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by unsigner 12y ago
14, not 13 salaries a year. There are the normal monthly salaries, then there are an "Easter" and a "Christmas" salary. I learned of this via something almost out of a ancient Greek comedy, the lines of the Goddess of ir
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by unsigner 12y ago
Whether the game is running on an open API can be moralizing or demoralizing to an open source/culture advocate, not to a indie game developer - the latter would care more about speed of development, robustness, access to sales, etc.
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by unsigner 12y ago
> "I cannot do it because the performance is so flipping terrible in debug mode. Trying to debug your app with optimized code is just a pain." I've been shipping PC and console games in C++ since 2000. Debug builds have AL
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by unsigner 12y ago
You don't pay for an email address, because thanks to email interoperability (not openness, which is a separate albeit related thing) a free email address is a decent substitute for a non-free email address. Viber is not the same kind
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by unsigner 12y ago
"Easy to pull 3rd party libraries" is not particularly positive for a engine/library developer; ideally, you should incur as little dependencies on your users as possible.
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by unsigner 12y ago
They can't make Playstore-enabled versions; Google doesn't allow you to make both Google- and non-Google Android devices. It's either all Google or no Google.
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by unsigner 12y ago
You slipped the blank slate fallacy here: the belief that people are born exactly equal, there is zero genetic component to IQ and programming capabilities, and all that is needed is "working hard" and "believing in yourself&
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by unsigner 12y ago
Obligatory reading on L-systems: http://nothings.org/gamedev/l_systems.html
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by unsigner 12y ago
If you're a designer, and don't understand the issues involved, you probably should refrain from evangelizing sub-1.0 versioned products.
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by unsigner 12y ago
Interesting about heavy armor - can you point me at something to read?
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by unsigner 12y ago
Any non-trivial JS code is likely to be closely tied to the original platform/runtime for which it was meant, and thus hard to port. (Vs. purely computational)
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by unsigner 12y ago
Is there a good fuzzer for Windows command-line executables? I looked around a day or two ago and everything "advanced" was Linux-only.
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by unsigner 12y ago
Interpreted languages are fast enough for what VBA has been traditionally used. You just need to steer away from the travesty of Atwood's Law.
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by unsigner 12y ago
Wonderful article, but it's major effect on me is more curiosity about the iWatch. I hope it does cycling and weightlifting better than the current crop of devices - I'm definitely NOT going to drop my 30 km/day of cycling to
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by unsigner 12y ago
I find the "no one knows" angle slightly amusing. It's the famed "military-industrial complex". Do you really expect to know EVERYTHING these guys do? To have a Snowden behind every filing cabinet and in every route
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by unsigner 12y ago
And then the countries with the most pacifist hackers will be at a severe disadvantage...
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by unsigner 13y ago
PS3 games made everyone learn to take advantage of multiple cores, but the incredible single-thread (more like thread and a half with careful manual scheduling) performance of the SPUs should not be discounted.
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by unsigner 13y ago
So, just like SF, once you finally kick out the annoying non-techies?
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by unsigner 13y ago
Yeah, and I hear some communities (photographers?) have taken G+ as their home. It was tongue-in-cheek and purely from my (PC, desktop, Windows/console game developer) perspective.
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by unsigner 13y ago
Herbalife, a company that sells vitamins and other health supplements through independent distributors, many of whom are lower-income Latinos or African-Americans. That's one way to put it, yes.
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by unsigner 13y ago
Lua can be sandboxed so your data file can't call arbitrary functions (but can still call a controlled subset, e.g. a function called RGB that does r 255 255+g*255+b so your colors are somewhat human-readable in the file, yet 24-bit in
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by unsigner 13y ago
Linus : G+ :: notch : Java
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by unsigner 13y ago
1 GiB, aka 128 MB of RAM and Firefox? On the Windows 7 machine I'm using to type this, Firefox uses 176 MB to show the empty-ish Google home page.
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by unsigner 13y ago
This is basically Pascal's Wager ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager ), and I don't think it resulted in many Christians recently. Why do you think it would work better wrt attitude towards globa
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by unsigner 13y ago
It's the definite article-d form of a diminuitive word; roughly "the mommy" in English. It has stuck as part of a common swear phrase, and consequently fallen out of other, general use. Used by itself, it is clearly recogniza
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by unsigner 13y ago
There are vestiges of dual case in many Slavic languages, and it's alive and well in Slovenian.
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by unsigner 13y ago
Funny you mention Swiftkey. I was recently setting up my daughter's cheap Android phone, when I decided to send a test Viber message to my wife. I started typing "Hello mom", and "mom" got autocorrected to a declina
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by unsigner 13y ago
I'm in Bulgaria, not Romania. We have similarly great residential Internet speeds and I think the article is wrong in attributing them to the sex industry. (I have no idea whether there are a significant number of similar businesses he
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by unsigner 13y ago
What drinchev said, plus: a significant proportion of the electorate is controlled (probably 10-15%) and outright bought (another 10-15%). The elections are technically fair, but those who have been in power for most of the last 25 years co
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by unsigner 13y ago
At some point Microsoft used a third-party solution called Aspera FASP to accept uploads of final game disc images. It was crazy fast - when you launched it, it reached our office' net connection speed within 10-15 sec, and other Inter

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