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Brits Who Made The Modern World – The Making of Elite(eliteforever.co.uk)
2 points by Associat0r 13y ago|0 comments
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Elite: Dangerous with its scientifically accurate 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy looks the most promising to me. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ
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by Associat0r 13y ago
There is already a modern Elite called "Elite: Dangerous" currently in alpha phase. http://elite.frontier.co.uk http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ And Eve is nothing like E
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by Associat0r 13y ago
There is also a great community FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Strike Commander was technically a very impressive achievement for its time and I'm very sad that flight and race sims don't get the recognition they deserve for pioneering technology as opposed to Doom/Quake etc. Anyway, tho
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Contrary to what the article states, what Falcon 3.0 focused on wasn't the flight model, but a relatively realistic and more involved representation of a dynamic battlefield, avionics and combat tactics, one of the reasons I still play
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by Associat0r 13y ago
You are wrong, the flight-sim, RPG, adventure and space flight games genre together with many other types of first person games were flourishing way before Doom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm8VTZ2fyos http://
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Also considering the lack of exposure and the amount of flack Elite: Dangerous is getting compared to the other space games it's also the gamers who sadly don't care. Btw here is an interesting interview with David Braben somewhat
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Frontier: Elite 2 from 1993 and Frontier: First Encounters (Elite 3) from 1995 did it way before I-War was even a thing, complete with full freeform seamless landing on planets with real celestial mechanics. http://frontier.co.uk
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by Associat0r 13y ago
The money raised from fans is only a fraction of their total budget. http://www.directorstalk.com/video-edison-executive-intervie... http://frontier.co.uk/investor_relations
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Check out "Elite: Dangerous" it has a scientifically accurate 1:1 scale, fully Seamless Milky Way galaxy using a mix of procedural generation with artist direction http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Upgraded to Windows 8 here by choice on a non-touch laptop.
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by Associat0r 13y ago
They had a successful kickstarter campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangero... It also has a solid release date set for March 2014 and they are right on schedule, alpha testing will sta
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by Associat0r 13y ago
I'm personally more excited about Elite: Dangerous. http://elite.frontier.co.uk by David Braben (from Raspberry Pi) It will have a scientifically based galaxy with rotating an orbiting planets which I think is very importan
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by Associat0r 13y ago
They fixed this in F#.
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On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
6 points by Associat0r 13y ago|0 comments
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Ian Piumarta - To trap a better mouse(youtube.com)
4 points by Associat0r 13y ago|0 comments
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Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The "PC Experience" Be Programmed?(vimeo.com)
2 points by Associat0r 13y ago|0 comments
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Why over Scala? * .NET runs everywhere now without problems, the JVM doesn't have a reliable IOS implementation and Dalvik on Android is too slow for the things I'm doing and many desktops don't come with a JVM installed. * B
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Why over Haskell? * Easy multi-platform targetting and platform bindings without fuss. * Mature and supported BCL and 3rd party libraries * Access to the .NET ecosystem tooling like profilers, debuggers etc * Easy to use Native FFI without
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Why over OCaml? * Easy multi-platform targetting and platform bindings without fuss. * Mature and supported BCL and 3rd party libraries * Access to the .NET ecosystem tooling like profilers, debuggers etc * Easy to use Native FFI without ha
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by Associat0r 13y ago
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/07/08/tabbles-org... http://fsharp.org/testimonials/#tabbles-1 Completely in F# see comments above http://www.rawbots
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by Associat0r 13y ago
F# is general purpose and multi-paradigm, it even has OO classes and imperative for and while loops. I for one got into .NET because of F# and to me .NET is just like any other language runtime.
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by Associat0r 13y ago
F# is general purpose and multi-paradigm, it even has OO classes and imperative for and while loops and I get the same perf as C# and even more in some cases. I for one got into .NET because of F# and to me .NET is just like any other lang
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Announcing a pre-release of F# 3.1 and the Visual F# tools in Visual Studio 2013(blogs.msdn.com)
23 points by Associat0r 13y ago|18 comments
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Why would C# inherently be a better fit for the enterprise world?
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by Associat0r 13y ago
How about improving F# support?
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Which programming languages should I learn: Beginners Edition (blogs.endjin.com)
3 points by Associat0r 13y ago|1 comments
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by Associat0r 13y ago
These talks are about the STEPS project from former PARC and ARPA guys, how a modern computing environment from the metal up can be reduced to a mere 20KLOC, about a factor of 1000 code reduction with the use of carefully designed DSLs They
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by Associat0r 13y ago
Smart programmers would never let target platforms dictate their source language.

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