Jare

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by Jare 5y ago
Creativity would ensue, success probably not.
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by Jare 5y ago
That's some serious mental gymnastics you're doing there! Al lot of what you call "religious tendencies" are just cognitive and organizational tools. Religions use and codify (some of) them in their own ways, and other a
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by Jare 5y ago
> Isn't the main feature of nosql supposed to be easy horizontal scalability There's no strict definition of nosql so everyone can choose their own. My personal take (in broad terms) follows: No, that's not a feature of no
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by Jare 5y ago
For me, relearning the scroll direction on the touchpad was trivial, however on the wheel it just never worked at all.
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by Jare 5y ago
You can reverse on both or neither, but not for just one. That's why there's 3rd party software like this one. Scroll jumping should be a hardware issue but I've swapped mice and same issue; both also work fine on windows. It
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by Jare 5y ago
I have to try this. I already have a reverser (how on earth is this not the default, and not even an OS option to begin with?!?) but scrolling with the wheel on a usb mouse jumps randomly. Crossing fingers this may help there.
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by Jare 5y ago
I don't think EA Sports would want to base their online strategy and business on the ideas being put forth here.
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by Jare 5y ago
> on much smaller scales > you quickly forget about it because so does everyone else This is definitely not the case here, and the experiences are bound to be very different.
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by Jare 5y ago
> I don't think it is on the interviewee to do this (ie start a discussion) Sorry I probably didn't explain myself - I mentioned it goes both ways: the discussion should be encouraged by the interviewer (vs "here's a
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by Jare 5y ago
Interviews should consist almost entirely of this dynamic: a conversation, a dialogue, an exploration, of a number of topics, processes and attitudes. Oh, and both ways of course! If you're interviewing for senior position and you don&
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by Jare 5y ago
If they were hard to play, I can assure you they were MUCH harder to create. I look back and find it hard to believe how much blood and tears the artists and level designers had to sweat. All the kudos go to them, but I admit I felt very ha
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by Jare 5y ago
In Commandos 2 we stored the huge map images in YCbCr 420 in memory, and converted to RGB during rendering via lookup tables rather than shaders (this was back in 1999, all CPU!). We compressed the range of each component below 8 bits, runn
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by Jare 5y ago
The architecture may be possible in the sense that feature-wise you have the pieces (or most of them). But resources like memory, bandwidth and gpu speed, would fall way below the thresholds and tradeoffs needed to make this useful and not
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by Jare 5y ago
"Demoscene" refers to the movement & community of people. Specific contributions to the demoscene can be called with the catch-all term "production", or by their particular type: demo, intro, mod, music, wild demo, e
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by Jare 5y ago
A deadline is just a goal that helps you structure your efforts.
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by Jare 5y ago
Yeah, I mean it worked. Projects got delivered on time, I assume on budget, and functioning to spec. Lacks in some places were compensated with excesses in others. Some things were not pretty, but there's no denying the place ran like
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by Jare 5y ago
I've seen the "paying 4x" phenomenon at a former company (a long time ago tho). The external "expert" consultants worked with us for 3+ years, used our equipment and offices, and at least one of them didn't und
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by Jare 5y ago
You don't need to be an expert in native to write a RN app. However, you need to be very capable in native to have a responsive, performant, smooth RN app, and to keep it that way for years. Large teams can afford to have a subset of
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by Jare 5y ago
It's their Windows API SDK, same as Amazon posting about their Rust SDK for AWS.
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by Jare 6y ago
> Manual QA promotes bad habits and is not a great thing to introduce to an org Interactive software, and very interactive software like games, absolutely requires good manual QA. There's a lot of interactive software out there.
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by Jare 6y ago
I wrote the code for this in late 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KoUyFhddIs&t=102 . You can find the C + assembly source code in https://archive.scene.org/mirrors/hornet/code/effect
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by Jare 6y ago
I don't think in Comanche they painted back to front, or at least I hope they didn't. It's best to render front to back, tracking the highest (in screen space) pixel you have drawn, and as you move further back, only drawing
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by Jare 6y ago
> not of the necessity of updating the software itself. *Disclaimer: I don't know the specifics of this case. That said... I don't think game developers are supposed or allowed to update console games directly, without going th
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by Jare 6y ago
Wonderful story, such an amazing and inspiring game. I was equally fascinated by the game itself, and the pixel filling algorithm (a word I didn't even know as a 13yo heh). On the other hand, I took the parser for granted - I had seen
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by Jare 6y ago
Heh I was officially the last Pyro employee before it was folded, and my last task was to prepare and package up all backups when the IPs (rights, licenses, whatever it actually was) were sold to Kalypso. I not-so-secretly wished there woul
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by Jare 6y ago
If you wanna make me feel old, just consider that Commandos was released 10 years after my first commercial game, so I'm even older. :D Fun bit: I never ever finished a single mission in a Commandos game. Yeah I did code architecture w
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by Jare 6y ago
Unity's DOTS is definitely an ECS system. You technically can have an ECS without all the data-oriented and cache efficient stuff, if you just want the architectural benefits, but it's pretty hard to build a data oriented game eng
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by Jare 6y ago
It would be fair to attribute the ECS naming (specifically, making "Systems" an integral concept to the, ahem, system) to this from 2007: http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/11/11/entity-systems
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by Jare 6y ago
I'm a bit confused between there's a hugely popular place between inheritance-based entities and ECS (Entity-Component-System), which is what you could call a "Entity-Component system) (notice spelling) or perhaps a Component
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by Jare 6y ago
I love Rust, but I'm pretty sure it is not the best language for exploratory programming or quick prototyping.

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