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Authentication is an interesting example - it sounds like might be the easiest component to remove. But without authentication, you don't have identity. And without identity you ha…

> That way the community has the opportunity to run their own servers if they want to. That might be fine for very small titles - where the "game server" is a relatively simple bin…

I remember that PIC project. I don't know if source was ever released, but I recall a lot of folks being very dubious about the claims made. Quote: The PIC has 1024 words (12-bits)…

Yeah, this is absolutely true, but we don't really like to impose a rule regarding which editor(s) people use. Most of our workflow is Windows-based.

The problem with shebangs that I really want to solve is that I often need to edit files on a Windows machine, and then try to run the resulting CR/LF scripts on a Linux machine us…

From personal experience, I've always had better results from Simulated Annealing than Genetic Programming. I hasten to point out that it's entirely possible I've been doing GP poo…

Curious as to why they'd base this on AngelScript (which I had not heard of before today) instead of a more widespread language like Python?

Cost and Latency. My team and I run the servers for a number of very big videogames. For a high-cpu workload, if you look around at static on-prem hosting and actually do some real…

That is awesome! The retro box is fantastic. I discovered that my son (17 months old at the time) loves to mess with stereo controls. So I bought a few rotary encoders and neo-pixe…

I recently needed to encode a 32-bit value into something easy for QA folks to remember and report. I opted for 3 words out of an 11-bit (2048 entry) dictionary of commonly used wo…

I have a Sonos that came with my house. It's actually the least of my worries. The house was built about 10 years ago with what (I presume) was a state-of-the-art system at the tim…

This is awesome. I now have Guns'n'Roses playing in my office, and Axl Rose is a faint voice coming from the garage.

This one is fascinating - especially the slides from the JavaOne presentation. It JITs heavily-used R3000 blocks into Java bytecode, which is then JITted by the Java interpreter. A…

It's actually quite a bit louder than this now. Also, the lights aren't quite as infant-retina-searingly-bright as the camera would have you believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

I discovered that my 17-month old son loves to mess with stereo controls. So I bought a few rotary encoders and neo-pixel rings - build a wooden enclosure with a plastic faceplate,…

Take a look at HJSON.

Switch your parsers to HJSON, and never look back :)

HSON ( https://hjson.org/ ) addresses a lot of this. Just allowing trailing commas and adding comments reduces 90% of the friction involved.

https://youtu.be/ITbqTl8pTMs?t=200 Err... were these commands meant to be obfuscated the whole time?

We had to shift focus to the PS3 project, which needed everyone's full attention.

Yeah, the runtime for GOAL was much closer to C/C++ than LISP. The pre-processor was pretty much a full Scheme implementation, and had all kinds of dynamic cons cell allocations an…

I know of at least a couple of ex-dogs who lurk around here. The article's pretty much correct, if memory serves. I started at ND in 2004, around the tail-end of Jak 3. After Andy …

"GOAL never had a source-line debugger, as far as I know, although there's no reason it couldn't given some effort to write one." Actually, it did. IIRC, the debug state required f…

I used to have a favorable opinion of Microchip, until their patent case against Scenix. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Court+Rules+for+Scenix+Semicon... Featuring such fabulous cla…

I added some copy-protection to a Nintendo 64 game once. If the anti-piracy checks ever triggered, the game would do nothing at first - but after a few minutes, the frame-rate woul…