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by drawkbox 9y ago
s-expressions are better than binary for sure but also you end up having to maintain/write parsers for front-end/back-end and more. s-expressions influenced HTML/XML creation. Anything not JSON/XML you end up with format
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> If other people suggesting that, hey, maybe we should actually be able to express a number correctly makes you splutter about "vogons" or whatever, perhaps it is not they who should take a step back. I guess what I am sayin
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Vogons destroyed XML and they would love to destroy JSON. Back away from the JSON vogons, go make another 'simple' format that you put in all your edge cases for complexity. Just try to make a format more simple than JSON, it is b
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Before JSON, XML and standard binary formats, there were just CSV/TSV and random binary formats which was a bigger minefield. Simply exchanging data was a project in itself. At least JSON and XML are text based when it comes to data ex
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> You're missing the point of reimplementing some or all of the standard libs. Similarly, disabling C++ exceptions and RTTI is a very common practice in gamedev . I clearly stated there are good reasons to do so and some games do r
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? Short answer, because they have hard dates, and games are usually on Valve time [1]. Forcing creativity and creating fun usually ends badly, the creativity and fun come through r
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by drawkbox 9y ago
I know what they are, why don't you describe it to include all types. I clearly highlighted both types in my other reply to you. A 'shadow profile' in any system is profile information attained about a user through indirect m
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by drawkbox 9y ago
'Shadow profiles' are anything that Facebook got without asking for direct permission to get. It could come through a friend list on Facebook back when you could do that or through harvesting the contact lists on mobile. Both are
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Explain how pulling friend data through one individual into a 'shadow profile' that they themselves didn't give you access to isn't a 'shadow profile'? What is YOUR definition of a 'shadow profile'? I
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Not only that, if you want good framerates and 60fps you aren't allocating at runtime, anyone who is doing that at a game dev studio is taken out back and either shot or to work on the cow clicker. Usually standard lib vs custom argume
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> IIRC "shadow profiles" are the profiles Facebook builds of non-users based on data those people didn't share, like their friend's contact lists. From a development standpoint I clearly defined the 'shadow pro
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Facebook OpenGraph v2 stopped the ability of api app developers from getting friend data without their consent. For the most part 'shadow profiles' are dead as of 2013-ish when OpenGraph v2 came out. Lots of scammy Facebook compan
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by drawkbox 9y ago
At pretty much every game studio there is an epic internal battle of standard libs vs custom. std::string and [some custom string class] here it is AString is usually the spark. A constant of internal game development is that they think th
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by drawkbox 9y ago
We really do need an Internet Party, the basis of the party is a fair open internet market.
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by drawkbox 9y ago
It was always about censorship and an aside of blocking sex workers/prostitution. The founders have been ad hominem attacked but they are big in civil rights [3], personal freedoms and started the New Times and Village Voice alternativ
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by drawkbox 9y ago
ISP astroturfing and the incoming government filter/firewall that they are helping build [1]. SESTA/FOSTA are also part of this. The internet is being turned into hotel wifi and ISPs are the brownshirt errand boys helping it becau
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> As for the specific point, in my threat model ISPs aren't competent or rewarded enough to poison VPN clients. Your ISP will know popular VPNs and will definitely get in the VPN client/app game. > Comcast may be anti-use
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Hey Aras you guys are doing a good job. So I guess CoreCLR will cause more work for Unity engine teams in the interim. IL2CPP is great right now and gets past all AOT issues as the initial pain is over. Ralph Hauwert and those guys did a go
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by drawkbox 9y ago
CoreCLR will be nice for Unity with the 2x performance improvement. I wish Microsoft had moved to it quicker and Unity wouldn't have had that lull on Mono 2.x .NET and had to build IL2CPP. When IL2CPP was being rolled out it was quite
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Also, if you already use a VPN I'd say you already don't trust your ISP but you want them to have more power? My evil genius side tells me that ISPs have already been developing VPN clients and probably own many third party ones t
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Just wait til ISPs want to sell you VPNs... for [insert random marketing benefit like 'security', 'privacy', 'discounts', 'no data cap', 'cheaper' that hides throttling competitors and allo
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Great points and very similar to how I have evolved for productivity. I like/ have to create/maintain lists as well to offload, the lists/todos need to be lightweight as well so that it doesn't become a chore but an exp
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> At minimum, when I have to run blacklist filters to avoid my third party web traffic ending up logged on Google or Facebook servers But you just admitted you can route around them. Let me know when you route around your ISP. Your line
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> ISPs sell a commodity. Agreed, you might even say ISPs/networks are a utility now, though ISPs seem to not think that. The difference here is that the ISP utility/commodity is not only a local monopoly with false competition
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by drawkbox 9y ago
> I have yet to see a cogent argument justifying that difference. My suspicion is that it ultimately falls down to "ISPs are unpopular, web companies are popular." A cogent argument: ISPs are your gateway to the internet you ca
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by drawkbox 9y ago
In the mid to late 90s going from 56k to 6Mbps was amazing. Now they are just local monopolies with fake competition abusing their position and trust. ISPs are actively holding back on innovation / expansion and that causes less innova
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by drawkbox 9y ago
The ISPs are in an all out attack on competitors like Facebook/Google/Netflix/others. ISPs bought their way into the market with the ISP privacy protections being removed [1][2] and net neutrality being killed rather than inn
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by drawkbox 9y ago
On the flipside, kids can add immense motivation and drive. Also you can dictate your schedule more to spend more time with kids/family if you work from home more. I went independent/entrepreneur full on when my son was starting h
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Use Jeff Bezos 'Regret Minimization Framework' to decide [1]. Basically, when you are 80, will you regret having tried and possibly failed or regret having not tried at all? Granted you aren't going to be Amazon probabilistic
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by drawkbox 9y ago
Yeah I would say Fortnite was influenced by Overwatch and PUBG and maybe even Splattoon, but originally probably started out as Epic's Overwatch type game that Blizzard was successful on.

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