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Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by Periodic »

barrkel wrote: post #22
suninwinter wrote: post #18

It looks like his changes appear in the game window without rebuilding the program. Is that what everyone else is seeing? Is this a technique I should know about?

Hotswap bug fixing is the Java term for it. .NET calls it Edit and Continue. Much the same thing has existed in Smalltalk and Lisp etc. for much longer. It's particularly well suited for things like a game loop or a server, because it works best (or rather usually, only) when the code you're editing is not on the stack.

Are you still limited to method bodies? It seems reasonable that the method signatures and object layouts couldn't be modified because that would invalidate a lot of code already in memory and that may already be optimized.

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by exit »

ANH wrote: post #16
lee wrote: post #4

This is amazing. Currently there are 12000 people tuned to watch a man program live. Who would have thought that would ever happen... live streaming programming.

I'd pay money for a 24-hour channel of various programmers, known and unknown, livestreaming. Does this exist already?

you may have to pay for it. he just closed the stream because he realized the 17000 viewers would equal a huge bill from livestream.

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by cschep »

Notch just talked about how it was going to be super expensive to do this, and changed the quality of the stream to low to hopefully counteract that somehow?

That seems crazy to me, we all want to watch this and it's costing him money to do us that favor? Seemingly he's also driving traffic to livestream, is it because he has no ads or something?

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by exit »

at 18:31 utc he closed the stream because the number of viewers would equal a huge streaming bill for him :(

he mentions that he found streaming on justin.tv would also be too expensive.

i for one would pay to have famous coders streaming in the background while i code myself.

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by Simucal »

He just ended the stream when he checked his usage report on Livestream.com.

Apparently he had racked up 17,000 viewer hours so far and said the cost was getting way out of hand. I'm trying to see how much that is going to cost him.

It would be cool if we could get Livestream to sponsor him perhaps as a way to promote their service?

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by citricsquid »

Simucal wrote: post #38

He just ended the stream when he checked his usage report on Livestream.com. Apparently he had racked up 17,000 viewer hours so far and said the cost was getting way out of hand. I'm trying to see how much that is going to cost him. It would be cool if we could get Livestream to sponsor him perhaps as a way to promote their service?

http://www.livestream.com/estimator

Enter "mojang" there to see the cost.

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Post by smhinsey »

JoeH wrote: post #34
smhinsey wrote: post #30

He just stopped the stream due to the cost. I'd be very curious to know what the actual numbers were.

He stopped and restarted at a lower quality

Ah, that makes sense. Too bad that I could really only see what was going on in HD mode.
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