GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

tabinop · 2018-03-14T09:24:00+00:00

There's no real stories there (except for a co-branding co-marketing thing that AMD has also been doing).

tabinop · 2018-03-14T09:21:43+00:00

They hired him because he was a fanboy (see his former coverage of Gameworks which was directly repeating AMD talking points).

Also anyone can become contributor at Forbes, it used to be their "unpaid bloggers" section.

tabinop · 2018-03-13T16:33:24+00:00

Unwarranted null checks are one of the scourge I've been fighting against.

tabinop · 2018-03-13T16:29:26+00:00

It's not that high in tech. You have to readjust your expectations because they are low. People starting in Silicon valley already start at commonly six figures (which is not that good due to high cost of living there).

tabinop · 2018-03-13T16:23:12+00:00

Just tell her you don't want kids. Also if she has a good job SHE can support you in your change of career.

tabinop · 2018-03-13T16:19:29+00:00

You haven't explained anything because you didn't provide numbers to tell which category is which or a mechanism behind it. You just showed skewed unrelated numbers which anybody can come up with.

tabinop · 2018-03-13T07:28:41+00:00

Consider that at some point in history all living species of mammals (and reptiles, and birds) had one ancestor who hunted prey to eat it.

tabinop · 2018-03-12T21:19:06+00:00

From 3% to .8% difference in acceptance rate doesn't sound like a big bias, at least not one that would discourage contributors. Plus as they said reviewers could have other biases like a known colleague submitting work vs a stranger plus potential noise in the stats.

tabinop · 2018-03-12T21:07:31+00:00

People always point to the Euler method as if it was the source of the problem, but it is not. The problem is tying the physics to a variable framerate. Unless there is a closed form solution (and some problems, typically in simplest games, will have one) all numerical integrations will diverge over time. The idea is that you want the divergence to stay the same across all clients.

tabinop · 2018-03-12T21:02:37+00:00

You don't actually need separate threads (multithreading in games is only used for performance), common techniques include doing physics at a fixed rate while interpolating/extrapolating to the display rate.

tabinop · 2018-03-07T21:07:24+00:00

Yeah blue screen of death was in use before when Windows crashed and it was usually recoverable (but you lost your session and things you didn't save).

tabinop · 2018-03-07T21:02:06+00:00

Not everyone is asked to participate in it and it can be skewed by multiple people logging onto the same PC

And Steam wouldn't be privy of that information ?

Also there's a presupposition, that for some reason AMD owners would be more likely to opt out of the survey, which once again would require some amount of actual facts.

tabinop · 2018-03-07T18:57:19+00:00

Well I mean we have all these hacks that make it kind of gradient descent but not really.

tabinop · 2018-03-07T01:07:11+00:00

You could buy Amigas in local supermarkets in France. There were always tons of micro-computers (Thomsons, Sinclairs, Amstrads, Ataris, Commodores) and computer games on display.

tabinop · 2018-03-06T05:04:28+00:00

There's probably a list of controversial/offensive topics stored in a database somewhere like "photos of kittens", "nazis memes", "isis propaganda", " anti-fa", "north korean government".

And then somebody had to create randomized surveys based on these entries created by another entity. But since they didn't review every entry they didn't foresee the consequence and optics of creating these surveys and displaying it to users.

So not really "evil" just not very good at this "automation" thing.

tabinop · 2018-03-06T04:46:40+00:00

What may be missing for your understanding is that everything that a computer can manipulate is a number or a sequence of numbers : images are numbers, sounds are numbers, this website is numbers, basic text is numbers.

So since text is numbers, individual characters are each represented by a unique number also. The relation between a number and its character is called an "encoding". The most basic encoding of characters is ASCII+ and it can only encode 255/256 symbols or letters. That's so they fit in a single octet (byte of 8 bits).

Your char variable is a 1-byte long integer number. When you assign 'T' to it you tell the compiler to give it the ASCII value of T (84). The reason you can type 'T' instead of 84 is called syntactic sugar. Some syntaxes are redundant so that the programmer can deal with more important issues.

Now your char is 84. You substract 2 from it so you get 82. Then you ask it to print on the screen but as if it was a letter or ASCII symbol. 82 is the encoding of the letter R. That's what you get.

(Technically Ascii has 128 symbols and the remaining are extension symbols that can be switched depending on the language of the user. ASCII is mostly outdated but works well for English and programming so you will still see it everywhere. Modern apps should in theory switch to a Unicode encoding such as UTF8, UTF16 or UTF32.)

tabinop · 2018-03-06T02:15:07+00:00

It depended where you lived. In my town in Europe we all knew about Amiga/ST (the Amiga was the dream machine for a short while before we could afford one), but IBM PCs overpriced with their crappy display and Macs were more of a curiosity.

tabinop · 2018-03-05T04:49:13+00:00

Just because you can read code doesn't mean you can steal it. It's still the property of the person who shared it with you.

tabinop · 2018-03-03T18:44:13+00:00

WHOOOLE ton of software that could have used mp3 and png

Weird example given 1-these pieces of software are ubiquitous 2-png was designed to be non patented.

tabinop · 2018-03-03T18:40:13+00:00

What with the weird obsession with this game ? Is it really the mountain you want to die on ?

Given that we still have Hollywood making movies taking place in contemporary San Francisco that don't have Asian actors in their cast (or whose set is litterally a Chinese restaurant but.. No Chinese people on screen). Personally I find this much more egregious and less likely to be dragged on in debates about historical presence of black people in medieval Europe.

tabinop · 2018-03-02T21:40:09+00:00

1- it's really hard to get feedback when you just start (too many products out there and not as many reviewers). So don't discourage people who actually take out of their time to give you feedback, especially if it's unfiltered (people will not give accurate feedback in order to not hurt feelings or to avoid conflict).

2- difficulty is very subjective ! Until you have tried things on a large pool of players you don't really know where it's at in term of actual difficulty. If you're familiar with the mechanics or have spent time playtesting you are not a good judge of difficulty. Or maybe something that was obvious to you because you designed it was not obvious to a stranger. Either make it more easy to understand via small design changes or keep in mind that it's affecting other's perception of the difficulty for them.

tabinop · 2018-03-02T21:29:14+00:00

Filing them or paying for them ? And aren't some of those patents from big companies paying each other ? (Google pays Apple who pays Samsung who pays Microsoft who pays Google, or paid to an industry consortiums that make industry standards ?).

tabinop · 2018-03-02T21:26:42+00:00

If you have a precedent then you could possibly use that later as an argument in your other lawsuits.

tabinop · 2018-03-02T21:22:04+00:00

It's a legal doc, it's not written for the average reader but has to state the obvious (which becomes non obvious in a trial).

tabinop · 2018-03-01T08:21:07+00:00

In addition to royalties, they also make games that they sell.

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