Sorry in advance for this but... Is there chance that this could be a hoax? It's not that it couldn't happen but I couldn't find the obituary or any other reference to this other than the same text reposted on another blog.
Also Buildstarted's account was just created to post this entry, which it is not helping me to sorting this out in my mind. I don't want to be skeptical but I take very serious these kind of news and it would be really sad that somebody would be joking with these matters.
Funny... but perl or python are not the only ones to make one-line print statements and about Lisp... what about (display "Hello world") or just "Hello World" ? :)
>"Free customers are higher maintenance than paying customers."
I would like to share my small experience with the freemium model. I have with a friend an online dominoes game where people can play for free but they have to be invited to play. Premium players are the ones who can create new games so in order to play free you need a premium user to start the game.
In my experience, all the author says is completely true. The free users require somehow more maintenance and they are by much the ones that complain more. However, in our case they are the ones that build the site. Without them, the site would be really desolate and premium users would be complaining about the lack of people to play. It would be indeed cheaper to maintain but I am completely sure that the income would be 80% lower.
I don't know if this experience would be helpful for the community here but I thought it would be interesting to share our case where free users are indeed troublesome but completely necessary.
Well in the case of the game we were working on there was no choice other than fork our codebase. No considering the controllers (which is different enough from the consoles) the frame rate of our code base was awfully slow on IOS, so we had to rethink the whole project to target IOS properly. Actually I don't know any unreal game that sucessfuly have been launched on IOS and consoles with the same codebase, and after my experience with the engine I don't think you would like to do that in the sense that you always would like to exploit consoles capabilities. It's a tradeoff very hard to avoid.
>That even include "to be accepted at school", mind you. (just like you didn't have to smoke back in the days, but also you were gay if you did not, no matter how wrong that reasoning is).
Sorry for disagree, but I think people should have more personality and do not take decision affected by what the majority is doing.
Maybe I am being too naive, but if I can't find an online community that fixes with my way of think then I am going to build one... Isn't that what Internet is all about?
Sorry but I still don't understand why deleting that picture is such big deal? Google has the right to build their community with the rules that they want and the people eager to accept those rules. Mr Sieger has also the right to complain and he did so that should close the case right?
I made an analogy yesterday between this site and reddit and the differences between the cultures on both sites. A lot of people downvote that post (not sure why because I wasn't say anything offensive) and that's the kind of things that you have to accept in social sites... There are rules.. You either accept them or just move on...
>The only platform you would need to re-implement for would be iOS but your going to hit that problem whatever you do (not sure what it's JS support is like though).
That is not the case for mono as Xamarin compiles Mono code into native IOS code which is Complain with Apple guidelines.
That is in theory.... In practice If you have a game that look pretty well on consoles you would have big challanges for mobile devices, and just reducing quality on art assets might not be enough.
I am completely agree with billybob here. After all that's why Hacker News community is so different to Reddit, because the rules of each community right?
PHP is not strongly typed as C# so it doesn't need generics or templates or better said it wouldn't make much difference on performance unless it would be compiled (which is not the case on the standard).
However, Xerox PARC did progress with the research:
"Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976. Several of Engelbart's researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing. "
But granted... they weren't the ones who invented or patented it although they were a key actor putting all pieces together.
Guessing from that data might still be using machine learning (e.g Collaborative filtering). I guess you meant it is not computer vision related. At this point I don't think it matters too much, they are using a combination of techniques (including the famous social graph) and that is giving good results.
I would prefer a standard byte-code VM inside of every browser so we could just make compilers targeting that VM. Then anyone could choose their preferred language :)
It's interesting the different trends among browser versions. For Chrome when a new version comes out the previous one die almost immediately but IE users tend to keep their version for a long time. As a web developer I hate that :(
Also Buildstarted's account was just created to post this entry, which it is not helping me to sorting this out in my mind. I don't want to be skeptical but I take very serious these kind of news and it would be really sad that somebody would be joking with these matters.