I don't think the license change is unwarranted. At a previous employer we used Terraform but the pricing on the cloud/enterprise offerings was prohibitive enough that we instead had a dev create simple wrapper scripts…
Is this a new requirement? I remember for Kubecon Seattle 2018 using an iOS app (named KubeCon+CNC) that was nothing more than a schedule viewer for the event. It didn't even use native views and given how narrow the…
For what it's worth, I hope you do end up writing more posts in the future. It's easy to overlook or forget the pains and lows of projects in hindsight, especially for particularly successful ones like the ones you've…
> But something happened after the success of WoW the company grew quickly and with that came some bad people and after the merger, Bobby Kotick could exert his influence. I don't think this was the case, and that…
> This is the money they could have used to have a buffer to deal with these situations or to improve their systems. Matt Levine covered this last year [1]. The basic gist of it was that the CEO is focused on the…
This isn't specific to the M1. I had my MBP 2016 13" die in the same exact way about two years ago. Same failure mode where it just refused to boot no matter what I did, though it was possible to sort of turn it on if…
Your repurposed analogy isn't quite right. Google is providing a service by running around and grabbing those samples. Value is provided not only to you, the searcher, by receiving an answer to a question you posed, but…
What's frustrating to me is that even though a lot of these frameworks and tools keep advertising themselves as making you more productive and letting you write less code in the pursuit of better client experiences --…
I remember watching a GDC talk of JAM (https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018184/Network-Serialization-...), which was Blizzard's solution to network serialization for WoW back in 2004. The talk even had performance…
It seems a lot of people are missing the true concern here because they only read the first half of the article. Going to paraphrase the article a bit here but yes, the website is capturing the filled-in data even if…
> They're also free to circumvent the software and play the game without it [...] People shouldn't have to abstain from playing a game they bought because the game company doesn't have total access to their machine.…
You don't have to sacrifice your computing freedom and privacy. These anti-cheating modules tend to be explained to you upon game installation, so if you're not comfortable with what they do then just cancel the…
Unfortunately this doesn't apply for warranty repairs directly through Apple, as Apple won't bother using this port. They'll just tell you you're SoL and happily remind you of their iCloud services for backups. I had…
One of the level designers for WoW has apparently written a book on the game's original development. The Kickstarter [1] for it failed due to an unrealistic funding goal, but if you're looking for something along those…
I'm not seeing how the two paragraphs are incongruous. The company is selling their brand, not the user info, when they run the promotions. If no-one signs up for the promotion, no user info gets shared. Ultimately it's…
Interestingly enough Warcraft 3, despite being almost 15 years old, still gets new patches. The latest one came out just a month ago [1]. [1]: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753797075
This might particularly interest you: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html The gist of it is, in 1970 someone asked a director of NASA why billions of dollars were being spent on exploring space…
> Those have no costs, except for limited maintenance, and the game development has paid itself years ago. So it is virtually pure profit. In the years since WoW came out Blizzard came out with a centralized…
A friend did some research in this area, comparing FPGAs, CPUs and GPUs. He published a paper [1] in regards to performance for several common Linear Algebra computations across a variety of input sizes. In particular,…
Why would you consider these analytics scripts useless? The article mentioned several reasons they want to be tracking this timing information (monitoring of slow backends/CDNs and the performance of their own scripts)…
One of the main limitations is actually power, as increasing the frequency increases the power draw. All that power turns into heat, which has to be dissipated. Modern processors already shut off inactive cores and…
Just want to point out that if you're using an encrypted filesystem, vagrant up will fail if NFS is enabled. The workaround is to use rsync to maintain the synced folders, a feature introduced in Vagrant 1.5. Just use…
That was probably the case back in vanilla (pre-expansion) WoW. With the introduction of cross-realm battlegrounds in 1.12 - a month before the first expansion - followed by the activation of arenas in the first…
A similar case happened with the Eve Online cluster (~50,000 concurrent users) a couple of years ago. A programmer, who for some reason had access to the live cluster, confused his local development instance with that…
I don't think the license change is unwarranted. At a previous employer we used Terraform but the pricing on the cloud/enterprise offerings was prohibitive enough that we instead had a dev create simple wrapper scripts…
Is this a new requirement? I remember for Kubecon Seattle 2018 using an iOS app (named KubeCon+CNC) that was nothing more than a schedule viewer for the event. It didn't even use native views and given how narrow the…
For what it's worth, I hope you do end up writing more posts in the future. It's easy to overlook or forget the pains and lows of projects in hindsight, especially for particularly successful ones like the ones you've…
> But something happened after the success of WoW the company grew quickly and with that came some bad people and after the merger, Bobby Kotick could exert his influence. I don't think this was the case, and that…
> This is the money they could have used to have a buffer to deal with these situations or to improve their systems. Matt Levine covered this last year [1]. The basic gist of it was that the CEO is focused on the…
This isn't specific to the M1. I had my MBP 2016 13" die in the same exact way about two years ago. Same failure mode where it just refused to boot no matter what I did, though it was possible to sort of turn it on if…
Your repurposed analogy isn't quite right. Google is providing a service by running around and grabbing those samples. Value is provided not only to you, the searcher, by receiving an answer to a question you posed, but…
What's frustrating to me is that even though a lot of these frameworks and tools keep advertising themselves as making you more productive and letting you write less code in the pursuit of better client experiences --…
I remember watching a GDC talk of JAM (https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018184/Network-Serialization-...), which was Blizzard's solution to network serialization for WoW back in 2004. The talk even had performance…
It seems a lot of people are missing the true concern here because they only read the first half of the article. Going to paraphrase the article a bit here but yes, the website is capturing the filled-in data even if…
> They're also free to circumvent the software and play the game without it [...] People shouldn't have to abstain from playing a game they bought because the game company doesn't have total access to their machine.…
You don't have to sacrifice your computing freedom and privacy. These anti-cheating modules tend to be explained to you upon game installation, so if you're not comfortable with what they do then just cancel the…
Unfortunately this doesn't apply for warranty repairs directly through Apple, as Apple won't bother using this port. They'll just tell you you're SoL and happily remind you of their iCloud services for backups. I had…
One of the level designers for WoW has apparently written a book on the game's original development. The Kickstarter [1] for it failed due to an unrealistic funding goal, but if you're looking for something along those…
I'm not seeing how the two paragraphs are incongruous. The company is selling their brand, not the user info, when they run the promotions. If no-one signs up for the promotion, no user info gets shared. Ultimately it's…
Interestingly enough Warcraft 3, despite being almost 15 years old, still gets new patches. The latest one came out just a month ago [1]. [1]: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753797075
This might particularly interest you: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html The gist of it is, in 1970 someone asked a director of NASA why billions of dollars were being spent on exploring space…
> Those have no costs, except for limited maintenance, and the game development has paid itself years ago. So it is virtually pure profit. In the years since WoW came out Blizzard came out with a centralized…
A friend did some research in this area, comparing FPGAs, CPUs and GPUs. He published a paper [1] in regards to performance for several common Linear Algebra computations across a variety of input sizes. In particular,…
Why would you consider these analytics scripts useless? The article mentioned several reasons they want to be tracking this timing information (monitoring of slow backends/CDNs and the performance of their own scripts)…
One of the main limitations is actually power, as increasing the frequency increases the power draw. All that power turns into heat, which has to be dissipated. Modern processors already shut off inactive cores and…
Just want to point out that if you're using an encrypted filesystem, vagrant up will fail if NFS is enabled. The workaround is to use rsync to maintain the synced folders, a feature introduced in Vagrant 1.5. Just use…
That was probably the case back in vanilla (pre-expansion) WoW. With the introduction of cross-realm battlegrounds in 1.12 - a month before the first expansion - followed by the activation of arenas in the first…
A similar case happened with the Eve Online cluster (~50,000 concurrent users) a couple of years ago. A programmer, who for some reason had access to the live cluster, confused his local development instance with that…