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Tuesday, October 2nd 2012
The Daily Flip


tasty links:
  • A Data-Oriented, Data-Driven System for Vector Fields -- Part 2
  • An Interview With Brian Kernighan on C and The C Programming Language
  • Grid Computing With 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles
  • Software Arrives On Steam
  • The 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition
  • Musings: Design and Computation
  • Visual Studio Debugging Tips for Native Development
  • Songs In The Key Of Sea
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    Jon Olick

    October 03, 2012, 12:34 PM

    Regular software on steam is a great idea for the short term, but a horrible one for the long term. Steam is a brand for video games, not software. They will destroy their brand as they expand greater and greater into software.
     
    Jon Olick

    October 03, 2012, 12:37 PM

    Also, in other news Gabe is being a bit hypocritical when it comes to Windows 8. He blasts Microsoft for not having an open software system in Windows 8 when Steam itself is not open. Lead by example Gabe...
     
    Jon Olick

    October 03, 2012, 12:47 PM

    /gripe list
    Otherwise I love Valve :)
     
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