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The "compiler in the driver" part of this post sounds awfully like the "asm.js vs. NaCl" debate.

Sure, building an IR from scratch is fun. But making it truly cross-platform and ready for many usages is really hard. Also, the GLSL source is an IR between the programmer's intent and the driver's behaviour. Code is just another type of binary. It is just slightly harder to parse, but not by much; without performance comparisons, a complaint about how hard it is to parse code is invalid.

Feeding the driver GLSL can also yield much clearer error messages for programmers. I can only imagine what kinds of error messages the IR compiler would produce. Sure, hopefully, our cross-platform IR would be accepted by all GPUs without pain, but that's improbable.

Regardless, starting from a clean slate is much harder than working our way from the current state to an improved OpenGL. Just like few browsers are on board with NaCl, few GPU makers would be on board with a brand new design.
Go doesn't offer a clear simple way to do this[1] in their builtin template library. But it turns out, it really is possible to do it, as described in this thread on Stack Exchange[2]. I bookmarked that so that I can boil it down into some simple-to-reuse code if I ever bite the bullet and start using Go for the presentation layer on a major website. What they're doing there is a cool technique, but it's not simple to use out of the box.

1. https://sites.google.com/site/usfcomputerscience/django-temp...

2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11467731/is-it-possible-t...
Calendar in the notification center ain't no substitute. I'm looking at my iPhone right now.

Swipe down: the screen is full of today's date, the weather, a note telling me that it would take me about 4 minutes to drive somewhere (why? I'm not going anywhere today? And why is it telling me it'd take 4 minutes to drive to the local Urban Outfitters store? Oh wait that's also a bus stop I walk to a lot, GOOD JOB APPLE), and telling me the next thing up on my calendar. At the very bottom of the screen is an icon and the very top of my calendar.

And this calendar only shows me a couple things for today, because it insists on showing me the hour grid around them. In the future? It just says "It looks busy tomorrow. There are 7 events scheduled."

Back on the Android, I would have seen something like this floating on my home screen the moment I unlocked the thing:

Today:
9:00am refresh con signs
11:30am change patch!
6:30pm Jason's game night
8:59pm Sunset

Saturday:
5:13am Sunrise
9:00am Market day!
3:00pm Yoga
8:00pm Sunset

Sunday:
5:13am Sunrise
5:45pm Intermediate pole

etc, etc, etc. There's my next few days, constantly there for me to glance at and have a chance to think "oh I have this thing coming up, I should prepare for it today". Doesn't tell me how long an event is but that's not a thing I actually care about most of the time.
Given it costs at least $25 to send, and more fees to receive, a bank wire transfer it seems strange to only offer this method. Perhaps it is easier if you have a European bank.
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Generally, charging orders can be issued against any LLC for a member's debts (all a charging order does is require that the LLC pay any distributions that would go to the member to the creditor instead; a charging order to an LLC for a members debt is similar to an attachment order to an employer for an employees debt.)

In some jurisdictions, though, single member LLCs, unlike multimember LLCs, do not restrict creditors of the member to these kind of actions against the member's financial interest in the LLC, and allow the member's creditors to seek direct payment from the LLC as if it owed the debt.

(Also, in some states, charging orders aren't the exclusive remedy for members debts against multimember LLCs, either, which one reason you need to know the law of the jurisdiction you plan to operate in.)
Coincidentally, the above-mentioned Secret of Mana is notorious for wacky NPC AI and pathfinding.

Today, that could be handled with a patch and the lovely multiplayer could be enjoyed online.

I don't doubt that the release of unfinished products is a real issue, but there are trade-offs in most things.
I think the title is misleading. It implies $60 is too much for the game. But I took the opposite from the interview.

> "The saying in the industry right now is, 'If you want to sell a game for $60, to the player it has to feel like $200.'"

> "Bulletstorm was a $60 game for $60. And these days $60 for a game sounds basically crazy, when there are literally hundreds of high quality games out there for a much smaller price - even on console. In 2014, $60 for a game is a little insane."

I believe that, economically speaking (and I now almost nothing about this), customers pay the value they percieve the product has. Chmielarz is actually saying that some games have a bigger value that the price they are sold. That they priced the game right but some other games of equal value were sold cheaper.

Or, in other words, people are paying less for games than they should.

I could rant for hours about this, but I'll refrain from it. I just wanted to add this clarification.
"The space sickness he experienced during the journey was so severe that a scale for space sickness was jokingly based on him, where 'one Garn' is the highest possible level of sickness."

At least some sort of revenge was had upon him....

Looks like he flew before the Challenger explosion. I wonder if he ever realized how close to death he came on his own flight, and his own role in it.
Not necessarily so. More and more, we're seeing rich-content in-browser website builders which allow customers to have their lunch and eat it. You get to customize and modify your page (optionally with WYSIWYG) online, publish it on the fly and have it generated and stored in cache somewhere in the blink of an eye. Just today, two web applications doing just that have hit the home page of HN.

It doesn't have to be either/or and I don't think the market really "oscillates" in that regard, in my opinion it will eventually provide users the best of both worlds (and maybe already does), at least for more or less static websites.
It's simply great!
I might understand your action if you removed their company from search results when people searched for related keywords. But to remove them when someone searches for their company name is just wrong. You have enough engineers and resource to implement a better solution than to just wipe a company from the Web.
Most empty action games I play (CoD series, Halo, etc.) I view as interactive blockbusters. So, if it costs $20 for a 2 hour movie, I'm getting my money's worth from a 6 hour game that costs $60.

That said, I actually enjoy good games, so I take my money elsewhere and buy little indie titles for $15-20 intead, and only occasionally buy a AAA theme park.
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A 6" wafer will also have lots of dies on the edge that don't pass automatic testing. Don't forget that most devices are located near the edge.

Secondly, upgrading your Fab to switch your process to larger wafer size has a 10-figure $ price tag. It's not trivial for digital, let alone opto electronics. LEDs are special in that they deviate severely from the standard mos process. When Monsanto first produced them they almost dumped the idea for LEDs because of all the issues to deal with the exotic materials.
> SSGs are interesting because they have zero external dependences.

Not necessarily. In most cases, they simply move the external dependencies from the server side to the client side.
No Asian person has been executed?
People probably bring it up because you can often use OpenGL on a console, even if it's through a wrapper library instead of supported directly, or even if it's only "OpenGL-like" instead of fully compliant -- which still may be better than porting to the native format depending on the game. (Though the original XBox's D3D was pretty OpenGL friendly: http://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=4009) So for the PS2, PS3, Wii, and handhelds like the PSP and DS, there are OpenGL or OpenGL-like wrappers available.
For planet Earth, can we please get models that work properly and predict the actual observed climate data first before we start fantasizing?
You're right. Because of the layering of 3D printing, you can create shapes and features that wouldn't be possible with casting, molding, or even 5-axis milling machines. Complex undercuts, empty compartments/ hollow areas to cut weight down, and features similar to extrusion-based design can all be performed in conjunction in a single solid body.
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I'm like most of the software engineers in the world, I have a bunch of awesome half advanced projects in my dropbox but probably none of them will ever be finished or justify building a company around. Still waiting for the spark that will make a billionaire out of me.
What definition of "blogging" deals with ownership? Seems more like a personal issue with Medium on your end (which may even be unfounded?).
I looked at your blog post but it leaves some questions.

Does this also update 'latest posts' boxes and tag clouds on all the other pages?

What about the homepage?

(I used OctoPress, not Jekyll but I suspect there is a way in there to use this same trick)
Redemption.
Agreed. Essentially SSGs are caching - or rather they are a way of pushing the caching problem down onto a lower level.

It's no different to 'clear the whole cache every time I change any content and store it all in memcached' - you're just substituting 'file-system' for 'memcached'.

Of course - SSG do solve another problem - that of needing complex software running on your server - you can run SSGs locally or on a centralized server - but that's not what is being discussed here.
Something like this? http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/
Observation: Just yesterday on HN there was a discussion about the relative merits of forming a Delaware C corp, as the majority of startup-focused lawyers consistently recommend. Countering that are the number of accountants who would recommend forming an LLC in your own state, then electing S-corp taxation or conversion to a C corp in the future upon demonstrated growth/success. One of the primary reasons for the Delaware C corp is the opinion that "that's what investors will expect." Yet, here we have a case (and granted, all we know about you is the name "throwaway78390", so you could be pulling our leg, but this is HN so we'll assume you are legit) that formed an LLC and yet was able to attract a name-brand investor. I guess I'm curious whether Mark expressed any reservation at all about investing in an LLC and not mandating that you form a C corp? My assumption: we all get too hung up on this corporate form jazz, when really if it is a great idea and you can show traction, investors will beat a path to your door step.
This is honestly not much better than nepotism. What happened to merit?
It all comes down to, "Do you need to tear the thing to pieces between every flight to do inspections?" SpaceX says they don't, NASA did do that for the Shuttle (at least for the main engines).
Congratulations! How long ago did this happen?
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What price you recommend for one user?
Check out "The Serval Project" - it checks a few of your boxes, although it focuses more on securing and expand 1-to-1 communication than the community/BBS aspect.
This does help actually. And yes: it doesn't have to be a 1000 node cluster or anything crazy. I've just talked to a lot of people at bigger companies and they've all said it falls over yet.

Great to hear success stories!
Yes, I distinctly remember trying to convince my Mom in 1992 that paying $75 for the SNES version of Street Fighter II was worth the money. That was more than 20 years ago and it's still expensive for a game by today's standards.
The article is good, but I agree that the headline taken out of context is highly misleading.

In the context of the article it makes sense. But out of context it appears to be saying that all games should cost a lot less than $60, which really isn't the point.

In fact to justify a luxury price point you just have to give people something they really want. For example, right now lots of people are paying $150 to get into the beta for Elite: Dangerous, a game that I presume will be substantially cheaper in full release:

http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

If $60 is insane then $150 is totally nutballs, yet that is what a nontrivial slice of people are paying, because this beta is giving them something they want that they can't get any other way.

(Note: In the alpha, people were paying $295!)
While I agree that looking for a specific stack is dumb, I had to write an ad for a developer recently. It becomes kind of difficult to ask for anything without mentioning specific technologies 'or something similar'.
Thank you! Much obliged, good sir.
I'm wondering if a precise definition of "valid removal request" really exist.
For example, if some guy named John Smith was accused and further released after years and submitted a removal request, what should Google do? Even human cannot distinguish this Smith from that Smith.

EU court just fear the information world?
I dabbled with the Red Book aeons ago, but never got very far with 3D programming. What would you suggest for learning OpenGL? Or is there some other tool you'd recommend learning?
And FF III has a lot of weird bugs and glitches as well. I remember about half the games on PC I had in the 80's and 90's I just never could get working on my system or had really weird flaws/quirks (especially things that used a modem).

Bugs certainly aren't new
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Yeah, that's in line with my understanding/expectations. My point was just that this is an "in practice" thing, not "in principle".
Standard SNES games didn't do anything relative to todays games. Watch Dogs can be digitally downloaded, played in multi languages, with thousands of players, etc. All things that the SNES while more expensive couldn't do.

If you apply your logic to the automotive world we should just stick with the single barrel carburetor V8 Chevrolets because, otherwise we just end up with BMW's iDrive issues and Prius throttle problems.
> people are going to be upset that the society is paying to keep them alive

Last time I checked, it was cheaper to keep them in prison for the rest of their lives then to go through all the money in court costs. It might have changed, but the economics favor a lifetime incarceration.
I think this post missed the mark by claiming that Hakyll blogs aren't updated because it's Hakyll, and therefore hard. I think the type of person who will set up a Hakyll blog just may not be the kind of person who will blog frequently. I have set up a Jekyll blog, Wordpress, Ghost, and now I'm using Octopress. Each time I set up a new blog I think "Ya, this new platform is great. It will be exactly what I need to blog regularly." Then a month later I still haven't posted anything. I enjoy blogging with Jekyll. I like writing my posts in Markdown, and I have no problem with the "git commit, push cycle." I just don't blog that often, and so far no platform I have found has changed that fact.
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I personally don't think the average quality has decreased much. I remember tons of absolutely terrible NES games.
Hand coding.
My experience using spark has also been nothing but positive. I recently built a similarity-based recommendation on Spark (https://github.com/evancasey/sparkler), and found it to be significantly faster than comparable implementations on Hadoop.

subprotocol's point about specifying the number of tasks/data partitions to use is true - you need to manually set this in order to get good results even on a small dataset. However, other than that, spark will give you good results pretty much out of the box. More advanced features such as broadcast objects, cache operations, and custom serializers will further optimize your application, but are not critical when first starting out as the author seems to believe.
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> If you leave them to rot in prison like you suggested, people are going to be upset that the society is paying to keep them alive(surely it would be better to get rid of them?)

I've heard that execution as practiced in the US today is more expensive than life imprisonment.
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I don't think profanity and vitriol is really going to win hearts and minds... well spoken ones such as Napoleon Beazly[1] however are more likely to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822629
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Who pays full price?

For a long time I played the Wii and picked up mostly used games.

Recently I got a Playstation 3 and a Vita and joined Playstation Plus where you get a pretty generous set of free games. These are not the latest blockbusters but instead the really great game they are following up.

On the Vita I haven't bought a single physical game, but I do get good sales offers a lot. For instance, I never would have thought of getting Killzone Mercenary for full price but at $20 it is a awesome game and great value. I liked it so much I bought a used copy of the Killzone Trilogy. Later on there was a sale on Persona 4 Golden and that too was excellent value.

My son tried "Need For Speed Most Wanted" on the Vita and we went looking for PS3 NFS games at Gamestop. I hear "Rivals" is a good game but I can buy him two older games that are quite different for a lot less, have a lot of fun, and even have it written up in GameFAQS!
Not every year.
So, let me see if I understand this correctly: the kind of business where you hire people and have clients (i.e. an 'agency' if you were in the ad world), that 20 years ago would have just been called a 'business', is now considered a 'life style' business?

Am I reading that right?
Small plug for a modern game that's created very much in the style of SoM: http://www.secretsofgrindea.com/

In beta/pre-order now. Steam Greenlight. Small + very dedicated team.
I didn't mean to come off as negative. It's great that there is such support for new companies in tech. It just seems more... compulsive/impulsive than in other industries.
obviously that sometimes killing is right, that vengeance is above justice, and if you don't eat your fucking peas, we'll kill you, too, kid.
I can't see my comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819659). I didn't choose this font colour. I think there is something wrong with the server
Someone has to buy it at full price for you to get it at a 'used' price. Still, Steam sales and sales in general is how I keep my library full of games I've never played.
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Swombat is very much taken, and I can't imagine any viable competition even exists :)
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In defense of the redesign, it has improved the data-ink ratio and removed annoying gradients/visual noise on several slides (looking particularly at the chart on slide 22 here).

Though Tufte would throw a fit at those circular charts.
Like I said, you want to hold onto your employees for more than a week ;-)
I'm not even sure about the analytics part being important, both because (to me, personally) the only interesting metrics on my blog are really "who shares my content where" and "are people reading my content". So, Google Analytics and done for me.

My blog isn't my business, although I certainly use content (blogs, newsletters, eBooks) as part of my "personal brand".
It's also the case that a disproportionate number are male.
Speaking of swinging pendulums in content management systems and wrong things, don't you ever get sick of http(s)? Http gets it wrong in many ways too, but I don't hear much about alternatives.
I think a big challenge for companies making console games is that now when they're competing with the biggest franchises they're not just competing on graphics and gameplay, they're competing on time. The best selling triple A games have deep multiplayer experiences that can suck gamers in for 40 to over 100 hours. When a gamer plays one game for 100 hours instead of 10 games for 10 hours that means they're buying far fewer games.

Then, even if you make a game witha good multiplayer element, you're still struggling against the tide because you need a big enough player population to keep players engaged. It's the network effect working against you. If all of a given gamer's friends are playing Call of Duty they're less likely to invest in the multiplayer of another game. Or when they do go to another MP game and there aren't many players available for matchmaking, they just give up and move on.

The point was well made in this article that what needs to happen is that the game dev industry needs to set more sane goals and sane budgets. There's not a lot of room for games with $30+ million budgets because of the amount of copies that would have to be sold and the fact that gamers only have so much time to play. The only way to get around that would be to significantly expand the player base, which is not happening.
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> Watch Dogs can be digitally downloaded, played in multi languages, with thousands of players, etc.

While that is certainly true, all of those amount to nothing if you cannot download the game at all or if the game is constantly stuttering.
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I can't stand the notification center. Even in its current form it always seems overcrowded with stuff I don't care about. Opening up the API for any app to eat up even more real estate would, in my opinion, be extremely misguided. If anything it needs to be dumbed down even further.

There are two separate concerns here:

1. Notifications. Telling me that things have happened, when they happen. The notification center could (nay, should) excel at this, but currently it's only doing okay. I wish I didn't have to keep micromanaging my preferences to prevent apps from spamming me with useless stuff, but at least it works.

2. Persistent info. Stocks, weather, headlines, deadlines, etc. I don't want this stuff in the notification center. It gets in the way of everything coming at me from concern #1. I want to be able to find this elsewhere, without having to dig down into each app. And I definitely don't want apps trying to tell me persistent info in the form of a notification. I don't need to be notified that it's sunny out, or that something interesting (but not directly related to me, or actionable on my part) happened inside of one of my apps. But having to drill down into each individual app for this info is also a pain.

This is where I love Microsoft's live tiles. The ability to peek inside of an app from the homescreen is awesome (way better than having to add separate widgets, a la Android, each with their own design patterns and set of controls). I'd use Windows Phone for this reason if it had the same app ecosystem as iOS, but of course I wouldn't expect it to. Currently my primary device is running Android, which, for me, is a nice trade-off between app availability and base OS experience. But if iOS were to add that ability to "peek" into any existing app to see what's happening, I'd definitely consider switching back.
https://medium.com/@mikeleeorg/how-to-find-great-software-de...

i guess this would help to some extent
Back in the 90s PC games were full of bugs, even AAA games. There were a few exceptions like Doom etc but there were quite a few games I didn't finish because of bugs or corrupted saves. Alone in the dark 2 springs to mind.

Games also often came on multiple CDs , scratch one CD and that's the end of the game.
Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/30/mit-researchers-create-an-a..., which points to this.
Crap at launch at least. After a year most bugs get ironed out but ironically, the price drops as well.
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