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This is going to be a great point on his resume. How many people get to say something like, "Reduced GTA 5 load times by 70%"?!

megablast 6y ago
One person. Only one person gets to say that.
DevX101 6y ago
That's pretty amazing by itself. But it was doing it without access to the source code that blew me away.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago
  That really is the cherry on top. Ya know on second thought, it's so unbelievable that he did this whole thing that I wouldn't be surprised if someone reading his resume thought he was bullshitting.
  - xdrosenheim 6y ago
    And that's why you have source in your resume.
  - redrobein 6y ago
    Althought it is impressive, it isn't that uncommon in the reverse engineering world and quite believable imo.
- lumberingjack 6y ago
  Gamers playing this game have all kinds of tricks to try to bypass the load screen itself because it takes a long time to go through it but the game by design forces you to look at the load screen multiple times just to do one task. One way that I remember was to play in a Solo session that way you don't have to load every time you come out of multiplayer. They even make a GTA online software tool that blocks GTA on the firewall at very specific intervals to force an online session in order to speed up load times.
  - aasasd 6y ago
    There should be such tricks for Codemasters' games specifically and PS1/PSP/Vita games in general. All those intro screens and warnings are absolute bullshit, just publishers spitting in gamers' faces.
C19is20 6y ago
One.
- jamiek88 6y ago
  Sans source code to boot!
mkasberg 6y ago
"...without working for Rockstar"
ascar 6y ago
It's truly amazing that he did all this while decompiling the source code, but for engineers working on a large system it's not that uncommon to fix large impact performance bugs.
- sellyme 6y ago
  Just today I improved performance of an enterprise system by over 15000% by commenting out a "sleep(1);" line I used to debug a race condition! Might not put that one on the resume.
selimthegrim 6y ago
I’m sure ZA/UM is hiring.
swat535 6y ago
Unfortunately he will flunk the interview after failing to invert a binary tree..
- systemvoltage 6y ago
  Not worth working there anyways.
- therealdrag0 6y ago
  I know it's tongue in cheek, but shouldn't you use a more difficult example? Inverting a binary tree is trivial. (Example solution: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/discuss/1112421/Java-%3A-Easy-and-very-intuitive-approach-using-recursion-greater-beats-100 https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/discuss/111...)
  - odobo 6y ago
    It's a reference to the engineer that created homebrew but failed a google interview where they asked him that question: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=20 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=20
yc-kraln 6y ago
Is the resume where all cool accomplishments go after they've faded from the public eye? Your comment struck me as somehow extremely (and unintentionally) fatalistic... that this cool hack will somehow end up churned through the capitalistic society into a bullet point to earn a wage. Actually kind of depressing.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago
  Well, what else should the fate of this achievement be? Very few achievements are immortalized. I don't think it's got anything to do with capitalism, we just tend to forget things quickly.

megablast 6y ago

One person. Only one person gets to say that.

DevX101 6y ago

That's pretty amazing by itself. But it was doing it without access to the source code that blew me away.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
That really is the cherry on top. Ya know on second thought, it's so unbelievable that he did this whole thing that I wouldn't be surprised if someone reading his resume thought he was bullshitting.
- xdrosenheim 6y ago
  And that's why you have source in your resume.
- redrobein 6y ago
  Althought it is impressive, it isn't that uncommon in the reverse engineering world and quite believable imo.
lumberingjack 6y ago
Gamers playing this game have all kinds of tricks to try to bypass the load screen itself because it takes a long time to go through it but the game by design forces you to look at the load screen multiple times just to do one task. One way that I remember was to play in a Solo session that way you don't have to load every time you come out of multiplayer. They even make a GTA online software tool that blocks GTA on the firewall at very specific intervals to force an online session in order to speed up load times.
- aasasd 6y ago
  There should be such tricks for Codemasters' games specifically and PS1/PSP/Vita games in general. All those intro screens and warnings are absolute bullshit, just publishers spitting in gamers' faces.

C19is20 6y ago

One.

jamiek88 6y ago
Sans source code to boot!

mkasberg 6y ago

"...without working for Rockstar"

ascar 6y ago

It's truly amazing that he did all this while decompiling the source code, but for engineers working on a large system it's not that uncommon to fix large impact performance bugs.

sellyme 6y ago
Just today I improved performance of an enterprise system by over 15000% by commenting out a "sleep(1);" line I used to debug a race condition! Might not put that one on the resume.

selimthegrim 6y ago

I’m sure ZA/UM is hiring.

swat535 6y ago

Unfortunately he will flunk the interview after failing to invert a binary tree..

systemvoltage 6y ago
Not worth working there anyways.
therealdrag0 6y ago
I know it's tongue in cheek, but shouldn't you use a more difficult example? Inverting a binary tree is trivial. (Example solution: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/discuss/1112421/Java-%3A-Easy-and-very-intuitive-approach-using-recursion-greater-beats-100 https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/discuss/111...)
- odobo 6y ago
  It's a reference to the engineer that created homebrew but failed a google interview where they asked him that question: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=20 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=20

yc-kraln 6y ago

Is the resume where all cool accomplishments go after they've faded from the public eye? Your comment struck me as somehow extremely (and unintentionally) fatalistic... that this cool hack will somehow end up churned through the capitalistic society into a bullet point to earn a wage. Actually kind of depressing.

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
Well, what else should the fate of this achievement be? Very few achievements are immortalized. I don't think it's got anything to do with capitalism, we just tend to forget things quickly.