) we had a huge web application used heavily by 500+ users daily. I have seen a lot, and the one-time-token approach is the only bulletproof way
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by babuskov 12y ago
You can surely trust that it will 'fuck' stuff up at some point.
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by babuskov 12y ago
I think he meant that Mac port of the application should look and behave like other Mac apps (following the system conventions and GUI guidelines), not that you should force Mac conventions everywhere. I guess there's two levels of por
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by babuskov 12y ago
From my experience, the problem with open source projects and Mac is that many developers who contribute to open source run Linux and possibly Windows, but do not have access to expensive Apple hardware. So they cannot test on Mac and have
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by babuskov 12y ago
Possibly because those guys are just scratching their itch and making what they need with as minimal effort as possible. I know, because I have been there with open source project of mine (of 4 people on the team, 3 were only focused on get
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by babuskov 12y ago
They just want the hardware. They do not want to learn how to use a different operating system.
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by babuskov 12y ago
I'd really like to see some basic navigation fixed first. For example, I was visiting Paris last week and you cannot get directions from airport (CDG) to any street address in the city for public transit. Similar to other route reachab
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by babuskov 12y ago
It seems to me that CPU is the bottleneck as it requires a lot of processing power. For example it feels really slow both on my Intel Core2Duo computer and on my Samsung Galaxy S2 Android phone. On the other hand, it works really fast on 20
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by babuskov 12y ago
Now if all sites in the world would join up and ask all the search engines to pay them for indexing, that would be really interesting. Never going to happen though.
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by babuskov 12y ago
Does the freezer really act like a Faraday cage? Quick Google search suggests it isn't really effective: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51597/does-refrigerator-make-...

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