dkersten

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   by dkersten 7y ago

   > giving their brain a break by getting plenty of sleep and R&R is just not feasible. That sounds like some nasty health problems in the making. Over caffeinated, over stimulated and far too little sleep. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   > I, like many people, need to exchange my time for a paycheck. During this time I often have to pay close attention to minute details in a text document, and think through implications of design proposals. Anecdotally, I can concentrate
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   That’s not how I interpreted the ruling from the case you linked, although I’m not a lawyer: Article 2(a) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals wit
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   Do you find you have problems concentrating and focusing on things that interest you? Also, do you by any chance do a lot of high dopamine low effort activities (eg, videogames, social media, television, recreational drugs, junk food)? If y
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   Very true! I’ve often wished there was a good visual language I could use to program on my iPad.
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   Perhaps a step in the right direction would be to use different shapes of components for flowchart-like flows (like how in flowcharts diamonds are used for conditionals) and for parallel dataflow (rectangles in flowcharts). Perhaps not perf
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   And yet Blueprints enables a lot of non-programmers to write game logic. Actually, that’s why you have so many bad examples: they’re not programmers, they don’t necessarily know about software engineering principles like abstraction, or the
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   My experience was different. I really enjoyed working in visual languages and found them quite pleasant to navigate. I also found that when applying good software engineering principles, visual languages can look very clear. Its just most u
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   by dkersten 7y ago

   I disagree. I use boxes and lines all the time , on paper, when programming. I think in boxes and lines. I briefly wrote some Max/MSP visual code some years ago and I found that I no longer needed to do it on paper, because thinking d
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    I don’t know how many people use Ruby, its certainly not as popular as it was during the Rails hype, so its hard to day, and I don’t have numbers for the visual languages either, but Unreal Engine’s Blueprints has a lot of users. Max/M
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    I’m not debating whether or not its a worthy endeavour though, I’m only saying that you can’t expect good performance out of assembly code unless you practice writing high performance assembly code. Most of us have a lot of experience with
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    If you don’t study and practice it, how can you possibly know how to write good code (in any language)? In assembly, if you’ve never been exposed to eg the simd instructions, or aligned memory access or cache or branch prediction or instruc
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Well, you have to also consider that most of us write a lot of high level code and very little, if any, assembly code, so we shouldn't expect to be good at writing high performance assembly without practicing. I've seen some rathe
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Thanks David, that sounds pretty great!
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Can’t shadow-cljs already do that, or?
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    > “Make games, not engines” is fine advice in general but you can make an engine for your specific game Back in the day, I guess the advice just meant to focus on getting a game out and not worry about "making a reusable engine&quot
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Ah, thanks, I assumed it would get renamed, but didn't actually check.
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    I mean, I'm not going to campaign to put any actual restrictions or laws in place and I don't go around judging people or complaining or whatever. But I do think that people shouldn't have children unless they are able to tak
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Yes, many: Godot has a 2D renderer and physics option, Defold is 2D by default, Game Maker Studio, Cocos2d, Corona, Construct, Phaser.io, Buildbox, Gamesalad, Stencyl, Clickteam Fusion Unity is very capable of 2d games too and provides a lo
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    I didn’t say I had anything against anybody who has kids and falls on hard times. I understand that makes my comment rather off topic in this thread. I do know a lot of people who definitely did not have their finances in order and decided
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Potentially very unpopular opinion, but to add to this, I think it’s irresponsible and unfair to the children if you choose to have have kids before your finances are in order. And selfish to put your desires above the wellbeing of the pote
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Ok, that’s fair enough. I don’t disagree, I just think that it’s often out of your control (which it sounds like you agree with too).
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Why use stock ticker names instead of typing the company names out properly? It literally only takes a second or two longer and is much clearer to read.
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    > No pain no gain. If the US and SV opportunities aren't a type of gain that's compelling to you then of course you dont need to worry about it There are many reasons why this might be out if your control, beyond visa requireme
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    It can be brought back to life if people vouch for it, so I assume that’s what happened.
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Those libraries don’t provide any game structure though (well, SDL and glfw at least, I think the other two do give you a small amount of structure), they only provide functions to get input style, open a window and basic rendering primit
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    It definitely counts, it’s changed so much from cryengine 1 and, as you say, plenty of the other engines are based on earlier engines.
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    If your customers hate MVP’s then you got the V wrong. The whole point is it’s the minimal things that’s Viable and how much that is depends on the product and market. For some products, the minimal thing that’s viable really is minimal, fo
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    Not the person you replied to but my guess is because if your priority is to maintain your authority, instead of doing something useful for society, then maybe you’re unfit for having the authority to begin with?
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    by dkersten 7y ago

    I disagree. The fact that so many websites choose to be non-compliant is a big flashing signal that I don’t want to be on the site anyway, because they do not care about my privacy. Especially the sites that have notices like “We value you