SeanBoocock

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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Most of the higher production value podcasts I listen to with remote hosts/guests do this, albeit manually (ie record locally with something like Audacity, sync on a click/clap, recorded live call as a backup). This feels like a n
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Oh wow, I have always considered this scene a blight on an otherwise perfect movie. I have often speculated over the years that it wasn't in the original script and was a pickup after test screenings or inserted because a producer was
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Everything you have outlined was standard practice at studios I have worked at for more than five years. The lower in the stack you go, the easier it is to do things like unit tests. In my experience the section of the game industry that is
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Not true of EA, at least in the United States. EA hires junior employees as non-exempt for their first couple of years. They are also in my experience among the most progressive big publishers when it comes to overtime and work/life ba
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Worthwhile for me means that it has a net positive impact on the world. Specifically, that people who play games I've worked on derive meaning from their interaction with it or simply find an escape for a few minutes at a time. I make
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
As a fellow game developer I really identify with this. I found a job that I am passionate about, even though it came at a significant tradeoff in terms of total compensation compared to FAANG. I would rather optimize for personal fulfillme
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
This characterization is inaccurate and misleading. A game engine is a basic framework with which to build a game - responsible for things like platform abstraction, memory management, and the basic rendering pipeline - but much of what is
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Yeah. You pay a premium but the experience is very seamless and professional. Not something I could see scaling easily, at least how Silvercar operates, but really successful in its niche.
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Indeed. However, they do offer a commercial license to big developers/publishers will full source access. Substantially cheaper than the non-royalty, commercial Epic license too (but at the AAA level they're both rounding errors).
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
Similar stories from a family member who is a major airline pilot. Light load of trips on their (line) schedule, of those trips several get cancelled and of the trips that don't get cancelled, certain legs of them will be day of such t
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
I doubt anyone will pursue game streaming purely as a solution for cheating, but it is a nice second order effect. Hosted servers are already an expensive ongoing cost to supporting a live game and cloud streaming would magnify that cost se
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by SeanBoocock 6y ago
I like the notion of "culture add" vs culture fit. That characterization recognizes that team culture is not prescriptive but a reflection of the idiosyncratic contributions of the team's members. Someone from an underreprese
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
A couple immediately come to mind: “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving and “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin. When I first encountered “A Prayer for Owen Meany” I was struggling with my religious faith and my identity. A lot of the relati
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U.S. Charges Huawei with Racketeering(nytimes.com)
3 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|0 comments
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
I am sorry to hear that you had a poor experience and it is true that a toxic culture can be endemic. However, your experience is not normative based on the best data available for the industry: https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
No, there are many, perhaps the majority, that are mature companies that respect employees’ work-life balance. I have worked in the industry for going on a decade and had mostly positive experiences. The poor experiences were either isolate
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Some additional context from the always illuminating Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
The market is not some emergent natural phenomenon. It is a construct to facilitate human interaction. We already heavily circumscribe the “free market” and I don’t understand reactions to market failures that amount to “Well we can’t do an
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
That doesn’t ring true but I’d be to learn otherwise. What data are you referring to?
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
That’s already often done at some level, but doesn’t eliminate the ability to cheat via aim bots (and other similar tools). I have worked on several server authoritative multiplayer games and while they were mostly immune to common types of
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Indeed, this is essential reading in its entirety. The image that emerges is one of a vain and duplicitous man who treats his projects as vehicles for self-aggrandizement. His poor character and lack of integrity are unbecoming in anyone wh
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
This speaks to my experience as well. I can run up to and through injuries that will then hobble me for weeks or months. When I was younger I would sometimes carry an injury to the point where I was losing significant stability in joints be
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Oh wow that's sad. I have been taking SuperShuttle for over 15 years and have always had positive experiences. Being able to schedule rides outweighed any uncertainty around how long the trips might be, particularly around busy holiday
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Video Games and Online Chats Are ‘Hunting Grounds’ for Sexual Predators(nytimes.com)
3 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|0 comments
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Google fired an employee who questioned its work with CBP(vox.com)
20 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|8 comments
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Google employees protest the company’s “attempt to silence workers”(vox.com)
10 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|0 comments
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Now that Netflix has more streaming competitors, it suddenly cares about ratings(vox.com)
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One of Peter Thiel’s venture capital firms has devolved into legal chaos(vox.com)
20 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|5 comments
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What WeWork is giving laid-off employees who aren’t named Adam Neumann(vox.com)
46 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|45 comments

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