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I think you're correct... saying that you created a AAA title means that you can compete with major game studios... I think.

However, in my opinion AAA doesn't apply to scope or budget but quality of experience. Super Meat Boy is one of the best games I've played in years and it doesn't come anywhere near the scope of say GTA 5 (which is also awesome).

I don't think anyone calls SMB a triple-a title though... so I'd say wikipedia's definition is correct.

So then, I think the real issue here is aiming to make a game that compete with major studios who have budgets of $50m and employ hundreds of specialized team members.

These devs claim it was a passion project, but then they throw in the towel on the entire concept of running an indie studio after the negative reviews come in. I understand the bankruptcy move, but if I were the founder's shoes, I would move somewhere cheap, take a side job and keep making games on the side. If I still loved the Wolfie project, I would fix it for free and I would find a way to send my KS backers whatever I owe them. I would read every negative review of my game, try to bucket the feed back (something like: legit, semi-legit, ignore) and then fix the game. I would also print my favorite positive reviews and hang them up around the house for motivation.
If I no longer believed in the game, I would build something new but smaller. 13 years is a long time to wash down the drain due to one failure.

Currently I'm trying to make indie games along with my gilfriend. She has no formal 3d art training but has been teaching herself via the internet. I learned Unity and have been teaching myself c# / cg and all the other shit that goes with 3d game development (I come from a python / js background). We will most likely fail hard but I don't understand the concept of quitting when you got into something for fun in the first place.

edit: it also sounds like these guys tried to build their own engine... or something. If they did, that was a bad idea. If they didn't, I don't understand why they had so many issues with collision detection. Haven't played the game though... its just odd to hear that they had major collision detection issues.
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The only way to make a "AAA" game on a low budget now, competing with the massive asset libraries AAA games build up, is to create some kind of easily modded game, where players can build their own assets.

Minecraft does this, in a way. Instead of a villiage-sized Barbie / GI Joe playset (with everything perfectly designed), you get a giant bucket of lego bricks.

Not that Minecraft / df style games have done much better on Kickstarter.
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Why is it hard to send a kid to a summer camp, or a community program? There are all kinds of groups children can attend.

I see zero evidence for the idea that it's 'very difficult' to expose home schooled kids to diversity. Indeed it's much easier to do so than with public schooled kids.
Yea, I was using Github for Mac previously, and all of my non-Github projects ported over to the Github Desktop app. Like the other reply said, you just have to manually clone and the 'Add' it.
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I will say that I have actually been in this situation and have chosen to be transparent with our employees. It was really, really hard but it was also the right thing to do, in my mind.

Thanks for the comment about board support, harryh. There is another angle to this, which is that the investors / board should also be there to provide support / help as necessary. If they didn't do so, that is also very unfortunate.
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These ones maybe: http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/cog-projects/ (linked from the Release Notes: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6207 )
In the US you can use http://www.arcadiapower.com/, it doesn't cover everywhere but it's a nice start!
I think our society is not this unfree provided you are willing to fight. Several government agencies have the power through fear to do something like this when they deem it necessary, and a very small dev team with no resources or company lawyers to back them up would be an easy target. Sure, fighting such a seizure might yield success, but it is a lot of time and energy and money to devote to a cause. This is the same reason why many people settle lawsuits out of court instead of seeing them through.
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Can I do anything with this that I can't already do from the website, or is it just the same tools with a nicer native UI? In other words, is this somehow bridging the gap between the site and the git CLI (which could be useful for some of my less tech-savvy collaborators)?
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> DigitalOcean users get two free months of Bitnami access.

Uh, I don't really understand what "Bitnami access" constitutes. Once I've done the install, I don't really need Bitnami for anything more, right? right? Does that mean everyone who wants to do a Bitnami-powered install should hurry up and do it now, before they have to pay to get access to the Bitnami installer?
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I found Arc version 3.1 on arclanguage.org. It does compile to (Mz)Scheme - but it does not use the MzScheme macro expander. It reads Arc program as an s-expression. Compiles the program and produces an mzscheme program also represented as an s-expression. The "problem" is that s-expressions doesn't track source location of identifiers. That made it impossible for the old Arc implementation to reuse the MzScheme tools.

Some the libraries were written using Arc-macros that expanded into simpler Arc constructs, but MzScheme macros weren't uses in that process.

Note: PLT Scheme was the names used when MzScheme, DrScheme and a few other tools was distributed together.
Memory issues can be caused by a number of things.
There's been a lot of work done to improve some leakages around the logging -- both by being able to disable logging if you don't need it or switch to a different logger, and general improvements to the default jsonlog logger.

There's also been a known issue around creating lots of `docker exec` instances and those references not being released (so you can query for status later), this is also resolved.

It would be awesome if you could profile it and submit a bug report with how you are using docker and where you are seeing memory growth.
Let me know how I can help so we can get this resolved.
All you have to do is look at the budget, schedule, and people count of any game ever. This is not secret information (big picture numbers, anyway). Okay, so maybe EA is non-optimal due to corporate hoo haa, and a lean team can do more. That doesn't begin to account for a budget of 50K replacing a 100+ person, 1+ year death march effort.
My thoughts exactly. How different from OS X can it be?
Hasn't this been available for a while now? I know I'd been using it for at least a few months up until recently. I made the switch to Sourcetree the other day and haven't looked back. I never realize how infuriating not being able to see changes in a repo at a glance without clicking into it was until I suddenly could.

Can't speak to any more advanced differences though. I'm still very, very new to git.
One thing I've learned over the years is that sometimes people who succeed are sort of ignorant about the scale of the problem they are trying to solve -- they succeed over tremendous odds. It's not correct to think everyone sees things rationally every time and should've seen the obvious.
I would not write performance sensitive code in Erlang, so no. I'd be more interested in a book about distributed programming than a book about optimization.
You are the guys who made Crash Bandicoot?
Thanks for making my childhood awesome.
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I wouldn't say its a standard. It's more that those who do pronounce it correctly can't be bothered correcting a sea of semi-literates any longer. Dictionaries are no longer the bastion of language they once were as they now stuff in new faddish words at the drop of a hat.

Too bad they don't also have a removal process to remove them once they've had their few years of trendiness and are forgotten.
You seem to have misread my comment.

The comment by meric above seemed to be making a claim ("If there's positive (accounting) profit, it's worth doing!") about the general case, in which case opportunity cost is an important element.

If the claim was meant to be narrowly about this particular situation, then I still think a note that opportunity cost is likely to be low is an important piece of the analysis.

I never said (and did not mean to imply, and don't think I did) that including it would change the conclusion - just that omitting it left the argument incomplete.
It's kinda cool that he mentions the kids throughout.

So many greedy people feel attacked by this kind of thing, and react to the implicit allegation that they're being wasteful with condescension, muttering about the selfishness or oddness of not having kids, or then again about how much of a difference having to support a family makes and how unrealistic idealists are.

As I heard it said once, Lawful evil: "I did it for my family".
I did not get to DL yet (did just RF+GBM so far).
Yes! GOOL/GOAL (see [1]) was a lisp-family language. See [2] for an explanation by the guy who developed it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

[2] - http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...
The "top remark" in Graham's remarks:

If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com,
you should probably change your name.

That's not the case here. The advice on changing names is narrow. The easy part of a future name change, picking a new name has been done. The hard part, getting the domain is also done. The bad part, opportunity cost, can be avoided until the company is big enough that there are staff to handle the name change as a normal part of their collateral duties. The description of "playing house" in Before the Startup [1] is sort of implied in the question.

As they say, " All happy companies are happy in their own way." The details matter both in Graham's essays and in the applicability of any action for any particular startup.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html
That's a pretty bad definition of a AAA game. I'd say it's a game that is up to the current standard in video gaming, which is rapidly evolving. This means that the graphics aren't archaic, the game content has appropriate magnitude (the game doesn't feel short, or lacking in items, game levels/areas etc. as applicable for each genre). It's the level of "polish" the game has. Now that implies the team sizes and budgets, but not that the game will be a bestseller. It can be a total flop, although the high cost of producing such game implies that it has significant marketing, which should bring at least some sales.
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I did not get to DL yet (did just RF+GBM so far). Stay tuned...
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I tried GitHub for Windows but found it a bit dumbed down. Switched over to Atlasian's Source Tree and never looked back.
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Almost all states have a required test to prove grade level equivalency for all students. As education is mandatory for "school age" children; these tests not only prove capability but that the parents are actually doing the legal duty to provide education.

College entrance is NOT an issue. After comparing SAT/ACT scores ever university I know prefers home schooled kids over most candidates, including all but the very best private school students. The academics I have talked to say that home schooled students are both more likely to graduate and do better academically than their non-home schooled counterparts (although I haven't seen any specific numbers to prove it.)
Hopefully not in London then :)

Let me say you can find better opportunities outside the field
Github probably considers the "depth" of git use by the average user to be one of its KPIs. Git is extremely powerful, if you are only doing checkouts and commits you are under-utilizing the tool and also underutilizing the service.

So it's smart for Github to build tools that lower the bar for a) understanding git, and b) using git's more powerful features.

Useful metrics would be things like the percentage of users who use the pull request flow, use it with at least one comment per pull request, have pull requests that get revised, etc. etc.

I'd guess that part of the growth potential driving Github's valuation is the notion that git's power features add significant productivity/value and that github is uniquely positioned to let a significantly large number of developers and teams make optimal use of those features for development and collaboration.
You have to manually clone bitbucket stuff in. It supports that properly, with logins and all that. But you can't do it via the UI.
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Why would that reduce costs? Miners would have to compete for memory & CPU then.

Even altcoins that have tried this approach have seen custom hardware appearing if the coin grows popular enough.

The approach just seems to be a desperate hope that home users will be able to mine profitably, but ultimately it still fails because those with more resources will win out.
I don't know, I didn't pay attention to most of the failed projects, but the matchstick guys seemed honest enough (they too took a road to difficult for them). Especially considering they'd refund everybody. Yet people seemed quite angry.
I set number of partitions = number of cores, so should be good.
I always thought it would be better to measure a student by how much they've learned not how good they are. For example one student would be on algebra 1 and another on calculus. I think it is easier emotionally to think of someone else as just farther along than better than you. Traditional in room lecture based learning required all students to be at the same point. This is a terrible assumption because many times it's not true. Assume a student was not able to focus during Algebra 1 because of a tragic event during that year, like the loss of a parent. Without herculean effort that student will be lost in geometry, trig, and calculus because they lack the Algebra 1 foundation. One year of missed learning turns into four.

I hope that MOOCs allow for this to be fixed. No longer would the assumption need to be made that all students need learn at the same pace. This means the 40% of gifted kids won't be bored, and 20% of kids who learn a little slower won't be hopelessly lost.

The other benefit to the learning being self paced and through computers is that you could test progress through small quizzes. If a student failed a quiz, she could simply relearn the material. This eliminates, the TEST, a huge unnecessary stresser in children's lives. You could also test material from several quizzes ago to make sure the important points are hammered home through spaced repetition.

Most teachers I know currently spend 80% of the year teaching to the test. Self paced materials means that you'll be able to measure performance of a kid and a teacher by how they do over a year, and not how they do on one day.

Anyway that's my dream of MOOCs and automated learning in the class room :).
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Yeah, the term AAA can be a bit slippery. Thankfully, the year 2015 gave us a game that feels like the proverbial "spherical AAA game in a vacuum": The Order 1886. Seriously, it might not be the best game ever, but it feels like it was made to become the definition of "AAA look" for the next year at least. And yes, making a game of such visual quality with only 10 people is flat out impossible with current technology, and it's hard for me to even imagine the technology that would make it possible.
smartgit is very nice, but there are many mnore GUI clients on linux you can find very easily.
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I really do enjoy this, thank you very much! I may try and do a writeup of the possible physics at some pint with your permission, would that be okay? (Also Uwaterloo represent!)
Software Engineers are covered by TN visas though, under the 'Engineers' category. That might be easier for you instead of 'Computer Analyst'. You need a degree and a job offer (where the title is Software Engineer). I think most large software companies in the US will happily hire TN visa people. Also large companies usually have immigration lawyers on tab which makes the visa process much more reliable.
Ok that's great that means you can make another one!
Technically, this looks like a cool hack.

I've never found submitting an app for app review to be that big of a deal, if your app is well designed, useful, and not negligent or malicious toward user needs.

Your FAQ says what you're doing is explicitly permitted by Apple, and points to section 3.3.2 of the iOS Developer Program Information document.

But what about section 3.3.3?

3.3.3
Without Apple’s prior written approval or as permitted
under Section 3.3.25 (In App Purchase API), an
Application may not provide, unlock or enable
additional features or functionality through
distribution mechanisms other than the App Store
or VPP/B2B Program Site

Finally, you do realize that the App store policies are subject to change in order to adapt to hacks like this, right?

Again cool hack but it will be interesting to see if it gets out of the starting gate.
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Minecraft is in no way a "AAA" game.

Yes, it's a hugely popular game, but it is the archetype of "indie game done good".
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As the article notes, module technology and module costs are no longer the most significant barrier to solar adoption---so if you're in software, the greatest opportunities to have significant impact are probably in tearing down the numerous _other_ barriers to widespread adoption.

To use the situation I'm most familiar with: there are hundreds of millions of people in emerging economies who live off-grid and spend tens of billions of dollars annually on expensive fuel-based energy. They'll switch to solar tomorrow if we [1] can solve the problem of upfront financing [2]. It's the same problem that SolarCity, Sunrun, et al. are tackling in the US. This problem is the kind that gets solved by, among other things, developing the same kind of enterprise-targeted mobile/web/backend/data systems familiar to any developer at a modern SaaS company (but targeting a different, unusually interesting and important market, with some unique challenges).

[1] https://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/selling-ener...
Another good alternative cookware is Le Creuset. They make nice enameled cast-iron products, and they work well. I think Costco carries them as a white-label now and then.
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It looks like you're sending the whole JS bundle when doing a deploy, do you think you'll support async loading? Would help with massive applications and other speed related optimizations.
Short answer: their creditors.

Long answer: depends on their circumstances in bankruptcy court. The company could potentially reemerge from bankruptcy with the creditors owning it. Or the court might rip the company apart and sell off assets to pay back creditors. The money Steam owes the company is just another asset.
"Pearson had a 50% stake in the Economist but only 6/13 board seats."

And the board isn't even that powerful, it needs consent from the Trustees for many things, such as appointing the editor and the chairman:

http://www.economistgroup.com/results_and_governance/trustee...
A better question is what do you think isn't wrong with News Corp.?
On the receiving end, yes. PSA: You have to pay taxes. And in Belgium, you have to pay A LOT of taxes. It's one of the most taxed countries in the world: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012...
It says that people don't understand what Kickstarter is: you are investing in a project, not buying a product. Investments carry risk.
I use http://rabbitvcs.org/ (it's a nautilus plugin, so basically it's got the TortoiseSVN style context menu interface), and find it great. Having said that, my main work is with SVN, only use git for interacting with open source projects I need to submit PRs to etc.
> What it calculates per hour as a job has nothing to do with anything; you said 10k wasn't enough to overcome fees, that's absurd

I agree that is absurd, but I said no such thing.

I don't think it's a sensible use of time, but of course you can beat just the fees.
Yes it does. Statistically, all Linux users running Firefox have been adversely affected when they needn't have been.
Homeschooling in the simplest form requires a stay-at-home parent (traditionally the mother) to dedicate his/her time to teaching the kids. So, if you already have to send your kids to daycare, then you probably will find homeschooling difficult to accomplish.

For what its worth, Sudbury Schools [0] provide an interesting alternative to homeschooling. (TIL there is a Sudbury school in my area! [1])

Your comment points to the fact that, for at least some parents, schools amount to daycare with education tacked on.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sudbury_schools#United...
This is common in any project. Optimism is like a 9 year old boy at a cake/pie buffet. You should expect there to be vomit.
When you see police/cops in India or Pakistan, the first thoughts to cross the mind are a) What excuse are they going to make to rob you b) How can you bribe/pressure them in letting you go.
"More than a few people are rich off strategies as simple as buy when price breaks a 20 day high and sell when price breaks a 20 day low."

More than a few people are broke off such strategies, too.

While momentum strategies manifestly can work out, there is no guarantee that the "momentum" is actually present. As my econ prof put it, "The market isn't going; it went."
If you're asking for sit/stand, not necessarily adjustable, grab one of these:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90087541/

And pair it with a bar stool. I've done just that and it's got me standing more often than the 5x more expensive adjustable solution would have done. That's assuming the default position for the adjustable would have been down. Which it would have been for me. It's sturdy, compact and tidy when coupled with the under-desk cable-tidy (just fits diagonally).

I've lost the comfort factor of the big chair and desk, but I've gained a more active default position. It's also easier to wham the treadmill under the desk when I'm feeling lively.

Folks, I do try not to be a tragic startup cliché.
I don't know why, but this was the first question that popped into my head after seeing the diagrams:

Does anyone make bricks in these shapes? Those would make an awesome paver pattern.
Github lives on money. Their product happens to deal with (open) source code.
git cherry picking was nice, under magit it's even better.
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That'll be why every non-gaming software company has a bunch of ex-game developers who now make indie games in their own time...
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