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Apparently it's real! http://www.newsweek.com/crazy-genius-brand-guru-peter-arnell...

Yeah. Sure, tape-out may be cheaper with one chip line, but we aren't talking about chips where the feature is there in silicon but intentionally disabled (say, for the other more …

The utterly stupid thing is that the hype is what killed the game. Of course, then I guess they wouldn't have been able to charge AAA price for it and get away with it :/ I'm a fan…

What the? "When I was discharged from the hospital late the next day, the cabdriver asked me, “Where do I take you?” I couldn’t remember the name of my street. I handed him the dis…

AFAIK Android 6.0 and up lets you 'Format SD as internal storage' and from then on it's well, internal storage. I remember messing around with it on my Nexus Player awhile ago. In …

This is what happens when the concepts of security, DRM and commercial restriction get entangled. This reminds me of the PlayStation 3. It remained an un-hacked console for so long…

Reminds me of what happens when you step onto an escalator that isn't working (the broken escalator phenomenon): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_escalator_phenomenon

Got any references for this? I'm in Australia and have never heard this, nor have I seen such clauses in any non-competes that I've signed.

My current pet-peeve: - If your code deals with values where the units of measure are especially important and where they may change for the same type of value in different context…

Yep, it was a long time ago now :) Dark Forces is one I haven't thought of in awhile - such a great story-based FPS. I probably didn't make it as clear as I meant to - I wasn't so …

I think it's broader than just "designed for easy control on a console". There were other factors at play. I think what actually set this type of design in motion can be traced bac…

I'm looking at Elm for a product that I'm working on at the moment. The language is great and I've wanted an excuse to do actual work in an ML-like language for a long time. The di…