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by codesushi42 11y ago
Absolutely. I've seen the Shenmue video and it's stunning. It's more impressive than anything that launched on the PS1 or N64. >I sometimes wonder what could have been had Sega released proper documentation and a decent de
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by codesushi42 11y ago
> Former IGDA member, Gamasutra subscriber and GDCE attendee here, hence why I asked for numbers. Maybe "former" is why. There are no numbers published to confirm or deny. It's apparent if you keep up with the community an
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Except unlike smartphones, the PS1/N64 did not support VM or even had any storage to page to. So no, it's not the same.
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> I am quite sure there are other contenders like home grown engines, LibGDX, Marmalade, Cocos (all variants), SDL, MonoGame, DirectXTK, Project Anarchy , Apple own Scenekit and SpriteKit,... It doesn't matter how many frameworks ar
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Pretty awesome. Goes to show the great lengths taken even on state of the art hardware at the time. And the PS1 wasn't even the worst of it. The Sega Saturn and N64 were both considerably more difficult to develop for. And the PC marke
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Not so sure about this. Most mobile games are developed with Unity. And what appear to be the cutting edge titles are usually using the Unreal engine. There's not much "to the metal" coding going on. Besides, most mobile game
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Sounds like the same argument that the threat of terrorism makes it really hard to support civil liberties and personal privacy. Same old rhetoric. Pretty scary that a growing number of people seem to share the same opinion.
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by codesushi42 11y ago
True. I wasn't specifically talking about hate speech though. I was talking more about launching a site/app/business or spreading an idea. More often these happen entirely through a few closed channels (social networks, Reddi
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by codesushi42 11y ago
No one is forcing you go to (\d)chan. Hate speech is an easy target. But the censoring and anticompetitive practices have spread further than that. Google, Apple, Facebook, can change their ToS to bring down potential competitors. They can
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Freedom of speech does not apply here. Reddit is not a forum owned by the public, it's a business. Reddit is within their rights to remove any content as they see fit. Yeah, people complain once they realize walled gardens like Reddit
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by codesushi42 11y ago
There are, but now they usually bundle a microcontroller like Arduino. There are tons of them on Sparkfun, Adafruit, and Jameco.
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BTW if you are interested in learning some of the theory, check out Practical Electronics for Inventors: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-S...
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by codesushi42 11y ago
It's not hard to get started. Pick up Make: Electronics to learn the basics by example. Each chapter walks you through a project that teaches some important concepts. http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Ch
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by codesushi42 11y ago
I agree here. Apple is indeed early to the game with the Apple Watch, and they're putting more clout behind it than other OEMs. Remember, Apple was incredibly late to market with the product that saved them from eventual bankruptcy: th
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by codesushi42 11y ago
No. The closest thing is Cocoapods, which is great. But as the name implies, it's meant for Cocoa compatible libraries.
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by codesushi42 11y ago
For game devs, hopefully we can look forward to Swift support in Unity then. C# and Booscript are fine, but I'd welcome a language that puts the tool closer to iOS development.
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Perhaps that is part of it. I did work in the main repo. I was looking into some of the teams under the Android/Chrome org before I left, but none of it seemed too different to me despite seeing some new projects. They didn't seem
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by codesushi42 11y ago
I'm curious which years you were at Google? The bottom-up culture has been dead for the past 2 years, and a deluge of projects were canned in the past 12-18 months. There's really zero chance now of starting your own project at G
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It makes money, but it's not that big of a money-maker.
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I absolutely agree. I left recently as well after more than 3 years. I would not recommend working there unless you 1) Are working on a cutting edge project. Which is unlikely, because those positions are reserved for exceptionally brillian
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by codesushi42 11y ago
Indeed, these claims always lack context of what is being attempted. If you are using Erlang to perform matrix multiplications on large datasets or some kind of CPU intensive work, you're probably barking up the wrong tree. But if you
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Deployed on the server or to the device? If you are referring to device, I'm extremely doubtful. I remember that Oracle had a Java booth at the San Mateo Maker Faire 2014. I was at the Faire the entire 2 days and would pass the booth e
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His argument is hearsay. There's no conclusive evidence that a stack-based VM will always perform worse than a registered based one. There are tradeoffs between both designs. With all of the optimizations you see from register based VM