blakeyrat

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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> I think they crapped over those tools, because these tools got the abstraction wrong. If you identify a problem in a useful tool, the correct response isn't "throw it into the garbage and never make a tool anything like it ev
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Ok? It's "easier" in that it doesn't cost money, I'll grant you that. It's not "easier" in the sense that development tools are more accessible, discoverable, or usable than they were a decade ago. Ho
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
TARP turned a profit; it was still a bad use of the money. The US government shouldn't be responsible for propping-up bad business, and if the problem is identified as "this bank is too big to fail", the solution certainly sh
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I see it that way. That attitude used to exist back in the 90s, with products like HyperCard, Filemaker, even Microsoft Access. There was a time when it was just expected that development software had a graphical interface builder for dev
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I "worked" 40-hour weeks at an insurance company with tons of process, paperwork, reliance on other teams with constrained resources, etc. for 4 months and accomplished nothing . When I arrived the bug software had 40 open bugs.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Well then why don't you give me all of yours. Imagine the good I'd be doing you.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Ok so it's the future and the magical robots can easily move houses. Why would the guy with the beautiful lake front property move his house? Why would he make his lot smaller to let other people live closer to him? What's his inc
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
What threshold is going to make prime real estate lots around Lake Washington not scarce? Asking seriously. Because I have a lot of imagination and I can't come up with anything. Except perhaps we all plug into VR 24/7 like The Ma
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Ok I want lake-front property with a view of Mount Rainier. What address do I send my blueprint to? Oh wait. I'll never understand why people who promote this "magical robots solve everything" view ignore the simple examples
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
A post-scarcity economy is never going to be able to create more lake-front properties or more seats at the top pop star's front-row. (Although I suppose you could argue: VR. But I doubt people even 100 years from now will agree VR is
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It would certainly give me a much quieter environment to work in, with a far better view. Also would do a ton to help me attract a girlfriend. But you're right, it's not all the way there yet: I also need to hire someone to do the
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Ok; I want to improve myself by moving into a big house on the shore of Lake Washington. Oh. It takes money to do that? Well shoot. EDIT: to actually respond to the video clip, it's kind of surprising how interesting Star Trek got when
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The big question is what happens when the Chinese government puts a high priority on getting into aerospace and tries to replicate their own 787s or A-350s. That said, Boeing's defense contracts might keep is secure regardless of what
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Just as an FYI, C# is more strongly-typed than C++.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
So THX-1138 basically.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The original WOW was doing a 16-bit to 32-bit layer. WOW64 (in 64-bit Windows OSes) does 32-bit to 64-bit. The naming of System32 made sense back when they came up with it, but now it's a bit ridiculous. However, since there are so man
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
This is the Origin policy that basically forced Valve to act and implement their own: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/returns-and-cancellat... * Within 24 hours after first launching the game * Within
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Believe it or not, there's a setting to turn off stuff like Early Access, VR, etc. categories in the Store listings so you never have to see them. The problem is: Valve's UX is so terrible that I accidentally came across that sett
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I stopped buying from Gog after that pulled that stunt and "closed down" their site for like 3 days, saying nothing, and making all their customers believe that the products they'd purchased wouldn't be downloadable ever
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
(And they only did because EA's Origin has had a return policy from its founding. Competition is good. Monopolies are bad.)
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
How can a game that's something like 3 years behind schedule be considered "successful"? Even Half-Life 2 only added one year to their development time. I think your definition of the word "successful" is quite
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
In the field of video games, there's already far more good games than I can play in a lifetime. I'm willing to let someone else do the vetting in my stead. EDIT: to respond to your first sentence, I get your point, but it seems li
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I guess everybody in the UK switched to metric, except the few who write the television shows.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I agree it's beneficial but not for the reasons you think: it's turning thousands of people away from the ill-conceived crowd-funding model of game development. BTW it has roughly about $140 MILLION of "all the love it can ge
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
While I'm sensitive to people who gave money to this project, I have to ask: If Chris Roberts, with his name and reputation in the games industry, were still capable of making quality games, wouldn't he have been able to find a pu
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The US has adopted the metric system just as completely as, say, the UK has. (Watch UK television and look for how many times the script will say "miles" or "pints" or "pounds" for weight or even better, "
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
... and now you know why the minimum DateTime value in SQL Server is Jan 1, 1753. It's the start of the first full year after the United States (colonies) transition to the Gregorian calendars. (And, BTW, if you do have a need for ol
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Seems like the plane did a pretty good job the first time around, I'd feel a lot better flying on that particular aircraft if I were them.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Re-read my post.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Just a minor correction: SQL Server Management Studio is free-free. You don't need to own any Microsoft products to use it. (Not even SQL Server, go figure.) Microsoft changed the licensing a few months back. You can get it here: http

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