fenomas

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by fenomas 6y ago
> The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. (Eisenhower)
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by fenomas 6y ago
> You can distribute an app for free if you are part of their developer program I think you mean: "you can submit an app to them and they will decide whether or not to distribute it".
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by fenomas 6y ago
I don't think the issue is the raw numbers, it's a question of market forces. Processing payments has costs and risks; if Apple solves that problem so well that a developer thinks their fee is worthwhile, that's all well and
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by fenomas 6y ago
I understand your position, but that's not what the term means. A walled garden is when one party controls the media or distribution of content on a given platform. If you make a PC game, EGS has no control at all over how you distribu
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by fenomas 6y ago
> This is unrelated to them supporting their 'direct pay to developers' stance on their own storefront. Then they already do what you're asking for. Games on EGS can have direct payments and EGS doesn't take a cut. &g
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by fenomas 6y ago
> I'm asking if they will allow people to buy digital PC titles on EGS via direct purchase to the developer People can already buy PC titles anywhere they like. EGS, direct purchase, steam, GOG, twitch, whatever. There's nothin
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by fenomas 6y ago
> Epic is explicitly a walled garden regarding the games it has paid to be exclusive That's not what walled garden means. PC game developers can sell their games any number of ways - if they choose one way instead of others that&#x2
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by fenomas 6y ago
> How is that not a walled garden? Huh? When people talk about iOS being a walled garden they're referring to the fact that iOS apps can only be bought and sold via Apple. Consumers on that platform have no alternatives, and if Ap
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by fenomas 6y ago
> Does this mean Epic will start allowing users of the Epic Games Store on PC to directly pay game developers and bypass the EGS cut? Are you asking whether Epic will start "allowing" people to buy PC games via direct purchase
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Show HN: wasgen, low-level sound effects for WebAudio(github.com)
7 points by fenomas 6y ago|1 comments
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by fenomas 6y ago
> Whoa. This the whole point of having defamation laws. Defamation laws normally deal with disseminating false information, not embarrassing information. True statements cannot be defamatory in many/most legal systems, no matter h
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by fenomas 6y ago
> AS3 added classes and static typing on top of ECMAScript, but lost out to regular ES3 in browsers. That's a bit jumbled. AS3 was an early implementation of the ECMAScript 4th edition spec - Macromedia/Adobe implemented it exp
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by fenomas 6y ago
It's not a matter of writing speed, it's familiarity. I've been programming for 30 years and I don't think I've ever written code down on paper. Why ask an interview candidate to do something they've never do
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by fenomas 6y ago
TFA says this is optional, but it's a good default. The general case for most loan words is that even native Japanese speakers will find the English spelling much more familiar than romanization. E.g. in any Japanese shop you'll s
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by fenomas 6y ago
Ah, I see what you mean yeah... if you're already familiar with low-level audio, you might find it more useful to look at `wasgen`, which is the library underneath wafxr. It's harder to use but much more general. You basically giv
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by fenomas 6y ago
Thanks much! I hope it saves a few souls from the endless frustration of dealing with low-level WebAudio APIs ;)
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Show HN: Wafxr – sound effect generator for WebAudio(andyhall.github.io)
6 points by fenomas 6y ago|6 comments
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by fenomas 6y ago
"Refactoring" normally refers to changing code's implementation without affecting its external behavior. By definition, refactoring should not mean needing to write new tests.
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by fenomas 6y ago
Uh, source on that claim? The Flash player specification and even its VM are both open and unencumbered.
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by fenomas 6y ago
It's unpredictable; the chrome policy that breaks webaudio is partly based on your browsing behavior. When they first applied the policy (mid 2018), it broke pretty much all webaudio and they un-applied it a few days later. When they l
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by fenomas 6y ago
Ironically that google link seems to be broken in Chrome, because it predates the time in 2018 when chrome intentionally broke most/all existing webaudio content. (Ostensibly the change was meant to prevent pages from auto-playing soun
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by fenomas 6y ago
Agreed on both counts. The other big one I'd add is yoroshiku (+onegai-shimasu), which in the abstract conveys that the speaker anticipates some kind of help or cooperation from the listener. It can translate as anything from "l
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by fenomas 6y ago
They didn't claim anything about the cost of changing multiple files. "Rebuild one file , in a project of size n" is the operation they're examining the performance of.
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by fenomas 6y ago
Yeah, I think what we're talking about is surely the norm... Sending "hey we're releasing something built on your project" emails isn't in anyone's job description, after all. And there's no real upside, b
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by fenomas 6y ago
Sure, all I said is that getting the email is better than not getting it. Obviously his case was worse than mine, the one just reminded me of the other - partly the lack of credit, and partly because the company in my case was owned by Micr
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by fenomas 6y ago
I mean, getting an email like that is bad, but it's better than not getting an email like that :D Last year a huge game company released something built on my tiny open-source game engine (uncredited), and I only found out about it l
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by fenomas 6y ago
> An incremental rebuild will still be O(n), but in this case n=1. TFA explains pretty clearly what claim is being made. They're talking about the cost of rebuilding one file , given the "input" of a project with n files.
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by fenomas 6y ago
Speaking of meta-issues, this article seems to have just dropped to the second page, and is sitting below older articles with 10-15x fewer votes. Perhaps worth checking whether any jiggery-pokery is going on.
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by fenomas 6y ago
It's an art contest overall, but TFA is about a video game category of that category. The game category is new this year and sponsored by TFA/the submitter; the contest (pixel-art.jp) is a larger, pre-existing thing.
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by fenomas 6y ago
> ... an amazingly huge oversight ... a point in favor of the review process This seems like a rosy interpretation. It's not actually clear whether http permissions really are the reason the extension got flagged, and the fact tha

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