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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I don't know what mailto links would open on my computer but it's not my web-based email client. I think it opens a local executable that came installed by the OS? I don't even know what email address that thing is tied to. D
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The blurb ar the bottom about the Workspace GM focusing on communication apps in response to the pandemic, explains why the Workspace Addon ecosystem has been quietly abandoned by Google.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The Shopify layoff also contained this phrasing. Shows how tone-deaf these CEOs are. Shopify's version: > Ultimately, placing this bet was my call to make and I got this wrong. Now, we have to adjust. As a consequence, we have to sa
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Adams would like to pivot his career from cartoonist to political pundit. He's okay with burning bridges to do it because just about everything involving newspaper comics is bygone. He will be successful because the Incredibly Online p
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
No need for laws, all the digital game stores are going to migrate their users to game subscription services regardless. It's much more clear legally speaking that you walk away from a subscription service with nothing, and it lets pla
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Consoles are actively migrating their audiences onto digital subscription services so that the brand has an identity separate from the console. The future is selling hardware if you must, so you can make money selling PC games. Microsoft&#
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
If you're long on the games industry we are probably in the last generation of game console architecture. Everything is going to be Windows or Linux boxes with PC hardware next gen. I could see Nintendo bucking this trend but they have
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Former professional game dev getting into Godot recently for fun and maybe for hire. What are the limitations of gdscript you allude to? Let's say I want to render an infinite scrolling hex grid. Why would c# excel or gdscript struggle
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
It's a lose/lose situation. If you resolve the ambiguity in real time in favor of the preprocessor syntax, you break existing websites. If you perform a preprocessing step it now blocks CSS parsing and slows down all websites on t
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The article answers this exact question already. It isn't possible because there's no build stage like preprocessors have to remove ambiguity.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
On your last point you may find this timeline of games industry market cap to be equal parts enlightening and horrifying. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/... During your lifet
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I fully agree, and the quoted blurb is an instance of sarcasm not transmitting over text. There's nothing about microtransactions that makes premium games unreleasable. This is part of why I view the anti-MT stance as gatekeeping.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
$60 price point for games spans back nearly 2 decades. In today dollars those games would cost $90. If you would like developers to release games with source engine graphics, and charge $90 for them, then just say that. Back then games had
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Gaming as-you-define-it is surely dying and it took maybe 15 years for microtransactions to do it in. However, more people play video games than ever before and more games are released per year than at any other time in human history. So wh
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I've found people who extole Stanley Parable are not just capital G Gamers but also capital G Gatekeepers. Their game curation aesthetics have all the tact of Superman's Braniac collecting planets. Celeste is derivative of Donkey
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Author has a bias against Microsoft. So do hacker news readers. News of Pluton and its security goals have been readily available since 2020 from reputable hardware sites like Anandtech, or directly from Microsoft themselves. There's n
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I like to figure out what all my PRs will be during the planning phase, optimizing for reviewer cognitive load and incremental development of shippable features. I never need to stack PRs cuz I can work on the next one while the first one i
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I agree that good k-factor emerges, but you can still fertilize the soil, pick a sunny location, etc to increase the odds. It's hard to do this with a finished game in hand. I really think you need a holistic approach so that your desi
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Former f2p game designer. The industry term for what you're scratching at is virality or k-factor. There's no static playbook here, you're trying to play society like an instrument. Figure out why a player would be motivated
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I've used tools like this, but built into products that want selectors as implementation detail for non-technical ppl. (Think AppCues flows or Intercom product tours.) They've all generally picked horrible selectors which then lea
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I found I only have something really worth saying every few years which isn't often enough to make my blog be content marketing for my personal brand. I do like my blog, I can read things I wrote a decade ago and still believe in them.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The argument for dooming hybrid is much simpler than this. Hybrid work asks you to live nearby, and to commute; in return you get to escape your home life (kids, spouse, family), and you get access to free cans of soda and bags of chips. Th
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
People may remove the choice from themselves by supporting data privacy laws. I think if privacy laws were to be made that restrict what data the Oculus can snoop, Meta wouldn't raise the price to compensate. They would sell or shelve
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
We have over a year of data now from Apple's app tracking transparency feature. Only 25% of users have opted in and the trend line is not promising. I think the HN crowd is way ahead of the curve on this topic, but still a good indicat
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The problem isn't that you need a Facebook account, it's that Meta owns Oculus at all. Call the account whatever you want; if I'm a record in any of Meta's databases then I expect to be linked to a shadow profile and sur
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
It's very common for games to deal with erratic input from keyboard controls. Consider player position in a moba or fps where two humans are responding to each others' presence (footsie.) The penalty for a wrong prediction is rubb
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
This is analogous to player position in any multiplayer game. One additional parameter to keep in mind is how real-time does your simulation of remote players need to be? If you don't need real-time positioning there's a whole oth
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
At the time I thought Cow Clicker would be an eye opening moment for the Game Design Gatekeeperati, but they doubled down. This turned the whole thing into performance art, with the unwilling professors of fun as part of the show.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I use --cached as well but I think I will try switching to --staged since that name makes more sense to me. I similarly have gotten away from checkout in favor of switch/restore.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I get the feeling most ppl keep tons and tons of tabs open these days. Browsers keep having to reduce the workload of background tabs, and have even added some UX features like tab grouping and pinning. And then there's the success of

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