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by ijk 13y ago
Restated: Price was not a barrier to the adoption of the iPhone.
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by ijk 13y ago
Unless the "foundation in math" is really confirmation bias, which math as used by humans is still vulnerable to.
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by ijk 13y ago
True, but there are plenty of programming side projects that don't require an Arduino, and we often get in our little tech-bubbles and think that the internet is more of a monoculture than it actually is. I've heard (a lot) about the Arduin
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by ijk 13y ago
Or you're more interested in side projects that don't have a hardware or physical component. Or that require much more specialized equipment, like a CAVE system. Or don't use electronics at all, like 3D printing representations of mathemati
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by ijk 14y ago
To add to this, different market segments have different priorities. I once saw it explained with food. "Did you get enough to eat?", "Did you like how it tasted?", "Was the presentation good?"--these are very different questions, and the p
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by ijk 14y ago
A huge chunk of that team size is artists, level designers, testing, audio, and studio overhead. Not that there aren't lots of programmers too, especially in a game with lots of scripted levels and separate systems. But it isn't like it's a
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by ijk 14y ago
I think that's changing a bit, though. There are a lot more independant developers and people who are skipping the mainstream publishing/dev-studio industry and finding better success. And if they're both irrational choices, why not? Some e
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by ijk 14y ago
Note that it was published as part of SIGBOVIK. This paper definitely falls within the approaches to computer science exemplified by the illustrious, eponymous Harry Q. Bovik.
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by ijk 14y ago
Now I'm curious. Do you have a link or citation for that?
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by ijk 14y ago
Music copyright is incredibly messed up, even compared to the rest of copyright. I was doing research for a project I'm working on, and it's nearly impossible to determine if any 20th century recording is in the public domain unless the aut
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by ijk 14y ago
The huge problem here is not just that there's a blatant ad in a SimCity game. Product placements and tie-ins are actually pretty common in Facebook games. Advergames date back to the '80s. The deeper problem is that SimCity is being presen
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by ijk 14y ago
It's definitely a deep part of the human psyche. Though I can see space for arguing that social media is too effective. Our social instincts aren't structured to process detailed updates from thousands of people, nor to broadcast our person
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by ijk 14y ago
I can't really speak to general interest. As I said, discoverability is terrible, so I only know of stuff that either I've been following since the '90s or I've seen mentioned by others. So this is a very eclectic list. But they all have re
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by ijk 14y ago
And the CEO of Electronic Arts.
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by ijk 14y ago
Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory. [1] http://scp.indiegames.us/
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by ijk 14y ago
This year at the Game Developer Conference, Chris Hecker had an entirely wordless rant about the state of creativity in the AAA space, essentially using AAA's PR to point out how little real innovation is happening in that space. [1] It's r
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by ijk 14y ago
In a sense, those days are back. Despite all of the AAA games that were released in 2012 (and there were some excellent games) the Game Developer Choice Awards last week were dominated by an independent title, Journey.[1] The conference as
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by ijk 14y ago
I disagree--Usenet was mostly dead. As I said, though it's not like the old days, there are still newsgroups that I follow, and topics that still have active discussion via Usenet. The bulk of my Usenet reading took place post-Google, so ac
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by ijk 14y ago
Google Groups didn't help, since the interface went from decent to degraded to useless to now-I-can't-find-it over the past decade. There are still active newsgroups with regular postings, it's just nearly impossible to find them from the w
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by ijk 14y ago
I'm curious as to why you'd rate UT Arlington ahead of UT Dallas on technology, since I'd put them the other way around.
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by ijk 14y ago
I'll toss in that when price discrimination (which is what selectively subsidized education essentially is) has a time component, the lowest-income potential students are least likely to be able to take advantage of it, being short on both
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by ijk 14y ago
I turned down MIT because it was too expensive. (Admittedly, I was also looking for something other than CS.) Instead, I went to a school that was much clearer about giving me a full-ride scholarship. And, despite following this line of arg
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by ijk 14y ago
You do realize that it's just a basic computer RPG equipment upgrade system on top of an arcade game, right? At no point do they ask you for real money. The coins are basically XP you can use to upgrade stuff.
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by ijk 14y ago
I do think that more mention should be made if Google Talkeout in all this, if only because I want access to my data when the _next_ Google product is closed and I'd rather encourage Google to offer more open data like this.
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by ijk 14y ago
And, very pedantic point, but my current apartment's thermostat doesn't have a timer, either. "The future is unevenly distributed," I guess.
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by ijk 14y ago
I am not betting for or against that assumption. I will note that they have nothing as big as search (except maybe YouTube) and Microsoft and Amazon have been competing and rendering ad-supported search irrelevant, respectively.
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by ijk 14y ago
Now I'm seeing the potential for the successor to the 3DS to be the (I assume) first 3D videophone device. I think this is unlikely, but I'm charmed by the idea.
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by ijk 14y ago
Except that you'd be betting that you're the exception: "According to Sports Illustrated, 78% of NFL players are divorced, unemployed, or bankrupt two years after leaving the game, and MSNBC reports that one in four NFL players live paychec
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by ijk 14y ago
And they often come out of it with long-term injuries that require ongoing, lifelong medical treatment, similar to boxers. Hence all of the recent discussion about concussions, though there are more factors than just that.
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by ijk 14y ago
I read it as both. And, frankly, having been a graduate student, they can take all of the encouragement they can get while they're working on their PhD.

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