jamesfinlayson

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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> That sounds pretty corrupt. I live in Australia and Australia is not New Zealand... but this sounds exactly like what would happen in rural Australia - people in small towns still do handshake deals because you know and trust most peop
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Same thing happened to me - got stuck on some old Braintree flow and ended up on what was essentially a sales call to switch to some other thing.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Very much less than a AAA game at least. The other day I had a 10GB update for Apex Legends.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
No idea, or at least I haven't looked into it. I just manually sync to my drives.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I don't know if an explanation was ever given but I assume their pirated content scanning algorithm inadvertently dropped a file size check and their other checks passed.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
JREs haven't been a thing in like a decade I thought.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Yep, I remember a couple of years ago Google Drive started flagging 1 byte files as pirated content - shortly after I bought a 6TB hard-drive and two 5TB portable hard-drives. My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
From my experience the CLI works but is not well documented.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Yep, none of my current team-mates test their work especially thoroughly... so now we have even more bugs being found in testing in production. Not a net win.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
7 years ago my biggest bottle-neck was waiting for a tester to test my code. Fast forward to now, my biggest bottle-neck is waiting for a tester, and my team-mates using AI to generate mega-patches that they don't bother testing is jus
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Yep, seen a data-centre move happen at work (from a distance - I wasn't effected). For a business with cross-data centre redundancy and no allowable down-time for core business, it was at least a year-long project I think. All for a da
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I agree - maybe some modern game engines have unit tests for stuff like their physics engine and their "standard library" code (optimised data structures, maths utilities, string utilities etc) but as others have said, testing sou
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I thought it was kind of commoditised these days - there's an Unreal asset store I think? Probably one for Unity as well.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Gosh, I don't think any game engines have particularly good test suites at all. GoldSource and Source are the only ones that I have any real experience with and neither seems to have anything (Source may have a handful of things but no
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I vaguely remember being told to put assignments in a drop box (like a mail box on campus) in the mid 2000s at least, and I'm sure it wasn't a new concept then.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Glad to hear this - I bought a bunch of things on the Xbox 360 shop years ago but haven't had a new Xbox of any sort since then.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> like i think literally one search is all you get sometimes unless you login Lucky you - search never seems to work for me anonymously, and even when logged in the search isn't great.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Not sure - one of the other comments said it wasn't because Source uses BSP and Source 2 uses meshes.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
That's for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - different engine.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I thought there was a new level above epic - theme I think?
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I don't disagree - I worked on a task management system many years ago and task and subtask always made a lot more sense than story and task. And epic should just be project.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I assumed this was standard terminology for Jira? It's been the same for me at two completely different tech companies.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Had a clueless business analyst get Copilot to write a bunch of stories for an epic, then when she had a meeting with me (and three other people!) to go through the stories I had to tell them that 90% of what they had done was wrong. If the
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
> let me rewrite this because it’s not a language or framework I am familiar with and fond of I've been there at least once before and boy was that painful - I already have problems to deal with without someone from another team whi
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
Yep - I was at a company that replaced something super obscure - I suspect the number of people in Australia that knew the tech was like 10 to 20. The tech was so obscure I don't think there was any path out other than a full rewrite.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
This hobby version of Rubikon isn't open source then is it? I can't find anything obvious.
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by jamesfinlayson 3mo ago
I remember reading years ago about some corrupt mod in one of the image subreddits - he or his friend had started some image hosting site and had six different Reddit accounts that he used to upvote posts that used his site and downvote all
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by jamesfinlayson 4mo ago
Yeah multiple companies I've worked for have had enterprise discounts - no idea how big you need to be to get it though.
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by jamesfinlayson 4mo ago
Yeah I'm nearly 15 years into my career and still once or twice a year I have a moment where I think - there is no way that should ever have worked and I really don't know why it ever worked and didn't cause any issues.
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by jamesfinlayson 4mo ago
> well-defined types a little better than MySQL Ugh yes. I remember starting on MySQL then being hit by the strictness of Postgres... then terrified by the looseness of MySQL when I moved back (changing jobs).

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