alex_lav

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by alex_lav 3y ago
The only one of these that I think is even remotely valid is: > Validation, scrutiny and repeatability over convention and ad verecundiam The rest I just flatout disagree with. This sort of feels like a Project Manager's Data Scienc
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What do you think would be more beneficial to your company in the short and medium term?
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Sounds like they're the gamedev equivalent of a Monad? Which I only vaguely understand as a result of a poster on this forum's "Everyone explains it wrong" style post. Hoping you get a similar response with this.
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Poor guys. Hope they’ve been putting some money into savings and are prepared to forego the morning Starbucks and avocado toast.
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What is surrealDB...Their website doesn't say.
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> Mobile game display ads seem like a very, very low value business to be in and I would imagine rates are going down all the time You'd be incorrect. It's a huge business. Less ads in general more paid install services as a re
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> 30% for distribution is fine, 5% for more than half the cost of development is not? Quote me where I said the 30% tax was "fine" please. > Fortnite is also a top selling mobile game developed with UE5. Yep! So we've
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I've said this already in another recent thread but Mobile games and PC/Console games are two entirely separate markets, with different potential customer pools. Yes, agreed. But again, as I've already said, the reason t
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> To put this very directly, Godot is a meme in the commercial games industry. Godot might be a meme in terms of AAA games, but "Commercial games" is a lot more than AAA, both by revenue and just total games developed. > Mos
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tbf Unity still is a meme in terms of AAA games.
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> IMO Unreal Engine is the best deal available and fits >90% of use cases for game developers. The only place Unity really shines (both IME and in industry) is mobile games. Unreal IIRC doesn't really have even close to comparabl
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I hear a lot of people say offshore workers are low quality or don't care about the work yada yada. IME it's just like everything else - you get what you pay for. Bulk offshore TCS consultants will be as bad as you'd ex
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Next article: UK pub chain shuts down
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Unity is hellbent on not being used by large game studios on large games.
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> Prolog is awesome and I recommend learning it if only for kicks and experiencing foreign programming paradigm. Many concepts are expressed in a completely different and (when paradigm "kicks in") are arguably much simpler. Se
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By "web" do you mean "Frontend"?
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My partner eats raw garlic every morning and feels great. I definitely think there's something to it, so much so that I'll probably start. It seems like the type of thing that has almost no real negative side effects, so worst cas
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> and my suggestion that it could be interpreted as advice to keep your manager apprised of who's currently on your enemies list was meant to illustrate that risk. Yeah....again....not an enemies list. > As putative advice to se
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> Overall, it just sounds like they plan on making problems and then bringing them to me to resolve. Which, sure, would require 'managing'. Yeah…again, I’m trying to communicate respectfully, but I really think these perspectiv
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Don’t stop learning at the end of your use-case for a piece of tech. If your team uses a tool, understand approaches you didn’t take, trade offs and ultimately why you chose the path you chose. Understand even other pieces of tech and their
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by alex_lav 3y ago
The fact that you equate “difficulty working with” as an enemy list suggests to me you’re probably not equipped to be managing people. Respectfully.
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When did Covid leave?
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The frequency that I've seen companies open positions that don't actually exist to "fill the hiring pipeline" is gross. Recruiters and those that lead them should be ashamed of this, and yet I see it all the time.
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> I’m all for playing with rust, but this post strikes me as engineers being distracted by shiny new things because they are only able to parse a TSV at 700kb/s? They definitely just wanted to A.) Play with Rust, B.) Write a post ab
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I'd be curious about these metrics for a more widely used language. Admittedly I'm not discussing SemVer _in Rust_, as much as just SemVer, which is in my direct experience just kind of a mess. Adherence is as good or bad as any l
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> How does not hinting your tools the rest of the time improve things? If the hints are sometimes incorrect, should we trust them? Isn't it the same release-verification legwork either way? If so, what's the point of the hint?
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But isn’t the point of this post to suggest that even if SemVer suggests a release isn’t breaking, they still are in practice? Such that, coding defensively, you have to assess whether a new version of a tool breaks regardless of SemVer or
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Most of American history? If you’re suggesting that for “most of American history”, people could openly share whatever opinion they wanted and face no retribution, you’re too out of touch with reality to communicate with. Enjoy the day
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The first time, I did, because I was young and the people that were doing the exit interview seemed to care. The second time, I didn't bother, because I knew nobody at the company would care and it would change nothing. The last time,
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Fireworks are universally illegal in a single state. Google it.

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