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by sambeau 13y ago
Only if you pretend your user is an idiot. Far better to test, watch, measure and iterate.
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by sambeau 13y ago
We built lower Manhattan as part of the demo data used to wow investors and test the rendering tech. We were hoping that most of the licensing fees would pour the other way: Macdonalds, Gas Stations etc. Our artists mocked loads of those up
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by sambeau 13y ago
sigh This is a little bittersweet for me as I once worked on Realtime World's project MyWorld which was rebuilding the world (starting with the UK) to play games in. http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08&#x2
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by sambeau 13y ago
(and I apologise for my grumpiness)
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by sambeau 13y ago
I now realise that the submitter wasn't the developer so my comment doesn't stand.
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by sambeau 13y ago
In the 1990′s, the Swedish government subsidized the cost of computers for every family, allowing any Swedish family to buy a personal computer. This must’ve had a great impact – allowing a generation of Swedish kids to mess around with co
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'll take this opportunity to re-remind HN of Wadler's Law: In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position. 0. Semantics 1.
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by sambeau 13y ago
I support this theory. It makes sense to me.
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that what killed IE6 was IE7. I'm also pretty sure that is keeping IE8 & 9 from finally shuffling off too is people being prevented from installing a browser of their choosing in their workplace.
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by sambeau 13y ago
The title is referring to 'Corporate Employees' as opposed to employees of Blackberry. The Thesis goes: employees bought iPhones and brought them to work, enough (or senior enough) employees were able to force IT departments to su
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by sambeau 13y ago
Ha. I really should have taken a second look at what I was citing! I removed that before I saw your comment. For some reason I thought I'd cited some interesting genetics blog. I read the paragraph. Yep. Took a quick look around — lo
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by sambeau 13y ago
I got my information directly from a geneticist friend who was explaining why cloning dinosaurs is not going to happen. He may of course have been simplifying it for us. Looking at the internet it looks like it's usually a lot lower. 1
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by sambeau 13y ago
DNA only lasts 10,000 years. They'd need a lot of DNA from a single dinosaur type to be able to stitch enough strands together to make one. However… Mammoths!?
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by sambeau 13y ago
Indeed. I think what I was trying to point out is that this doesn't add weight to early dinosaurs being feathered. These feathers are from the same period as Velociraptors. It's cool, its fascinating and it's mind-blowing tha
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by sambeau 13y ago
Archaeopteryx lived 150 million years ago, the feathers here (and proto-feathers) are from 78 million or 79 million years ago. So these are very modern Dinosaur feathers or feathers from proto-bird-like creatures. What is interesting here
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by sambeau 13y ago
I do like that. (I just picked (and cleaned up) the first piece of simple error code that I thought would be easy to use.)
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by sambeau 13y ago
I wouldn't describe Unity's relationship with C# as 'scripting'. I realise that there are no doubt a number of custom C++ engines out there with embedded scripting languages but push for multi-platform mobile games has c
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'd take that bet. I know many iOS game developers and none of them use Objective-C any more. (in fact I only ever knew one)
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by sambeau 13y ago
It compared surprisingly favourably. The C# engine was comparable (and regularly compared) to the Unreal Engine being used elsewhere in the company. It was C# from the ground up. Scripting was provided via other .Net languages (Python in th
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by sambeau 13y ago
Yes. But out of Dundee, Scotland.
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by sambeau 13y ago
My point is that translating an error from one call to the previous is neither generic nor pointless. An exception and line-number (and a call-stack dump) is great for a developer, but a good textual error message is needed for a real user.
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by sambeau 13y ago
Realtime Worlds
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by sambeau 13y ago
>in the gamedev domain, control over memory is fairly vital. C# is taking over the game world. Most iOS games are, for instance, written in C# these days. I have worked for a company who wrote a state-of-the-art 3D PC gaming engi
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by sambeau 13y ago
You soon get used to the pattern: blah, err := foo(...) if err != nil { return nil, err } and it's sister: blah, err := foo(wibble) if err != nil { return nil, errors.New("foo error with blah due t
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by sambeau 13y ago
I've had real issues with Inkscape, especially its user interface. It's just not a Mac app. I'd love to see someone tear the gubbins out of Inkscape and place them in a good user interface. (To be fair I have real issues with
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by sambeau 13y ago
I keep meaning to but haven't got round to coughing up the £35. It does look amazing and is (one direction) of the sort of thing I was talking about. I'd need to see the javascript it generates before I could happily include it a
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by sambeau 13y ago
"The author isn't suggesting this as a life hack for free internet" The HN Title is (I can't see the actual article as the machine is hosed) : "How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free" an
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by sambeau 13y ago
MacKeeper popup. Will not read.
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by sambeau 13y ago
It's great to see more SVG libraries arriving and SVG.js and Pablo.js look like interesting new tools. While tools to dynamically generate SVG are needed sometimes the big future of SVG is artist-created images, so we generally in need
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by sambeau 13y ago
Great young men have thought alike: http://ia600808.us.archive.org/17/items/GuerillaOpenAccessMa... sigh

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