Bekwnn

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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Games development as a programmer. Lots of writing new code. Parents were artists and I very nearly majored in English. There's a lot of lessons I took from traditionally creative fields.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
The term "attention management" might not apply to everyone, too. I'm most effective when I'm in the zone, which usually comes easiest when I'm listening to music and rapidly flicking between things. My thought proc
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In games this is widely known and accepted even, but I guess that's a slightly different case since there's some history behind the why. It's AI because the actors are game characters trying to emulate a real behaviour, wheth
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I know a few people who have bought condos here recently; they just want to live here. While I'm sure most of the market is investment based, there is also a decent chunk of people who just want to live here, even if a lot of them are
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
A somewhat popular place in Vancouver for restaurants/night life is yaletown. It's somewhat scuzzy and expensive, but it has brick buildings I guess? Plenty of fantastic places in Vancouver with character, but I don't underst
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Pretty sure it has done well in sales since, it has gone on sale and the updates have gained it a ton of good will
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I'd imagine so, given that's what hosting services like AWS are (along with the related software).
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I already use noscript. So many websites work at 100% and load 2x as fast with only 1/3rd of scripts allowed.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
2 biggest things for me were vimplug (or something to make plugin installation easy) and NERDtree, which lets you open a window for directory navigation, set bookmarks, and change your current directory path for other vim commands. I'm
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
C++ isn't object oriented, it's a hodge-podge mix of many things. It did start out as "C with objects", but that implies it's also C which largely operates without the OO notions of objects.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I think at work we use 120 char limit, with klang formatter making it so you don't have to think about it much. 80 seems excessive, but no limit means having to horizontal scroll or even resize windows in an aggravating way. Some sort
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Do you think it's better than spending that same time socializing with coworkers outside of work? Because it isn't.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I'm super appreciative of my current role for this and other reasons. I'm the sole software developer on a team of 6 people in a mostly isolated corner of the code base. I'm getting a ton of experience making calls and collab
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
In my experience Unreal Engine 4 suffers from this. It's a fantastic game engine and in many ways its code is really great, but on many of the occasions when I've had to trace call stacks in its source, it's a mess of long fu
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I'm a bit skeptical of the median income being lower than rural areas. I could see median income relative to cost of living being lower, but median income by itself being lower would be shocking. Do you have a source on that?
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I wouldn't equate purchasable cosmetics where you direct purchase the item you want with no RNG to being assaulted in either of those ways.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Re: the "go easy on yourself". I think it's hugely important to set aside relaxation time and, though it may seem counterintuitive, be active during that time about being relaxed. To me, that's usually a visit to the zoo
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I think the first 10%, like civ, the excitement is in exploration of the different directions you could take the project. Some people right at the start will know exactly what they want to do, but for a lot of people it isn't clear unt
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
The thing is duckduckgo is just a search engine. I dont want email or calendar or purchase histories to get involved in that. More interlinked services like drive/gmail/calendar are hard to compete with, but others are not. I thin
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Probably because the "and the last 10 is the other 90" quote has existed longer than programming has. It's borrowed.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I work in an office with lots of dads and people in the 30-50 range. It's still not that quiet because people get along well and going over to someone's desk to discuss something happens often. The best thing to do is make your ow
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Funny, that was how I read it too. The book burning didnt seem to be the emphasis as much as the way everyone was being actively distracted away from more complex thought. Books were just the vessal.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
I don't think C/C++ teach you how the computer works, but they do teach you how memory works, something which is almost entirely abstracted away with most other languages. You'll avoid some really bad decisions that you might
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
As an anecdote, a lot of programmers and heavy gamers I knew in high school lived on remote islands and took a water taxi over to ours for school. They couldn't do after school activities without sleeping over at someone's place.
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Right, my comment is more directed at people who are somewhat tech savy and a response to the parent's comment about static site generators. I'm echoing and advocating how easy they are. And the comment is directed at people readi
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Setting a site up with Jekyll took less than a weekend, and I'm a C++/games programmer with next to zero web experience. If you want a blog I don't know why you would go with anything but starting with a static site generator
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
"Performing this action will log you out of chrome. (You may sign in again immediately afterwards.)" Problem solved?
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Voice activation on teamspeak was much more reasonable and accurate. Discord's is always either trigger happy or drops quiet speech. Also voice activation is a boon for competitive games where you can't spare a hotkey and finger d
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Additionally, Unreal Engine 4 charges only 5% gross on revenue exceeding 3,000 USD per quarter. Epic's CEO tweeted about these markets taking 30% where other transaction facilitators only take 2-5%. https://mobile.twitter.co
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by Bekwnn 8y ago
Two separate Canadian credit unions I use have the exact same app layout, (island savings, vancity) so I imagine that's already happening to some extent.

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