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by zach 16y ago
Very true, and ultimately why I think Clojure is a lot more ripe for nontraditional markets than expecting it to break into mainstream game development. There may be quirky and clever developers who put Clojure into mainstream game technol
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by zach 16y ago
As a game developer, the treatment of perception vs. presumed authority about the state of a system resonated with me. Trying to infer a state of a system, given observations that are already in the past, is something networked game develo
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by zach 16y ago
Excellent! Well, I guess we have the first article for the wiki then.
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by zach 16y ago
The recent New Yorker article indicates that Mark put in a lot more than 1000 hours of programming before his freshman year. Search for ZuckNet: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_...
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by zach 16y ago
My favorite style, which I think maps well to functional use, is to have the entirety of game state (including random number seeds, etc.) be in one "world" data structure, call it W. Then, you collect all your input (say, controller axis v
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by zach 16y ago
I'd actually never read that series, although I had seen links to it a couple time. Just read through it and a few things should be pointed out: 1. The author has had second thoughts about his original conclusions: http://prog21.dadgum.co
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Crazy hot possibility - GPU based GIS Database processing(work.rowanmalling.com)
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by zach 16y ago
As a word of warning, nearly every single lead programmer I know (in games) find that their schedule and responsibilities tend to expand to the point where they have annoyingly little time to focus on writing code. The sole exception I can
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by zach 16y ago
The best way is to see the transcribed credits on MobyGames: http://www.mobygames.com/ IGN is generally good but not totally reliable if you just want to identify the studio that developed the game. As a bonus, their pages for a particul
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by zach 16y ago
The sleeper feature of these pads is clearly using them while chatting up girls for their phone number.
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by zach 16y ago
I think that scenario would work out if: - Notch is not too busy. At least not too busy to temporarily shift his focus to supporting an iPhone version. - He was disappointed that the game wasn't growing fast enough, not being on the iPhone
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by zach 16y ago
Chris Sawyer made at very least $10 million on Roller Coaster Tycoon, which he developed with only the aid of an artist. He programmed it (in assembly language) and only after it was completed did he go out and get a publishing deal. I'm su
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by zach 16y ago
I hope it's clear that this is targeted to nontraditional Facebook advertisers. Ones that wouldn't advertise at $1 per click, maybe even at $0.10 a click because they aren't running highly targeted ecommerce with $20+ conversions or other
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by zach 16y ago
I don't believe the launch image is something you can just forgo.
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by zach 16y ago
I actually saw that video! I thought that was more of a convenient input switcher if you only have one HDMI port rather than the new way Google is transforming your TV experience. I at least expect the same stuff I can watch on my PC, perso
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by zach 16y ago
Google now appears either laughably naïve in suggesting this would "just work" business-wise, arrogant for thinking that they wouldn't get the same treatment Boxee received from Hulu et al. for the same reason, or negligent for jerking arou
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by zach 16y ago
You should definitely check out this recent thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878559
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by zach 16y ago
Wow, that picture and video linked to the article is fantastic. I actually never heard about how the Kinect worked, but once you see that you really get it. I'm a lot more impressed now that I know about the hardware details!
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by zach 16y ago
The Facebook Credits team has the same dream you do. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/technology/23facebook.html
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by zach 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPsGa0tpUc
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by zach 16y ago
Of course, they can, er, manage the price point of the suite in the future. It's a per-month charge, after all. To me it's clear that it's about the total lifetime customer revenue rather than adding up monthly prices. Especially since th
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by zach 16y ago
Orbitz turned out okay despite having a flight-related name, right? I like choosing a broad name (there's certainly enough examples of that within travel) but I'm more interested to see how the cutesy name and branding works for them. It s
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by zach 16y ago
At least you could submit. They had some sort of catastrophe four years ago when I tried to submit -- there was just some sort of "come back in a few months... yeah" blurb. I forgot all about it until I saw this, so I guess I'll check back
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by zach 16y ago
Used it, presented a site to a client with it, love it. The level of detail on design elements is nice, so things can get blocked out without the distractions of too-polished design (i.e. hundreds of icons, custom images). Really appreciat
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by zach 16y ago
That's right, the line of == is just in the engine stuff, wasn't it? The tools guys always do slashes for their Doxygen stuff. I remember seeing the == when I worked on Daikatana, but now that I think of it, it was in the Quake 2 source b
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by zach 16y ago
I know what you're talking about pretty well (I used a macro to generate those things). I always figured it was a trace of a more rigorous documentary scheme used for automatically generating scripting documentation or something. Like onc
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by zach 16y ago
PG at Startup School, 2006: The median visitor will arrive with their finger poised on the Back button. Think about your own experience: most links you follow lead to something lame. Anyone who has used the web for more than a couple weeks
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by zach 16y ago
"During the nine months ended September 30, 2010, we also completed 37 other acquisitions for a total cash consideration of approximately $626 million. These acquisitions were not material individually or in aggregate." Mind-boggling. Well
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by zach 16y ago
Of course -- everyone in games seems to use Perforce. There are no better alternatives, including p4-git, and believe me, I've looked. Subversion is passable but slow. Even though I use git for all my personal stuff, if I started a consol
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by zach 16y ago
When I finally set up a proper office this year, I was too daunted by the prospect and cost of buying a proper chair. I just bought a used standing desk setup off Craigslist and a foam mat from Amazon. I haven't had back problems so I wasn

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