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by hacker_9 11y ago
Depends on the architecture. If the game has dedicated servers, then they will built 2 separate pieces: 1. The game they ship to the client and 2. The server software which receives messages from the client and propagates world changes to a
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by hacker_9 11y ago
> Isn't that game meh? Not a great example. I suspect it depends on your taste in games. > Rather that it was a cubic world were everything could be destroyed and created. 'Survival mode' is what was reviewed initially
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Ah this game had so much potential, but in the end they didn't really manage to capture DK's spirit, and the game play ended up being uninteresting and frustrating. The constant stream of game breaking bugs didn't help either
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by hacker_9 11y ago
True, though really you could say this of any game. Ideas are cheap. It's the execution of the idea that draws the crowd. - Superhot actually took the stop time mechanic from Time4Cat [1], a free flash game. With guns added, and a uniq
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by hacker_9 11y ago
'Have you tried turning it off and on?'
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Our brains use roughly ~20 watts though, so we know that the power constraints can be overcome, if not in silicon then it may be biological machines we use in the future.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Wikipedia is also written in English, and made for human consumption. English is infinitely more scalable than any programming language, and the brain is far more capable of understanding than a computer. So comparing the two is unfair to s
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Bret Victor's ideas lack a lot more than that. Complex systems contain hundreds of sub systems which in turn can contain hundreds of algorithms, which then contain many many variables. All interacting in some way. His ideas simply don&
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by hacker_9 11y ago
But at what point does simple become complex? It's all well and good saying only use it for simple tasks, but when real life complexity comes knocking, you end up with this sort of magic [1] that is far worse than any C++ I've see
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I have seen it, and while Bret Victors 'research' is interesting, none of it actually scales to a practical level.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Yet user's of LabView describe it as a horror to actually use practically [1]. [1] https://jshoer.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/why-i-hate-despise-d...
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by hacker_9 11y ago
To add to this, I present to you screenshots of visual programming spaghetti code in all of it's glory [1]. [1] http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Low barrier of entry for high yield, thus their popularity. Though they really don't scale well, and you can end up with the stuff of nightmares.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
'Visual Programming' failed (and continues to fail) simply because it is a lie; just because you surround my textual code with boxes and draw arrows showing the 'flow of execution' does not make it visual! This core misu
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Also who tips black cabs? They are extortionists as it is.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Interesting, but are there any actual modern GUI frameworks for Lisp?
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Well as someone who uses the motorway to go to and fro from work everyday; I welcome these 'driverless' lorries, as the human lorry drivers really do not know what they are doing most of the time and I have to constantly watch out
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by hacker_9 11y ago
There's no reason why the game couldn't also be output to a TV, so the other person could see what was going on. Also smartphones are far more convenient at the moment sure, but as the VR tech gets better, smaller, lighter and che
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Yes I've seen the video, and it scares me to what lengths they will go to to lie, and fool people such as yourself. Video [1] for those who haven't seen it (skip to 2:25). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgakdc
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Oh I know exactly what it is, and I am a developer with the money who could buy it. But why would I when I know it will be nothing like what they said it is? I think I'll wait and watch the inevitable backlash before I spend my money.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
My favourite: The games: - Fake Fighter 2 Turbo - Project Fake Racing - FakeZilla - Fifa Fakeball 2009 - Tony Hawk's Fake Skater 9
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Exactly. But what you described won't make money so we get these videos that don't take place in reality. Majority of non-technical users believe them too hence the hype. I'm interested to see how the reaction changes once ho
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by hacker_9 11y ago
That's naive. They are always looking to maximise profits, and what better way than to sell it as a dream product way ahead of any of it's competitors?
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I love that MS tries to push the boundaries with new tech and ideas, but I absolutely loathe them because of their fake marketing of the products they actually do end up creating. Let me take this moment to remind everyone of the Kinect tea
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I'd probably start by putting this in an editor with syntax highlighting, which should make things a bit clearer. I'm from the C world myself, but I could mostly follow along the code. It's s-expressions of course though, whi
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I agree your mind doesn't stop, but sometimes I solve my problems in that moment before sleep, I think because I can direct all my energy to it (even eyes are closed, so no visual processing needed). Though the tired mind is often very
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by hacker_9 11y ago
It's interesting to me it has to be stated at all to be honest. When I don't sleep my productivity plummets, and it's pretty easy for me to make the link. Even the difference between 7 hours and 8 hours makes a noticeable imp
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by hacker_9 11y ago
This is actually a worse solution. When speed reading code having control statements on their own lines is far more beneficial as you can at a glance, using the indentation, easily see what the flow of execution is.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I agree. But your last example won't compile anyway. Though this would: if (true) foo(); else bar(); baz(); But I have to admit if you ever actually do that, you have failed to fundamentally understand how your cod
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by hacker_9 11y ago
What an impressive, and extremely creepy, use of state of the art neural net technology.

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