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811.
by jblow 14y ago
AAA studios may use C# for tools, but exactly zero of them use C# for their actual game engine.
812.
by jblow 14y ago
Loss-leading is for losers. I mean, it works if you are a large entity with super-deep pockets and a long horizon before you need to make your money back. For small developers it is death. The first dot-com bubble was all about user-acquisi
813.
by jblow 14y ago
I don't have much patience for articles like this. Look, if you can't get someone to open your app more than 3 times, maybe it's because you are not making interesting things. If you build something that is high-quality and that makes a dif
814.
by jblow 14y ago
Why is this being upvoted? It is a collection of generic PR statements with no new or insightful information.
815.
Why the closed distribution model of Windows 8 must be changed(mollyrocket.com)
12 points by jblow 14y ago|3 comments
816.
by jblow 14y ago
I second this. Ace Hotel is rad.
817.
by jblow 14y ago
Don't forget the cost in electricity of finding deposits, mining them, transporting the pre-refined gas, transporting the post-refined gas, and lobbying Congress.
818.
by jblow 14y ago
It is not a stunt. It is a direct counter to the anti-EV argument "Electricity is made from fossil fuels anyway, so by driving an EV you are just shifting the source of pollution to the power plant." Tesla is attacking every single anti-EV
819.
by jblow 14y ago
For sure driving the car fast is one of the most fun things!
820.
by jblow 14y ago
P.S. My car has about 18k miles on it, so I don't think I have a particularly youthful battery at this time!
821.
by jblow 14y ago
Well, it is the speeding part that is probably the issue. It is true that if you want to drive to Mountain View at 85mph you probably can't do two round trips, You could certainly still do one round-trip without thinking about it, especiall
822.
by jblow 14y ago
As a Roadster owner of two years, who uses the car as his daily driver, I can tell you this is completely untrue (the Berkeley-MV thing). You can drive from SF to Santa Cruz and back on one charge. You can drive from SF to Mountain View and
823.
by jblow 14y ago
I bought a bunch of shares at 17. Seems to have been a good choice. If I were a serious participant in stock gambling I would have bought many more... When it comes to this Bloomberg report, I read it and think, this very small production d
824.
by jblow 14y ago
I find this attitude moderately disgusting and I would decline to do business with anyone who thinks about the world this way. The reason is: it shows a worldview where everything is about your personal advantage and not making things bad f
825.
by jblow 14y ago
And the point is that it's not about modeling! What happens is that we invent crazy math that is not supposed to have applicability, then some years go by and it's like, oh my God, quantum mechanics is somehow exactly all about the operatio
826.
by jblow 14y ago
Did you read the essay? Actually, both of them? The reason mathematics is considered Unreasonably Effective is because we have never seen anything with similar effectiveness. Ever.
827.
by jblow 14y ago
No. The surprising thing is that the models generate predictions far beyond the domains they were designed for (and far beyond the original knowledge of the people making the models), and that the predictions are so mindbogglingly accurate
828.
by jblow 14y ago
Is hooking up your toilet considered technology? This kind of plumbing used to be super-high-tech at one time in human history. I think you would find few people who think of it that way now, though. Hey, make your own choice about what you
829.
by jblow 14y ago
It is mainly an Xbox Live Arcade thing. They know they can apply exclusivity pressure to independent developers simply because enough of those developers will cave, since indies aren't generally willing to walk away from the deal.
830.
by jblow 14y ago
If you want to make web games, make web games. That's fine. Just don't be deluded that this is "working in tech". It is not.
831.
by jblow 14y ago
I suggest you do some math on the actual facts, and try to figure out how much money the developer is actually making on a deal, before you brand someone a drama queen. I guarantee Phil Fish knows a lot more about the facts of the situation
832.
by jblow 14y ago
It is not exactly that developers are "paying for exclusivity", it's that if they want to be on the platform, exclusivity is required, and fee payments are required. Basically, you have to pay to play. The reason a developer does it is beca
833.
by jblow 14y ago
I have no objection to the actual existence of the article. I just think it's important for people to understand this fact, that seems to be increasingly misunderstood these days, that "technology" is about expanding the frontiers of human
834.
by jblow 14y ago
Look ... guys ... this is NOT TECH, unless you classify hooking up a sewage pipe at the RV Park as tech too. This is just another example of fighting through a gross kludgey mess to do something relatively trivial that we already knew how t
835.
by jblow 14y ago
While I agree with much of what you are saying, I disagree strongly with the last sentence. I think if one feels that a certain career path is petty and selfish, one must make that clear. The reason is that, aggregate over large populations
836.
by jblow 14y ago
So pick something that requires very little capital, like saving the 16000 children who die every day from starvation-related problems in developing countries. "I lack capital" is a very silly excuse given that the HN community are among th
837.
by jblow 14y ago
... and this attitude is exactly the problem with "kids these days". Society doesn't hold together by magic. It doesn't evolve in a mutually beneficial direction by magic. People have to make it happen. Is it okay for some people to make li
838.
by jblow 14y ago
As a longtime profesional game developer, I kind of don't get it. Is this company out of business as soon as Oracle implements a loose octree that is ACID? Is there something wrong with spatial hashing? etc, etc.
839.
by jblow 14y ago
If I were a hard drive manufacturer, and I saw the inevitable swooping-in of SSDs to replace my mainstream market, I would enter a strategy of taking profit now, because there won't be much profit to take on these devices in the future.
840.
by jblow 14y ago
How many of these games have you actually played? It sounds like you don't know what you are talking about.

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