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by jblow 9y ago
Baumol predicted this 50 years ago; it's called the "cost disease". The inflation rate for a computer with a fixed set of specs is massively negative -- it gets cheaper every year. So it is for many technological devices. But
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by jblow 9y ago
How micro can it possibly be if it takes 10 people to deal with it? Seriously.
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by jblow 9y ago
Those of us who have been around since the 80s-90s are astonished by the low productivity of today's programmers. If it takes 1 person to run 1 microservice, we are all doomed.
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by jblow 9y ago
> And yet, these games are being released today, are being funded by major and minor publishers and developers alike for tomorrow And most developers making these kinds of games today fail to make their money back and go out of business.
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by jblow 9y ago
Not everything is a conspiracy. I know the author of this article and he is a straightforward person. The game industry is a big place with many different kinds of people in it, all of whom have different motivations. If you build a picture
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by jblow 9y ago
The cars are dirty and smelly. The upholstery you sit on is gross. Once in a while you will find human feces in the cars. Most BART stations do not even have restrooms, water fountains etc, so I hope you don't have any human needs. The
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by jblow 9y ago
I don’t think this is fully explanatory. I have lived in the Bay Area for almost 30 years, and, to borrow a term from our illustrious President, San Francisco is more of a shithole now than it has ever been. This has little if nothing to do
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by jblow 9y ago
BART is one of the worst public transit projects in the western world... if you ask "would we have been better off with BART or something else?" the answer is probably something else.
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by jblow 9y ago
If it is not SpaceX’s fault in this case, what exactly do you think it is reasonable for them to do? It’s weird that even your reply seems to assume it’s SpaceX’s fault. Why? (“I don’t like to see SpaceX fail...”)
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by jblow 9y ago
Firing someone is speech? A whole lot of laws disagree with you about that.
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by jblow 9y ago
Uhh, he had The Entire Internet doing that at him 24/7, why do you think there needs to be more?
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by jblow 9y ago
If people "on the left" won't allow him to speak, where exactly do you expect him to go? It's like the people on the right saying Edward Snowden is obviously a traitor/spy because he went to Russia. Uhhh... somethin
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by jblow 9y ago
1. Sure, Tesla's whole plan, since the foundation of the company, was to start out making expensive cars and then to continually make them cheaper until they are completely mass-market. They have consistently followed this plan. So I d
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by jblow 9y ago
Electric cars are baller . They are fun to drive. My Tesla Roadster does not corner like a Porsche 911, it's true, but it does not matter for everyday driving, because it is so effortlessly faster than anything else on the road, whe
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by jblow 9y ago
1. My EV (Tesla Roadster, updated battery) goes 340 miles on one charge. Admittedly it is a small car. The new Tesla Roadster slated for 2020 goes 620 miles on one charge. Admittedly that is an expensive car. But you should be able to get g
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by jblow 9y ago
It’s unfortunate you had to take this ad hominem.
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by jblow 9y ago
Have you seen A Dark Room? It's text. He ported a text game, that someone else had already designed and implemented, to iOS. This is not a huge amount of work compared to what most game development people do, and is not particularly ch
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by jblow 9y ago
Yes, the game market is often hard. But I find this author's attitude fatalistic and weird. (Also I agree that the numbers do not add up). He seems to think that "rolling the dice" is the primary thing going on, and that he
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by jblow 9y ago
Tokyo subway is privatized and is very very good.
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by jblow 9y ago
It’s positive coverage, but that doesn’t mean it’s paid. When game journalists like things, they write positively about them.
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by jblow 9y ago
As someone who lived in SF for 24 years and is probably moving back, I will say that SF is a total dump and needs help badly.
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by jblow 9y ago
The comment was a criticism of the US as compared to France. So you can’t write off the US as an anomaly because that comparison was the whole point!
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by jblow 9y ago
Okay, but France is not known for its stellar economy or the prosperity of its people. Over here, at least, France is known for its stifling amount of government control when it comes to anything economic. It’s possible these things are rel
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by jblow 9y ago
I don’t think the Bartle stuff is useful in terms of concrete game design, the main weapon in my online game (from the 1990s!) was hitscan and not slow-moving projectiles as you assert (so I don’t think you know what you are talking about t
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by jblow 9y ago
I am talking about peoples’ home internet connections (or the PC bang where they play, etc). High-budget games these days locate servers around the world, so that is not an issue. Yes, good connections are expensive for some people. If you
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by jblow 9y ago
How popular is your online game? P.S. Someone the other day asked why I don’t post much to HN (and don’t put much effort in when I do). This kind of junk is exactly why!
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by jblow 9y ago
I don’t recommend lag compensation. It’s a bad idea because it degrades the experiences of more-committed / better players in order to cater to the less-committed / worse players.
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by jblow 9y ago
Thanks for the nice comments. But I only think this because I have had the experience many times in the past! I feel the best place to focus my creative energy is on making livestreams, doing speeches, and just on day-to-day programming. Pu
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by jblow 9y ago
Exactly -- some kinds of games are soft-launch-and-iterate kinds of games, but some other kinds are very much not, and if you soft-launch them you make it tremendously harder to build an audience.
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by jblow 9y ago
Not really worth it -- if I put in effort to write a substantial comment here, it's just buried in the noise of all these people who think they can give advice on how to build and launch a game.

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