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by gribbly 10y ago
>In my experience money is a key incentive for students in GSoC and that makes it hard to keep them as volunteers. I think that's a bit pessimistic, bottom line is that during the summer, a lot of students take on jobs to improve th
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by gribbly 10y ago
>Both the PS4 and the Nintendo Switch run on FreeBSD, by the way. Not exactly from what I've read, the PS4 runs 'Orbis OS' which is based upon FreeBSD 9, meanwhile the Nintendo Switch is using the network stack from FreeBS
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by gribbly 10y ago
There was this javascript/html5 re-implementation as well, also needed the original Starcraft data files: https://github.com/gloomyson/SC_Js
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by gribbly 10y ago
Exactly, for top down rts games, 3d offers nothing but increased hardware demands. It's not as if you have anything to gain by zooming in on a unit or rotate around it, pre-rendered graphics will look better and have less hardware dema
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by gribbly 10y ago
Actually I would prefer a GUI emerging which is the same across all platforms (except the lowest parts of the plumbing I suppose). OpenGL would be a good candidate for rendering.
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by gribbly 10y ago
>An open question: has the ship has already sailed on generics in Go? Doesn't seem so: https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics >That is, is there too much Go code out there written without generics to ever inc
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by gribbly 10y ago
>it would be nice to have, but the implementation is awkward, so we won't admit to it being nice to have". That's not the impression I'm getting https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics
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by gribbly 10y ago
bpg will never get anywhere due to being patent encumbered. There is no way we will start paying royalties to show images on the web.
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by gribbly 10y ago
What exactly is the difference between v2 and v3 in this situation ? x264 and x265 are both GPLv2 licensed, but also offer commercial licenses.
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by gribbly 10y ago
Why ? It's not as if the old code needs to be rewitten just because there is the option of generics.
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by gribbly 10y ago
>That is exactly my point The point being that unless you have a huge rich company behind you, you will remain a footnote ?
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by gribbly 10y ago
Impossible to answer, how much would uptake would C# have had without Microsoft behind it pushing it HARD (MUCH more than Google has promoted Go), how much would Swift have had without being pushed hard by Apple as the new native language t
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by gribbly 10y ago
>Besides, has anyone seen much experiments, with actual coding or at least design, for finding this "non-complicated" way anyway? Proposal from Ian Lance Taylor, Go developer at Google https://github.com/golang&
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by gribbly 10y ago
>It has been close to a decade of Golang now. It's been ~7 years, so there's still two more years before it reaches the amount of time it took Java to get generics. I'm confident generics will come to Go (I sure hope so),
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by gribbly 10y ago
Eh ? They've been researching ways to add generics to Go for a long time, here is some background: https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics
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by gribbly 10y ago
>Basically without Google colluding with NetFlix, we would still have a DRM-free web-standard. >Remember that next time you start up Chrome. You helped Google do this. For some reason you left out Microsoft who was also part of that g
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by gribbly 10y ago
Oh come on, those languages have been around for 20-30 years, Go has been around for 7 years and haven't seen anywhere near the push from Google that C# and Java had from Microsoft and Sun. And it's not as if generics is off the t
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by gribbly 10y ago
Here's a thread were the developers discuss what they intend to work on for the next release: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/Dn-pfWETUrM...
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by gribbly 10y ago
>Or even to C# since apparently MS got the memo on Open Source Actually Microsoft was with Oracle on the whole 'API's should be copyrightable' and lobbied on their behalf during the case. Microsoft claimed that: "If G
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by gribbly 10y ago
>But for organizations not shipping Linux binaries the license doesn't change much. hmmm.. Android, Chromebook, Smart TV's, Routers, set-top boxes, NAS etc, these all ship Linux binaries, so I don't think it's a big i
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by gribbly 10y ago
I agree that LZMA beats Brotli in compression in the majority of cases (not by much), zStandard does not however. The thing that makes Brotli attractive though, is that it has high compression (again, very close to LZMA, sometimes even bett
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by gribbly 10y ago
It's pretty much the standard here, 'x' written in Go, Rust, Elixir, C#, Swift, etc I can't understand how you are just noticing it now ? Anyway I don't see a problem with it, like someone else mentioned, I might no
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by gribbly 10y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by gribbly 10y ago
Non-physically based rendering :) Kidding aside, as I understand it (I'm certainly no expert), the terms most often used are biased versus unbiased rendering, were biased has artificial limitations, while unbiased employs 'real wo
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by gribbly 10y ago
Not sure if it makes a difference in this case either, however the method is being used successfully by projects like x264, x265, which distribute under GPL, but also offer commercial licenses allowing them to be incorporated into proprieta
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by gribbly 10y ago
You also forget that box office money is shared between the distributor and the movie theatre, from what I've gathered the domestic cut is typically 55-60% in favour of the distributor, and some 25% in the foreign box office. So it has
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by gribbly 10y ago
What 'subtle' bug ? It returns 'email' instead of 'emails' which I assume was a typo, which of course the compiler would complain about, are you claiming that a variable name typo is somehow a 'subtle bug&
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by gribbly 10y ago
Well, journald is pretty much the one component of systemd that is very difficult to replace, but even so you can easily forward to another syslog daemon of your choice. As for the rest, it's very much the same as with the BSD's,
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by gribbly 10y ago
If you don't like systemd due to it being a lock-in, why on earth would you go with the BSD's who are all lock-in's with their respective implementations of lower-level plumbing which systemd is trying to standardize across L
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by gribbly 10y ago
Depends, if it's self evident in the context what it means, like in a method which is declared as (p *player) Attack, p makes perfect sense (to me) rather than typing 'player' everywhere in the function, just like typing i in

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