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by ggambetta 2y ago
Happy to hear :)
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by ggambetta 2y ago
It kind of did. Back in 2008 or so I wrote a series of articles about multiplayer networking [1], which over time became suprisingly popular, but nothing much happened otherwise. Until 2014, when they directly led to Improbable [2] reaching
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by ggambetta 2y ago
If you're interested in understanding the graphics algorithms and implementing them yourself, as opposed to using an engine or a library, check out https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch It guides y
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by ggambetta 2y ago
We send Bruce Willis and a ragtag team of lovable, drilling-expert misfits?
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by ggambetta 2y ago
I left Windows for Linux in 1999 and I do NOT miss how difficult everything was to get working, even with the reasonably user-friendly Red Hat (5? 6?). I even became the maintainer of a Linmodem driver by accident (it was abandoned, the aut
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Or The Black Knight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
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by ggambetta 2y ago
I bet you were counting on this.
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Re. client side prediction and server reconciliation, may I recommend https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.... ? Even if you don't roll your own solution, it might be worth understanding the theor
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Yeah, it's surprisingly poorly written for an article about writing well :-/
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by ggambetta 2y ago
That doesn't sound decent to me, haven't measured but I'm sure I can swipe a lot faster than that on a phone.
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Wondering if it would make more sense to award shared gold/silver/bronze to athletes whose times fall within a certain distance of each other. The difference between 10.00 and 10.01 is much smaller than the difference between &quo
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by ggambetta 2y ago
I grew up in a Spanish-speaking country, reading computer magazines in Spanish, and at the time Spain was hugely into ZX Spectrum videogames. I feel like OPQA rolls off the tongue easier than QAOP when you say it in Spanish, so maybe that&#
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by ggambetta 2y ago
OPQA, who's with me?
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Could have been that, honestly I'm not sure. 20-ish years :)
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by ggambetta 2y ago
About a million years ago (OK, more like 20) I was making casual videogames in C++ and I wanted a cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows) way to get a stack trace whenever a game crashed. What I ended up doing was adding a macro to the first l
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by ggambetta 2y ago
I'd avoid using BASIC for anything serious these days, but I'm part of the "BASIC was my first language when I was 5" club, so I have to respect it as a teaching language (although I'd go for Python nowadays). I w
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by ggambetta 2y ago
And now, 30 years later, the name of this Disney character finally makes sense to me: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Taurus_Bulba
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by ggambetta 2y ago
If you say it 3 times in front of a mirror, it summons Stallman
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by ggambetta 2y ago
An alternative explanation: https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/1...
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by ggambetta 2y ago
I learned this fact because I had a first date with a girl who suggested that place, knowing I'm a writer. Five years later I chose that same spot to propose :)
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by ggambetta 2y ago
I'm thinking of changing my surname to Gambettski so I can also make cool online demos, so you're probably fine :)
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Or even better, the passive form, "mistakes have been made" :)
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Unfortunately very similar to Uruguay, where I grew up. One of the many reasons I haven't lived there for a while now :(
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Turns out it was only 2 weeks, but it felt like 3 months :) See my other comment.
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by ggambetta 2y ago
At a previous company, we were in the early stages of building a massively distributed simulation platform that would power MMOs and government/military simulations. The platform was written in Scala and used Akka extensively (because
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Yes, that was my reaction as well. I'm still traumatized by an insidious bug in a distributed system that took me around 3 months of nearly exclusive work to diagnose and fix (one-line fix, of course). ENG-168. Never forget. "How
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Anything can be offensive if you try hard enough!
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by ggambetta 2y ago
May I pimp my own book about 3D rendering, covering both rasterization (including 3D projection) and ray tracing? There's a complete, free version at my website, https://gabrielgambetta.com/cgfs
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by ggambetta 2y ago
Oh, I loved Gunship 2000. So many hours flying those low-poly missions!
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by ggambetta 2y ago
This is great! I'm imagining this recorded in stereo ("3D") and watching on a VR headset. Perfect for the winter blues!

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