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by dmbaggett 15y ago
Number one tip for getting acquired: do well enough that you don't need to be acquired.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
It seems to me that voxel worlds could make this problem easier, not harder: you can deform the world algorithmically, voxel by voxel, rather than using polygonal approximations. Imagine an acid blob eating an outdoor environment in a fanta
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
This may not be as big an issue as you think. We had the same issue in in the Crash Bandicoot games: the background was rendered a completely different way than the foreground (animating) elements. We made it work by approximating where the
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
The article sensationally positions this as some incredible breakthrough that the "old guard" of gaming is trying to suppress. More likely, the code works, but has limitations -- the same limitations that led old guard luminaries like Carma
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
I helped create Crash Bandicoot at Naughty Dog back in the late 90s. I've been out of the game industry since 1998, but find the industry changes catalyzed by iOS and the app store fascinating. It must be very unsettling for those working i
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
As a native English speaker who's tried to learn Japanese, the distinction between Perl, APL, and their ilk and other languages to me seems more akin to ideography vs. syllabary/alphabet (i.e., characteristics of the writing systems) than t
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
"Seemingly consumer friendly" because it may very well be so in the short term, but not, it seems to me, in the long term. Short term: less malware, better UX. Long term: software distribution carefully controlled by a cartel.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
Yes, and add to that the fact that typing on a mobile device is painful, and you have a strong usability argument for doing away with the URL bar entirely.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
This is all so well-played by Apple: evolve ever more locked down systems in seemingly consumer-friendly ways. Once consumers forget they can even install their own applications (except through the app store), OS X distribution will be just
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
The main reason, aside from simple inertia, is that C extension API support is still only alpha.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
Look at it from a business, rather than engineering perspective. Forget the achievability of the 100% target for a moment -- what target can you realistically achieve? Then, what does the contract say the remedy is for breach? As long as th
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
It's clear from the feedback that you guys should be running auctions instead of charging fixed prices. Let the buyers choose the prices on a per-domain basis.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
Just bought one of the domains. Great idea. But you're off by 10X on the pricing. Should be $2500 a piece. Seriously.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
As much as I agree with this sentiment, it's seems more like the rule of law has been entirely suspended, and in a such a case all die by the sword.
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
I coded the first two Crash games with Andy (and, on Crash II, with two other really awesome coders as well). I couldn't agree more with the recommendation of picking an old-school game and setting out to copy it. When it comes down to it,
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
Ah, I see. Now his post makes a lot more sense to me. :)
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by dmbaggett 15y ago
Not mentioned, but important for developers: IE8 limits data URIs to 32KB. Any larger than that, and it will refuse to render.
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by dmbaggett 16y ago
Yes, see www.hdtracks.com for a pretty big selection. (I am not affiliated with them, but am a happy customer.)
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by dmbaggett 16y ago
An early inspiration for our precomputation approach was Seth Teller's 1992 Ph.D. thesis (bio at http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1544 ). Seth worked out the (5D) math to trace the propagation of light through portals and precompute the set o
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by dmbaggett 16y ago
I worked with Andy on Crash 1 and 2. GOOL (predecessor to GOAL) was rough around the edges then, but incredibly productive to work in once you got the hang of it -- for all the reasons lisp hackers routinely cite. Then, at ITA, we used Lisp