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notch.net is a personal blog at notch.net about games and culture. Since 2012, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Virtual Reality is going to change the world”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link notch.net, the blog of Minecraft creator Notch, for his posts on Oculus and Facebook, the Mojang sale to Microsoft, his departure from Mojang, and his game projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Virtual Reality is going to change the world8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-03-25
- I'm Leaving Mojang5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-09-15
- Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-21
- Doom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-12
- Literally worse than EA2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-17
What Hacker News says?
Notch's thoughts at length: http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...
Comment linking /2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/
on “Facebook acquires Oculus VR”Submitted I'm Leaving Mojang as a story · 1252 points
HN discussionPersonal statement by notch - http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/
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on “Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft”Submitted Virtual Reality is going to change the world as a story · 597 points
HN discussionNo he didn't, he was very specific on why he didn't like the deal: http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...
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on “Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft”Submitted Literally worse than EA as a story · 262 points
HN discussionGoogle did fuck up Android (privacy wise). (1) Requirement of a Google account (i.e. forced correlation of your phone with youtube, google searches, google analytics, google ... ), (2) Ever checked those privileges on the default applications - that you can't disable or remove? Why are those closed-source by the way?, (3) Search the web for more examples. Either way, I agree that I made an assumption - but - this is…
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on “Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version”Submitted Doom as a story · 252 points
HN discussion> "And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition."[0] I'm beginning to feel the same way about participating in Kickstarter. [0] http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...
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on “Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version”Submitted Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll as a story · 148 points
HN discussion"I did a midnight mind dump on the situation. I'm jetlagged and tired, so it might not make sense: http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-... " -@notch on twitter.
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on “Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version”Submitted You as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIndeed, nice to see Notch take a stand and provide some sliver of redemption today for the thousands of nerds (myself included) upset about the Oculus Facebook deal today. I can't imagine the Oculus team ever reaching their fundraising goal if backers knew the founders were going to sellout before ever reaching the vision they shared to get people to back it in the first place. EDIT: Notch seems to have just confirm…
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on “Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version”Submitted In defence of publishers and traditional games media as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor whatever it is worth, Notch has said that when Oculus initially approached him for Minecraft on the Oculus, he identified performance being an issue as the Oculus would require a steady 90fps, which Minecraft would struggle to provide on some hardware. He identified using Java as one of the reasons that this was the case. Before the Mojang/Oculus connection was severed in the Facebook/Oculus fallout, the plan wa…
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on “Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing”What I found interesting was a quote from his previous post: http://notch.net/2014/06/literally-worse-than-ea/ Mojang does not exist to make as much money as possible for the owners. As the majority shareholder, I’d know. Every time a big money making deal comes up that would make a lot of money, it’s of course very tempting, but at the end of the day we choose to do what either makes the most sense for our products…
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on “Doom”http://notch.net/games/ There's a pretty big variety there.
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on “Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart”If the company does any business with people in the US, patent trolls can attack it - perhaps the most famous recent example being the Uniloc vs. Mojang case: http://notch.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mojang.pdf
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on “Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News”The other side of the story is that notch contacted Microsoft about the sale in the first place, and he was pretty transparent about the reason why, after it was done: http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/
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on “The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout”From Notch: "And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition." http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-...
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on “Aug. 1, 2012: When Oculus Asked for Donations”Thank you for pointing this out! I've actually been trying to find an example of a patent troll suing a foreign corporation that doesn't have offices in the US. This lawsuit does appear to be very rare and exceptional, and here's the complaint: http://notch.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mojang.pdf I wonder whether they'd have actually been successful had they not withdrawn. It seems a bit strained that they claim t…
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on “"Patent Trolls" Threaten to Drain Silicon Valley Startups [video]”as Notch put it, "And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition." (His post is worth reading for those who haven't yet: http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-... )
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on “The Future of Virtual Reality”Notch, the Minecraft creator, switched from Java to Dart/WebGL. e.g. a Doom renderer in Dart: https://github.com/xNotch/dark , http://notch.net/2014/09/doom/
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on “Google Dart Will Not Be the Next Default Programming Language of the Web”Looks like he's leaving Mojang: http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/
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on “Microsoft now owns Minecraft”http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/ "It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity." Yeah right.
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on “Notch buys $70M trophy mansion”
