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by zubat 10y ago
Yes. It was more common than you think to use a 30hz update, even back then - those CPUs simply couldn't do very much, and it made more intensive scenes possible. Mega Man, to name one famous example, struggles to hit 30hz at points. T
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by zubat 10y ago
Ok, but how do I get on the coffeeshop wifi if Chrome is my only browser and it throws up a warning page with no "ignore and continue" before I can log in? This is already an issue for me today. Fortunately I can still tell it to
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by zubat 10y ago
Emulation has been used for mainframe line-of-business type stuff for quite a while, perhaps the longest. But games get much more attention since emulating the system is an extremely popular way to preserve access to the experience. That sa
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by zubat 10y ago
The fears of globalization are various and not as simple as a GDP or employment rate. It promotes an uprooting and destabilization of people's lives as everything becomes more competitive. There is no guarantee that you stay near home,
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by zubat 10y ago
With a lot of hiring processes I get the impression of filters tuned to the exact match of skill and experience requirements, plus some padding. This is systemically bound to fail because the candidate pool for any one cross section of a gr
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by zubat 10y ago
It's dogwhistle politics. It's unlikely that anyone in the thread can claim authoritative knowledge on this topic - but it gets aired constantly in the media, so now everyone feels as if they should have a Strong Opinion, and thei
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by zubat 10y ago
OK. I don't know if Carbide was designed for this or not but I suddenly had a vision of a data viewer widget that is just an entire notebook system with a custom initial state. That would be pretty handy and I could imagine folks chuck
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by zubat 10y ago
Pay attention to everything that is apparently mundane and ordinary. Don't dismiss it as normal or uninteresting. The more different things you can appreciate in this way, the easier it is to let go of the "surface stuff" and
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by zubat 10y ago
It's one of the kinds of problem statements that gets habitually distorted by the technology we have to hand. Here we naturally envision it as something that a computational system might represent. But as soon as we solve some fraction
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by zubat 10y ago
Yep. Every computer of the era ended up with a boing ball clone - it was just that iconic. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwwqt3ue2M
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by zubat 10y ago
The answer, I think, is that the majority aren't engineering firms but are led by sales.
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by zubat 10y ago
Only if you want it that way.
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by zubat 10y ago
Just the other day I cooked up some ground beef from Trader Joe's that was obviously adulterated. It cooked up with an odd texture and filled the house with a cheese-like smell that wouldn't go away for days. Beef should not smell
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by zubat 10y ago
We also didn't have great search capability yet. A document lived alone unless the author took pains to connect it. A lot of my surfing was done via other people's linkdumps. This was good in some respects since it encouraged a hi
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by zubat 10y ago
The way I would put it - a delicate framing - is that the market is honest, not correct. The situation is such that most people think they can stay in a little longer even as the analysts are pointing to all sorts of warning signs. There is
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by zubat 10y ago
It's a half truth. You can be sitting at a plateau in terms of how the game is percieved until you add a key piece of tech or a particular asset. Ideally, you can prove 100% of the concept in a preproduction state, where everything is
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by zubat 10y ago
The Boston region was, once upon a time, thought to be competitive with SV. But it fell behind in hype at some point during the 80's and never came back. I would be unsurprised that it is a decent tech market even today!
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by zubat 10y ago
The FPU achieving mass adoption maps pretty well to the onset of "multimedia hype" (CDs, digital audio and video, and of course 3D game rendering). That content doesn't strictly need floating point, but it became an affordanc
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by zubat 10y ago
Browser content has to support all the features and they add up pretty quickly. For example a large scrolling list with thousands of items can be solved by a gamedev by mandating all content be the same size and applying a tiling rule. A li
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by zubat 10y ago
A pretty solid rule of thumb is that 32 bits has enough precision for rendering, physics needs doubles if it's going to use a lot of iterations. Simplified models like Super Mario jumps or the tractor beam in "Thrust" (single
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by zubat 10y ago
There are two use cases there that end up with a conflict of interest: One is the UX of having a crash during an important play session(high stakes match) and the other is the developer ease of tracing and debugging errors, which favors cra
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by zubat 10y ago
What blockchain products, in particular, tend to lack is a complete "economic engine" - there isn't a good or service built in the equation, just a marketing promise that transacting goods and services through the protocol is
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by zubat 10y ago
Find something that seems challenging and maybe a little scary. Maybe that means getting away from development somehow and picking up a complementary skill. You've already seen a lot of aspects of development, but in the larger picture
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by zubat 10y ago
Still valid and still somewhat beyond the state of the art for most genres of game. The point of an AI in a game experience typically isn't to be the best possible intelligence, but to support the experience by "losing gracefully&
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by zubat 10y ago
It's a good idea to bias entreprenurial in tech, IMHO. It's hard but it escapes the crush of the job search. If you can find a bit of investment that's even better.
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by zubat 10y ago
Risk assessment is really hard for individuals. If we did it rationally we'd never get anywhere. But I think "money in the bank" and "defense in depth" are pretty good rules of thumb. In the end your goal on any one
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by zubat 10y ago
I don't know what skyscrapers do but throughout SF one can find smaller houses that have subsided. They dealt with the problem by adjusting the sidewalk and adding ramps, some of which are absurdly steep now.
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by zubat 10y ago
Game dialogue definitely has an weak point in defaulting to an expository mode, and when this happens it's usually in tandem with a lot of other kitchen-sink elements that are "immersive" or "world-building" but don
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by zubat 10y ago
I use XML for a combination of features that I consider very important but are also perceived as "overkill": A source syntax that has already handled text escaping and encoding, lets me add some abstract structure, and lets me enc
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by zubat 10y ago
It's certainly true that China massively changed its land use policy following the PRC's formation. What I think is most interesting to consider, though, is whether the collectivization process had the same catalyzing action as en

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