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by kayoone 11y ago
A measly 25-30 years ago the first modems were sending data at 1Kbps, today we can send data through 7.5 billion kilometres of space at the same speed, i think that is pretty impressive.
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by kayoone 11y ago
Imo web development in the open source field is a lot more complex than say developing in a strictly Java or .NET environment. Let's face it, most .NET or Java programmers are building some kind of CRUD app too. Over 10 years ago i hav
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by kayoone 11y ago
Sooner or later there will be laws against anything but the most basic drone flying because of jerks like this. Lately i have been reading an article about the Dutch government thinking about quite expensives licences for commercial drone f
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by kayoone 11y ago
Apple builds the marketplace, just like Steam or HomeJoy. The fact that it's Apps are also based on their tech is irrelevant in this context. Steam also just provides a Marketplace without meaningful technology and has revenue in the h
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by kayoone 11y ago
What does Apple or steam offer developers for their 30% cut ? customers and ultimately revenue to sustain themselves. An open marketplace has incredible value if its popular. Tech is the easy part of most startups.
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by kayoone 11y ago
Sure, Australia is super huge and <10ms is a different thing. I live in germany and there are ISPs where you can get <10ms in the whole country. Sadly when i moved to Berlin the ISP situation got worse than in my previous much smaller
817.
by kayoone 11y ago
we really need a focus on low latency instead of bandwidth but i guess that's even worse in terms of marketing than upload bandwidth. But its frustrating to know that <10ms latencys are easily achievable with current technology but
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by kayoone 11y ago
Looking forward to this but given the fact that Unity is not the most stable piece of software on it's main platforms, i am still a bit skeptical.
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by kayoone 11y ago
Recently "The Witcher 3" sold 4M copies in a short amount of time whereas 1.3M are attributed to PC sales [1]. Even Indie games like Cities: Skylines which is PC/Mac only recently sold more than 1M copies in a short amount of
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by kayoone 11y ago
I don't like the idea of cockpit canopies in formula motorsport, but yesterdays accident could have easily cut Räikkönen in half. These cars are gorgeous though!
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by kayoone 11y ago
That should be much easier to optimize against vs having no paging at all though. Are Apps running in the background asked to free up storage or be killed before the active app needs to do the same or are they referring to the active app ?
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by kayoone 11y ago
but you usually don't stuff 3d models and textures in an engine controller ECU ;)
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by kayoone 11y ago
That has nothing todo with what op is referring to. Even on iOS you have a virtual memory system, like a normal PC does. If your app runs out of ram it will page to storage and the OS handles this for you. The PS1/N64 did not have any
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by kayoone 11y ago
Yeah i thought about that too. My PC already had 8GB of RAM in 2009 and even today that is still totally fine for most games. However, consoles usually share RAM between GPU and CPU though and high end PC GPUs today have up to 8GB of VRAM w
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by kayoone 11y ago
I actually worked on a game that was running on the iPad2 (some gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaq0Sfp3_5Q ) and while you had to optimize quite a bit to achieve a certain number of drawcalls and memory usage it w
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by kayoone 11y ago
Yeah sure, not saying it's non existent, just a lot less common. A blog post about that would certainly be very interesting :)
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by kayoone 11y ago
Looks like the system RAM on playstations increased by the factor of 2ˆ4 / 16x with every generation. 2MB to 32MB (PS2) to 512MB (PS3) to 8GB (PS4)
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by kayoone 11y ago
That's not really the same though. You are not really limited by RAM in most cases, also you are not limited by slow storage media like CD/DVDs as it was/is with most of the consoles. The reality is, hardly anyone on mobile w
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by kayoone 11y ago
Pretty amazing what kind of skills game development required back then. One side of me is happy that we have all these great tools today, the other is sad because you hardly use this low level stuff in todays software development world. We
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by kayoone 11y ago
I don't have anything to ask, just wanted to say that this is an amazing story. Can't imagine going through that with a kid of mine and him doing so well now makes me happy for you guys! All the best to you and your family.
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by kayoone 11y ago
are you sure you mean "artificial trans fats" and not "unsaturated fats" which in fact are healthier than saturated fats (which are primarily from animal origin).
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by kayoone 11y ago
So this now reached it's funding goal with 30k bakers, why does that confirm the market exists when Yakuza selling 50k copies is considered a failure ?
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by kayoone 11y ago
Great quotes, the "only one child" quote is only meant for certain countries i guess. In Germany we have a problem with the population growing older and older because young people get less and less kids. That taxes the health care
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by kayoone 11y ago
probably because it breaks view and meta (retargeting etc) tracking which is why ad networks might not allow it
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by kayoone 11y ago
While i feel similar in that i don't think i could go back to a "normal" job, i also realize how incredibly lucky i am to have this choice. So many people have to do much more grueling work that is not even remotely their pas
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by kayoone 11y ago
ah interesting. My main concern when reading this was latency, which has traditionally been crap with satellite ISP. In todays world i also feel that once you have a certain bandwidth (say 10-20Mbps) the benefits of a latency of <50ms vs
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by kayoone 11y ago
that is strange, as other macbooks that only have an iGPU work fine on windows 8.
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by kayoone 11y ago
It's not a weird thought at all, after all that's life. While the odds of you growing old outweigh the odds of a short life (average life expectancy is around 80 in western countries) it still happens frequently that people die to
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by kayoone 11y ago
Tegel might be efficient once you know your way around, but god is it a confusing claustrophobic mess.
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by kayoone 11y ago
> Plus is anyone expecting a lot of YouTube 4K content ? Every enthusiast cameral high end smartphone or the latest GoPro shoots 4K, more and more people have 4K displays and prices come down. So yeah, i think there will be a lot of 4K o

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