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   by zeroname 8y ago

   A failed big-budget video game title would be far more expensive than these little hardware experiments. Steam machines weren't expensive either, OEM PC costs are nothing compared to a "real" console rollout, with custom hard
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   by zeroname 8y ago

   > Valve was great 10 years ago, but they are now facing competition from GoG, Discord, independent distribution, bigger gaming companies, mobile gaming, etc. "Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the rev
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   by zeroname 8y ago

   The non-obnoxious solution for that not-so-big problem is explicit conversions, not a whole new set of ugly multi-character operators.
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   by zeroname 8y ago

   Walked into OCaml back in the day. Saw floating point operators. Slowly backed out of the room, never to return.
5. 455.▲
   by zeroname 8y ago

   Consider the possibility that these "toxic environments" are in fact not the norm, but the exception, especially in Silicon Valley in 2018. The person who wrote this blog post has never even worked in the US.