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by Symbol 14y ago
This article's argument is, in a word, crap. The author wants to compare efficiency of cars vs. bikes on the basis of fuel costs (after a scattershot discussion of CO2 emissions from those aerobically respirating vs a bus spitting out fumes
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by Symbol 14y ago
Putting the kiddie in "scriptkiddie" I guess.
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by Symbol 14y ago
I'm continually disappointed by the increasing disconnect of the lessons of college with the needs of our modern professional world. Nearly everything meaningful is done as a collaborate effort, yet in formalized education it is branded "ch
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by Symbol 14y ago
Lots of game development shops use C/C++ as that's the prima lingua for today's consoles, and is native to iOS/Android as well. The games space is rapidly shifting, so there's interesting stuff emerging from the chaos. If you are willing t
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by Symbol 14y ago
I'm a game programmer currently working at a small, boutique-like studio. I came from a casual gaming company , and before that from a big, "AAA" (whatever that means) studio. My work is mostly in C++, but increasingly involves middleware t
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by Symbol 14y ago
The following two things trouble me: 1) Employee morale is low. One problem cited is that they are unsure about the direction of the company. 2) The attempted fix to the moral problem was with an options grant. The article goes on to talk a
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by Symbol 14y ago
I was going to write something fairly audacious and start dragging in the history of Western philosophy, but instead I'll just focus on what I see as the flawed foundation of your argument: fairness. I'll argue that fairness is not really a
38.
by Symbol 14y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this problem statement must be missing constraints if they expect a code solution on a whiteboard.
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by Symbol 14y ago
Am I supposed to feel old given that Google is 14?
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by Symbol 14y ago
Major airlines do not guarantee the safety of any living thing in the hold of the aircraft. Unless something has changed, my understanding is that small animals (cats, dogs under something like 10 lbs) are allowed to fly with you in an appr
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by Symbol 14y ago
Jira is the bane of my existence.
42.
by Symbol 14y ago
I'm 31 and fully expect Social Security / other entitlement programs to be non-existent in 30+ years. At least I'm helping some of you collect something today. Enjoy!
43.
by Symbol 14y ago
First-order linkbait. A hyperbolic title (obviously) with no clear indication of the true piece's contents.
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by Symbol 15y ago
I agree that the title evokes a weird battle-of-the-sexes vibe. I also found the content to be pretty good. From personal experience, I can't stress enough that CEOs, self-professed "business guys/gals", need some grounding in technology i
45.
by Symbol 15y ago
The author also omitted certain releases (and fessed up to said omissions) to better support his claim. You can't fit the data to the hypothesis. I stopped reading. This is a novelty. Move along.
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by Symbol 15y ago
I have no basis for this, but I'm wondering if this individual is an experienced developer. If time to implementation was a concern, I think OpenCV would've helped here immensely. Also, it's a breadth first search. :)
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by Symbol 15y ago
There is a very important distinction here: Pg's advice applies to situations where your effort is directly coupled to the company value. If you are a salaried employee, then it is a completely different value judgement. When the game or ap
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by Symbol 15y ago
The advice here is pretty general, and I fail to see how this applies to the situation of having a fulltime job versus just being time-constrained (which we all are). The advice is fine, but I claim there's nothing new to see here.
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by Symbol 15y ago
This. A thousand times this. Oh, and offer me as much salary as you can with the option for me to dial that back into equity. I can't pay a mortgage or buy pizza with options, and my market rate does not fluctuate based on how much buzz you
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by Symbol 15y ago
And I'm trying to say that, in most cases, these things appear to be superficially easy but are more complex than you give it credit for. In almost all cases, the sad fact is that a playable version on the PC will generate sales. Any deepe
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by Symbol 15y ago
As someone in the AAA games industry, let me address the following quote: "It only takes a little extra work to make your PC games play on the PC, and make gamers happy" Sadly, that's naive. Like any other software company, there are dimini
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by Symbol 15y ago
I'd love it if pg chimed in and explained why, after citing Cambridge as the best city in the world, they pulled up tent stakes. Did the author capture it fully?
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by Symbol 15y ago
Lest all the Mac people tilt this playing field, I'll weigh in and say I have a Windows laptop and desktop. I run a VM on each for Ubuntu when I can, and use Cygwin when I can't (I'm looking at you, Oracle, and shaming you for your USB devi
54.
by Symbol 15y ago
Give. it. up.
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by Symbol 15y ago
I like the idea that WFC is the "hardcore" Windows programmer language. Perhaps the author's brain would explode if I showed him the 80-line C boilerplate for setting up a simple, single-window app using the Win32 API (where the function si
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by Symbol 15y ago
I think the author misses the point: you can't just look at code and expect to understand performance, in any language. That's what profilers are for. I will agree that micro-optimization of known hotspots is mechanical, but finding the
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by Symbol 15y ago
The author misses IE6 because it was the dominant browser and he/she could code for it and call it a day? Might as well claim you miss Lynx and the days where shelling out to gopher links was so easy because it was one command in emacs.
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by Symbol 16y ago
I use C/C++ and assembly everyday as a game programmer. It is the incumbent development language for consoles (at least xbox and ps3 - I'm never done any dev on the Wii). I suppose its stay is due to the ease of access to the metal. It's p
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by Symbol 16y ago
I guess I'm a philistine, but I only recognize like 3 names here. Also, comments about it being Sunday, the traffic on the M25, and the weather simultaneously bore me and hearten me (in that I'm just as lame as some millionaires).
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by Symbol 16y ago
It bears repeating: good interview(er)s will try to determine how you think, not your end result. I do a decent amount of interviews (maybe 2-3 a month), and we by and large are looking for people who can think through a problem, defend a

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