jkrems

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by jkrems 12y ago
I understood it as: They don't want the low barrier to entry that "one-click let me hack this in the browser" a la Github enables.* E.g. they are not actively seeking to increase the number of contributors. (*) Which is aweso
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by jkrems 12y ago
Nothing prevents you from using a function (`last(myArray)`). In a dynamically typed language what you are proposing makes only very limited sense.
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by jkrems 12y ago
If your friend plays the game - sure. If it's a random person from your friend list who never used the game on the other hand - that's just exploiting social behavior to make money.
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by jkrems 12y ago
Sure, if the game isn't properly up-front about being a limited time demo, it rightfully feels tacky. But if you "bought" it by clicking a "try for a day" button, why would it feel tacky?
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by jkrems 12y ago
I wasn't talking about "making demos". I was talking about native support in the platform to limit usage of an app to a certain time. The developer just clicks a checkbox "make 24 usage hour demo available" and that
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by jkrems 12y ago
There's a difference between short- and long-term interest. People are bad at the latter. Yes, there's demand for a free game - duh, of course people want free games. And when they have to pay a euro to get the game to really prog
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by jkrems 12y ago
I think it's a question of offering some kind of good old demo mode for games. The problem is not that people don't pay for games (they do, see IAP) but that people don't want to pay for things without knowing what they are b
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by jkrems 12y ago
Well, they would have had alternatives. Like using a different name or just dropping the article completely and going with "Referenz". Choosing "das" seems like a very cheap attempt at copying Volkswagen style ads. Not t
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by jkrems 12y ago
IIRC latin languages offset longer words by speaking generally more syllables per second. The information per time unit is roughly equal across languages. I don't think they actually realize that the word is long/awkward (or at le
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by jkrems 12y ago
Why not? You any install closed-source software on Linux. Firefox will solve this by downloading the binary component for DRM on startup IIRC.
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by jkrems 12y ago
iOS becomes a pretty big gaming platform currently. This years Apple Design Award winners have a pretty decent game percentage: https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/
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by jkrems 12y ago
I'm actually surprised (after reading his bio) by this article. Did I completely miss the point of Metal? It sounded like more similar to low-level console platform APIs than to OpenGL or DirectX.
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by jkrems 12y ago
The whole point is to be closer to the "metal". Doing that across GPU vendors would be, well, OpenGL. It's the same as the native interfaces for the PS4 and other consoles - it's supposed to be platform/GPU specif
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by jkrems 12y ago
The article is talking about Windows 8. I'm pretty sure most people use the default window manager on Windows. :)
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by jkrems 12y ago
I think the bigger point is that game studios check in assets. And you don't want the complete history of game assets over 2 years of development and iteration on your machine. And git is generally not optimized for huge binary files.
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by jkrems 12y ago
Many hackerspaces try or tried to brew their own. It's not as easy as it sounds.
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by jkrems 12y ago
It's now available in supermarkets in rural NRW. So, I don't think "only Berlin" is remotely true anymore.
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by jkrems 12y ago
Yerba Mate and Club Mate are two completely different beasts. Club Mate is more of a "soft drink" than an actual tea.
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by jkrems 12y ago
In terms of 3D graphics, gaming, and visualization? Microsoft definitely doesn't have the least vision there.
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by jkrems 12y ago
Also native `forEach` tends to be slower and not fully supported in all environments, so that rule seems to be pretty dangerous in general.
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by jkrems 12y ago
Let's just say that the lines got a lot blurrier over the last couple of decades. The difference is generally if there's an explicit compilation step that is not hidden from developers. If you "run the source file", then
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by jkrems 12y ago
I rarely need the console tab in the chrome devtools because hitting Esc is normally way faster. Also having the tabs in a defined order allows you to use Cmd+n to switch between them (and the number stays the same).
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by jkrems 12y ago
I'm not even sure the dollar price was the issue. But I would have to rebuild things like "people to follow", get used to the new interface, have the risk that the platform doesn't survive - a lot of implicit costs. What
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by jkrems 12y ago
Measured by how often I do use Google to log into things, I'm not sure why the existence of providers is proof that it didn't fail. The login method that Google promotes doesn't seem to be openid but something that's eas
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by jkrems 12y ago
But a family with three daughters can be "not fully pregnant". Parts are pregnant, parts are not.
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by jkrems 12y ago
Yes, it is baity and the article clearly admits to it. But it also clearly has PyPy and CPython in the title which is important. I don't read as "suck it python users" but as "great news, python users: if your code runs
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by jkrems 12y ago
I'll have to look into versions (gotta be java7) but that looks pretty great - thanks!
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by jkrems 12y ago
Same reason as some browsers started to grey out parts of the hostname - if the only thing a user sees is "bankofamreica.com" or "bankofamerica.com.foroigs.io" they have a better chance of catching the thing that's
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by jkrems 12y ago
* Dev tools get better and better, giving you better insights into other peoples websites than ever before. One-click to make a minified JS file readable? Awesome! * Web apps get more complex, giving you the ability to work & create on
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by jkrems 12y ago
I don't think the idea in the post was to perform throttling in the client. The idea is to provide a best practice handling of throttling in the client (e.g. what to do when receiving a 429). Since the 429 is mentioned in the article,

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