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by genbattle 15y ago
Go is possibly easier to get into production than something based on a hefty VM, because it compiles down into one relatively small executable (except for any dynamically linked libraries being used through cgo). If you've compiled a binary
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by genbattle 15y ago
The huge upside/downside for me is the sheer power of Java. It has a huge amount of capability and speed, and it forces you into a very structured programming model that works well for large projects. The same applies to eclipse. But for sm
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by genbattle 15y ago
I definitely agree with the sentiments of everyone else on getting into a better College/University/Whatever. Also, the way things are going, and with your talent and drive, I would really recommend you consider doing a full Engineering deg
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by genbattle 15y ago
I don't think there's too much danger in going off-topic if the conversation is interesting and has some substance. Yea I think lag in touchscreen interaction is a huge problem. I think this is largely a result of hardware. We've had to shi
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by genbattle 15y ago
I'm not sure I would be allowed/qualified to say much about our financials. From what I can gather we are profitable, with ongoing contracts for clients such as Dell. http://www.unlimitedrealities.com/blog/video-the-dell-stage-... Those i
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by genbattle 15y ago
This is the difficulty for the company I work for. We make a range of desktop applications including launchers, productivity apps, media apps, games, etc. Because all of these apps are based on a game engine, we get the complex and hard to
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by genbattle 15y ago
I think games are hard (if not impossible) to test with unit tests or codified tests like the ones you mentioned. At the company I work for we rely mostly on manual testing for testing the games and applications we make. We do some automate
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by genbattle 15y ago
I don't know how they'll resolve this... Ban all the steam accounts of people who've activated the keys? They'll get a whole lot of people who legitimately submitted hardware keys at the same time. Invalidate/revoke the keys from steam? The
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by genbattle 15y ago
That's true, and you can probably assume that people who will be doing this will use their 360s as media/file servers which need minimal restarting.
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by genbattle 15y ago
This seems to be a fairly complex hardware hack to pull off, and it only works 25% of the time. This will possibly satisfy the hardcore homebrew community, but I have doubts about whether they'll be able to refine the process into a single
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by genbattle 15y ago
Great guide on basic hardware hacking techniques. It is really surprising how much low level electronics rely on standard interfaces and protocols. Also, all electronics designs tend to rely heavily on the example implementations on compone
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by genbattle 15y ago
Completely agree. The old adage is "it's now what you know, it's who you know". This is especially true in the computer industry. If you want to create a startup you need to know people with money to fund you, and business/technical people
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by genbattle 15y ago
Turns out i'm not the only one contacted about this book. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2926354
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by genbattle 15y ago
Just added my email to my profile, feel free to contact me.
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by genbattle 15y ago
I think that we have been contacted by the same publisher about the same book. And have the same feelings on the book and the offer to co-author it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2926505 I was also critical of the author and outline
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Ask HN: How much experience is required to write a book?
5 points by genbattle 15y ago|4 comments
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by genbattle 15y ago
It's hard to know the exact situation the author was in, but it certainly seems like there would have been a quicker fix than what he proposed. He never says the game wasn't fixed before it was shipped (and he probably wouldn't know if it w
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by genbattle 15y ago
I agree, but I also think that to a certain extent no matter where you work in the software industry there is always a certain amount of this going on. People just tend to get screwed over more often in the games industry because people thi
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by genbattle 15y ago
Wow, i've been looking for an open source library like this for ages. This is prettymuch exactly what we have where I work (Unlimited Realities/Fingertapps), but the engine is proprietary and based on a custom scripting language. Having an
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by genbattle 15y ago
I share this sentiment completely. This makes helping people learn something really hard, because mistakes are an important part of learning, and most people would rather make the mistakes themselves than have you steer them around it. As a
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by genbattle 15y ago
And now i'm just waiting for the guy who commented earlier to take his dual 5970s and start brute-forcing ASB internet banking details. Good thing i'm not with ASB.
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by genbattle 15y ago
Having a patent pending is a scare-tactic use by alot of companies to scare off competitors. Some companies will keep re-applying for a patent even after being turned down, simply so they can keep displaying a "patent pending" mark on their
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by genbattle 15y ago
Lol, just did the prerequisite research and found out the movie wasn't released till 1994. Apparently this refers to another technology manufacturer. And here i was hoping for something to break the monotony of technology companies in the t
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by genbattle 15y ago
And coming in at number 25: 08/05/1986 STARGATE.COM Stargate must have been the first movie ever to get it's own .com domain? I guess it reflects the crowd they were aiming for.
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by genbattle 15y ago
I think being an introvert is almost a requirement for being an effective programmer. I don't mean to sound like an arrogant asshole by making such a statement. To really be at the top of your game you have to be constantly reading about th
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by genbattle 15y ago
Can't say i'm impressed by Nintendo's offering. It's like they've spent the last 5 years resting on their laurels, then in the last few months before E3 they slap something together with every possible feature you can have in a single contr
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by genbattle 15y ago
I think pastebin is still a very good site for code pastes. I haven't seen a site which offers more features and functionality. Sure if you just want a quick public anonymous post of some plain text, any will do. In my case pastebin.com is
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by genbattle 15y ago
My last laptop was a 15.6" beast (Core2 T7200 I think with a GeForce 8400M G), but it was just underpowered enough to not do everything I wanted when I wanted, and was too bulky and power hungry to be considered portable. Last year I switch
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by genbattle 16y ago
I think this is more like a superset of features which describe many different types of nerd; some nerds implement all features, some only satisfy a subset of these interfaces. Each one is different depending on the level of nerd, and the a
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by genbattle 16y ago
This is my school of thought; it would be nice to know which are the hot comments. Previously you could skim through only the higher rated ones if you were in a hurry, but now you sort of have to trawl through masses of text to find the gem

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