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by rkalla 13y ago
Sure, but I would argue that one AAA title is worth the entirety of those games that aren't ever making it off of the PC as far as sales go (thinking from a publishers POV). Absolutely agree with you on the unifying effect of SteamOS b
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by rkalla 13y ago
Dennis, maybe you are right... this is a long-game and they are just getting ahead of the inevitable (engines supporting Linux natively, eventually more and more releases for the platform). I suppose this is the curse of the first-mover, it
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by rkalla 13y ago
Juho, great call-out with the "Steam-related carrot", I hadn't really thought down that path but you are absolutely right. Valve could easily offer big discounts in their split with the publishers for the first few years for
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by rkalla 13y ago
This is effectively the software-only equivalent of a console launch. Is anyone else skeptical that they can motivate publishers to spend time/money porting their games to the Linux platform? Valve certainly has a better chance than mo
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by rkalla 13y ago
Matt, this is really kind of fantastic... nicely done! Would love to see a breakdown blog post of how you architected/implemented this... extremely responsive, pleasing UI, no surprises. Just works.
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by rkalla 13y ago
Was a fascinating journey, if you are like me and want to see a quick before-after without combing through 70 pages of forum posts, here is how good the gentleman got: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8
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by rkalla 13y ago
Understand your data hotspots -- just because it is in Dynamo and you have moved the slider all the way over to "20,000 IOPS" doesn't mean anything if DDB has partitioned all your data into a single shard behind the scenes -- you'll peak at
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by rkalla 14y ago
Been coding Java since 98 and am baffled at how all of this new co plexity is making my life easier. Closures maybe, but the rest of this article just felt so _theoretically helpful_ and complex, bogged down with cool terms and functional f
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by rkalla 14y ago
This piece is written a little... enthusiastically. That said, I would completely agree that the "Ah-ha!" moment for me with Windows 8 was when I tried it out on a touch-screen enabled laptop (something from Acer at Costco). Suddenly the ho
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by rkalla 14y ago
This is one of those ideas that makes all the sense in the world in practice, and then someone turns on the limits and you hear about how "NewHotness.com" goes down on Black Friday because of the Hard Limits feature in a big news story and
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by rkalla 14y ago
It's a good point and unfortunately one I figured would get confused with what I wrote so I hummed and hawed about writing anything. I don't think you can distill the world down into "Good vs Evil" -- it would be easier if you could. What I
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by rkalla 14y ago
This same pattern plays out in so many different places. 1. Massive concentration of power (in this case, the entertainment industry. I think 5 corporations control 96% of commercial media [2] - TV/Movie/etc.) 2. Artificially powerful threa
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by rkalla 14y ago
If you've never been in the Linux world, can certainly see how this is confusing. This announcement is for the Linux kernel. The different Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Redhat, etc.) all bundle different versions of the Linux kernel and umpt
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by rkalla 14y ago
-- CAUTION: Serious rambling ahead... -- Eclipse is the non-commercial result of a committee of developers so wide and uninvolved in each other's greater visions and monetization strategies, that the user-experience of the base platform is
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by rkalla 14y ago
Same thoughts here... been trying to move exclusively over to IJ since 4.x series but two (really dumb) things send me back to Eclipse every time: Javadoc formatting and Web Project module support. I mean "really dumb" in the sense that the
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by rkalla 14y ago
As a quick FYI, I see in the comments below people comparing s3 pricing to the likes of a VPS instance storage from XYZ hosting company. Given that you have no redundancy with that storage you could save an addition 30% and use reduced redu
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by rkalla 14y ago
I think "prior art" lends these companies some protection while not having detailed patents filed.
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by rkalla 14y ago
Excellent callouts about the NONCE, thanks for adding them! (great points about how this impacts your backend)
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by rkalla 14y ago
There are multiple aspects to payment processing with basic payment processing and integration being the minimum -- Stripe currently has the most beautiful story here. Things get more complex on the back end of the payment being processed a
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by rkalla 14y ago
For anyone that kept seeing "HMAC" and thought "What in the hell..." I wrote an article (stream of thought in story format) describing how you might try and secure an API call, how AWS does it and eventually how 2-legged OAuth can be utiliz
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by rkalla 14y ago
You can either use a timestamp (that is included in the HMAC calculation to ensure it isn't changed) to allow a replay-window (this is what AWS does) or you can utilize a NONCE value retrieved from the server before hand and recorded as "pl
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by rkalla 14y ago
Best of luck with this Drew. Looks like a great simple approach for folks jus wanting to "collect some damn money" - a lot of payment platforms require a much higher bar be cleared to get started, that is what it looks like you ace here (es
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by rkalla 14y ago
It does, but not for nefarious reasons -- it (until the more recent history) the cheapest region in the world for AWS -- it was only right before Oregon rolled out that Ireland, US-EAST and US-WEST-2 all became the same price point, but for
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by rkalla 14y ago
FWIW, this was written in July of 2010 (2+ years ago) -- CouchDB is in a very different place now than it was then. Reading the mailing lists of CouchDB, Redis, MongoDB and Cassandra are _very_ different experiences. CouchDB's list reads li
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by rkalla 14y ago
The use of the word "projects" in this sub-thread made me smile. Elon's "projects" are all changing the world, while my "projects" have me standing in the middle of Home Depot staring at concrete sealant, dumbfounded as to why one costs 2x
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by rkalla 14y ago
Mindless rambling ahead; I love this topic Richard, AWS is an amazing tool and you have a few options here, but the downside is the more options you use to be highly-available (HA), the more expensive AWS gets (as you would imagine). Your
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by rkalla 14y ago
If JSON compatibility is an issue, have you looked at UBJSON? http://ubjson.org/ May be a bit bigger than msgpack but is damn-near human readable even in its binary format and really easy to encode/decode. Also 1:1 compatibility with JSON
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by rkalla 15y ago
Please provide some reference links -- without it to make your point comments like this are too easily influenced by personal experience (what you, friends, social circle see/do versus everyone in each country)
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by rkalla 15y ago
As a continuation of the conversation about PS4[1], the previously rumored Xbox 720 specs that were conservative (AMD 6000-series equivalent GPU with dual or quad-core integrated design) may be invalidated by the latest leak, more specifica

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