{"id":1063,"date":"2010-03-11T23:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:45:22","slug":"games-outside-the-box-analog-computers-read-write-costs-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/games-outside-the-box-analog-computers-read-write-costs-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Outside the Box, Analog Computers, Read-Write-Costs etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/g4tv.com\/videos\/44277\/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation\/\">\u201cDesign Outside the Box\u201d <\/a> Amazing presentation about unexpected successful games, what they have in common and how games emerge into the real life. Watch it!<\/li>\n<li>Interesting videos from the 50\u2019s, about analog, mechanical computers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugeneleeslover.com\/VIDEOS\/fire_control_computer_1.html\">Part one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugeneleeslover.com\/VIDEOS\/fire_control_computer_2.html\">two<\/a>. I\u2019m amazed! Found via channel9 on <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/posts\/Charles\/Brian-Beckman-Analog-Computing-Beckman-History-and-Life-in-the-Universe\/\">this video where Brian Beckman<\/a> talks about those analog computers, a little personal history, life and the universe.<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s an old post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/codemonkeyism.com\/essential-storage-tradeoff-simple-reads-simple-writes\/\">read-\/write-cost tradeoff<\/a>. For most applications reads occur way more often than writes. Therefore this application should make reads cheaper than writes, which in fact means that heavy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Database_normalization\">normalization<\/a> is a bad idea.<\/li>\n<li>To complete the topic about optimizing for the read-scenarios, a <a href=\"http:\/\/ayende.com\/Blog\/archive\/2010\/03\/10\/using-lucene-ndash-external-indexes.aspx\">short post from Ayende about using Lucene<\/a> for fast queries.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcarthurgfx.com\/blog\/article\/a-less-random-generator\">A less random generator for a better \u2018random-experience\u2019<\/a>. Wonderful post about the human perception.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, today I\u2019ve touched the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_surface\">MS surface thingy<\/a> for the first time\u2026*woop-woop-woop*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDesign Outside the Box\u201d Amazing presentation about unexpected successful games, what they have in common and how games emerge into the real life. Watch it! Interesting videos from the 50\u2019s,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[172,173,144,69],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamlor.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}