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by xsmasher 14y ago
XORLinkedList is most assuredly harder to debug then BasicLinkedList. Don't do it unless you hafta. In fact don't implement your own linked list at all, unless you have a specialized scenario that needs it (as proven by profiling).
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by xsmasher 14y ago
Yes, and tradition. A woman can get hired to work at a bank with pierced ears, but probably not with a pierced nose. There's nothing in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics that says one is more acceptable than the other, though. It's pure
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by xsmasher 14y ago
I'm not proposing a virtual machine or a new language; C++ and the Source engine seems to be working fine for LFD2 and Portal 2 and other AAA titles. I'm proposing liberal licensing for the engine and adding a simplified API for 2D games. Y
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by xsmasher 14y ago
Agreed - but making too-clever solutions for the easy 99% parts is a disease. I'm sure you've met arsonist developers that light buildings on fire just to see if they can escape them.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
In the "freemium" app world, which relies on in-app purchase, the big players pay for installs of millions in users in hopes that a few percent of them will become payers. In order for that to pay off you need to know what your conversion r
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by xsmasher 15y ago
That's part of the benefit of a CS degree - you get a common vocabulary for common problems and techniques.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Agreed. I've met some "language lawyers" that know the standards and libraries by heart, but can't seem to combine them to solve problems. Or they can, but they create overblown space-shuttle architectures that solve a metaproblem that far
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by xsmasher 15y ago
In the old UI there were many functions that were only accessible by knowing the keyboard command; they were not represented in the buttons or context menus at all. The change is awkward for old users, but definitely more accessible for new
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by xsmasher 15y ago
IQ is a terrible metric because "raw" intelligence is only one skill required to be a developer. It discounts creativity, people skills, personality, drive, domain knowledge, style, and learning speed. If I got a candidate with a 140 IQ who
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Spot on. Asking questions about esoterica (defined as any language feature that's >0 levels above their current level of knowledge!) is useless. I'd rather get a candidate to write some (relatively simple) code using what they do know
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by xsmasher 15y ago
JIT compilation is swell, if you don't count time time it takes to kick in. And you're still at the mercy of the garbage collector. If it doesn't matter because you can use C or C++ for critical parts... well you can do that from Objective-
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Sluggishness and battery life are big complaints about current-gen phones; going higher-level is probably not a good idea. I'm still not sure why Google went with Java over C++, other than thinking "phones are fast enough."
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by xsmasher 15y ago
A reference to Lotus 1-2-3 I presume.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
> I predict a surge in Linux popularity once Steam is ported, bypassing OSX. Why bypassing OSX? And why would linux support cause a flood of Linux games when it hasn't worked for OSX?
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by xsmasher 15y ago
What if Valve expanded "Source" from an engine to more of a platform? If you create your game for Source you can release on Win, Mac, Linux, and a SteamBox/console with relative ease? It's pie-in-the-sky, but that would be a game changer. A
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by xsmasher 15y ago
I like the quote, but am always turned off by the use "good taste" there, where it seems more appropriate to say "a particular taste." You create because you have a particular taste, you are successful if you have "good" taste as measured b
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by xsmasher 15y ago
I phrased it as a question because I don't know the answer either. I've heard that second life had a thriving economy of user-generated content and that some players "make a living" from the game; I've never seen hard numbers though. I doub
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Due diligence is called for. Has this business model been successful in other games? Do you have some advantage over the throngs who will gladly do it for free / recognition?
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by xsmasher 15y ago
No one here gets out alive - that's a truth. Every good thing is balanced by some bad thing, or vice versa - that's mystical bollocks. I wasn't sure which side of the line the OP was coming down on.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
>In life, no one gets off scot-free. That statement borders on cosmic woo-woo, but you make a good point about comparing your insides to other people's outsides. Not everyone is as happy/perfect as they appear in their well-groomed publ
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Bingo. Some of these kickstarted games may make massive profits; others may make the game, and then fail to sell many boxed copies because there's no market. Then they've essentially broken even. That may be a success in their eyes - they g
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by xsmasher 15y ago
One wouldn't want to be accused of practicing law without a license, in a state where one is not licensed.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
My definition of "A" people is "can do the job without being taught how to do the job." This is a necessity at a start-up where there is no one else to teach you how to perform your role, because your role is new. "B" people are fine for la
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by xsmasher 15y ago
And iOS has a smaller set of GPUs, and a common compression scheme (PVR)
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by xsmasher 15y ago
I feel the comment contributes to an all-male, boys-club atmosphere. I don't see anything that pokes fun at that atmosphere.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Looking past the "women servants" message there's the implication that "developers are men, and we'll have women there to serve them beer." DO you think a female developer would feel welcomed by that message? The servants bit is a joke, the
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by xsmasher 15y ago
Buying a cell carrier, movie studio, or music label would only alienate other partners. Apple's other acquisitions were software, to compliment their hardware business.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
> As crappy as the whole process can be it is still a million times better than pre-iPhone Nokia. The iOS submission process looks terrible compared to the approval required to, say, launch a website - but fantastic compared to submitti
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by xsmasher 15y ago
A different penguin on a different colored background might still be a trademark violation, based on trade dress or being confusingly similar.
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by xsmasher 15y ago
The space suits in alien were his design.

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