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by clnq 3y ago
As the article says, it’s likely that the devs who previously would test their apps prior to release had higher quality apps just because they were experienced and skilled devs, not because of an arbitrary number of people testing the app f
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by clnq 3y ago
No one is saying it, but a part of the reason is that a long power distance makes it difficult for a junior to object or negotiate a request. It’s usually a plain “yes, I’ll do it”, no matter the consequences.
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by clnq 3y ago
Kaliningrad oblast is an exclave of Russia by the way. Enclaves are states like the Vatican - entirely surrounded by one state.
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by clnq 3y ago
It’s a fine comparison in the context of what computer science means to programmers. Prior to the 00s, software engineering was a lot more technical, low-level, and skilled work. Today, a bootcamp will tech anyone to copy and paste things t
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by clnq 3y ago
I also miss consumer computing in the 80s and early 90s. Everything in a computer was so accessible, programming was all close to the metal.
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by clnq 3y ago
Won’t they have to investigate once a complaint like this is filed? It seems like the activist is trying to get more attention to this to hurry the investigation?
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by clnq 3y ago
A lot of value in code reviews comes from knowledge sharing and collaborating on code. It is close to a pair programming exercise that many people in the team can partake in asynchronously. I’m sorry for not answering many of your questions
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by clnq 3y ago
A thing called the Competency Framework can help.
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by clnq 3y ago
> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize
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by clnq 3y ago
No, friend, poly counts are rarely a raging fire these days. Not 10k poly counts. That was in the 90s.
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by clnq 3y ago
That’s a very good resource, nice find! I think we can agree CO is between AA and AAA. I think it leans much more on the AAA side from my industry experience, but arguments could be made that it’s not all the way there and that therefore it
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by clnq 3y ago
They have a large publisher (Paradox Interactive) who prescribes their schedules. They also made bet bookings from Cities: Skylines that put them quite evidently in AAA. Finally, they release the games for all major platforms. All together,
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by clnq 3y ago
The design was iterated, but the game assets are redone almost completely, and the systems appear largely reworked, too. This is evident when you play the game. The scope of work done for this game was exceptionally large for a company with
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by clnq 3y ago
So you know the saying “premature optimization is the root of all evil?” Producers love that statement because it removes half of the complaints around work being rushed. Optimization is not done throughout the process and later there’s not
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by clnq 3y ago
> I place equal blame on them for delivering a subpar product, whether it's under their control or not. What else is there to say... > If they don't like the environment of a particular studio, they can always choose to work
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by clnq 3y ago
Because it is one of the 1,000,000 things to pay attention to in game development. Someone or some software probably just made a mistake in setting up its LOD. Or some dynamic LODding code didn't properly cull the LOD0 mesh. Or that co
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by clnq 3y ago
> I don't buy that excuse. This means you are, sadly, very uninformed. There is a lot of rolling with the punches in the games industry, and many engineers want to optimize things more, and work OT to do so (as there is an extreme s
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by clnq 3y ago
Colossal Order has about 40 employees, even though they are AAA. Here - proven otherwise.
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by clnq 3y ago
Great - not participating is and was always an option. But this does not mean it's not an ARG.
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by clnq 3y ago
Hmm, it doesn't necessarily need to follow other game design rules. Sometimes the point is just to figure out the mystery.
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by clnq 3y ago
All I'm saying is that capitalism does not prescribe greed. Take away capitalism and you have the same problems with greed. Take away greed and capitalism doesn't sound so bad anymore.
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by clnq 3y ago
This is an ARG, not a real thing. There's merch and some "documents" to explore[0]. Sovereign barges in international waters, alpine underground labs - quite meaty. The author of this article got whooshed. For anyone still th
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by clnq 3y ago
I ran a tech startup for several years and I can say you have a simplistic view of this. My company didn't want to be a unicorn, it didn't want VC money, and it didn't want the whole pie. It was funded out of pocket until it
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by clnq 3y ago
Assuming there is some ebb and flow in demand, they should keep employees around with nothing to do, yes. Moreover, there is natural attrition. They can stop hiring, promote internally, and so on, until they’ve reached their desired head co
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by clnq 3y ago
Presumably 20+ years of experience somewhere far away from C++.
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by clnq 3y ago
> Auto-fire is trivial to detect Tell me you've never worked on an anti-cheat without saying you've never worked on an anti-cheat..... Why do you even say this if you really don't know it? In short - you don't want f
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by clnq 3y ago
I mean… 1900. Noticed it too late for an edit.
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by clnq 3y ago
The purchasing power equivalent of $1,200 in 1990 is about $40,000 today.
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by clnq 3y ago
I think management was seeing such collateral damage as just rounding errors. But it did not work out this way. Engineers above the senior level were far more likely to leave than juniors. This was because finding remote, well-paying work e
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by clnq 3y ago
A lot of people are talking about the numbers. But top senior engineers are hard to find. The ones who were let go also took institutional knowledge with them. This is why they are in demand, they are “proven” and they can operate much bett

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