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by jaaron 3y ago
Ha! I must have been editing my comment as you were writing yours. I just started into Sylvester's book.
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by jaaron 3y ago
Just want to add a +1 for these, particularly Art of Game Design, A Theory of Fun, and the Tanya Short/Tarn Adams books. To add to your list: I have a copy of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences that I recently starte
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by jaaron 3y ago
Well put. For simplicity, I was considering "story" as part of the "status" side too (i.e.- there's a story here that I'm better than you for these reasons). I know it's Hacker News, but come on folks, it&
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by jaaron 3y ago
> Shiny carbon is shiny carbon to me You're only considering intrinsic value. That's helpful for raw commodities. For nearly everything else, value is tied to perception, history, etc. If I have two identical baseballs, they&#x
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by jaaron 3y ago
org-mode is fairly structured by default. It's hierarchal with built in support for properties on nodes. There's a built in format for dates. Not sure how well any of the non-emacs parsers work though.
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by jaaron 4y ago
This is me, 100%. I've seen enough to realize that progress is largely each generation re-thinking and re-mixing the previous generation's problems. Sometimes the remix makes things better, but plenty of times, older generation lo
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by jaaron 4y ago
> "This would suggest a restful api is not made for system-to-system communication, but requires human mediation at every step of the way" Which is exactly what REST was originally designed to do: provide an architecture for
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by jaaron 4y ago
For comparison, here are some of the best previous images from this area of the sky: https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/relics/ https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/relics/color_images/sma
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by jaaron 5y ago
100% this. I feel like there's a ton of innovation in the cloud/container CI/CD space, but next to nothing elsewhere. In fact, some of the innovations in CI/CD make things _more_ difficult for those of us developing in o
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by jaaron 5y ago
Here's a short version: Joost, backed by the founders of Kazaa & Skype, tried this starting in 2007. It failed, YouTube and other streaming approaches won. Some of that was content, but some of that was that bandwidth became cheap
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by jaaron 5y ago
Singularity 6 | Engineers, Managers, more | Remote or Los Angeles (Westside) | https://www.singularity6.com Singularity 6 is the game studio behind Palia (palia.com): a cozy, community sim MMO. We're a pre-launch startup fo
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by jaaron 5y ago
Really depends on the sort of "windows-only" jobs you're thinking of. My startup is mostly Windows, but that's because we're doing AAA game development and still have some tooling that is Windows only at this stage.
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by jaaron 5y ago
Great list of information anyone should know before accepting an offer. As a hiring manager, I'm usually one of the first people new candidates speak with (perhaps right after briefly talking to a recruiter). Generally, I want to make
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by jaaron 5y ago
Singularity 6 | Engineers, Managers, more | Remote or Los Angeles (Westside) | https://www.singularity6.com Singularity 6 is the game studio behind Palia (palia.com): a cozy, community sim MMO. We're a pre-launch startup fo
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by jaaron 5y ago
Game industry would be one source. At least for many teams and projects, Git isn't very useful (horrible for large binary files common in AAA games). So many companies still use Perforce or sometimes you'll see SVN still. That mea
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by jaaron 5y ago
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that so many don't understand where k8s came from. Google doesn't run on k8s. k8s was _not_ invented or designed to solve Google-scale problems. Since it's inception, the open source commun
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by jaaron 5y ago
I disagree that the gameplay is particularly shallow. The end game requires both mechanics and tactics. That said, the end game may or may not be _rewarding_ as it's very grindy and there's a good question (for many of these sort
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by jaaron 5y ago
Singularity 6 | Engineers, Managers, more | Remote or Los Angeles (Westside) | https://www.singularity6.com Singularity 6 is the game studio behind Palia (palia.com): a cozy, community sim MMO. We're a pre-launch startup fo
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by jaaron 5y ago
Not necessarily true. I know several studios in Los Angeles that do 3D final renders on CPU, such as Disney Animation. GPU rendering works for realtime, but the memory constraints on GPU limit its use in the high end. Everyone in the field
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by jaaron 5y ago
Ok, this comment had me actually laughing out loud. That said, the situation with W10+WSL reminds me a bit of the early days around OS X when we suddenly had a consumer grade desktop Unix experience. W10+WSL is clunkier, but trending in a
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by jaaron 5y ago
Another one? Nomad and kubernetes were released within months of each other in 2015. This isn't new.
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by jaaron 5y ago
We're using Nomad for our backend at Singularity 6 (developing the mmo Palia). In my experience (having worked with Nomad, k8s, mesos, and homegrown schedulers), k8s is fantastic from an early developer experience, but rough from an op
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by jaaron 5y ago
From parent's comment: k8s = 10x the components & difficult to install. Nomad = single binary, works with but doesn't require containers.
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by jaaron 5y ago
Singularity 6 | Engineers, Managers, more | Remote or Los Angeles (Westside) | https://www.singularity6.com Singularity 6 is the game studio behind Palia (palia.com): a cozy, community sim MMO. It's the beginning of many ne
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by jaaron 5y ago
A decade or so, I did _everything_ in emacs. I was never more productive and I attribute it partially to the sort of flow that Legend seems to be trying to make. Smartphones are what killed it for me. As I switched to using my smartphone +
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by jaaron 5y ago
Unity is a more generic game engine, Unreal is more specialized. C# is an easier language for most. C++ (particularly UE's flavor) is more difficult. Unity is much easier for a single person or small team. Unreal is designed in mind fo
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by jaaron 5y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineer, Sysadmin, Game Engineer, UI/UX Engineer, Engineering Manger | Remote or Los Angeles (Westside) | https://www.singularity6.com Singularity 6 is the game studio behind Palia (palia.com): a c
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by jaaron 5y ago
Most small to midsized organizations would prefer to deal with false-negatives during hiring (missing out on good talent) than the issues of false-positives (bad hires). Often times (not always) no one is preferable to a bad hire. A bad hir
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by jaaron 5y ago
Yes and depending on the field, you may have to do mandatory additional certification and training throughout your career. We have certs in software engineering, but in my experience, they've largely failed as an indicator of qualifica
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by jaaron 5y ago
No. As a software engineer for 20+ years, I've talked with my sister, who is an ER doctor about this often. Most folks outside of engineering think our interview processes are crazy. Keep in mind, there's significantly more traini

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