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by soup10 7y ago
Never really liked the structure of Topcoder and similar competitions most of the "skill" is just memorizing the algorithms that show up frequently and practicing typing out the solutions fast. A great mathematician would be able
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by soup10 7y ago
i think your giving it too much credit, this seems like a side project by some aspiring game developer at google,
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by soup10 7y ago
i dunno i think the survival/mining/crafting aspect of minecraft is a big part of what makes it popular. also i think the "card programming model" and every variation of that sort of thing is such a bad idea. either su
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by soup10 7y ago
Not sure who the audience for this is. Kids I guess? Game developers want engines and tools that make development easier without losing power or flexibility. Players want new interesting gaming experiences.
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by soup10 7y ago
yea trump has no idea how a computer works...
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by soup10 7y ago
Let's not forget that our government is mostly run by people with law degrees while china has a large amount of technocrats. Making it much harder to get state-scale large engineering and software projects going in the U.S..
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by soup10 7y ago
"climbing Everest is not that big of a deal, everyone does it these days" -- internet commenter
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by soup10 7y ago
Big tech does many scummy things in the name of corporate greed, far from misguided, this is overdue.
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by soup10 7y ago
Why are you putting Google and its employees on such a pedestal? It's software and business are not magic and there are plenty of people qualified to audit them.
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by soup10 7y ago
i'm sure a lot of people that would otherwise have been making browsers decided chrome is "good enough" and assumed google wasn't likely to do anything to scummy like this. monopoly is maybe not the best word choice but
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by soup10 7y ago
lets not forget their latest and greatest of releasing chrome for free until it saturated the market and became a monopoly then maliciously making changes to reduce the effectiveness of adblockers like ublock origin
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by soup10 7y ago
This whole thing is about ease of spyware access by intel agencies, fuck em both.
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by soup10 7y ago
java browser plugins have always been poorly designed and implemented
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by soup10 7y ago
i played a build a long time ago and it had a "charming indie game" thing going for it beyond the 4d stuff, i think he will release it eventually.
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by soup10 7y ago
i met marc about 7 years ago and he was hard at work on it then and it looked fairly polished and I thought for sure it would be released within a year or two. he really did seem like a perfectionist type... but its kind of unfortunate tha
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by soup10 7y ago
they make far more money from device sales than they do from apps. they just don't want to give up their gatekeeping power
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by soup10 7y ago
the alternative is allowing any software that isn't a virus or illegal to be installed... just like pc's have done for decades
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by soup10 7y ago
most people wouldn't understand or care about the benefits and P2P is inherently more fragile and complex to program than server-client
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by soup10 7y ago
No way Tesla could do that unless Musk is somehow forced out.
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by soup10 7y ago
Apple has never embraced gaming in any serious way
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by soup10 7y ago
"less urgent" doesn't mean its not important at all. When we were constantly at the brink of war and supporting all kinds of terrible governments to secure stable access to oil and keep the petrodollar intact.. There was mor
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by soup10 7y ago
The domestic oil boom and the fact that we are now a net exporter of oil makes the transition to electric cars less urgent.
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by soup10 7y ago
reading this i realized i haven't played e5 in years, pretty much never looked back after i started learning the french
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by soup10 7y ago
The DSM is largely a tool for billing insurance, it has so many different "disorders" listed that everyone falls into at least one category or another at some point in their lives.
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by soup10 7y ago
bravo, great talk Jon. but real talk can you make another Braid already
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by soup10 7y ago
From what I understand edit privileges were done using server admin/moderation tools, not sure how well that scales to big mmo type world with thousands of players, especially when you want people to collaborate on big builds.
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by soup10 7y ago
Lots of people do voluntarily check themselves into mental health facilities, but can you really blame those that don't want to be locked in ward with unstable people with nothing to do while being force fed antipsychotics and mood sta
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by soup10 7y ago
by limiting the data to only send and recieve changes in the local area you could probably scale it to a very large number of users, especially since latency isn't a super high concern for building. the part i think is difficult to sol
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by soup10 7y ago
that's great but there's lots of reasons you may want to roll your own engine
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by soup10 7y ago
Cool, looks like it briefly covers a lot of topics

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