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by dafelst 4y ago
This has been superceded by Scalar ( https://github.com/microsoft/scalar ) and again merged into Microsoft's fork of git ( https://github.com/microsoft/git ) It supports neat stuff like partial c
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by dafelst 4y ago
It is generally not super difficult - most professors at universities have Masters and PhD level grad students, and more often than not, faculty are listed on the university websites. Find a local university, look up their math (or whatever
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by dafelst 4y ago
As someone who perpetually overscopes side projects and ends up biting off more than I can reasonably chew given my free time, I really love this idea. What happens with me is I start a new project, then add a new feature here and there (b
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by dafelst 4y ago
Good for you dude, keep sharing - Hacker News content feels like it is predominantly from top-tier CS-degree'd wunderkinds, and for anyone just getting into the industry it feels like an awfully high bar to reach. Your stories show a l
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by dafelst 4y ago
Especially in games, the difference between 1ms and 3ms is huge. So perhaps the code doesn't need to be optimal, but ideally it is optimized.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Join Google to change the world as a top tier software engineer, then spend all your time updating protobuf definitions to keep internal tools glued together as Yet Another Widely Used Internal API implements breaking changes. Such a lot of
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by dafelst 5y ago
I use Unreal in my day job and I am very familiar with it, and I found it much more difficult to learn and operate than Unity. Even as an Unreal "expert", for personal projects I still use Unity, it is just much easier to get stuf
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by dafelst 5y ago
"Food tasters" seems a little out there, but it's certainly plausible that they're lackeys ordering for higher-ups. Or also probably equally likely, themselves and/or teammates.
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by dafelst 5y ago
Is this effectively v3 of Thunderhead? Good to see the pivot towards using k8s, the 20+ minute propping of a 1-2GB container on vanilla Playfab/THv2 really made it a non starter for our company's internal playtesting. Also is Hes
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by dafelst 5y ago
I was going to comment the same thing, all the Carmack era id software open source code (Quake, Doom) is very nicely structured and quite easy to grok.
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by dafelst 5y ago
I don't know what they do at Shopify, but I have seen teams be successful with using dbt's ( https://getdbt.com ) unit testing methodologies and tooling. It makes it very easy to do things like cardinality and null chec
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by dafelst 5y ago
At my former job (large search engine) until a couple of content moderators sued the company for damages related to PTSD, they did virtually nothing to protect their employees. The other management strategy was to just outsource to contract
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by dafelst 5y ago
The once ubiquitous UltraEdit text editor for Windows used to have a similar message on its website and still does to this day. I remember it being a little odd back in 1997 or so when I first started using it, especially living in relativ
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by dafelst 5y ago
Ballmer era Microsoft is a very different beast to Nadella era Microsoft
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by dafelst 5y ago
"Bootstrapped" typically implies self-funding, so most likely no VCs were in the picture.
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by dafelst 5y ago
The games industry is not that big, it is not difficult to get backchannel references on almost anyone who has been in the industry for more than a few years.
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by dafelst 5y ago
It feels like a less comprehensive look at the Japanese concept of "Ikigai", at least the version that has been popularized in the west. The "prestige" and "what the world needs" sections could probably be sub
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by dafelst 5y ago
I know that you are being sarcastic, but there is an honest answer - most people I have met in the industry who are treated like shit are either: a) Too young or inexperienced or fearful of reprisal to understand how to advocate for themsel
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by dafelst 5y ago
Or, alternatively, just don't work for companies that treat their employees like shit. There are plenty of game dev companies where employees are treated well (I work for one of them) but "game company treats employees like human
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by dafelst 5y ago
This is some top tier hacking and reverse engineering, incredible stuff.
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by dafelst 5y ago
I'm in my 40s and haven't experienced that - perhaps you're not looking in the right places
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by dafelst 5y ago
You do know that experience with a particular technology is only a tiny part of the equation here, right? A veteran with 20 years in the industry has seen a LOT more stuff than someone with 10 years in the industry, irrespective of the tec
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by dafelst 5y ago
He is a vestige of a bygone era, his time has passed and he should be given the boot.
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by dafelst 5y ago
People may not like that feature (I sure don't), but I would bet a decent sum that feature didn't drive increases in negative metrics like churn, and increased positive metrics like hours watched, perhaps by causing people to scro
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by dafelst 5y ago
I am white but with black (and now slightly grey) hair and a beard with tan-ish skin. More pertinent to your implication I assume is that my middle name is of Muslim descent and can pass for being of middle-eastern descent, and I seem to g
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by dafelst 5y ago
Getting knives past airport security seems not particularly difficult from the experience of my circle and other anecdotal sources. I've had friends and family accidentally get knives through security on many occasions, and I have als
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by dafelst 5y ago
I've worked on content moderation systems for some Really Big Platforms and it is definitely not uncommon to have a list of "super popular" content that is exempt from the automated banning systems, rather they get escalated
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by dafelst 5y ago
Great overview OP, and it's nice to see a kind of "in-between" scenario tested, i.e. not a super fast web request or transformation, rather something more akin to a lightweight batch job. It may not be quite a "recommen
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by dafelst 5y ago
I've found that the biggest marketplaces are on the Chinese web, places like taobao have a HUGE number. Also Russian social networks as well.
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by dafelst 5y ago
It won't stop anyone who has the skill to author cheats themselves (i.e. someone with basic reversing and programming experience) but it does do a good job of detecting and banning players who are using widely distributed "commerc

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