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"A gaming platform doesn’t have to compete with iOS on its own terms, but it does have to at least match it in the areas that are relevant to gaming." I wonder if this is true. I'd…

Never heard of him, "The context is that I had rented a herd of goats for reasons that aren’t relevant here and had sent out a mass e-mail with photographs of the goats attached to…

My impression is that it tends to be more about reaching out to women and making sure they know they're welcome and less about inviting women because they are women. (Like, putting…

Maybe if it's only about getting some bug fixed as soon as possible. But I'd say communicating the "MongoDB is terrible" part of it to the public is pretty valuable too. Because ni…

"(how many people you think really empathize with you - vs. just going through the motions?)" I don't know that I prefer people going through the motions of hating on each other. I…

On SimCity and that, Will Wright tends to think of his creations as toys rather than games. 'hell even some BluRay menus could be described as having "gameply."' Which should be a …

"People arguing that piracy is ruining gamedev routinely ignore the fact that those who pirate don't necessarily have the means to buy many games; their choice is purely between pi…

(I like _why and I don't have any problem with the attention he receives or anything. But I did kind of agree with some of the "that's rubbish" responses to the "first" stuff.) I'm…

Usually when someone writes a piece on taking gaming seriously, I get the impression that the author does not take gaming very seriously, finds some other issues to be pretty serio…

Yeah. Was trying to read that as "more free from social and clutter"...

... and also get introduced faster?

"Is that confusion intended by the article author?" Probably not. Most everything can be misunderstood, but it's not really a particularly confusing paragraph.

It's a reading comprehension thing. We're obviously going back in time, to some kind of cause, at "Her crime?". And then "Shortly thereafter" follows the sentence about the tweet a…

"Scala is a pretty terrible language to be learning it though." Pretty good course though. If you want something like that, maybe because you find it helpful to have exercises with…

Heh. When I first checked out Scala, what I liked about it was that it dealt with a lot of the stuff that annoyed me when going from Smalltalk to Java :)

> I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Huh? Are we looking at the same page? On the home page I see "Pharo's goa…

> Closure (the construct) Of course, if we wanna, we can start getting confused right here. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html... (also also, http://www.4…

"Of course if you could buy the original games directly from their authors it would be a different story, but you can't! Is there something I'm missing here?" If we decide that gam…

I'd say "freedom of expression" serves kind of the same purpose as "political correct" on this one though. This is not "freedom of expression" being under attack. It is, at most, a…

So, on a "some other language does like so" note, in D you might write it kind of like this: allocate_memory(); scope(failure) free_memory(); setup_interrupts(); scope(failure) tea…

If no one raises a counter point, maybe the downvotes are not really about disagreeing with the point you made? Maybe it's more like, people don't like your tone, or they don't thi…

The "deeply personal story" is about shit that went down in public. Things you might have seen happening because you saw her speak at a conference. It is perfectly reasonable to "a…

"We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion." He's aski…

I don't really feel that way, and it's not really something I've spent a lot of time looking into, but. There is one thing that bothers me and if you feel like talking about that t…

Note that my response was mainly to the "hard to understand because questionmarks" part of your post. I think that's a pretty weak argument, and that being clear about which part o…