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by rwallace 8y ago
A Google search for 'what's new in Java ...' provides some good summaries.
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by rwallace 8y ago
Java 11, which has come a very long way from the verbose, clunky language of two decades ago; particularly combined with a top-notch IDE like Intellij IDEA, the current version of the language is a joy to program in.
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by rwallace 8y ago
No, it is not. My email account is - obviously to say 'secure' as a binary proposition is inappropriate, but about as secure as anything on the Internet ever gets for most people. Training people to click an email link and type th
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by rwallace 8y ago
Ah, so you are using 'narrative game' as I would use 'adventure game': one where the gameplay content is puzzles rather than combat or strategy? Okay, then I agree, that is quite niche these days.
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by rwallace 8y ago
I was about to express surprise at this, but then it occurs to me: are you using 'narrative game' in a different sense, to mean specifically a game where there is a voiced narration, like The Stanley Parable or Oxenfree?
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by rwallace 8y ago
Right, I don't think the blame should be placed on the poor bastard who is forced to use the infernal machine on pain of being thrown out of his house. The problem needs to be addressed at a higher level. In this case, there is a simpl
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by rwallace 8y ago
Particulates – is that smoke from forest fires caused by hot dry weather?
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by rwallace 8y ago
TI did have a footprint in software, which is how they hoped to survive the endgame selling computers at a loss. But that created a dilemma. If they went ahead with a Nintendo-style crushing of third-party software developers, the Vic-20 wo
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by rwallace 8y ago
But the Timex Sinclair 2068 was released just over a year later, so while there was still a price discrepancy, it was much smaller than 3x.
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by rwallace 8y ago
He performed well enough at Atari: turned the company around, got a 16-bit machine into production, ran several good years before the PC standard swept the board clear for everyone. Muffed the console side, granted, but I don't think h
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by rwallace 8y ago
Aha! Yes, that would explain the unhappiness.
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by rwallace 8y ago
Okay so my first thought was, why would the venues care, don't they have the ticket money anyway. Is there something I am missing about how these things are arranged, such that the venue doesn't get paid if people don't show
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by rwallace 8y ago
Sure, but the underlying technological capability was genuine.
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by rwallace 8y ago
Well within living memory, actually. IBM research labs made many contributions to human knowledge without necessarily expecting short-term profit. I still remember when their scientists used a scanning tunneling microscope to write the lett
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by rwallace 8y ago
The underlying assumption behind the negative attitude here is that everything worth doing, is easy. That for every line of development which will turn out to be worthwhile, it's possible to build a minimum viable product on a shoestri
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by rwallace 8y ago
I'm surprised at the hostile reception to this post, because I think it's making a very good point. The trend in the new economy is for a large percentage of people to be discarded like rubbish, while increasingly insane workloads
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by rwallace 8y ago
I understand where you're coming from with the parallel, but for the sake of understanding what's going on here, it's worth bearing in mind that they are not really equivalent. Potts (at least as far as I can tell from the mo
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by rwallace 8y ago
Looking at the trailer, personally I think it looks awesome. Nice subtle shading and detail on the environment and enemies that doesn't detract from the overall simplicity, and then you get to light up the whole screen with massive fir
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by rwallace 8y ago
> Somewhere there's a great in-depth series of blog posts from someone who describes just trying to get libraries to agree upon and correctly use an author field or set of author fields for libraries. That sounds interesting! Don&#x
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by rwallace 8y ago
I think it was a blog post by Michael O Church, though I don't have the reference to hand.
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by rwallace 8y ago
I suppose it's a way of substantiating the attribution of the crime to North Korea. When it was just someone making the allegation, they could've been doing it for any number of reasons, but now it seems the evidence has held up t
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by rwallace 8y ago
Hasn't that changed in recent years? I've seen manuals for recent AMD GPU instruction sets.
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by rwallace 8y ago
It's not just Ubuntu, and it's not just open source. I've adopted a policy of filing no more bug reports on anything, free or commercial. All it's ever resulted in is arguments from developers about why they're not
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by rwallace 8y ago
The Windows x86 version of SBCL crashes immediately on startup, so I figured the warning on the x64 version should be taken seriously, but if you are saying it is solid after all, that is good news. Going to give CCL a try.
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by rwallace 8y ago
An excellent guide, thanks! One suggestion: checked again just now and SBCL is still not production-ready on Windows (for the understandable reason of insufficient volunteers); perhaps the recommendation for that platform should be changed
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by rwallace 8y ago
Very good point! But keep in mind one difference: unlike crashed planes, crashed companies tend to leave survivors who can tell the tale. So maybe read post-mortems of failed companies - and worry most about the reported mistakes that do n
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by rwallace 8y ago
Oh, to clarify, when I talk about that, I'm not talking about temperature tolerance - that's really more of a secondary byproduct - but metabolic demands. A warm-blooded (i.e. fast metabolism) animal needs an order of magnitude mo
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by rwallace 8y ago
‘‘No one has yet been able to explain under any theory why the crocodiles and turtles survived and the dinosaurs did not.’’ Sure they have. Crocodiles are cold-blooded; they are known to be able to estivate for months without food, waiting
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by rwallace 8y ago
Which challenges? As far as I can see, LLVM is essentially C in SSA syntax; what semantic differences have you come across?
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by rwallace 8y ago
It's about economics. Climate change keeps being presented as something we need to make huge sacrifices to do something about, and this does not work. The unwillingness to make such sacrifices, we may find reprehensible when it comes f

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