That is cool. Terrible fire is doing that IIRC: they have an end to end emulation running now based on their previous foga based accelerator. You are planning to use that as a base to redo everything from scratch?
Take a look at "Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...) and at research into how epigenetic inheritance is cited as a mechanism for passing down trauma between generations. I read about malnutrition in world war II affecting several generations but I don't remember the source, and the Wikipedia article mentions the Dutch famine
Same caveat as above: the existing studies are deeply flawed. So far, the evidence for this kind of trans-generational inheritance is very week, and there’s no plausible mechanism to explain it, either.
I prefer the crisp output of RGB because it's how the better arcades looked to me in the late 80s and early 90s. High quality upscaling with scanline emulation is about as close as that as I can get at home.
As someone that almost got bitten by MongoDB's lax auth defaults, I was happy to read that DocumentDB has enabled access control out of the box and no default username/password.
It's important to be aware of security implications of leaving an unauthenticated server listening on the open internet (listening on 0.0.0.0 is not the default since some time now and if installing the rpm/deb package listening on 127.0.0.1 is the default option). Also never leave an internet facing server without a firewall.
As a SaaS it's not surprising DocumentDB got security configured, and it also won't be surprising when people lose data because they'll put '123456' as their password or commit their password to a public repository
Pretty much everything Azure does is over TLS and requires authentication.. some of the authentication for services is more convoluted than others.
Personally, I'm pretty happy with how easy it is to use the Azure Storage services (blob, tables, queues) as well as their Azure SQL offering. Far less arcane configuration options than you get with AWS's competing options. If only their compute nodes weren't so pricey.
I like the app: the UI is amazing! I hope to see some technical posts about Swift on the Snappymob blog.
I have a small suggestion. I think the homepage copy would work better if you edited some of the clichés: "Make the app your own" and "Let Your Voice Be Heard" could be improved, for example.
