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by dottrap 11y ago
A refreshing in-depth, well-reasoned, article. And I think all the arguments hold up well today. I forgot I was reading something from 2011.
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by dottrap 11y ago
That's really unlikely. Valve's biggest competitor, threat, and pain point is Microsoft. Microsoft essentially tried to destroy PC gaming with Xbox and completely neglected games on PCs. (Microsoft has publicly admitted the latter
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by dottrap 11y ago
This is a terrible, link-bait comparison. IBM was powerful because it created a monopoly. Apple doesn't even hold the dominant marketshare in the products the sell (phones, computers). A more apt comparison would be IBM and Microsoft.
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by dottrap 11y ago
This is a great description of the lowest level problem. But for those wondering why iOS doesn't have the problem or why only 10ms is such a difference, the answer is that this is only the beginning of the problem of Android audio late
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by dottrap 11y ago
Duh. Y Combinator was mentioned in the article. Success rate of startup companies: 0.4%
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by dottrap 11y ago
I'm reminded of this article: http://www.businessinsider.com/things-harder-than-getting-to... Some highlights: Walmart 2.6% chance Getting an iPhone 6 on release day: 0.1% Apple Store: 2% (I think Genius is really, rea
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by dottrap 11y ago
So what's the story on 64-bit x64 or other processors?
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by dottrap 12y ago
Hardware is decent. Better responsiveness on their lower end hardware than Android on better, more expensive hardware. Still find iPhone tighter. Development is not the pain/mess it is on Android. (See Android NDK for real pain.) Howev
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by dottrap 12y ago
I'd be interested in hearing the 'why' this was faster on reduced hardware.
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by dottrap 12y ago
My experience has been Android is about 4 times as hard as iOS. You might be able to reduce this by reducing the number of older OS versions you plan to support, and if you don't have performance sensitive content or content with high
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by dottrap 12y ago
Titanium for iOS and Android use native widgets, not web views. They have a target called mobile web which might use web views.
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by dottrap 12y ago
From how I interpret the linked article, it's not about language features, but the willingness of people to embrace/challenge better ideas that might not be mainstream. And people don't learn Python because it will get
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by dottrap 12y ago
I have a problem with Chrome eating up too many CPU cycles when idle. I'm guessing background Javascript processes hidden on all the pages start getting out of control. (I use lots of tabs.) I've tried script blockers, but I hav
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by dottrap 12y ago
State laws still trump that. Credit card surcharges are prohibited in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas. Thus in those states, the markup will be added/absorbed into
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by dottrap 12y ago
One more thought on the "one currency" issue. At least in the US, legal tender (monopoly) laws punish anything used that isn't dollar based. You are required to accurately report capital gains you acquired from currency value
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by dottrap 12y ago
While your points are valid and I personally don't like the inefficiencies, the challenge is that credit card companies are good at hiding these details from consumers. 1) Rules are in place so merchants can't markup products when
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by dottrap 12y ago
This is very much in spirit to Casey Muratori's (Handmade Hero) 'Compression Oriented Programming' http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0019.html For all the people complaining about both (the lack of) ge
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by dottrap 12y ago
Once upon a time, there was a strong movement/belief that everything belonged in the web browser and operating systems should be no more than a shell to load a web browser, and in fact the web browser should be the one and only tool an
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by dottrap 12y ago
I always skim the comments first to make sure the link isn't just worthless click-bait. I don't like to reward manipulative and deceptive tactics.
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by dottrap 12y ago
If you want a serious career in video game programming, AAA developers/managers will generally prefer candidates that know C/C++ and understand low level details and hardware (like explain why cache locality is the number one chal
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by dottrap 12y ago
My prediction: Server side, I expect .NET to look very much like today in say 10 years...still around with lots of people using it, but shrinking marketshare just because the market continues to grow larger (not necessarily because people a
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by dottrap 12y ago
Languages never really die. Microsoft frameworks tend to live well beyond what Microsoft wants (look at MFC). Enterprise in particular is invested in .NET (and Java and others) and won't be motivated to change quickly. However, also do
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by dottrap 12y ago
This is sound advice. I've been developing on Android since the 1.x days. Garbage collection has and continues to suck on Android. People should not be so blind to think that better garbage collection is going to appear soon, and that
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by dottrap 12y ago
This domain looks very specialized. For this domain which seems math centric and computationally expensive, I'm genuinely curious what pre-written libraries would be useful that would ultimately be a factor in language choice.
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by dottrap 12y ago
I was really excited when the very first iPhone launched because that one was essentially unsubsidized (or as close as us in the US had ever seen). Unfortunately, the mass consumers showed they wanted subsidized so the next generation of iP
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by dottrap 12y ago
Whales apparently also lost taste buds. http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/05/whales-cant-taste...
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Empirical study: “goto does not appear to be harmful in practice”(peerj.com)
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Ironically, from the code I've seen, I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually misuse goto, probably because the people who use it actually know what they're doing. That's just anec
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I'm glad you emphasized potential and mentioned reality. One other aspect that has become increasingly important is power consumption and heat. Huge data centers now have to worry about enormous electricity consumption and keeping al
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by dottrap 12y ago
There are lots of reasons why I may not want my github fork to be public or I don't want to have a github fork at all The authors of the Lua language develop in private. They like to experiment freely with ideas, many

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