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by icefox 12y ago
Is there a way to sell games that I make?
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by icefox 12y ago
At the same time it is sobering to learn that one of the more recent wildly successful indy games only made a few million at most.
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by icefox 12y ago
> I think most professional programmers could write a relational database in under 1000 lines. Arthur did SQL92 in 20: > http://web.archive.org/web/20060505221834/http://kx.com/q/e/..
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Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, and the Future of Corporations (2013)(youtube.com)
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by icefox 12y ago
> If you truly need a quick turnaround, pcbexpress can get you a slightly higher quality board tomorrow for less than $200. Well what if someone in the U.S. bought this thing and offered a board tomorrow, but rather than $200 it was only
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by icefox 12y ago
If issue numbers are the only requirement, is it okay if every commit only includes an issue number and no text at all? If not, why not? If they say something should it be the exact same thing as the issue title?
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by icefox 12y ago
I thought it was very meta amusing that the author was trying to tell users how to write commit messages when the number one rule of commit messages in my book is explaining WHY the commit exists. Why does this patch change this or do that
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by icefox 12y ago
And while people might want anti-gravity they are only actually willing to pay for the car that has the cooler look.
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by icefox 12y ago
A silly Brainfuck interpreter I wrote one evening converts BF to JavaScript and runs eval() on it. The result was that I got for free all of the compiler optimizations and JIT capabilities in the Javascript engines for a trivial amount of
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by icefox 12y ago
Yeah I was really just trying to point out that the marketing on the main page can be improved. I get that OOP can be a selling feature, but the other four not so much. Using the main page to talk about how great it does integration, how
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by icefox 12y ago
The main page fails to communicate how the language is going to solve a users problems. The main page (which is what most people will only see) list the following features: Wren is small. Wren is clean. Wren is fast. Wren is class-based.
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by icefox 12y ago
Were you worried that the OS makes it really easy for a user would muck with the filesystem and not update the applications metadata? On the easy of copying one file was it that coping all of the files was too error prone?
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by icefox 12y ago
So the natural question is why don't "file systems" (aka big database) become useless with some minor level or corruption?
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by icefox 12y ago
Something not measure that is just as important as speed (if not more so) was how long it took to create a working program in each language.
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by icefox 12y ago
Yeah I have played around with those and either written myself or been part of a team that wrote at least a half dozen browsers that were released and dozens of little R&D browsers. I have also seen many many browsers that offer very l
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by icefox 12y ago
Yup, I made a browser that did that and used it for a while, did even one better. Rather than per tab it was flexible and by default it was locked to the domain you were on. I created an experimental browser with as much new stuff as I co
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by icefox 12y ago
I left RIM in 2012 so I could not confirm that this is how the browser works in new devices released today. But given the success and advantages that having the html browser gave us there would have to be some really compelling reason (or
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by icefox 12y ago
Slides for the presentation: http://hosting.desire2learncapture.com/RIM/Content/attachmen...
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by icefox 12y ago
Another very cool feature I forgot about was that when developing the browser application on the device it would not actually have any browser bits on the device, but just have the environment variable CHROME_URL set to my desktop where I h
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by icefox 12y ago
Hmm didn't really have a name as it was the browser that was included and just called "Browser" if I recall.
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by icefox 12y ago
The browser shipped with Blackberry 10 was written in HTML and was a real joy to develop. Edit: some more public details The default browser on the BlackBerry 10 platform was a completely new browser application. The chrome was written in
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by icefox 12y ago
Why are you glad it was shut down? Were you hoping to make a competing site?
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by icefox 12y ago
A contrived example in C#/LINQ Enumerable.Range(1, 100) .Where(n => n % 2 == 0) .Select(n => n * 2) .ToList(); And as a transducer it could looks something like this? sequence( Enumerable.Range(1, 1
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by icefox 12y ago
Looks they have #1 Authentication and #3 Extensibility (via Webhook assuming you can have more than one), but are missing #2 authorization I hope they don't try to bolt on authorization like so many other Git hosting projects, but ins
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by icefox 12y ago
When going through the tutorial my laptop fan spins all the way up and that tab is using a constant 130%+ of my cpu. If it is something as simple as the rendering of the spawn pulsating or something it would be very nice if that could be f
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by icefox 12y ago
Many more people read the headlines of hacker news than actually click the link so today they learned some sort of joke thing about Paul Graham being tricked by someone who looked like Murk Zuckerberg.
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by icefox 12y ago
Reading over all of the comments it sounds like trying to have a company that is simply providing a place to store photos is a losing proposition. The revenue would have to come somewhere else. * By default the photos can be re-sold and th
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by icefox 12y ago
Where you able to find anything users were willing to pay for related to photos? Maybe more on the physical side with prints, photo books, posters, postcards, etc?
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by icefox 12y ago
Asus is giving users a bad Windows experience so it very much is a problem for Microsoft to address. This is no different than Google going around and trying as much as it can to force the many companies releasing android devices to put ou
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by icefox 12y ago
It seems odd that just like the Fire TV they have tech as the number one item to try to sell you on the product "Powerful performance—4x the storage and 2x the memory of Chromecast, plus a dual-core processor and 1 GB of memory."

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