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by ensiferum 5y ago
It's a good post but IMHO does still conflate several things. The problem with "gamma" is that it's such an overloaded term. 1st. Human vision is not linear but is more sensitive to changes in low brightness conditions w
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by ensiferum 5y ago
I think it's the growth in data that when combined with accidentally bad algos suddenly start to drag down the perf.
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by ensiferum 5y ago
Overall Qt is quite nice and works portably across platforms. You're right about callback hell but there's a fox for it. Personally I prefer to create a bunch of overloaded utility functions for different widgets and data types an
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by ensiferum 5y ago
Yes I wanted something that is simple and integrates perfectly with my graphics stack and editor. Styling is completely separate from the logical UI functionality.
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by ensiferum 5y ago
Thanks Any suggestions then? =)
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by ensiferum 5y ago
Been also working on a 2D game engine and editor. Still a few features missing but getting there! http://github.com/ensisoft/gamestudio
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by ensiferum 5y ago
Aligning stuff is awesome for multiline editing however. Which happens more than one night think!
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by ensiferum 5y ago
You need to look into insulin resistance and how to fix it. Key words intermittent fasting. look for Dr. Eric Berg Dr Jason Fung and Dr Benjamin Bikman on YT.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Having gone through a startup accelerator and failed a startup after 2 year struggle i can only attest to these gems of wisdom. All true what you say.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Stun is a protocol to query the network about the topology. Turn is a protocol to route through a third party when p2p fails. Both of these are part of the ICE methodologies.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
That doesn't sound right. Unit testing happens very close to the unit you want to test, i.e. class or function most of the time. Most of these should be designed with testing in mind so they're actually something you can write u
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Why would you say something like this? With everything else being equal Unit tests are as useful for games and game engines as they are for any other type of software. If you care about your software being correct (or let's say less in
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by ensiferum 6y ago
There's some built-in testing functionality for the games but there aren't much tests for the engine itself in the source package. Oh and I spent about 3 years working with UE4. The engine is a bug fest.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
At least UE4 is not well tested at all. Most of the code doesn't have any decent tests. It's all "developer writes the code and runs once on his machine and then pushes to prod" type of code.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Yes I agree with you but I like to make the distinction between computer science and "programming". I.e the study of computer programs and algorithms is absolutely based on math but most of every day programming isn't really
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Programming is not math. Computer science however is based on boolean and predicate logic and borrows requires mathematical thinking and methods as well. That being said I don't find the basic algorithmic analysis stuff very math heavy
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Working some number of hours doesn't necessarily mean working "hard". IMHO it's all about the intensity and effort level required wether it's pjysical or mental. Once you repeatedly reach your boundaries and push th
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Sometimes though you can expect to have another implementation at some point in the time however. A good design anticipates which are the key interfaces where this applies. Second thing is that sometimes interfaces can act as binary firewal
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Interested to know what is the size of the project? I'm currently working on something small about 60kloc of my code, another 60k in third_party and Qt5 as additional dep. There are a few hiccups every now and then when the Clion UI fr
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by ensiferum 6y ago
I recommend Clion. It simply just works.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Yeah I went from notepad to visual studio to emacs to sublime text2 to vscode and finally gave up all that nonsense and got back on good IDE and got Clion. Simply the utility of the code refactoring tools completely blows any text editor
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by ensiferum 6y ago
- Anyone focusing on style issues in a code review is doing it wrong and really just wasting each others time. - self documenting code isn't possible because the code cannot possibly document what isn't there. In other words som
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by ensiferum 6y ago
I implemented a POC project with s contract and payment settling system. We settled on a solution where both parties would invoke a etherum transaction and would provide the details of the (business) transaction from their POV. I.e the good
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Some of the modern c++ is a what I'd consider essential really. And there's plenty more that is very nice to have. Move semantics and unique_ptr are really IMHO essential. Then lots of nice to have stuff such as, shared_ptr, t
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Totally agree with you. This really is a concept that you need to keep in mind when you write your code "testability". And i find that when you get this you also get a Buch of other properties for "free". Orthogonality a
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Why would you use the debug build though? I routinely develop using release build only and only ever execute a debug build if I really have to drop into the debugger. U find that this gives me a better experience as it puts me closer to the
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by ensiferum 6y ago
People want more behavior and more data. more data needs Better algorithms for processing and it's very easy to fall off the performance cliff with a bad algo that doesn't scale well. Add multiple layers and it's not always o
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Sounds like something you can refactor into a N dimensional table with "function pointers" for handling each case.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
What is it? Is it laptop? A tablet? A keyboard? I'm confused.
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by ensiferum 6y ago
Common at businesses where devs work at a "cost center" and not everyone gets to work at a FAANG shop unfortunately.

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