Readit Newsespecially as the macs ship much sooner...
msft is acquiring both horizontally (compared to their existing inhouse studios - notably their previous acquisition of zenimax/bethesda) and vertically (as activision/blizzard/king are the biggest developer of games for xbox and playstation).
the plan is 2 fold: 1. short term - instead of competing with sony on securing exclusivity, ensure exclusivity by ownership 2. long term - bolster xbox cloud gaming by ensuring that every major game exists on the platform (ideally exclusively)
the idea is that once you have a suprior catalog of games and a working subscription platform, you can boil your customers like frogs via price increases / ads / etc and that they will have no where to go because the games they want to play are exclusive to your service. with this acquisition msft is acquiring some of the most valuable ip in gaming, the development talent behind that api, and the audiences and communities that power it all and locking them down to xbox cloud gaming.
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I'm pretty sure it's bad practice but in one project i needed some form of parameterised extensibility (parsing a broad mix of files onto a standard format). So what i did was have other devs subclass an abstract base class I created (with some predefined attributes and methods to fill in) and then generated my execution dictionary based on the attributes of the subclasses of the base class.
So much scientific computing code suffers between core packages being split away from their core language - at what point do we stop and abandon python for languages which actually make sense? Obviously julia is the big example here, but its interest, development and ecosystem doesn't seem to be growing at a serious pace. Given that the syntax is moderately similar and the performance benefits are often 10x what's stopping people from switching???
Instead of a supremely polished persona, he hard-committed to the sweaty geek.
Confidence, man.
either way the failing is the same - investors failed to preform adequate due diligence and lent their credibility to things they didn't fully understand because they were distracted by the charisma of the founder and were worried that they would miss potentially outsized gains. as long as large amounts of capital keep flowing to private markets (especially VCs) this will continue happening
You can swipe between apps using the black bar at the bottom.
ie: if i have photos, calender and safari all on the same row of the home screen, and i open photos, go back to the home screen and then open safari, if i swiped left to right (to go backwards) on the bar at the bottom i'd go directly back to photos, not to calender