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by chipsy 11y ago
It's not a useful distinction since many kinds of games use player UX "cheats" like slight warping to physics algorithms, RNG weighting, etc. Most of these features act to take emphasis off of precise, low-level execution, or
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by chipsy 11y ago
It isn't a one-size-fits-all market, and lumping together "marketing" with the industrial sales funnel does a disservice to the numerous games that used other marketing techniques, on their own or accompanied by a traditional
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If you're in enough demand you won't be able to work for free for everyone, and then you can start naming your price. But it's still dependent on "your passion" being in demand in that sense, which is a fragile thin
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IRC population has also become harder to track because more people now set up cottage networks that have one server and only host a few channels. There was an article a few years ago discussing this exodus from big networks which I'm h
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I came up with a three-tier model myself: 1. API or API-like things (grep) 2. Highly configurable app (Photoshop, Word) 3. Default-heavy app (Instagram) The tricky thing is that 1 and 3 are the easy slices, relatively speaking
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by chipsy 11y ago
Yesterday, I had the idea that I should try working as a technical writer as a way to realign my past with my future - I don't want the stress of debugging things every day, and I've done this writing informally and always thought
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The analogy to math always lingers in my mind: before we had efficient, well-understood formulas, we would always rely on lookup tables to solve real problems. True of construction in ancient Egypt - also true of many programming problems t
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The people who are going to load up on electronics first will be the relatively-wealthiest in the area, which generally means commerce gets the first dibs, not students. Still, cause for astonishment is valid. There's plenty that can b
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The problem is that that is too much business for individual creators to be bothered with. It is not a matter of whether they can literally do it if they behaved as a rational, rent-seeking Homo Economicus, but whether it's actually on
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by chipsy 11y ago
Inaccuracies and overly-broad statements of this article: Bob Moog did not invent the idea of a synthesizer. It emerged much earlier in the 20th century, from a mix of electric-powered organs and various other early electronics, with many o
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by chipsy 11y ago
I started working with it for DSP and game code recently. It hasn't posed any major issues yet. I am getting what I wanted out of the language - something that is more modern than C or C++, but retains much of the root lineage. There i
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As long as the industry keeps growing quickly, we'll keep seeing teams that consist entirely of inexperienced youth. I think the only thing that distinguishes now from previous periods in the software industry is that there is less of
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If you expand capacity in one mode but hold the other ones steady, you're still running into Braess' paradox. It doesn't matter that there is more bus capacity if people were tolerating the existing car congestion before. Peo
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That only appears to be the best option if you specify all trips to be made via private automobile. Road bandwidth is more efficient on bike or bus, but people will default to a car if the road is well suited and there is parking at the des
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There are a lot of aspects of the phenomenon of "chiptune sound" that aren't given much due. For example, early arcade hardware was more prone to using analog components - think of the rumbling explosions of games like Space
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In truth, we don't have a very good picture of how to model the inflationary effects of BIG, except by crudely analogizing one demand increase with another. IMHO the main thing to keep in mind is who immediately gets money as a direct
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by chipsy 11y ago
The snowflake syndrome is the modern means of building a minority political bloc - for any underrepresented group or condition, a representative comes along and declares themselves champion of the people(the people that they represent, that
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A lot of our inability to automate comes down to not being able to operate at a big enough scope. For example, all commuter transportation problems are ultimately caused by having too many people, too distant from one another. But we can&#x
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We aren't streaming 4K video regularly yet, and 8K is coming up. Each time we double the dimensions, we increase the pixel data four times. We also have higher frame rates and bit depths. This is only going to stabilize after we'v
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by chipsy 11y ago
This is a "spiky version of the present" future - all the prominent things seen by one individual, extrapolated linearly. As such it has a discontinuous shape. The main element I would critique is in the culture. Culture in 2015 w
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Saturated fats make carbs digest more quickly. For example, if I have oatmeal I can go to bed immediately because it's low GI. But if I add a spoon of peanut butter then my heart will get a little bit contentuous and keep me awake. As
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She's trans.
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It means that games download fast and don't need a separate thumbnail. It's the most strenuous limitation but it makes sense in terms of being able to host content cheaply.
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9-6(8 at office, lunch hour uncounted) is typical for an established company that is not experiencing a managerial crisis.
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I absolutely agree with the assessment of "it's things that cannot be explained with calories." In China, within the span of a generation nearsightedness went from a minor condition to one spanning the majority of the cohort.
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I think our main error was in thinking that objects could be pervasive, in the same way that today one encounters "test-driven" culture. They work reasonably well at a lower level of granularity - make a fairly complex data model
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Good. Wall Street doesn't know how to safely derisk on its own.
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It depends on what you want out of life, I think. If you try to rapidly see and comprehend an ultimate truth head-on, you pay the price of only being able to think about and express such truths in forms which look insane to outsiders(terror
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Altruism defined in wealth terms is very narrow. It allows you to steal billions and give away millions and come out with a net balance of "wealthy philanthropist". The characters of this article are so carefully constructed to e
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It's predicted by the market for vinyl and cassette, not by magical thinking about books - a decline, then a rebound. The actual information content is correctly priced to approach zero. The leftover value goes to people who want somet

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