noct

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   by noct 12y ago

   As a developer who's worked in games, embedded, and real-time situational awareness software (ex. air traffic control), my feeling is exactly the opposite. People often greatly underestimate the amount of performance sensitive software
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   by noct 13y ago

   All of them? It's unheard of at a AAA development level to sell an engine without full source access; CryENGINE, Unreal, iD Tech, and Gamebryo all offer full source licenses, to name a few examples.
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   by noct 13y ago

   At least the DMCA requires the submitter swear under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate. The current YouTube system has no penalty for false claims.
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   by noct 13y ago

   The thing I love about ddg is they don't seem to do that horrible redirect on some results that Google does. I'll never understand why they do that; if you want to track links, send an async post when I click, don't add an oc
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   by noct 13y ago

   Are you referring to Unity? If so, while the game code is run via Mono, it is C++ internally.
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   by noct 13y ago

   Canonical has a revenue measured in millions, BlackBerry in billions. Reality aside, it would also make them owners of QNX.
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   by noct 13y ago

   Rebuilt from the core isn't very specific; the architecture has switched from PowerPC to x86. There are some solutions (emulation, secondary chipset), but none that aren't difficult and expensive. As XNA is .NET based, they would only need
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   by noct 14y ago

   He meant it in terms of calling people stupid.