A video game contributed to Unix Development

Re:A video game contributed to Unix Development by russ5russ on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:36AM (#9691600)

I have to admit, it's amazing how often video games seem to be in the mix these days. Slack was developing a game before they happened upon their product. Gamifcation is being used to help decipher complex genomes etc. Pretty impressive

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Re:A video game contributed to Unix Development by agumonkey on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:32AM (#9692948)

Also, games back in the days, not being seen as part of the same serious IT industry, a lot of very creative techniques were written ad-hoc without leaking out to the world because they were 'one shot' solutions for the problem at hand.

I think it was Phil Trefford that had articles about embedded DSLs being used quite often in the 80s, to avoid bare metal complexities.

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Re:A video game contributed to Unix Development by reagency on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:36AM (#9692972)

Flickr was originally a MMO, pivoted.

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Re:A video game contributed to Unix Development by pronoiac on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:30PM (#9694319)

Yeah, Stewart Butterfield is kinda the most successful least successful game developer ever.

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