BatFastard

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by BatFastard 12y ago
Better to love what you do then make more money. Money != Happiness If this guy loves his job and company, and has earned valuable experience, then he is a lucky man! If he happens to make an extra buck or two, so much the better.
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by BatFastard 12y ago
Boeing is being selected due to its being the "least risky" option. IMHO NASA needs to start taking some risks. It is amazingly slow and inept. So much so that I would consider shutting it down completely and allocating the money
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by BatFastard 12y ago
Personally I find all of the money we have put into Uranium fission and Fusion as a tremendous waste of money. It appears we have no way of decommissioning the plants, or disposing of the waste, of course there is the risk of further accide
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by BatFastard 12y ago
I am blessed with a dead end job where I can love what I do almost everyday, see progress everyday, and work with smart people. I have flirted with 10 of millions of dollars in wealth, but I don't seem to have the timing to make it sti
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by BatFastard 13y ago
If I could run this on a linux desktop, it would be a no brainer. But if I have to buy and configure a windows or mac license in addition, its less compelling as a desktop replacement. Plus I would really like to see some 4 or 8 core machin
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by BatFastard 13y ago
While a UDP datagram not a "connection" in the TCP sense. You often send a packet via UDP from a port on one machine, to a different port on the same or different machine. If one of those ports changes, then it effectively "b
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by BatFastard 13y ago
If you absolutely positively need to have that lowest lag time between points then UDP is the way to go. However 1) UDP will drop the occasional packet. 2) UDP will NOT work behind many corporate firewalls. 3) UDP connections between users
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by BatFastard 13y ago
SecondLife will not get a second life. Affirming TazeTSchnitzel opinion that SL was poorly designed to start. I have been building virtual worlds for 14 years, and my mesh based platform is one of the world most successful. Problem with mes
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by BatFastard 13y ago
After 4 years of using Agile this team (at least the management side of it) has no clue to how Agile works. Its NOT an excuse to ship things faster (even if that is an occasional side benefit)! Its a method to ship things with less bugs and
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by BatFastard 13y ago
I second many of the books, but in particular "Sutter/Alexandrescu's C++ Coding Standards" the "coding standards" is misleading, its more like a "Code Complete" for hardcore C++.
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by BatFastard 13y ago
Whew, I have been working on a next gen voxel engine for over a year now. Its amazing what you can do with it, but due to the level of interaction, complexity keeps raising.
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by BatFastard 13y ago
Just curious, is this a rendered demo? If you started in October 2013 and actually wrote an engine that could do this in 4 months, its time for me to to leave software and go into lawn mowing. It looks great, and I like the concept, but dev