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I seem to remember at the time that Unreal Tournament was felt to be a pivot that surprised a lot of people, very similarly to Fortnite. Unreal 1 was a very traditional FPS game focused heavily on single player storytelling. It was an interesting, wild risk at the time for Epic to release a multi-player only game in the series, that seemed to pay off for them pretty well (the original UT ended up outselling Unreal by a lot, if I recall). Admittedly there were signs that that was where the FPS genre was going (Q3A released only a month later). "Who would buy an FPS without a single player campaign?"

Gears too seemed to lead the pack on pulling together various gaming trends ahead of a lot of its competition. Cover-based Shooter wasn't its own "genre" until Gears (even admitting that fad may have passed, Gears was pretty central to the fad). Gears was also ahead of the pack in adding things like tower-defense elements to FPS/3PS multiplayer (Horde mode).

That's before you take into account their pre-Unreal successes, too. Epic had some big hits in the Shareware era that are perhaps more interesting pivots simply because of how much tougher distribution and sales were in that era.

Anyway, Epic seems to have a sample size greater that "striking gold once", for whatever it is worth.
Nice little reference for anyone who already knows how to program, but might not know PHP. For anyone else, this isn't really going to help. There seems to be no explanation of _why_ you would want to do anything here or even how it relates to a goal. Who is your audience?
I find widebodies a lot more claustrophobic, as strange as it sounds - on a 737 at least you're never too far from a window.
I love PHP, it was my first “real” programming language, and I’m glad there are still people trying to make it easier to adopt.

Having skimmed through several of these chapters, though, I just feel like it’s too similar to the official PHP docs, even down to the TOC.

Wouldn’t it have been better for everyone to put this effort into improving the docs, rather than developing yet another book in a silo that likely won’t have the longevity we’d like?
It's sort of hard to imagine an exercise scheme that produces much better fitness than what people did historically.

The 'Algernon Argument' says simple smart drugs won't work, because we already evolved brains optimized for using the substances available to us efficiently. In the same vein, it'd be bizarre if we developed bodies that work ok for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but respond fantastically well to using a Bowflex for 15 minutes a day.

So if modernity is going to give us exercise benefits, it's probably going to be from changing our options or preferences around the stuff that's always worked. (And we know this is true for other animals; domesticated horses can do any one task better than a wild horse, but they lose on adaptability and resilience.) Good childhood nutrition and disease avoidance make us fitter, readily available protein probably helps too. Knee braces might help avoid cumulative damage over our longer lifespans. Since most of us don't want to exercise 5+ hours each day, things like cycling and swimming might be more efficient exercise than walking. And of course professional athletes simply pursue different goals, with consequently different tactics.

But if something comes around claiming to be better for our general health than spending a lot of time doing varied, progressive exercises, it's time to be suspicious.
Recent Nintendo eShop and PlayStation store releases are quickly driving down the average console quality. (See Life of Black Tiger, for example). Though, I must admit, it is not something I'm actually concerned about.
Is it regarding product or code? Perhaps try changing how you deliver the message. Ultimately if its an issue of your peers not respecting you and therefore tuning out your message well that is almost impossible to overcome.
>I won Eve

Lol, is this what players call leaving? I like this.
Note that they ban the use of dynamic allocation at run-time except via the stack, but that you are still allowed to allocate from the heap as long as that heap allocation is static for the life of the system. This avoids a whole host of problems related to heap exhaustion that result from allocation timing causing heap fragmentation.
This seems like a very narrow minded view point.

Whether or not founders find it a badge of honor to raise money has no real bearing on the fact that businesses require capital.
I forgot that ChromeOS is also based on Linux.
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Music Production is one of the last things I keep Windows around for. That sounds like a cool job though.
Net compensation includes bonuses and such. It's not just wages. The 48% figure is the cumulative total of people with net compensation < 30k. So it's not wrong by construction just oddly misleading.

If you look at the SSA data, It also highlights that the mean net compensation is about $48k. And 67.4% of wage earners have net comp below that figure. Which is in line with the graphic.
Maybe I'm reading too far into this, but I think there's a greater lesson to be learned from this.

This game's been around for 30 years, and is still under development. Some would assume that security patches on any 30 year old piece of software would have found nearly every bug or account for unexpected usages.

There's also a big assumption that random states on remote systems can't be determined. Our assumptions around what's "good enough" keep getting broken. 32-bit states, MD5, SHA-1, etc... Now clearly (until quantum computers go mainstream) some problem spaces are just too big to reasonably brute force or find collisions.

Could/will we find critical bugs that allow us to do similar types of attacks for modern computing systems that aren't games?
> peek(), poke(), memset(), memcpy and similar functions on any memory address that PICO-8 uses

Surprised that this hasn't been exploited to build a C compiler targeting the platform. (Unless I needed to Google something other than "pico-8 C compiler"...)
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For anyone interested in getting really up close with a 767 there is one named the Spirit of Delta at Delta Air Lines’ museum in Atlanta.

It’s rare for a relatively modern airliner to be placed in a museum but the Spirit of Delta is notable because it was actually purchased through donations by the employees of Delta.
The key element was Andreas Heijlsberg work on the Roslyn C# compiler which exposed all stages as APIs (e.g. AST etc). He calls the dragon book as significant outdated when it comes to modern compilers (Channel9 video).

That then transferred to TypeScript, which again influenced VS Code. OmniSharp was then externalizing it. In VS Code I think Erich Gamma took it over and put it into standardized a protocol.
>Raising money is a failure mode.

If you're trying to build a lifestyle business, yes. That's correct. Incrementally building your recurring revenue is rewarding and doesn't require outside investment and comes with no strings, which keeps the cognitive and administrative overhead of the enterprise low.

If you're making a play to win in an emerging market against seriously capitalized contenders, you might not fare so well.

In software, most of the product development is fairly bespoke, but in many other industries you require access to capital assets to do anything. Having a portfolio of well placed leases is critical for a retail play. Having capital or leverageable equity is essential for an industry consolidation play. One wouldn't pretend that the founder of a junior mining company 'lacks skills' for issuing a raise on public markets to develop a mining site.

By extension, where the value add in an enterprise is not generated from the value of a software product, but by the integration of tech with some other vertical, obtaining serious cash infusions may be the only way for the business plan to succeed.
That doesn't make it better. As far as I am aware the US does have rules that distinguish like that.

Implementing regulations for every company as if they are the same is what is absurd here.
More?

https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine

https://www.banshee3d.com/

https://github.com/AtomicGameEngine/AtomicGameEngine

http://torque3d.org/

https://www.panda3d.org/

https://github.com/xenko3d/xenko

https://github.com/begla/Intrinsic

https://github.com/godotengine/godot

https://github.com/fredakilla/GPlayEngine

https://github.com/volcoma/EtherealEngine

https://casual-effects.com/g3d/www/index.html
Your post, right here, discussing quote, makes this fair use.
oh gosh, i didn't realize that. looks like there are around 38 combinations; i wonder what the table space looks like for the other ones!
In normal space you do not see everyone on the map either, you must launch scan probes to track people down if they are not on the same grid as you. The difference is in wormhole space you not only need to scan down their location, but you need to be constantly scanning in order to know someone else was in the system at all.
The Ottoman Empire did not rule North Africa since they were never capable of conquering Morocco, they only got Algeria to join the empire since algeria was looking for protection from Spain.
> "It's tough to get lurkers (like me) to speak up and shift the discussion when the emotional cost of doing so..."

the 98% works in that case too: there are many people who might benefit from your comments but don't interact in any way, so you sometimes may deem the costs worth it (like now).
I haven't used PHP in around 6 years (running PHP 4 I belive); has the language improved ? My biggest complaint was that the API was incredibly inconsistent, but that seemed like it could be improved in later versions if they weren't afraid of breaking backwards compatibility.
TL;DR; Successful guy visits Africa, sees animals in the wild instead of Zoo's, creates clickbait article to imply capitalism is a zoo and people do not belong in zoo's. The premise of this argument is that people do not belong in large groups. Ironically that is what we all try to do. Over time, people organize so they can accomplish greater things as a whole rather than individuals. The end of the article goes on to say, "Founders arriving at Y Combinator often have the downtrodden air of refugees. Three months later they're transformed: they have so much more confidence that they seem as if they've grown several inches taller." I can't decide if this article attempting to be advice or a sales pitch for Y Combinator.
> It takes effort to dig up some random edit from years ago

Yes, but a simple link to which article it was would be enough. What also might be useful is a user name and/or a rough estimate of what the time period was, but without even an article name, there is nothing anybody can do about fixing these things.
Furloughed workers trying to make ends meet
TIL (and just did some research) -- my bad! I suppose I've always attributed it to chocolate because I rarely eat sweets, but when I do, it's chocolate and usually a lot of it in one sitting.
The scala toolset is incredibly crap though. Ask the engineers on my team about the huge pains of transitioning to using IntelliJ from Visual Studio, or the joy of trying to make SBT do what we want it to do, then trying to use Maven instead.

Any new engineer we get started with Scala has to spend about a week making their local setup work. It's a total pain in the arse.
No, financing is an important part of any business operation, and very few business that we know would have been successful without it.

Of course companies can raise too much, and consider 'a raise' as some kind of material win, and derive too much identity from it ... but that doesn't mean it's bad.

A decent round from a good fund is the a really great positive signal, perhaps the most positive.

Just because software doesn't have working capital or capex requirements, doesn't mean those costs are magic. People's time is money.
Yep. I made an attempt to get into it over a decade ago, and it didn't help that I was heavy in the Flash game/animation scene and felt that was the best way to contribute. I say it didn't help, because so few of those pass the ridiculously restrictive 'Notability Test' of Wikipedia.

The animation could have 50 million views and be known across the internet, but because no 'reputable news organization' wrote about it, i.e. no CNN or BBC article or whatever, they would routinely be brought up for deletion and quickly killed.

Which always seemed strange to me, that this new fangled technology that took advantage of the power of the Internet wouldn't find anything on the Internet itself worthy of gracing its virtual pages. Especially since, as Wikipedia itself states, "Wikipedia is not Paper", and doesn't have a physical limit to what it can talk about or include.

It always annoyed me that these things wouldn't get passed the notability filter, but the most obscure Star Trek episode would have a dedicated page with a full synopsis and details and Easter Eggs, despite the fact that there couldn't have been a news article about that specific episode anywhere out there and the author had to be drawing from the episode... I mean, primary source, itself in order to get that information, which is something that gets squashed elsewhere (No primary sources!)

The hypocrisy just got to me big time. And then when I'd fix spelling or grammar issues on other random pages and see every single one of those get reverted without comment, it was clear that doing anything on Wikipedia was just a big waste of my fucking time. While I still read it to get a really rough handle on topics sometimes, I will never 'contribute' to it again, including every time that giant "We Desperately Need Your Financial Support" message from Jimmy Wales comes up on the site once a year.

I'd love for there to be an alternative where the admins aren't such deletionist zealots, but alternatives just don't exist.

I should also state that I had such a negative experience trying to contribute to Wikipedia that it still riles me up thinking about it to this day. And there's not a whole lot out there that riles me up.
Portal.cloud pricing link is not working
The pricing link is broken https://portal.cloud/pricing
That's True, it is probably more per year to play WoW, but it is also what feels like 10 times the content. It may not be as beautiful, but there is way more to do per dollar spent.

Destiny feels like they are trying to take the content density of a single player campaign and turn it into an MMO.
Good to know.

With respect to the acquisition, is the smaller company Wrapidity?
I get the disdain for VCs -- it's a specific model with a specific set of failure modes. So that's fair.

What I don't understand is this dislike for investing ahead of growth or success. Why is the expectation that everything can be done bootstrapped or constantly profitable?

Companies take investment. If you're building a product that will be valuable for a long time, there will always be a period at the beginning where the entity requires somebody to put their investment into it. If the idea is small enough that one or two rich dudes with Google money can do forgo their salaries, that's great. But even a team of five for 18 months is a significant investment, and somebody needs to pony up. Should startups only consist of rich people who can afford to roll the dice?

Instead of fully rejecting the model, I believe that companies should take VC money with a finite plan towards profitability. If you take $2mil in seed money and hire a team of 8, get to $2m / year in revenue. If you want to take another bite at the apple, there will be VCs who fund you at that point. If not, you're not dead.

Real progress takes real investment. Ignoring that fact ignores a wild world of interesting, viable companies.
> probably going to learn more doing the startup

This jumped out at me, too. Learn more about what is my immediate though. Working in a large company you will learn a lot about project management and navigating through existing systems, structures and so on. Less glamorous than what you might learn at a startup but IMO no less useful.
Is it enough, or just barely enough? I'm seeing a median home price of 300k per Zillow. In addition to coming up with the 15-60k needed to put a downpayment on the house, you are hit with $2,000 a month in mortgage/insurance.

This hardly sounds like a steal to me because it is exactly what I am paying in NY. I make $2200 post tax per month, which is bang on the median income in this area. Half of my money goes to rent, the other half to car/food/health insurance and so on.

Were I to lose my job or have kids, the situation would be completely unaffordable in a matter of months as opposed to years, which is the type of cushion the earlier generations had.
All new companies are not startups. Startups need to have scalable business model.

Not all new companies with a scalable business model have the skills or risk taking ability to be a startup that actually scales.

Calling every new company that sells products in the internet a startup waters down the meaning of startup. Gradually growing and maybe becoming mid-sized business may be the best option for most. Gambling to become a very rich or starting from scratch again is low probability game. You can do it only few times and only small percentage can succeed.
> everything just works out-of-the-box with no extra work needed

I would be extremely surprised if that was true for anything other than relatively simple games. No matter what cross-platform abstraction you use, you can never totally get away from dealing with the actual platforms.
As an outsider, I find myself disappointed everytime a company goes public, and VCs seem to be (1) a stepping stone to that and (2) motivated by the same concerns.

As a consumer, I find that the shareholders never have my interests at heart, not even indirectly (everyone wants to make money, but a private company seems more likely to decide they make money by actually providing me value). This feels like a massive failure on either (1) my understanding or (2) the market as a whole.

Am I wrong about VCs being the same basic issue, only with fewer players?
Amazing work! Thank you :)
I've been 400 pounds most of my life. I empathize with every single sentence in this article and cannot imagine making myself write something like this. The vulnerability is incredible.

I'm really glad that exercise is being called out as useless to treat obesity more and more. I hope that trend continues and things like Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaigns never happen again.

Carbohydrate addiction is no joke, even though most don't believe it exists.
I am in Europe and the opposite seems true.
Honest question: I don’t get what is strange about this normality, can someone share their perspective? Mine is skewed as I grew up in Transnistria and visited a few years ago.

My guess is that it seems strange only if you expected those territories to be in a constant state of war. No, they are not under siege, but life is not exactly dandy there, either.
>> "viable to trust a business on"

They already are viable and trusted by multiple billion-dollar companies and governments.
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So? That will always be true for any income tax, except for one so regressive it amounts to a poll tax. It's close to being true for most other kinds of taxes as well. There's always going to be some number for which you could make such a statement. Since inequality of tax is directly related to inequality of income, all you're really proving is that income is much more concentrated than ability is, i.e. that we do not live in a meritocracy, that the rich get richer primarily due to the mechanics of the system instead of by exhibiting merit. However progressive our tax system is, it's clearly far outweighed by the regressive mechanics built in to the rest of the system.
I think it depends on the driver if they're able to handle the power during routine driving.

Here is a 7 second video of Tesla driver accelerating out of what would have been a bad rear-end accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRR31NaXoVw

Sidenote: I too have a 2 channel (front and rear) Blackvue dash cam setup. I highly recommend it. It's already paid for itself when it got me back my deductible after someone hit me, whereas without the camera the blame would have been 50/50.
'Oversupply' could simply be communicated in a different supply/demand equilibrium.

Cheap capital is probably not such a bad thing for Entrepreneurs. More bad companies get funded, but that's not so bad. More good companies that wouldn't have seen the light of day will also get funded.

There's only a 'bubble' if there can be a significant correction. If the US economy goes into heavy recession, then maybe there will be a steep pullback in VC. But otherwise, VC as an asset class may just not get the returns of yesteryear, which is fine.
Economics Nobel price winner Paul Krugman once said that
the internet’s effect on the world economy would be no greater than the fax machine's. I don't expect a journalist to perform better.

Being open minded and supportive is probably a stretch when something sounds so outrageous that you simply can't believe it's anchored to reality in any way. I assume this is how it felt back then. Probably there were situations where you yourself became derisive of certain things you simply couldn't conceive could be different only to be proven wrong some time later.
There have been a number of improvements in the latest PHP versions, especially in terms of performance.

There's still artifacts of past PHP versions that are there, though, which makes it far less nice to use than something more modern.
Not OP, but some reasons usually thrown around:

F# has the power of .NET and its libraries behind it.

Haskell's insistence on purity and laziness does increase the time it takes to design things well. F# makes it easier to violate purity in controlled ways, and is not lazy be default.

People who've used both say it's a lot easier to get lost in abstractions with Haskell, and there doesn't appear to be a clear "stopping" point. A common statement by people who move from Haskell to OCaml/F# is "I spent N years on Haskell but didn't produce much. In 6 months of (OCaml|F#) I've produced more than in those N years with Haskell."

The bottom line: The .NET libraries and slight relaxing of purity/laziness allows for more productivity.

(I'm not an expert on either - just repeating what you normally find in the threads).
Quanta does that intentionally, as clickbait to generate popular interest in their mathematical aricles that don't actually have applications. It's a scientific embarassment.
Nature's magazine/blog does it to.
Not worthless but the deal they get is usually a lot worse than the deal a VC gets.

Are they getting paid enough to account for the risk? A VC will make more money and have less risk (overall). An employee will most likely make not much more than working for an established company and have a high chance of losing his job within a few years.
He said that in the context of adding value on boards, i.e. providing strategic direction.

The fundamental impetus of VC's, i.e. 'capital' is generally a good thing for Entrepreneurs.
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What's not correct in the animations?

(arguably the whole point of a tutorial like this is to do it without the maths)
Fusion reactors will be both much larger than and much more complex than fission reactors. They will necessarily be more expensive, even if they aren't made of resublimated unobtainium.

The size difference follows from limits on heat transfer through the first wall, and has been known for 35 or more years.
What exactly does "cut-throat" behavior entail in this case?