High road and low road: Why Android SDK developers should take off the kid gloves  |
| Posted by Daniel Strano on Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:13:00 EDT in
Programming,
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| Today's smart phones out-power the supercomputers of the late 1980s, but Google's SDK developers still haven't found the right middle road between high and low level design. |
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Latent potential: How souped-up physics engines could transform gaming  |
| Posted by Daniel Strano on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:41:00 EST in
Programming
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| At the "sweet-spot" between the cost of hardware and the demands on programmers, the platforms we use to run today's software have the latent capacity for direct modern physics simulations, while modern physicists use hardware that's just as inexpensive. |
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Forever NES: Video Games as a New Classical Medium |
| Posted by Daniel Strano on Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:26:00 EST in
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| Video games integrally reflect our zeitgeist. In games, we find a perfect mirror to our culture and the ubiquitous effects of Moore's Law on us. This post is a literary personal perspective on life as a gamer at the knee of the exponential growth curve. |
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