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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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noct
14y ago
He meant it in terms of calling people stupid.