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GDC: How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwbYl6f11c

TL;DR: prepare for this to happen, and build a long tail of games/sales.

I don't want to sound mean but I don't think anyone should buy the game because they feel sorry and he is begging. I can't condone it. It has become trendy for people to make GoFundMe campaigns or write articles begging people to help.

Assume people do buy your game because they are sorry, and you manage to get by. Is that how you intend to create a sustainable business? What about other indie devs who failed, maybe even harder? Should they also write articles with their sad story? What about those who don't make it to the top of Hackernews? Should what is essentially charity support people taking risks?

I take this article as a cautionary tale of what could go wrong when you go indie, one of those that we need more of in face of the wild success stories that saturate media.
The time is also wrong, in three out of the four cases above.
The "replacement" implies that people you mentioned want to be replaced. I don't think that's the case; speeders will just disable AI and crank up the speed themselves. People who are reasonable enough to activate AI when they are drunk will probably just order a taxi now, and so on. The only way to have that "replacement" is to force the autonomy on drivers, but that's not gonna fly well on a market.
So to be clear :
In the US the government (or its representatives) can damage your property, and then isn't paying for those damages without hassle for the owner ?

Besides that :
Why does the police need to use this amount of force to apprehend someone with a gun ?
Couldn't they just isolate the guy, and cordon off the area so he can't harm others and then just wait ?
Unless there are hostages involved, or immediate danger to the public, it seems a more appropriate way is to de-escalate rather then escalate.
The figures for underemployment are down as well.
Are you saying it will create positive competitive edge for companies from Holland?
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730113
I've read Kiyosaki's book, but people have claimed he's exaggerating about his successes; if he's so successful why is he on TV trying so hard to sell his books, board games, and courses? And the 2 dads didn't really exist, they're figures he made up.
There were amazing cold war submarine battles during the cold war. Not full fighting, but skirmishing.

There was a story of a UK submarine which stole the communications turret off a USSR submarine. It was classified for years - but this sort of thing is slowly being declassified
>> As a Dutchie my Internet is largely unaffected by the FCC.

> You can't be more wrong. Since Netflix, Amazon, youporn, imgur, reddit will be affected by this

The same Netflix that reportedly has very poor show selection outside US? The
same Amazon that has its data centers all over the world? And the three
sites that are a pastime of little use and importance?

You need to do much better job at selecting examples to make your point
compelling.
Why not take the job for a year or two and have a (half) million to fund your startup?
I haven't seen it, but maybe I'm not running HN comments through bash. Regardless, your sed arguments (if you can call them that) make no sense. They just restate your original premise that organizations are the same as governments, ignoring the several points I raised.
The netherlands, which is one of the countries known to have some of the best net neutrality laws does for example have the pirate bay blocked, and it have been through the courts multiple times. There are many other countries with net neutrality who also blocks sites like the pirate bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_T...
Ask HN: Hackernews daily e-mail based on upvote count?
Does a solution currently exist where I can say "send me a daily e-mail with all HN stories over x upvotes"?

I know about the awesome Hackernewsletter and HNDigest. But I'm looking for something similar to the @newsyc100 and @newsyc200 Twitter accounts, only as a daily e-mail.

If it doesn't exist yet I'll have a found a neat little project for this weekend.

P.S.: I've put together a quick Squarespace page to gather your e-mail if you also want this. Either I'll make it myself, or I'll tell you where you can go to get it when I find out :-)
https://hackernewsemail.com/
Do articles on PC Gamer increase sales of your indie game? Polygon? Kotaku?
Hi,

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I think I found a small display bug.
Break up the biggest ISP's by force.
On Last mile in copper or fiber networks becomes easily a market failure due to large capital cost.

In many European countries (Finland for example) the last mile is divided by law into two services cable providers and internet provider. It can be the same, but other ISP's can get into business by making deal with the customer and renting the network. There are regulations for the maximum price of the rent.
Going from high expectations to no expectations is only half of the solution.

You can then try to expect people to just be human, and be delighted when their humanity shines in a good way.
I don't think you're in opposition - the argument being, what's going to happen to the location of those services if they're held to ransom by new data transfer fees?

Move them to another jurisdiction without them.

Investment into the EU (in the form of datacenters, locating jobs to prove the work is done there, and the transit costs in the new location).

That being said, the cynic in me agrees that broadly you're right, and whatever the companies do to mitigate the effects of it by moving hosting/transfer elsewhere, they'll use this as an excuse to jack the prices up regardless.
I'm a paying would-be user of ProtonMail. "Would-be" because it is simply not reliable enough. It is frustrating that they are diversifying (contacts, vpn) when I find the core product too unreliable to depend on.

I mainly have two problems: 1. The mobile client logs out spontaneously (or crashes and logs out) every once in a while and I have to reenter both the password and the TOTP code. Cumbersome, and really inconvenient if I'm on the go and for example my plane ticket is in ProtonMail. (I don't know my password and keep it in a password manager, inaccessible from my mobile), 2. The web client logs out whenever the browser is restarted. The web browser at least remembers the password, but I need to interact with my phone to get the TOTP code in. This means that I end up in a state where I don't get notifications for new mails, and I have to go and deal with it proactively. They recently released the "bridge", which runs as a daemon and lets me access the mail via IMAP. This alleviates the problem, but it is unfortunately still unavailable for Linux.

Are there any other happy or unhappy ProtonMail users out there? Am I alone in these frustrations?
But you need to make sure the niche is large enough to support your financial needs and that they want what you're making. Did he talk to his target audience or otherwise pre-qualify his niche? Also, did he promote his game or just rely on Steam? There is so much on Steam these days, what did he do to stand out?
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Nothing wrong with targeting a niche, IF the niche is willing to pay a hefty sum for their needs. In this case he sold 90 copies on Steam, I think that every pixel art dungeon crawler fanatic on Steam has a copy now.
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I would definitely like to see a post-post-mortem, and see how many sales being #1 here brought!
Great concept. Why hasn't anybody done this yet?
Yes, because it still wants your money. Saying "Now app X has a feature to do Y" is fine, but when it requires additional purchases to "do Y", it is an ad. If Hacker News would display "did you know you can subscribe to read grahamburgers next reply", but I have to pay before I can read, it is an ad.
Can a survey tell you how many people distrust surveys (as in, refuse to take them)?
Not practically, except when it is a single-statement transaction.

Where deadlock prevention becomes useful/necessary is single UPDATE/DELETE statements that span across multiple nodes. When those are executed in parallel they could deadlock against each other due to non-deterministic execution order.

Citus currently uses predicate locks to avoid these deadlocks, but there's probably some room for improvement there. On the other hand, for Citus use cases UPDATE and DELETE across shards are mainly batch operations (e.g., delete old data), so there's not a strong need for it yet.
Who should run Node.js 9.0.0
have you taken the course? is it any good?
600k base salary? What type of position is that?

Developer salaries in the big four (I assume you mean Google/Facebook/Amazon/Apple) are high but that is still twice what I normally hear (and have gotten offers for), and that's assuming you're talking about total comp. I'm not doubting you, i'm just curious what type of experience you need to get that.
"Structural iron and steel workers have parents who are structural iron and steel workers at a rate 155 times the rest of the population. This is higher than most of the jobs on our list." One thing I've noticed about steel workers, is that if you talk to them about their work, they'll start talking to you in an entirely different language, with all of the slang. As far as I can tell, you either know the slang from some sort of family connection or you don't. I think this generational reproduction is perhaps intentional.
Traceroute from Germany shows that none of leave continental Europe, at least not this morning. Are you suggesting that they'll cross-subsidise? That they will raise their euro-denominated prices in order to compensate for increased costs in the US?

They might. Of course. Vendors will raise prices where they think the market will bear it. But it seems strange to assume that by default, vendors will respond to raised costs in one market by raising prices in another.
int x[] = {5};
f(x);
// WHAT IS THE VALUE OF X HERE?

see, it works in C as well.
They private key is being sent to the server. Can't stress this enough. How else can you access your mail on a new device with your primary device disconnected?

"Your ProtonMail private key is stored encrypted on your browser using your mailbox password. It is sent to our servers in the encrypted form. The only time it is decrypted is when you correctly enter your mailbox password." [1]

[1] https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-is-the-pri...
I just pick my local store's brand. It's got the consistency and taste of wet cardboard but it gets me through the morning.
If I had a nickle every time a HN commenter said they make 500k+/yr as an engineer, I'd make 500k+/yr.
I see a lot of the discussion revolving around price, but I don't think this is the issue at all.

Wiping net neutrality would give ISPs - and by extension their shareholders / backers - leverage over any online content producer who cares about the US market.

To me the most worrying scenario is "hey guys, we might want to moderate our content more heavily, or we might be taken out of Comcast gold package next year".
I think solar would have to become cheaper before this becomes viable.

Luckily trends show that this will happen soon, but other challenges posed in Africa is political stability (e.g. government decides BitCoin mining is illegal or imposes unreasonable taxes due to lack of understanding), lack of competency, and other types of infrastructure.

The only countries I can see that are suitable are South Africa and Namibia.
The pixel art thing is quite trendy if the game is also good. Good Night Knight has been getting a lot of hype recently: http://knightdev.tumblr.com/
There is a device called an EPIRB that is often carried on sailboats. It is a floating radio transmitter that contacts a global satellite network in case of emergencies. It transmits a distress signal as well as its location.

It can be manually activated. It also activates automatically on contact with water.

I would imagine it would be possible to create an EPIRB-like device for submarines.
Isn’t that just security through obscurity?
The main advice should be: not another pixel art game.
Please.
We have enough of these. Folks let's move on from the 1970s.

Also this is getting tired seeing honest, hard-working, self-motivated talented individuals push themselves into the same tried and tested crappy old corner of 'indie pixel art games'. It's quite difficult to see anything innovative or even remotely enjoyable from this genre anymore.

It's not Romania. It's not boring buearacracy. Its not the savings. Hell it's not even you.

It's pixel art crap that passes off as indie games. I hate AAA games but now I hate these indie pixel art games even more.
That explanation makes sense (except partially for the sibling comment's point) but there is still something strange there.

In market terms, this is clients saying entry-level workers with lots of education provide zero value, or the risk outweighs the benefits. If that's true, it means that people need training until 30-somethings before they are valuable to society. Or our education system is broken.

Or it's not true and it's market manipulation. Given the choice between "no service" and "pay a fair entry-level price", many people will pay something.
>(Scrivener's Dropbox sync being frequently buggy may help explain why I'm asking about this for them...)

Hmm, never had an issue with Scrivener/Dropbox sync.

Mind you, I open Scrivener only 3-4 times a week and close it after I'm done with a document. I also don't use it frequently from my other machines (iMac/iPad), so it mainly syncs what I save on the main driver.
Well, the servers even of USian internet services need not be located in data centers in the US. So we'll just add the emigration of data centers to the list of negative consequences for the US.
Do you have any (online) references available for the average salaries? I'm quite interested in this but can't seem to find decent sources...
People with higher education often take better care of their bodies. Here is my theory: A couple of decades ago, IT didn't require much education, because there weren't many schools doing IT. So many people without higher education worked in IT.
I'll piggy back off of this and shamelessly plug my mind-mapping outliner app, Mindscope for iOS, for anyone on iPad or iPhone wanting to outline and collect everything without losing the forest for the trees since you simply "zoom" into the level of detail you need.

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Totally agree with you.
But based on my experience most Romanian people do not have a very good "plan ahead" culture. Usually they start something as soon as they have the minimum requirements met and that is because they really want to not let the opportunity pass, because in the past opportunities were very very scarce (in every domain) . And this lack of opportunities made a very deep dent in the Romanian culture.
Austerity is what the Greeks have had to put up with, we have had a mild belt tightening. We have unemployment lows whilst southern European countries have 40% youth unemployment.
I'm also the 3rd in my family. My dad got me a Lego RIS 2.0 and down the rabbit hole I went.
It started with my Grandpa[1] in the 50s.

[1] https://books.google.de/books?id=nDWPW9uwZPAC&lpg=PA295&ots=...
let mut bytes = path.bytes();
if let Some(end) = bytes.rposition(|&x| x != SEP) {
if let Some(idx) = bytes.rposition(|&x| x == SEP) { &path[idx..end] } else { &path[..end] }
} else { "" }

There are other ways to do this, like using a single iterator where we scan manually, but I just threw this together to demonstrate that this code needn't use unsafe, & by extension needn't use pointers. All that unsafe stuff is more so that if you need to drop down to C from safe-Rust you can instead use unsafe-Rust
Halve you looked at gathering like minded people and starting a WISP?

The problem with specialist isps is they tend to attract expert users, who are currently subsidised by the average Joe. If your ISP has a 1G port upstream for $3k a month, and 100 customers, you'd be paying $30 for 10mbit each, excluding the rest of the isp's costs, which we'll put at $30/month/customer.

So they should charge $60pcm for 10mbit, but instead they sell 500 customers at $32/month, and offer up to 20mbit. This covers the upstream port, but one gives you 2mbit, but it sets the expectation that bandwidth is far cheaper than it really is.

Start up a fair ISP and you'll have to win customers who see your option at $60/10mbit // $90/20mbit, or the competitor at $32/20mbit. You'll need to attract 100 customers to pay for your uplink for 3 times the price. You'll then realise those numbers don't really work for a small isp - with 100 customers at $60/month minus upstream you'll have $3k/month for running costs.
You'd be surprised. Lots of cases of people fired because of a blogger etc asking for their heads -- even for things totally irrelevant to their job.
This sounds interesting - can you explain further?
> Pixel art dungeon crawlers aren't cool.

I bought at least 3 of them. My steam recommendations are full of them and many have big, happy communities. I think "aren't cool" is a bit of an overstatement. They're not AAA level cool, but few things are.
The UK suffered from the financial crisis because it has an outsized financial sector.
Also email addresses and names are not encrypted in PM. What's the use then?
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But generally there's no point in doing pointer arithmetic unless you are going to deference the pointer at some point, right?
If you're going to quit your job, and put your savings on the line, do it for something that doesn't look so generic and uninspired.
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You also get good results tweaking this particular knob if you have large amounts of RAM. If your blocks are almost always in OS cache, you are almost never going to make random seeks even if the PostgreSQL planner thinks you are.
There's also a wonderful open-source command-line suite for intefacing with iOS devices: http://www.libimobiledevice.org

The idevicebackup2 command lets you do encrypted backups and restores.

The ifuse command lets you mount the iPhone as a fuse fs, which is super super handy because the photo folder names are APPLE100,APPLE101,etc and don't change, unlike the folder names that get generated when you plug in the iPhone normally :)

Really great software, made backing up my stuff a breeze.
I actually hope we get there :-) but it would mean that people would have to spend a higher share of their income on food.

When it comes to stripping people of their cash, the competition is fierce, and we humans are usually not very good at long term thinking.

Guilt- and shame-based marketing is not very effective (boasting health/societal benefits is indirectly guilt tripping people), less than hey look at this shiny $product that would make you sooo cool among your peers. Shiny! Buy now! And don't get me started on addiction-based products, like junk food (or screen-based products, be them games or serial TV shows).
It was a Partner position at a big four consulting firm. Leading up the Cyber Security practice.
Found the newest marketing hire...
Chargebacks have a cap, if you go over that cap you get fined or lose your merchant account. So in order to dilute the pool they'll make a lot of low $ amount charges usually masquerading as some charity, those will have very low charge back rates so the average charge back %age will drop.
Awesome email template collections. Editing email template by using visual inspector is super cool and fun.
Maybe versus Nullable Types
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It's zero-sum

Not so fast. It's zero-sum if and only if call Internet subscribers have the same ability to pay for the service. If any user has a very high willingness to pay, but does not have the resources to pay it, then this amounts to a transfer of "wealth" (i.e. bandwidth) from that user to another who might not value it as much. It's not hard to construct utility curves in which this decreases total welfare.

That said, QoS is probably not the concern here. This is very much not a zero-sum proposal.
The key difference is the OEM license agreements. Google includes dubious requirements in their licensing terms, such as the anti-fragmentation clause. But Apple does not license their software to OEMs, and so cannot run afoul of antitrust IP licensing issues.
> If you care about your omega 6 to omega 3 ratio

I'm not sure you're going to find many other humans that do. Seriously - there's more important things to care about.
I'll get to it in my case but really this is on the providers; they designed the protocol backwards. Instead of each customer hacking in a PBX it would be trivial to ping the last known area and then if the phone didn't respond in n (customer configurable) sec send a broader incoming call request ultimately resulting in an all areas ping, or even queue one up like a missed SMS but they would rather monetize your high frequency all-time location data that they pretend to not care about.

Hopping out of "airplane mode" can be made arb fast.

So, short answer, customer demand. I bet eventually they will get too creepy with the data and demand will happen.
Completely agree. There's a post on /r/GameDev right now (actually, it's a recurring theme) where a dev posts that their game isn't getting any traction; struggling to market; few social media interactions; and you find it's all down to being "Yet Another Pixel Metroidvania/DungeonCrawler".

A lot of devs are still living with the 1980s "Build It And They Will Come" philosophy. That was great when Elite and Manic Miner were the only games out. Now you've got to onboard your market with Alpha builds, get feedback early - gee, it's all a bit Lean Startup now.
> NN is about regulating the internet. Economists are experts in the domain of regulation.

Wait, what? Knowing a lot about regulation in general doesn't mean you know shit about any given subject of regulation in particular.

By your logic we should fire the doctors and scientists at the FDA and replace them with economists.
They look great, thanks for sharing! Do you know if the talks were recorded?
That probably isn't true, which is why that power is so cheap.
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