SeanBoocock

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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Yeah this was a big one for me. TAing classes as an undergrad and then running classes as a grad student removed a lot of the anxiety. I still have some level of nerves, but it feels like it comes from a healthier place and isn’t crippling.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
You say that as if that is always a top down transformation, and not the result of entrepreneurial founders losing motivation or leaving after a lockup period. Regardless of cultural differences or how the transition is handled, the fact th
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Most senior+ level engineers at top tech companies (ie FAANG but not exclusive to those companies at least in total comp).
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
This looks really exciting but I'm curious about the intended market. Is this a "level 5" vehicle in terms of autonomy? What sort of license would be involved for an owner and operator? Do you foresee people having these in s
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Likewise. I am shocked by the lack of empathy expressed by many here and on SO. Pronouns may be a small thing for a cis person, but for others they are a way to reclaim an identity denied to them. To deny anyone that basic level of respect
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
The baker's business exists at the pleasure of the government that ratified its charter and as such is subject to rules around how they can run it. Some of those rules include how the business can filter potential customers. Sexual ori
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
It seems like there are two key issues here. One is whether and to what extent Facebook is liable for the use of its advertising platform: > Facebook has argued that the company is not legally responsible when other companies buy ads tha
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Job ads on Facebook discriminated against women and older workers(vox.com)
4 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|1 comments
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Pretty sure the press release is from the end of 2018. The game is still in development and you can follow along with development updates on the subreddit. Can’t comment on the timeline but it’s making exciting progress and I can’t wait to
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
You might be excited then by Command & Conquer Remastered: https://www.ea.com/news/details-command-and-conquer-remaster... . We're working with the community and regularly updating it on /r/commandand
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
It varies quite a bit between studios and game. Some legacy games have C++ service backends. There is a lot of java throughout the org. I am currently working in node/typescript.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
We used Orleans for our service framework for Breach, a 4v1 asymmetric action RPG built with Unreal Engine 4. While all the real-time simulation was implemented authoritatively as part of an Unreal Engine 4 server, we used Orleans/Sign
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Lessons learned but that is pretty unbecoming. This isn't a hobby project or something that was released for free. It's definitely not representative of most studios in the video game industry.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Hard to know what is going on here. They claim that "all the code base got deleted from its server" where the server in this context is a deployment target, not a source control server. At any studio I've worked, and even on
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Yeah I think so. I was shocked to discover that over a 1/3rd of the computer science classes I TA'd as a grad student were cheating, repeatedly, on homework assignments and tests. I had come from a culture as an undergrad (and gra
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
This has been my experience as well as an employee.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
The current CEO of the company started as a designer at EA Australia. Many of the people at the (S)VP level had development experience and play games.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Eh Star Wars Galaxies was still developed in the “sandbox” mold and released to tepid reception. There have been successful sandbox MMOs - EVE Online and Second Life - but the audience for that experience is a lot smaller than for games lik
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Can't speak to EA's motivations then, though I worked with a couple of Origin engineers who worked at Origin post-acquisition and have been at EA in Austin most of my career. The impression I got from the ex-Origin folks is that O
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
> only aware that vegetarian & vegan diets in America are atrociously unhealthy That is in contradiction to every major health organization in the US and abroad. Well balanced vegan and vegetarian diets are healthy and appropriate fo
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
This is an excellent series from one of my favorite technical bloggers. It is one of the most accessible introductions to a language I've encountered. It is also a great introductions to creating a VM. Highly recommend for anyone that
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
There is not enough of actual substance here to know if this is anything more than marketing on the publisher's part. The sorts of things that matter most for independent developers - milestone definitions, payment structures, royalty
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
While there is still a disparity, it has decreased over time. The comp for senior engineers at the larger studios compares favorably with the broader technology sector, outside of a handful of companies.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
> "Why do you think the US has a free press?" That's a fairly extreme claim particularly in the context of discussing Chinese state run media and the near total control that state exerts over the flow of information. Here
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The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people(vox.com)
5 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|2 comments
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Per the name (Deep Learning Super Sampling), DLSS uses a trained neural network to achieve high-quality upsampling. The neural network is trained on representative output of the game at the internal framebuffer resolution and at the target
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Also work in games and agree with the sentiment on VTune. I've also enjoyed using Razor, but that is limited to specific hardware as well. I built a Threadripper 2 machine recently for home, but I don't know that it would have sim
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Do you have any links with contemporaneous public messaging from Facebook about that? I am curious because the OP made a strong claim: that Facebook deliberately and specifically misled the public; and that there have been so many instances
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
> "I think we must be at the point where it's arguably irresponsible journalism for The Information to broadcast a claim like that from Facebook without immediately pointing out the occasions in the past when identical claims a
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Definitely, just want to highlight the ESA as the organization responsible for people who might not be as familiar with the space.

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