Arwill

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by Arwill 7y ago
And if they somehow still can't get it right, MS has also the history of deprecating features/products on a whim.
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by Arwill 8y ago
>A system that is supposed to help avoid a stall scenario. This article doesn't get the point right. From this article it sounds like some optional "helper" system for pilots to avoid stall. Another article got it right, t
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by Arwill 8y ago
Also take up working on things funded directly or indirectly by some other more valuable industry.
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by Arwill 8y ago
Without a stable and widely used model format making a game is impossible. You can drag&drop FBX into Unity and Unreal, and its mostly ready for use. Having a broken FBX importer is just a waste of time. You start with a model format, s
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by Arwill 8y ago
The fact that the British empire existed is certainly a reason why they were willing to vote for Brexit. With a bit lesser ego they might have stayed in the EU.
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by Arwill 8y ago
How about the bugs in IDEA? You try to refactor, and it does a search-and-replace even on text literals, messing up not just comments but strings. Sure, there is an option to disable that, but you have to use a special shortcut to bring up
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by Arwill 8y ago
>extinguish You can use some other words instead, for example "abbandon". Or they leave the product/feature so buggy that its useless. If you rely in MS tech, you always run the risk that it will be discontinued, or became
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by Arwill 8y ago
> "move fast and break things" Doesn't mean that you deliver broken code, it means that you should not be lazy to rewrite old code.
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by Arwill 8y ago
To me, that one was the most striking. It shows how widespread data sharing is. In the end to whom did they NOT sell user data?
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by Arwill 8y ago
Isn't it like more that the state itself can't ask/force you to remove something, but i as a natural person can?
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by Arwill 9y ago
I wonder for how long Windows as a software can continue to grow. I looked at the list of services, and its crazy. So much exotic functionality, and so many of what i don't ever need. Then the file system, there are even hidden folders
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by Arwill 9y ago
>have empathy and have more of people skill than technical or design skills The problematic ones i've seen had some people skills, or they were thinking they had. The problem was when they did not understand engineering problems, an
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by Arwill 9y ago
When production is gone, there are no goods produced. When there is a shortage of goods, you are willing to pay more for what there is, so does everyone else, and that leads to the spiral of money becoming worthless. What's the money w
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by Arwill 9y ago
The logic behind Java is that the language should not concern itself with technicalities, the JVM will take care of it. This principle goes both ways, the JVM can't optimize your code if you have already decided how it should behave. A
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by Arwill 9y ago
Every field is working to automate their field with the help of software . For which you need software developers. The article raises the question of why people are hired as software developers even if they don't have such a degree. I
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by Arwill 9y ago
My guess would be that first it was there everywhere else too, just that in warmer climate it would not remain frozen, and got released from the soil. And then got transported by various ways: "If the mercury is transported across wate
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by Arwill 9y ago
For older engineers this is one of the reason why they are not hired. There are always various excuses, but basically no one wants to hire his next boss.
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by Arwill 9y ago
My guess is that companies will start closing any offices there, just so they can't be tried by that court.
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by Arwill 9y ago
It might be the case with companies like Amazon, but in other areas, or in government contracting, the contractors were present long before current technology was born. And they are still the ones running the show, IT is just a current comm
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by Arwill 9y ago
Using just the video feed, the AI would be required to reconstruct an overview of the strategic situation, and then develop a forward strategy on top of that involving individual units. Even for a much simpler game like doom, video-only inp
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by Arwill 9y ago
>The tool was expected to be released later as an open-source project, allowing other red teams to use the project in their own companies. >But in another text message seen by Schwartz and Cramb an hour before their talk, the same Sal
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by Arwill 9y ago
The article says that they were forbidden to announce open-sourcing of the tool. They were required not to cancel the speech, but to not announce open-sourcing. Having such second thoughts about open source is so typical of old-school manag
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by Arwill 9y ago
UE3 had UnrealScript, a VM based scripting language, similar to Java or C#. It is odd, that Epic removed it in UE4, and now someone makes it as plugin.
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by Arwill 9y ago
> If there is a cliff, toddlers are scared of being nearby. I don't know about a study proving that, might be true. But from my own experience, toddlers are not afraid of anything until a. they hurt themselves, b. they develop more
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by Arwill 9y ago
I'm wondering what will prevent that open source project from being sold (like MySQL was)? The prospect of having a stable open source database engine is nice, but then it gets sold to a big corporation (Oracle in case of MySQL), and g
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by Arwill 9y ago
Often times managers demand an estimate from you, not because they need the job urgently done, but just so that they can hold you accountable to something. If you promise something, they can assume that you will give your best to keep that
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by Arwill 9y ago
What about older games? I think this would make it possible to improve graphics of those games by going trough Vulcan and adding new features to the pipeline. With Steam and GOG there is a big market for older games and for older games with
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by Arwill 9y ago
This is exactly the feeling i've got too. After a couple of weeks in various apartments i stopped using AirBnB and went back to staying in Hotels. This was in 2015, it might have changed since then, but then AirBnB wasn't issuing
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by Arwill 10y ago
The point is more that this "company" is most probably run and operated by a single person. Hence he is being upset with not being able to answer support questions at night and being forced to deal with every customer professional
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by Arwill 10y ago
Sometimes yes, but there is the question of budget. If that was a project or contracting work, and the client can be sold 6 people, then it looks like bigger work, and can be charged more. If you just put one brilliant dev to do it, the cli

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