SeanBoocock

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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Might be more accurate, despite this being the headline, to change the title to “ESA accidentally leaks...”. The ESA is the trade organization that puts on E3 and the entity that is ultimately responsible for this.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Reply All has done good episodes on this ( https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8homa/122-the-qanon... ) and PizzaGate ( https://gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/reply-all/emhwl5 ) fo
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
It will be interesting to see how the next couple years play out. The growth opportunities in my mind are: expanding their suite of hosted services ( https://unity3d.com/services); and convincing an increased percentage of l
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
The sexual harassment lawsuit is the subject of the penultimate paragraph.
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
The argument that I find most persuasive, and that as a fellow game developer resonates with me the most, is that marketplaces like G2A that traffic in stolen goods erodes the perception of value for games. Why would a consumer pay full pri
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Hah yeah bought my Arron at Tops almost a decade ago. If anyone is in the Austin area, I would highly recommend checking them out if only to get a feel for the range of high-end inventory.
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Andy Rubin accused of cheating wife out of fortune while running a sex ring(theverge.com)
42 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|25 comments
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
Sure but there is always a tension between being able to address as much of the potential customer base as possible and profitability. On one end of the spectrum you have grocers like Aldi or Lidl that have slashed prices and margins by red
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
From the article: > Even assuming huge advances in battery technology, with batteries that are 30 times more efficient and "energy-dense" than they are today, it would only be possible to fly an A320 airliner for a fifth of its
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
I don't understand this comment. Being critical of the implications of facial recognition technology doesn't map cleanly along the political spectrum, but the most vocal criticism has come from the left. Amazon shareholders largel
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
I wonder what underpins these sorts of targets. Tesla has 177.29 million shares outstanding [1]. At $10/share the market cap would only be $1.77 billion. At first blush that seems like a large discount on Tesla's assets (real esta
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Companies try to retain new moms with full-time pay, part-time work(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by SeanBoocock 7y ago|0 comments
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by SeanBoocock 7y ago
> It's not necessarily an issue of morals I'm not sure if the original poster had this in mind, but Stallman's behavior in this regard would be hard to reconcile under a Kantian ethical framework [1]. 1. https:/&#x2F
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
I had the opportunity to do this about 15 years ago. I found it pretty shocking. The recycling center consisted of two large and open warehouses on the site of a landfill. Inside were a series of multi-level conveyor belts staffed largely b
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
I worked at Bioware. I worked directly with people who worked previously for Bullfrog, Westwood, and Origin through the EA acquisitions. I also know people who work(ed) at Maxis. The narrative around EA's acquisitions is a gross mischa
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
Not my experience of working at EA for four years. There is a copyright assignment clause in the employment contract, and as unfortunate as that is, it is fairly common across the software industry. There was an internal process by which EA
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As Uber Prepares to Go Public, Its Lead Lawyer Races to Clean It Up(nytimes.com)
57 points by SeanBoocock 8y ago|76 comments
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
The reality is a lot more complicated than that. Certain entry-level art roles are pretty fungible, for instance, and most of them are already contract positions or outsourced to other studios (in places like Eastern Europe and Southeast As
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
The video game development industry already makes extensive use of contractors, dedicated outsource studios in various disciplines (art, audio and QA being the most common), and "support" studios (internal or external studios that
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
In what way was it more complicated? The top marginal tax rate was ~90% and high earners used a number of means to structure their income to avoid paying that, just as they do today with a far lower rate. I don't think anyone who makes
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The Fall of Starbreeze(eurogamer.net)
1 points by SeanBoocock 8y ago|0 comments
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
This not standard practice. DLC plans will be specified at a high level early in production but will only solidify as the game gets closer to ship. There is a gap, which differs for different disciplines, between finishing work for the ship
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
Excuse me? Video games are software by any definition I'm aware of and highly complex software at that. More than most, software engineers on AAA video games need to have an understanding of the full stack including the underlying hard
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
Game developers already heavily use outsourcers and freelancers, many of whom based in South America, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia. The biggest games will have hundreds of contributors from internal support studios in places like Roma
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Army’s long-awaited Iraq war study finds Iran was the only winner(armytimes.com)
6 points by SeanBoocock 8y ago|1 comments
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
That or the context in which such events were considered 500-year events has radically shifted in the last 100 and especially the last 50 years.
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
What? It demonstrates the opposite. He stopped using general purpose containers and algorithms, and replaced them with implementations more tailored to his use case. He didn't keep paying for std::sort or std::unordered_set once he sto
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Students in Rural America Ask, ‘What Is a University Without a History Major?’(nytimes.com)
3 points by SeanBoocock 8y ago|0 comments
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
Oh wow yes! I had the same experience reading Massassi, hanging out on MSN Gaming Zone, and reading through .cog files. It was my first experience looking “under the covers” of a game and planted a seed in my mind to explore game developmen
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by SeanBoocock 8y ago
That need not just be charity on SpaceX's part. The circumstances of the layoff sounds like it would trigger the WARN act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini... . If so, 60 days notice is

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