GC every frame? Jesus. Gamedevs jump though hoops to avoid it.
These games are turn and grid based like Legend of Grimrock or Chess where input lag is much less important.
Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
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Re: Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
#92Your" rel="nofollow">https://www.techhypes.com/the-5-best-wireless-keyboard-in-20... article is very helpful
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It depends on your allocator - ptmalloc, the default linux allocator - is open source, and there's plenty of very robust open allocators (jemalloc, mimalloc, tcmalloc, etc). Understanding how your allocator works can be very important in certain contexts. On windows I'd expect the default allocator to be a black box, but I might be wrong. For garbage collection I strongly recommend this book (on top of the source cod…
Wouldn't the garbage collection for most common runtimes also be open source?
Technically, but they tend to be much harder to hack on.
It's trivial to replace malloc/free with my_malloc/my_free - and integrating libraries that replace malloc/free as-is without renaming also tends to be straightforward. In C++, you can overload new/delete to use my_* with little hassle, or placement new to instantiate classes on previously allocated memory directly.
Meanwhile, C# and Java provide absolutely no means of creating instances of their classes via anything other than their built-in GCs. You can't just distribute a .exe or .jar with a replaced GC - instead, you need to create/distribute/install an entirely new runtime, and even that doesn't really provide any sane means of having multiple GCs living side by side. This is all theoretically technically possible, but orders of magnitude more work.
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I think this is a bug rather than deliberately blocked. The on-page retry button will continuously fail, but if you go up to the address bar and keep hitting enter it will eventually work. Still embarrassing for a tech company of twitter's size. Displaying a tweet to a logged out user should be the single simplest job their service has, but it's usually broken.
Twitter has not fixed this bug for many many months. I think they are very happy to have it because I do not believe Twitter cannot fix it if they want to.
Years. I’ve never used a Twitter app, but this bug has occurred a high percentage of the time I view a tweet in the browser of every smartphone I’ve ever owned.
Re: Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
#95I'm not sure that in the present day of massive teams and > $100 million budgets that there's much room for new celebrity game developers to emerge on that scale. Pretty much every gamer knows who he is. Now, even the biggest breakthrough indie game with a 5 person dev team wouldn't become a household name. These days it's the studios themselves that get most of the credit. Which may only be fair: When there's 100+ p…
I think you are right. The closest I can come to a modern example would be Darkest Dungeon (made by 2 people) and Slay the Spire/Stardew Valley (both made by single devs) however owing to your point I don’t remember their names despite reading about them at least a few times. I would recognize John Carmacks face in a crowded room not to mention obviously unlikely to ever forget his name.
Now that you mention it, I know the names of a few of the roguelikes I play. I think part of this stems from it being the work of very small teams that ALSO do all their own game marketing, so your “representative” for the game is the creator themselves.
Dwarf Fortress comes to mind, and I know it’s made by Tarn and his brother, but I don’t know their last name…but I guess it’s not exactly modern.
Similarly, Kyzrati/Josh Ge, of Cogmind & REXpaint fame, and pender/Brian Walker.
To the point above about “who does the representing,” even though I happen to know their names, I think of them by their monikers, pender and Kyzrati, not their real-world names.
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The Twitter web UI if you are not logged in is purposefully broken. Every so often, it will just show you "access denied" or "you don't have permission". It is the peak of dark patterns.
I think this is a bug rather than deliberately blocked. The on-page retry button will continuously fail, but if you go up to the address bar and keep hitting enter it will eventually work. Still embarrassing for a tech company of twitter's size. Displaying a tweet to a logged out user should be the single simplest job their service has, but it's usually broken.
>embarrassing for a tech company of twitter's size
I'm a heavy user of Twitter. They have the most ridiculous bugs all the time
Let me list a few I can remind in recent two years:
1. A serious bug that makes the private lists' name, member count, and description visible to everyone for half a way
2. ANOTHER private list exposure bug after a year
3. Lots of their features are semi- or totally broken, the most obvious example being Moments. Some minor ones are like "twitter anniversary" etc.
4. Media files being totally lost/404, especially for some older tweets
5. UI: "Checked" mark for adding people to lists being invisible for at least a week
5.1. UI: some UI elements suddenly become black for a few weeks regardless what theme you use
6. Outage: Like function broken for almost a day
7. Outage: Timeline broken (no update) for half day
8. This probably isn't a bug but a "shadow block" feature, but I can't follow some accounts (and their following/follower count doesn't show) if my IP is in certain region.
9. Huge feature disparity between web and app, or iOS and Android
And needless to say, their support is beyond unhelpful, and they don't really have a proper place to report technical issues/bugs of their service.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is a bug rather than deliberately blocked. The on-page retry button will continuously fail, but if you go up to the address bar and keep hitting enter it will eventually work. Still embarrassing for a tech company of twitter's size. Displaying a tweet to a logged out user should be the single simplest job their service has, but it's usually broken.
The fact that threaded tweet links like this don't work on non-official apps (I use Talon on Android), to me, is a sign that this is deliberate.
https://github.com/klinker-apps/talon-for-twitter-android/is...
Twitter's thread/reply API has been changed a lot. It definitely works better now.
I will also be honest, Talon basically isn't really updated any more.
I remembered the last time I used it, it has a bug that it will always re-save/re-compress the image when you download, which is very easy to fix, but the author didn't do anything about it. I just checked, the bug is still there..
https://github.com/klinker-apps/talon-for-twitter-android/is... and https://github.com/klinker-apps/talon-for-twitter-android/is...
Re: Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
#98I'm not sure that in the present day of massive teams and > $100 million budgets that there's much room for new celebrity game developers to emerge on that scale. Pretty much every gamer knows who he is. Now, even the biggest breakthrough indie game with a 5 person dev team wouldn't become a household name. These days it's the studios themselves that get most of the credit. Which may only be fair: When there's 100+ p…
It’s not as recent as it seems in my mind, but Notch is a relatively well known game dev. And in the younger crowd he may be even well known than Carmack.
Ever since Mojang was sold to MS in 2014, I'd say his notoriety has dropped quite a bit. Most people that would have been familiar with him are now in their mid teens at the youngest.
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I think this is a bug rather than deliberately blocked. The on-page retry button will continuously fail, but if you go up to the address bar and keep hitting enter it will eventually work. Still embarrassing for a tech company of twitter's size. Displaying a tweet to a logged out user should be the single simplest job their service has, but it's usually broken.
The fact that threaded tweet links like this don't work on non-official apps (I use Talon on Android), to me, is a sign that this is deliberate.
They need users, they rather avoid non-users that just want the content.
Twitter is a private company but it has also become a public space for political discourse.
The need for profits and open free speech are butting heads.
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John Carmack is awesome, but I find this level of deification (of any individual) kinda creepy - it just feels unhealthy. Would you like to be treated that way, in Carmack's position? I realize that your comment was likely made in jest, but it still bugs me.
If the attention bothered him, the simple solution is to create another account under an alias. I do it to keep the worlds apart, and I am not even famous. Given all that he has accomplished and the influence his work has had on multiple generations of computer and gaming nerds, I don't see the celebrity status as terribly unwarranted.
Sure, it's a simple solution, but it comes at a cost. There are a lot of reasons to use one's own name when writing.