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by tekla 439 days ago
The article didn't say that.

> The PS3 failed developers because it was an excessively heterogenous computer

Most here are probably too young to realize the PS3 was supposed to be a flagship consumer device to show off the Cell processor and Sony was pushing hard for the Cell arch to be everywhere, media devices, general purpose computers, next gen supercomputers

It died hard when people realized how difficult it was to program for, and I dont think anything else other than the PS3 ever bothered seriously trying again with that arch.
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Suppafly 439 days ago
>The article didn't say that.

Yes it did, fairly near the top.

>>It is important to understand why the PS3 failed.

This article is a bunch of nonsense.

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miltonlost 439 days ago
Read. More. Than. One. Sentence. Read the article as a whole, not cut into pieces. Context will let you learn what he meant by "failed", since "failed" can mean multiple things. "At what did the PS3 fail?" is how it should be read and comprehended.
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trelane 439 days ago
Dunno why you are getting downvoted. You're completely correct. It is literally the third line on the page, including the title! That sentence is, to quote TFA,

> It is important to understand why the PS3 failed.

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petermcneeley 439 days ago
You mean the URL not the title. The title is actually the the conclusion of the article. A URL is more like a filename.
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trelane 438 days ago
I see the disconnect.

Full disclosure: I have been doing The Internet for well over 30 years. :)

"including the title" was intended to attach to the line count. Some may include the page title (h1 heading in HTML) in the lines at the start of the page. Some may not, because the title isn't necessarily part of the article itself. I was trying to disambiguate.

I was not trying to say that the "PS3 failed" was in the title.

You're right that it's in the URL but I didn't see that until you pointed it out.

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petermcneeley 438 days ago
But hopefully also you see the connection.

Being pedantic is not an interesting position.

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tekla 439 days ago
To save time I'm going to just link the other comment thread because its boring arguing against bad reading comprehension

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43656279#43656640

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