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_random_on Show HN: My First 3D Android Game Using Unity3D – Dragon Slayer: Reign of Fire

Oh really?

Let me quote what Google is saying in their promotional materials: "When you publish on Google Play, you put your app in front of over 2 billion active Android users...".

If they can lie, than he can exaggerate.

_random_on Show HN: My First 3D Android Game Using Unity3D – Dragon Slayer: Reign of Fire

I think they announced that they are going to allow publishing to web via HTML and CrapGL at some stage. So you might have something eventually.

_random_on Matter.js – A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web

Was it written from scratch or inspired by Box 2D?

_random_on Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow

SO heavily rewards:

- asking questions that on the spike of industry interest;

- answering those kind of questions good enough but very quick and then expanding the answer.

Example (please don't up-vote):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24003918/does-swift-have-...

_random_on String vs. string in C#

I would guess lots. Starting with junior devs and those who just don't care and ending with something like Unity3d scripters.

_random_on Light captured at 100B frames per second

That is energy vapour surrounding individual photons.

_random_on It Will Be Tough for Google Domains to Compete

...unless of course search result ranking algo changes a bit suddenly.

_random_on Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available

Enterprise backlashed and they had to respond. There is no need to suffer through backwards-compatible legacy stuff (JS, HTML, CSS) if you are not building something public-facing.

_random_on Show HN: C#-to-JavaScript compiler powered by Microsoft Roslyn

Is there ReSharper or Roslyn for TypeScript? In terms of powerful AND extensible refactoring tools.

_random_on Ask HN: Tutorials for ASP.NET MVC and C# that are like railstutorial.org?

Seems Microsoft arranged for it to be free:

http://www.asp.net/mvc/pluralsight

_random_on The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer

Quality 3d assets are very expensive.

_random_on Black Phosphorous – the birth of a new wonder material

"...heralding a new era of nanoelectronic devices..."

Did I just miss the previous nano-electronic era?! Where can I get my artificial nano-robotic ever-rejuvenating immune system injection?

_random_on The evolution of Xbox One – as told by the SDK leak

The morons still don't support C# despite promises:

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...

Meanwhile, Sony is being smart:

http://www.gamedevs.co/2014/03/26/sony-supporting-monogame-w...

_random_on Ask HN: What does Engineering culture in a super professional company look like?

It's like an unstable isotope - everyone will be gone to found own start-ups before you have a chance to measure the culture.

_random_on Voxel8 Demonstrates Its Electronics-Capable 3D Printer at CES 2015 [video]

Who are the target consumers?

_random_on Game Design Tips from Tom Hall (1994)

Portals could be an in-app-purchase, so it's better to do exactly that all the time.

_random_on Game Design Tips from Tom Hall (1994)

"- Never have treasure you can't get."

" - Your first mistake." - King.com would say - " - Make it unreachable and leave users no choice but to pay to cross the difficulty threshold."

_random_on Japan's fertility rate is rising

Maybe "Japan's birthrate spike consequences are slowly settling down" is a less scaremongering title?

_random_on JavaScript in 2015

Don't say things like that on HN. Say "Wow, amazing! I did not know this is possible in JS! JS is the future, other languages are not needed!"

_random_on JavaScript in 2015

Here you go: http://wtfjs.com

_random_on JavaScript in 2015

They are not fixing JS, they are extending it. That's a different thing. Because backwards-compatibility.

_random_on JavaScript in 2015

Node.js is just a Reactor Pattern implementation with some package management on top.

_random_on Forbes 30 under 30 2015

Would you rather be e.g. Notch or some Forbes 30-under-30?

_random_on Forbes 30 under 30 2015

Yay, games are a separate category! The art circles might keep their eyes closed, but the finance will keep them wide open.

_random_on Why MS Office has not created any new tech for well over a decade

"I hope, I deeply hope, that the computing power of mobile devices increases to the point that we see another PC-like shift toward decentralization. When every mobile phone can hold terabytes of storage, when networking links are > 1Gb/s between phones, will we move away from carriers running the show, and move back toward giving users control again?"

I hope the industry will find the right path between the horrors of the closed ecosystems on one side and the horror of the JS-is-actually-not-bad-since-we-have-no-choice "open" Web.

_random_on Why F# evangelism isn't working

Why is it not working for me: C# = language and tools.

Where is my ReSharper/Roslyn for F#?

No, I am not going to use a plain text editor like nix guys.

No, I am not going to contribute to the open-source F# tools (Microsoft has some spare cash I think).

I don't care that "dude, F# compiler is already written in idiomatic F# in 10x less code"!

Maybe I am one of those lazy enterprise programmers, but how come do I love immutability, actor model and monads? I'll have my tools today and better language tomorrow with C# than exactly the opposite with F#.

PS: check this blog post to learn the full extent of the evangelistic lower-back burn (why, why aren't they coming to our elegant almost-purely-functional language !?): http://tomasp.net/blog/2014/csharp-6-released/index.html

_random_on Billionaire Elon Musk: How I Became the Real 'Iron Man'

Is this youtube comment true?

"None of his ventures are profitable.

His net worth is a joke, and he has been bailed out on multiple occasions."

_random_on Universal configuration language

Looks interesting, however the only reason JSON is generally used IMHO is because it's light and compatible. There is no reason to make the new language look like JS (a lame legacy language). It could look like YAML but still support JSON for legacy stuff.

_random_on Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

Doesn't contradict with my statement, but yes. Luckily the rest 97% of developers are covered.

_random_on Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

C#, obviously. It's the only modern language that provides ALL of the following:

1) Static and dynamic typing

2) OOP and functional paradigms

3) Multi-platform via single framework: WP, Android, iOS, Mac, PC, Xbox, PS4, Linux etc.

4) Two super-powerful IDE-integrated static analysis tools to choose from: ReSharper and Roslyn

5) Mature workflows for developing Web, mobile, enterprise apps and games.

6) High performance on WP and desktop, reasonable elsewhere.