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901.
by fhd2 13y ago
Quite the contrary in my experience, capitalism typically restrains innovation. Patent trolls are just one of many examples. Not saying I've got a better idea than capitalism, but I wouldn't consider it ideal.
902.
by fhd2 13y ago
I cringed too, but I guess they meant the framework of the same name from MS: http://www.asp.net/mvc
903.
by fhd2 13y ago
That's just what I thought, looks more like an Apple product page. I'm also surprised that there is no single desktop screenshot. Maybe I'm getting old, but that's where all my word processing happens, not on tiny touch
904.
by fhd2 13y ago
And Unity3D is huge thanks to XNA (which was highly popular among amateur game developers) and the demise thereof, I think. Quite ironic indeed, makes me wonder how things would have turned out if .NET hadn't been standarised.
905.
by fhd2 13y ago
I'm also not quite as optimistic as the parent. However, I do wonder if legislators will step in at some point. Both the gambling and weapon industries, to which this has been compared below, are being regulated. Well, in Europe at lea
906.
by fhd2 13y ago
The kind of techniques described in the article are horrible indeed. But there's a good kind of F2P. There are games that you download for free, which are essentially a demo. Once you finished that, you can buy the full game via IAP, t
907.
by fhd2 13y ago
Both have their place - as evident from their continued coexistence. I don't see why there are static vs dynamic flamewars. From my experience, dynamic languages are good at doing more with less code, and getting somewhere faster. Stuf
908.
by fhd2 13y ago
"The value a customer receives from a product" is somewhat hard to define for games. So I'd argue there's only a perceived value. And large parts of the industry are working hard to drive that perceived value down. What
909.
by fhd2 13y ago
Yes, this behaviour is certainly not limited to games. However, other software makers seem to cope by moving to SaaS and ads somewhat successfully. Ads in games haven't really proven themselves, and I'd personally hate it.
910.
by fhd2 13y ago
I fully agree with this, although I'm more pessimistic: I don't believe that we can force our way out of this. It might work, for a while, for small teams that already have a community and sufficient loyal customers. (I'll sp
911.
by fhd2 13y ago
Frankly, I have no idea why it's not being served over HTTP (there must be a technical reason, Wladimir is a HTTPS zealot), and I'm not sure why the corrections URL is not configurable. I bet we discussed that in the blog or the f
912.
by fhd2 13y ago
It's a bit unfair to mention Chrome performing poorly on these. Both are asm.js, which OdinMonkey is optimised for, V8 not. That said, I'm very excited about asm.js (using it, in fact) and the performance in FF 22 blows me away as
913.
by fhd2 13y ago
Wow, the headline has been fixed. Gotta love HN. It used to be: "Adblock Plus is changing Amazon refs", now it's "Adblock Plus “typo correction” feature adds affiliate IDs to links". (I'll have to point out tho
914.
by fhd2 13y ago
Thank you for the thanks :) What we do attracts bad press and subsequent flamewars, and I usually shy away from getting into those. But I couldn't bear this unreflected FUD on HN, which is important to me. I suppose we could have commu
915.
by fhd2 13y ago
(Edit: The headline used to be "Adblock Plus is changing Amazon refs", but it has been fixed. I commented on the new one below [6].) I'm a developer at Eyeo, working on Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus is not changing Amazon links.
916.
by fhd2 13y ago
You're right. Last time I checked, IE8 was still the most popular IE version. However, since IE9, it's being updated automatically, so I have some hopes that most IE users will end up using the latest version, just as with Chrome
917.
by fhd2 13y ago
Now that's good news. I feel this whole "but IE won't ever support it!" argument was seriously holding WebGL back. IE still has very significant market share, and since they arguably got their act together lately, I doub
918.
by fhd2 13y ago
> (1) it's a lisp. This is 2013, compilers can deal with +-*/, I don't need to. I don't understand what you mean here, the lack of infix operators in Lisp? You make it sound like prefix notation is inferior. But given
919.
by fhd2 13y ago
> Javascript being used by non programmers is 95% of the problems with javascript.. Well, I wasn't advocating Lua as a good language for non-programmers to write programs, but for scripting. When I make games/applications scrip
920.
by fhd2 13y ago
Yeah, I see Lua in many ways as "JavaScript done right". I also found it considerably easier to integrate than something like V8, and it appears to be easier to use for non-programmers. It definitely deserves to be more popular.
921.
by fhd2 13y ago
While I don't agree with your prejudices, I do believe you're on spot here by saying that choice is one of the major factors in games becoming ever friendlier. Not only are there considerably more games today, being pushed out wit
922.
by fhd2 13y ago
It's pretty similar to the Hudson/Jenkins situation (also something acquired by Oracle). Kind of sad when the original author has to fork his own project to keep evolving it, but I'm glad they're apparently able to take
923.
by fhd2 13y ago
Nice writeup, wish this existed back when I worked with Clojure. The migration away from clojure.contrib caused quite the mess. Back then (about a year ago), looking for a function you want (things you would expect in the standard library)
924.
by fhd2 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the author of Irrlicht 3D is aware of Linux being a viable alternative. I guess the thing is, Visual Studio is actually quite a good C++ IDE. The best one out there, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not a big fan
925.
by fhd2 13y ago
Seems like Microsoft has repeatedly hit their developers (developers, developers) recently. - They're beginning to lock down their platform - They effectively killed the once hailed .NET for desktop development - They're killing o
926.
by fhd2 13y ago
Agreed, seems like way too many fronts to fight on. Back in the day when they were the evil empire (TM), this probably made sense - they were able to steamroll into new markets, right over the competition. Now that they're playing catc
927.
by fhd2 13y ago
Have been using this for about two months now. Never really listened to music while working before, for some reason it always ended up distracting me (the kind of music I like anyway). But with this, I can actually concentrate just fine. Ca
928.
by fhd2 13y ago
I thought that's exactly what Yandes Islands are about. Are they just forms? That'd be boring.
929.
by fhd2 13y ago
I think the idea that websites can change their search result, make it interactive even, is quite good. But I'm not really able to come up with many examples where this actually improves the user experience. Searching for something lik
930.
by fhd2 13y ago
It's not really about the office, more about appreciation and respect. I've been in only one big company so far, but anecdotal evidence suggests many are similar. It was a software company. Software was it's core business. Yet the programme

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