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Sorry in advance for this but... Is there chance that this could be a hoax? It's not that it couldn't happen but I couldn't find the obituary or any other reference to this other t…

Funny... but perl or python are not the only ones to make one-line print statements and about Lisp... what about (display "Hello world") or just "Hello World" ? :)

>"Free customers are higher maintenance than paying customers." I would like to share my small experience with the freemium model. I have with a friend an online dominoes game wher…

Well in the case of the game we were working on there was no choice other than fork our codebase. No considering the controllers (which is different enough from the consoles) the f…

Happy New Year from Toronto too! :)

Yeah but we are talking here about massive multi-platform games and Infinity Blade was specially tailored for IOS. In practice, to use Unreal in a game that would run on consoles a…

>That even include "to be accepted at school", mind you. (just like you didn't have to smoke back in the days, but also you were gay if you did not, no matter how wrong that reason…

Sorry but I still don't understand why deleting that picture is such big deal? Google has the right to build their community with the rules that they want and the people eager to a…

>The only platform you would need to re-implement for would be iOS but your going to hit that problem whatever you do (not sure what it's JS support is like though). That is not th…

That is in theory.... In practice If you have a game that look pretty well on consoles you would have big challanges for mobile devices, and just reducing quality on art assets mig…

Yeah... But even with Mono you have to use the proper classes for display, so it's not completely code once play anywhere.

I am completely agree with billybob here. After all that's why Hacker News community is so different to Reddit, because the rules of each community right?

PHP is not strongly typed as C# so it doesn't need generics or templates or better said it wouldn't make much difference on performance unless it would be compiled (which is not th…

Thanks for the link... it was very informative! However, Xerox PARC did progress with the research: "Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976. Several of Engelbart's re…

Guessing from that data might still be using machine learning (e.g Collaborative filtering). I guess you meant it is not computer vision related. At this point I don't think it mat…

I would prefer a standard byte-code VM inside of every browser so we could just make compilers targeting that VM. Then anyone could choose their preferred language :)

Yeah it got into reddit at least: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nf659/how_super_mari... I always find this sort of DoS attack interesting. What would be the best way for …

HN effect? probably this news got into reddit and slashdot too.

It's interesting the different trends among browser versions. For Chrome when a new version comes out the previous one die almost immediately but IE users tend to keep their versio…

> There is probably a reason why most TVs come in black - it makes the colors and the picture to stand out more. Not all flat monitors come in black thought. I actually I prefer th…

Totally true... took me about that amount of time with the help of google :) James you did well not telling the name, it's good to see that there are still a bunch of people out th…

Not sure about pair programming... I got incredible bored when I had to share the keyboard. The time I did that I felt like we were taking turns to be slackers :S EDIT: Adding a li…

>Don't waste your time reading books I strongly disagree. A lot of algorithms have to be introduced in order to be properly learnt. For instance, I don't think you would understand…

> SICP is dated and doesn't really match what modern languages can do. I always think SICP as math applied to CS and math never gets old :) I am reading it after 9 years as a profe…