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Only because Adobe decided to lay down and die after someone said something kinda mean and kinda true.

They could have fixed most of it. Instead they were like "Nah, fuck it"

Nobody "learned" Flash. You opened it up and you already knew what to do.

That's the real value it provided.

Definitely Unity.

Hot damn, an actual Farmville developer. My big plan fresh out of college was to make a Farmville-esque game with some action elements. Got WAY further along than I rightly should have, and I have AS3 to thank for that.

It's a shame it's going away. Glad the pros from that time feel the same way I do about it.

Flex was a little bloated, sure, but the Spark components were nice.

I LOVE VueJS. But you're right- nowhere near as easy as Flex Builder with AS3.

I built an app with Flex Builder that got me my first job. The application is still in heavy use every day, and I've never even once had someone report that something went wrong with it.

That's not a monopoly, that's just advertising.

Isn't Linux becoming more and more compatible with modern games/development?

It had a moment there in the AI storyline where it looked like it was going to be a good show. Never panned out.

Unity's actually great... the problem is anyone can use it.

Hacker news.

Maybe make some commercials? "Yeah, we've got free 2-day shipping, and you don't need a membership. Or we have 1-hour pickup. How close is your nearest river?"

No.

Source: I sleep less than 6 hours most nights.

If you include the price of the headset with a serious VR development computer, you get pretty close to $2,000 pretty quickly.

You can just download VR prototyping kits for Unity or Unreal, you don't even need a headset.

What's possible on a high-end rig today will be possible on on a phone within 2 years.

Well for one, you don't need to own your car. You just use it. If you (or anyone you know) owns a traditional automobile, it sits unused for 90% of its life. In a driveway, on the sidewalk, in a parking lot, etc. You pay for 100% of the car, but only use 10% of it. If you could rent it out to others ('the grid') while you're not using it, they would share some of the burden, lessening yours.

They make things safer because they don't drive drunk.

Is it just me or does this not actually tell you which programming language tags get the most traffic at night?

Cinnamon is good. Until you try to install a modern nvidia driver. At least, that was the case 6 months ago.

Dual monitors should be plug & play. I shouldn't have to add a new repository to apt-get, I shouldn't have to choose between 15 Nouveau drivers and 15 potentially system-breaking nvidia drivers. It should "just work".

Dual monitors, and just display output in general... this is 2017, this is very basic, expected functionality. It doesn't matter how complicated it is to implement - the user doesn't give a shit, they just want two monitors.

I don't understand everyone's response to literally everything Nintendo does ever.

The stock drops like 15% in a weekend, because Super Mario Run came out and made a ton of money...? It's got numbers comparable to Pokemon Go, which tripled Nintendo's stock price and Nintendo only owns 1/3 of Pokemon, but Run brings it down? And it's not even on Android, which makes up what, 80% of all mobile devices? (I know, not in the US, but still...)

It's like someone writes an article about how gamers don't like a specific design decision, and all of a sudden Nintendo is about to go out of business?

Nobody talks about Nintendo's successes, like Pokemon Sun/Moon kicking ass, Amiibo still selling like hotcakes, the Switch coming out with tons of first and third party support, game sellers and game makers endorsing the Switch as something awesome. Who was the king of the last console wars? Pretty sure it was the Wii.

Can you even name a famous video game character, other than Sonic, who isn't a Nintendo brand? Can your kids?

Enough of this bullshit. Nintendo isn't going anywhere.

Are you saying Google loses money on gmail? I can't see that being possible. It displays ads. It harvests incredible amounts of information, on "users" as a whole and individual users. It's a treasure trove of data on how people engage with each other, businesses, etc. It's a stepping stone into the large Google ecosystem where you can and do pay for things.

Gmail is just as valuable to Google as it is to any individual user. I'm not sure why people's gmail accounts would ever be banned. If people do something illegal, prosecute them. Even if they're found guilty, it's not like the court is going to delete their email address or take away where they live.

This feels like an episode of Black Mirror.

Sure, but if you steal a piece of candy from a store, they don't burn down your house and remove your mailbox. And delete every record of your existence.

I was thinking more like a car battery meets a propane tank- easy enough to just lift up and take inside to the attendant.

One day, I guess.

Can't "gas stations" just swap out your empty battery for a charged one, the way you can swap out an empty propane tank and $20 for a full one?

Are you prepared to miss out on the next billion dollar company because they happen to have a family and a job while they're hacking away on a revolutionary project?

It's actually available in the browser, not just iOS.

It's one of the best games I've ever played, and I fully consider myself a games connoisseur.

http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

Just so you know, not every fan of UO is an anti-social PK asshat.

Shouldn't the office releasing the SSNs (the police department) to a member of the general public (programmers in question) be held accountable for releasing sensitive information, not the person that bought it?

These guys don't even have a website! I instantly wanted to apply for a job. This is the kind of work I love to see. Using public records to improve the quality of life for people in their area, awesome.

For the record, I'm getting the same error. I'm on a company network, so I can only assume it's being blocked by whatever blocks (or doesn't block) porn.