malbs

It seems that there is a shift from PC gaming to console gaming... Here's me citing my single data point - Rage. id focused on the console experience above the pc experience, so when you have a predominately pc-driven company focusing on consoles, you feel that the industry is/has changed. That, and that current consoles are half way through their life-cycle according to MS/Sony, so new console designs are not slated until beyond 2015.

Graphics hardware companies like nvidia/amd will continue pushing the envelope though

ahhh I've never seen that, so true!

The "one of those uglies" quote is from the CEO, Andrew Mason.

The guy who took $319 million was Eric Lefkofsky (Groupon chairman). Nice pay day.

Oh and yeah, you could go for high risk/return investments, but your investments could get wiped out, and the taxes you paid go to paying bonuses to banking execs requiring bailouts.

Here in Australia, the commonwealth bank provided a guideline on how much super you needed to retire on to main various life styles, and what struck me as scary was how much you needed at retirement age 65, to survive for 20 years, if you wanted such first world pleasures as running a dishwasher, going out to dinner once a week, and so on. 800k was not anywhere near the amount needed.

I'm not calling this guy out, but you would be living a minimalist lifestyle in order to make 800k last you 40 years..

If you had it all in a 6% long-term savings account, you're barely making 50k pa before tax, for two people to live on. Sure, you have no mortgage, but you still have all the other costs of life involved. They'd be able to do it, but they certainly wouldn't be living the high life.

> death-by burpees

a most unpleasant way to die!

We all witnessed one example where the start up "cost" about $200,000, and failed.

How long is a piece of string?

Actually when I read the post just now, I went to the shelf and picked up my copy of it and just placed it on my desk, he had a major impact on my life.

I "feel" more of a loss about Dennis' passing than Steve's.

And when I say "get more done" it was in reference to java rather than perl.

I was going to start a new post but I think you covered most of the points I would have made anyway.

Reading that article just irritated me, how can someone make so many factual errors in one blog post?

He's never worked with Java to write a web application. Deployment xml configuration files can DIAFF.

He also completely missed the point why all of those Perl++ languages became popular, and it wasn't because disk speed slow/database slow so language being slow didn't matter, it was because you can genuinely get more out the door and tune your way out of performance issues (arguably :))

I'd love an answer to that - I just got given the task to evaluate Go as a possible development tool for a future project.

Edit: I'll take a stab in the dark and say D?

but +1 to noSuchMethod()

static methods, inability to add behaviour to base objects, no metaclasses

It's early days, and they haven't presented yet, but son I am disappoint.

I guess I'm not super-excited about it because I was expecting something revolutionary, but when you think about where they're coming from, it was to be expected. Lars and co are simply building on V8, so it makes more sense that Dart is some sort of improvement on javascript, rather than something entirely new.

Are there any other persistant/mmo style space sims, but favouring action over the simulation?

A friend once linked me some picture of the "eve learning curve" and it was a precipice, never inspired me to want to play it

found the image

http://dragsa.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/eve-online-learnin...

> Unwed parents are a disaster for both society and the kid(s). It's pretty much a guarantee of long-term poverty.

on what basis?

My partner and I had our 3 children out of wedlock. Who are you to say that unwed parents is a lock-in to food stamps and crime?

Next you'll be blaming unwed parents for the break down of the fabric of society.

You are way out of line.

I don't want to bag out on id.. but the games they've done in the past that qualified as FUN - the basic premise was to just kill wave after wave of bad guy/demon/robot type soldier guy. Their games have never been very "deep", but they have been fun to play. This looks to me like they felt a bioware style game was more appropriate but have none of the bioware talent for making engaging story/dialogue.

I'm sure I read somewhere that id were no longer going to be in the game of tech licensing, but I could just be mistaken.

I struggled when deciding how to place that best/worst haha, I think you're right :)

I had the same problem - late afternoon headaches, tiredness. It was a colleague who took one look at how close I sat to the monitor to tell me to get my eyesight checked. Diagnosis: long-sighted in one eye, short-sighted in the other, which caused quite significant muscle strain while my eyes constantly fought eachother for focus, causing headaches and tiredness. Prescription goggles and the problems vanished.

Get your eyes checked, at best you get told you have 20/20 vision and you're mad, and to drink more coffee. At worst you're in line for glasses

so I just downloaded it at work and had a quick look - immediate impression is "wow", it's really really nice, I need to put some mileage into it. I have some faith that the first impression was the right one

Thanks for the ref to Sublime - it runs on Windows. I have a TM license on my mac mini (hooked up via kvm), but since my wifes machine died I migrated her to the mac, so I don't really use the thing anymore (TextMate too), and I have to admit, it is a nice editor and I wish it was available for Windows. I'll definitely check out Sublime today though.

We get a $30 per-week allowance for "OH&S Health and Well-being" - It can be used for pretty much anything exercise related, gym, green fees, tennis court hire, it's a lot better than simply being forced to go to some particular gym. It's not a massive amount of money, but it certainly adds up

Keep in mind a lot of .net applications will run on x86 or arm with no effort by the developer, ie no "simply recompile your application" either, it will just run on either platform.

But you're right that they're exposed with no applications, which is why they're basically giving windows 8 beta/vs11express away to any and all who are prepared to download it, they need to catch up, and quickly

Thanks - I ran out of time last night, reading bed time stories to kids took priority

the dev tools seem to be available for x64 only, and I'm pretty sure Virtual PC will only host a 32bit o/s?

in the other thread someone mentioned vmware panics when booting win8, but parallels works ok. I'm going to give virtualbox a shot

got VirtualBox handy/willing to give it a try?

Yeah I'm keen to try it out when I get home tonight but don't exactly want to hose my home machine, hoping vmware player 64bit will play nicely with win8, if no one else has tried it by tonight I'll let you know how I went

I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis 4 years ago, and over that time I have basically stumbled across other people who have either colitis or crohns (they're similar diseases), so it's nice to see that Chronology is for sufferer's of either disease.

What I was going to say was - it's difficult to find other sufferers because people tend to shy away from talking about it - it's only when you mention the disease first that others seem to be willing to admit that they also have it. Comments I've received in the past have been "I can't believe you're so open about it" etc

I'll talk to anyone about it, because you never know when someone elses point of view will give you some new piece of information you didn't have (ala Alan Kay's "point of view is worth 80 iq points" quote)

Yeah unfortunately the actual Delphi compiler is stuck in stasis, and has received no love in terms of targeting newer cpu instructions like SSE etc, which is why C++ can achieve better performance these days, back in the day Delphi was as fast as C++ for general performance, and Delphi absolutely killed it in terms of productivity.

We started out as a TP shop, so there is code dating back to the 1980s that is still used today (=\)

The rumor is Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero lost the source code to the delphi compiler, which is the reason there had been no additions to the compiler, but who knows if that is legitimate, or should be an entry on snopes

strings are reference counted

dynamic arrays are reference counted

interfaces are reference counted (mostly for doing com stuff, however I've seen some examples of people trying to use interfaces as a cheap/dirty "i don't have to think about it" memory management tool, badly)

everything else is managed by yours truly

please enlighten us as to what you think Delphi is intended for, and what the standard kit is actually optimised for

Yeah the RTL source/debug dcus still comes with any version from Professional up.