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by keyP 7y ago
I think some of it has to be taken as more of an adage than pragmatically. Firsly, the four hours may not be continuous so having random hours doesn't really work. Additionally, it's caveated with creative work, regardless of job
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by keyP 7y ago
I've unrolled the thread for easier reading https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1210242184341000192.html
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by keyP 7y ago
Ah interesting, not come across that term for game design, thanks!
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by keyP 7y ago
It would be interesting to see if that was a game design decision to allow for the game to be more dramatic. There's something called "Coyote Time" which is named after Wile E. Coyote and him staying in the air for a few seco
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by keyP 7y ago
Merry Christmas HN!
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by keyP 7y ago
It can be a large topic dependent of the type of game, whether physics and such is involved etc... but I bookmarked this article from before which gave a good overview part 1: https://medium.com/@qingweilim/how-do-multi
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by keyP 7y ago
Indeed you can, but the idea is that a raycast is still needed. I should've been more specific in that it doesn't mean the projectile system can't do it but the idea of raycasting allows for that additional advantage cheaply
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by keyP 7y ago
I'm working on the bullet system for a game right now and another advantage of hitscan I think, that wasn't explicitly mentioned in the article, is that you can get objects behind objects to then determine if the first object shou
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by keyP 7y ago
I think you misinterpreted what was written. > "A lot of “casual” games end up using the hitscan method as it simplifies the learning curve for most beginner players. But what about games that aim to create an “immersive and realist
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by keyP 7y ago
Are there any technical details about attack?
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by keyP 7y ago
I like it, nice clean look. I cloned and installed from source (Firefox) and works fine, haven't tested installing from the store but I imagine it's the same. Small typo in the readme under the Firefox instructions. It says go to
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by keyP 7y ago
It has 126,603 subscribers at the moment, I'm not sure how many of those you've interacted with but I've never really had any issues. Then again, like I say, I don't visit often so not much I can add to this post.
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by keyP 7y ago
Happy to be corrected but not sure what Microsoft has to do with the subreddit, I assumed it was run by non-MS related developers. Either way, I rarely visit that subreddit, not sure why people opt to post programming questions there instea
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by keyP 7y ago
Small tip, the url isn't masked and shows it's a WIX site. This doesn't mean it's inherently bad but it seems less professional for a site that accepts payment so you may want to mask the domain to show "fortyq.com&
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by keyP 7y ago
The GitHub Actions Runner has just been open sourced https://github.com/actions/runner
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by keyP 7y ago
I mainly use it as the vertical scrollbar when coding. However, I do find it useful if I'm going through log files or files that have blocks of "shapes" formed by the text. It makes it easier to scroll down to the relevant se
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by keyP 7y ago
I've not had any particular reason to specifically use this but I found Robin Hood Hashing to be quite an interesting concept. It improves performance by essentially reducing the distance from the key to its matching key-value pair. Ad
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by keyP 7y ago
According to the paper cited in this article, they may not be as dumb as you think https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/animal-emotions/2017...
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The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity(augustl.com)
388 points by keyP 7y ago|179 comments
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by keyP 7y ago
If you're in a startup with shares, I guess it indirectly does. Either way, having engineers focus on more stimulating projects has its own intrisic value for the engineers themselves. Additionally, it reduces the likelihood of burnout
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by keyP 7y ago
> "lazy" developers aren't generally lazy, just bored Well said, this has been my experience as well and so I also encourage automation as much as possible. I guess it depends on the business and tasks to do but there&#x2
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A Poor Developer Onboarding Experience Can Kill Your Startup(itnext.io)
3 points by keyP 7y ago|0 comments
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by keyP 7y ago
> I had someone tell me that programming isn't real work before Haha, I don't even understand what metrics the person was using to consider something "work". A pilot sits throughout the flight but I think it's fa
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by keyP 7y ago
I wouldn't say it's hate towards JS but I think the evolution of JS vs the evolution of web and its use cases have not increased at the same velocity, latter being faster. JS has had to have a lot of scaffolding added to increase
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by keyP 7y ago
I'm travelling at the moment so please bear with me with the timings but email me at thekeyboardp "at" gmail "." com and please lets talk mate
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by keyP 7y ago
This was my experience too, and after speaking with recruiter friends, often the company doesn't know where this person would sit. The title is still quite new and whilst the job spec may imply technical, the reality often is that they
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by keyP 7y ago
I've had this happen to me and seen it happen as a third party. It's a cultural issue and whilst I can see that difficult to change in large companies, startups with this mentality often demoralise developers quickly IME. This is
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by keyP 7y ago
Agreed, same experience for me as an engineer and it's often the engineers who get the blame as their output is the most tangible in that chain of command. I believe this is why some of the best Product Owners I've worked with hav
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by keyP 7y ago
> Conversely, when such feedback and communication is overlooked or ignored, over and over, engineers often stop giving it even when they are interested. This is true but I find if I can explain why the feedback was overlooked, that can
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by keyP 7y ago
Thank you, I like to think so. A lot of how I manage my teams come from my experience as an engineer and seeing all the approaches that demoralised my friends and colleagues. A lot of it isn't a complex secret, it's really doing w

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