xigency

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by xigency 10y ago
This quote was talking about the Steam Box team, a hardware team that was an enclave inside of a software company. It sounds really hokey for this team developing new hardware to be unable to bring in necessary talent for whatever reason. I
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by xigency 10y ago
"We were having a difficult time recruiting folks. We would interview very talented people but they would be rejected by the old timers at Valve as not fitting the culture." This sounds like a terrible environment to develop in.
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by xigency 10y ago
Anyone who quits after playing through the entire game in a week will be immediately crawling back as soon as the next new feature is released.
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by xigency 10y ago
Wow, this doesn't surprise me either, but that's not to say there shouldn't be more awareness! For example, one article from 2011 mentions a link between alcohol and stomach cancer: "If heavy drinking is a cause of stoma
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by xigency 10y ago
Just point to the button and select a shade of being able to point at the button and click a color. (Yes, that is confusing.) I don't think the author or the person interviewed has used Visual Basic, or understands why a developer migh
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by xigency 10y ago
As the late Christopher Welch said, Do not go back to college! Don't! Do not do that. Go work at Burger King. Go into the woods and forage for nuts and berries. Do not go back to college!
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Coding Horror: Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? (2006)(blog.codinghorror.com)
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by xigency 10y ago
Unfortunately, there is a hint as to how this has happened: "This strategy is no longer practical: users have come to rely on backreferences for at least occasional use, and backreferences are part of the POSIX standard for regular exp
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by xigency 10y ago
The key quote here is: "Regular expressions are one of computer science's shining examples of how using good theory leads to good programs ..." "Today, regular expressions have also become a shining example of how ignori
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by xigency 10y ago
Dart and Go each serve different platforms.
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by xigency 10y ago
How can you automatically update the SDK?
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by xigency 10y ago
Hm, they seem similar because both Li-Fi and free-space optical communication (FSO) use visible or near-visible spectra to send and receive information. I guess they might be seen differently as Li-Fi is potentially designed for indoor use?
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by xigency 10y ago
> In addition, this portion of the spectrum is not regulated Apart from not pointing a laser at a flying aircraft. I'm guessing this would be affected by weather.
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by xigency 10y ago
I would say historically, particularly after the French Revolution, France had a few missteps with democracy in general, but I can see your objection.
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by xigency 10y ago
Really, they were both bad for PS3 debugging.
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by xigency 10y ago
Probably not a backup of his email though!
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by xigency 10y ago
What's odd to me is that Epic Games is majority owned by Tim Sweeney, who has a < $1 billion net worth, and in serious and performance sensitive (VR) applications, UE4 is very difficult contention for Unity. Other than that, I&#x2
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by xigency 10y ago
Well, the business in the business is getting smaller, as it's still a terrible place to work. And the video game industry is always cannibalizing itself.
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by xigency 10y ago
Maybe around $500 million for the valuation, and I'm not sure what they need that much capital for ($181 million).
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by xigency 10y ago
In this case, video game technology would be a super-set of other applications. Take any non-game usage and turn it into a game, for example. First, I think Minecraft was an over-valuation as well. Second, it's more of a personal affro
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by xigency 10y ago
This seems like an incredible over valuation for a company in video game technology.
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by xigency 10y ago
So, every truck in the country needs modification so that owners of an expensive car can enjoy a luxury? This doesn't even come close to solving the problem. The same thing would have happened if a birch tree were laying across a bridg
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by xigency 10y ago
Nope, I'm pretty sure it's the players, the manager, and the front office. It's hard to go from 23-10 to fourth in the division.
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by xigency 10y ago
When I think of the bottom falling out on a team this year, I think of the White Sox. But maybe that's because I'm from Chicago.
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by xigency 10y ago
Right, but if a hacker releases a password dump for site X, no one has your password in plaintext, just the log in hash. That said, that solution requires JavaScript.
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by xigency 10y ago
It's probably closer to 98% and 2% of the time for serious math, engineering, and physics.
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by xigency 10y ago
I would place those three or four conversations on the same level, to be frank. Also, living somewhere that isn't a tech capital, I'm actually annoyed to hear programming language discussion on the bus in the city, but maybe that&
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by xigency 10y ago
This article has some examples - https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of... There is also some discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162 In this instance, some
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by xigency 10y ago
Not really, or it shouldn't be. If you have a few hours to spare each day on this hobby and you sit down each day and make a video game that you want to make, in very short time you might have five or ten different games that you'
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by xigency 10y ago
Yes, it's still very impressive. At any point in time these images could have gone up on gamedev.net as screenshots of the day/week. To those saying he should sell this game, I disagree. This is obviously a very interesting and pe

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