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UO was my #1 gaming experience and sadly like others have mentioned: probably won't have that exceeded by an MMO again. However, there was a brief moment when Sierra had more control over the LOTR MMO (known as Middle Earth Online) and it looked very similar to early UO.

Make no mistake, it's still a dumpster fire. Just maybe less raging.

True, Google is at least trying to make it easier to bind to C++ [0]. It's still pretty experimental, though.

0: https://github.com/google/autocxx

Rust has good C interoperability. So from C++ it’d look like a C library. You can either write your own glue code or use something like cbindgen to autogen the header file.

Here's some ancient tome of software design as it applies to user interfaces circa 1986 for the Macintosh:

https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/pdf/Programming_The_...

Also, there's a ton of programming manuals here (https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/), I originally was searching for a dirty rectangles algorithm in a mac graphics programming manual.

And most end up in a graveyard...

There's a cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y56fxQ...

The free market didn't deliver seat belts. Regulation had to step in and Ralph Nader lobbied the US govt to get it passed.

The medium is the message :) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

Hamilton Richards (maintainer at the time of the EWDs on the site) was my analysis of programs professor at UT. I had arrived there in 2003 as a freshman, the reverence and impact of Djistrka was incredibly palpable.

I remember some of my classmates were turned off by how theoretical some of the core courses were. A lot of people saw it as less practical. Also the height of Java's OO take over of CS programs, it was definitely a mix of classes. Although the theory courses tended to either care less about language choice or focused on Haskell.

I've heard horror stories of trying to develop a game and also maintain an up-to-date Unity install. AFAIK it's best to just live with whatever Unity version you've started your game in and be careful of upgrading point releases and avoid upgrading to any major release.

Also, I think it's worth mentioning that if you care about the longevity of your game (like 10+ years into the future), depending on the Unity runtime being compatible with future OS versions is also a risk.

Then again, the alternative requires some pretty hefty engineering chops and prior knowledge of a whole host of lower level concepts and APIs.

EDIT: Also Heaps is the choice of Dead Cells dev and he's written about it some here: https://deepnight.net/tutorial/using-my-gamebase-to-create-a...

AMD has caught up to Intel but still lags behind nVidia (on Windows at least). I'm just not sure they can fight a two front war. Something has to give.

Do you have any sources to back this up? Particulary the hordes of grandmothers & teens downloading the app in record numbers?

Another alternative (but not free) option is https://rxi.itch.io/tilekit

Hopefully Nintendo releases the SDK? It's been a decently active platform for indie titles and homebrew games. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the 3DS is covered by the same NDA as the Switch in terms of toolchain/docs/etc. I believe you can find those after signing up for a developer account at https://developer.nintendo.com/

Have you seen the bloodshed in the NASDAQ lately? It's wiped out quite a bit of wealth... although it was fairly overheated and tech was due for a major correction, but damn watching those gains come down was painful. :/

It was back in '07-'09, we would take a few server laptops and a whole bunch of loaner laptops out to internal corporate seminars/conventions at like Bank of America, Hilton, etc.

It appears to still be active but using more modern devices and UX. [0]

0: https://www.abilitie.com/executive-challenge

I used to work for a company that made simulation based corporate training games. All the data was modeled in Excel and served as a database to read from and write back to during runtime.

The frontend was written in Flash. I was the sole frontend developer for one of the projects in this space and the backend had always amazed me. The Excel sheets were nuts :D

I moved out of Austin, Texas because it's pretty awful on rent these days... $2100 for a 1 BR in the Domain... oof.

I mostly lived around the city center in a house until the high rise condo developers came.

Lately, I've been having thoughts about this a lot. I've yearned for a simpler age in technology. I grew up on the internet around 96/97ish, mostly because I wanted to play games over dial-up. In those formative years, I forged a lifelong fascination with wanting to know how all (most? some?) of this worked.

Things have changed a lot for me personally and for technology. In general, I feel my enthusiasm has dwindled somewhat in the way tech's role has played out in society. In my opinion the big "Web 2.0" and social rush was more about bending the Internet to the wills of private enterprise rather then private enterprise bending to the wills of the Internet. Or maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon now, a salty junior level graybeard.

I do have hope, though. It's probably that my youthful enthusiasm has given way to cautious optimism.

In some, murder committed by acts such as strangulation, poisoning, or lying in wait are also treated as first-degree murder.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder#Degrees_of_murder

Robert Hodgin used to go by flight404 back in the days of Flash. I remember seeing him speak at a Flash Forward conference at the Masonic Center in SF awhile ago. I believe he also helped develop the Cinder library for creative coding... cool to see this popup on HN :)

I learned this lesson recently, and I am sure I will continue to learn this lesson in the future as I've already learned it in the past. Just in many different contexts and ways!

You visit the sites as well, since you're seeing his content directed your way... maybe you're also his demographic or view content that is related?

At least you weren't born like say during the Hundred Years War... :)

I think bidding government contracts is a lot more complicated than just picking the cheapest option. There's a lot of other dimensions of validation that bids move through other than cost.

For something like this, I'm sure there is stringent engineering validation. I know some initial NN research was part of a larger government project of funding research around stabilizing missiles in flight for ICBMs that was not cheap.

QuickJS is a great little JS engine as well that he wrote and is super easy to embed :)

I'm not sure if you can say Macs just work anymore, and obviously this is the realm of people who like to tinker or make things work for the sake of the process. If only there was a word for it... Oh wait I think it's up up next to that Y up there :)

The old hardware is pretty well supported in the Mac Pro because of how modular it remains. The majority of the incompatibility comes from not having a GPU that works with Metal. Those patch notes are mostly for devices with soldered components, like the GPU.

There are ways around the official support drop as well, I run macOS mojave fine with a Mac Pro 3,1. These original cheese grater macs are truly still the best desktop tower they'll ever make at this point. It'd be fun to trick one out with a 3rd gen threadripper, which is probably faster than the 28-core rumored $35,000 mac pro.

Here's the patcher: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

There are caveats, but I've found it to work well. Of course it's totally unsupported so here be dragons, etc.

This maybe a little off topic but... wait what? CERN had their own OS? What was its name?