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by wlievens 12y ago
I don't see how the code is any more or any less relevant for a game than for any other pure software product.
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by wlievens 12y ago
If the people who made those choices were democratically elected then yes it is democracy at work. That is how representative democracy works.
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by wlievens 12y ago
That would be an API for asset management. OpenGL doesn't do that. It does do textures and shaders though.
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by wlievens 12y ago
When has a modern government told its citizens to panic?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Technical superiority (which is subjective) is not really that connected to value.
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by wlievens 12y ago
True, they literally saw it, and aside from those few spin-off sets, they didn't act. On the other hand, LEGO has no experience managing a software product, the LEGO themed games are all outsourced, and around that time they had a pret
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by wlievens 12y ago
You'd probably enjoy Anathem by Neil Stephenson in that case.
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by wlievens 12y ago
The price paid by Microsoft is approximately LEGO'S yearly revenue. A bit too steep?
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by wlievens 12y ago
It continues to surprise me that there are actual adults who care about the number of likes they get. I've never really understood that part of the Facebook "game" to be honest.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Do you know which image sensors it uses?
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by wlievens 12y ago
That would probably require almost as much fuel as sending a new one and obviously the ISS doesn't have that fuel on board.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Typically a -like doesn't imply a port, but rather a game inspired by .
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by wlievens 12y ago
Really cool. May try to make something like this for jCommander.
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by wlievens 12y ago
If you're implementing, say, a general-purpose accounting system, from scratch, then I think your requirements and feature set is well known beyond the "a few weeks" horizon, and planning that feature set months in the future
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by wlievens 12y ago
Sure it can. User story: "The software is orders of magnitude too slow. Rewrite it from the ground up using scalable technologies."
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by wlievens 12y ago
In this hypothetical scenario? Any number of nonfunctional requirements.
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by wlievens 12y ago
But what if you actually have a 6 month backlog of real user stories? As in, you know these requirements pretty well, for instance because you're re-implementing a legacy system?
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by wlievens 12y ago
So... agile?
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by wlievens 12y ago
I suggest you read up on the effect of the words of killers in Rwanda in 1994.
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by wlievens 12y ago
But what are the odds of one out of a few dozen reviews to be written by your friend or even foaf?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Isn't a "wiki-style site" by definition just a wiki?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Or he spends a lot of time on a hobby after work just like plenty of other reasonable and self-supporting people [without kids] do?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Wasn't the case for me. We had several courses that were team efforts, and the typical method was to determine a shared team score, and then let individual scores deviate by a small margin (+- 2/20 at most) from that, based on the
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by wlievens 12y ago
XML parsers are so complicated because XML and the DOM are more complicated. A json parser can be simpler.
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by wlievens 12y ago
Inside The Making Of The Documentary About How Movies About Film Studios Are Made
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by wlievens 12y ago
There's a good reason it's called the Nurse Scheduling Problem, not the Barrista Scheduling Problem :-) When my twins were in NICU, it hit me what a challenge it must be to schedule nurses in such a unit. Accross the three shifts
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by wlievens 12y ago
Isn't ASML still pursuing EUV?
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by wlievens 12y ago
I don't actually mean particular jobs, bur rather that 20% of any job that everyone hates. Almost no job on earth is fun 100% of the time. But if I were to bail on the part of my job that I don't like, my end users will be pissed
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by wlievens 12y ago
But without a personal incentive, nobody will want to do the stuff that isn't fun, or is very risky. How about that?
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by wlievens 12y ago
Same where I live (Belgium), typical limit is around 150 gig.

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