lfowles

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by lfowles 7y ago
It'd be interesting to see more information about L-systems that aren't strictly branching structures! I played around with them for procedural level generation on a dead prototype. https://imgur.com/a/dtmQcHt
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by lfowles 7y ago
Right now all three accounts of this are adjacent news items on HN. Heh.
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Epic Games and Quixel Join Forces to Empower Creators(unrealengine.com)
1 points by lfowles 7y ago|0 comments
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by lfowles 7y ago
Can't say I had the most favorable phone interview with you guys, but I did appreciate the incredibly responsive process even through the "proper channels".
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by lfowles 7y ago
It's somewhere between a headache and physical discomfort. Hard to describe because I've only ever experienced it with active noise cancelling (over the ear) headphones and I gave those up 5+ years ago.
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by lfowles 7y ago
All active noise cancelling headphones just hurt my ears after extended periods of time.
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by lfowles 7y ago
Same, I've found that I get further in the interview process when dealing with companies that screen with a coding challenge.
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by lfowles 7y ago
Would you go so far as to say Myths Lists Considered Harmful? :)
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by lfowles 7y ago
It'd probably be easier to create a list of companies without
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by lfowles 7y ago
I once had a professor that would write on the blackboard with his right hand and erase with his left simultaneously. Quite a struggle to keep up with equations on those days he chose to fly through lectures like that!
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by lfowles 8y ago
That's exactly how I felt about the first half of the robotics nanodegree I took and the reason I didn't pursue the second half.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Noticed the same when I switched to an Alphagrip and could only maintain 50-60wpm.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Looks like the focus is more-open engines, not more open-engines reading the source blog post.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Unless the ideas are absolutely critical I mentally explore them and then let them slide on out of my mind. Great ideas seem to strike more than once and I am better prepared to act on an idea that has come up multiple times vs one that I j
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by lfowles 8y ago
You might enjoy this then: Car Talk - "My Government Vehicle Shakes at 17,500 MPH" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAqzM4ptm8
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by lfowles 8y ago
> Has anyone else had a horror interview like this? Here's my horror story from last year where the interviewer was getting frustrated at my mistakes in dictating C++ over the phone and abruptly cut off the interview with "It&#
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by lfowles 8y ago
Zero-g weightlessness in orbit is just free falling with the exception that you're not going to hit the Earth on the way "down".
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by lfowles 8y ago
Just seeing the chir.ag domain brought back pleasant memories :) I also spent an unreasonable amount of time in that era at dofi blog playing many other variants.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Most Facebook videos have captions burned in at this point.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Out of curiosity what titles do you have in mind when you say "deep economic simulator"?
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by lfowles 8y ago
Pretty much! After repeatedly failing interviews for the past year, I've lost hope of having a "normal" dev job again. Studying for interviews took too much time away from things I'd rather be focusing on if I wasn'
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by lfowles 8y ago
That someone didn't come fully formed and ready for OS development out of the womb. It's a good argument for looking at track record when hiring for senior positions though. I've been interested in many fields, but can't
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by lfowles 8y ago
Don't forget that Unreal has Blueprints. You could practically finish an entire game on blueprints alone! I recall that The Solus Project was almost entirely blueprint based.
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by lfowles 8y ago
It means they get far enough to have those whiteboard riddler interviews.
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by lfowles 8y ago
For comparison I briefly took online masters classes from my alma mater, a state school that is not especially heard about often, and it was approximately $2000 per class.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Do you have links to any information on the use of AI in Detroit 's narrative? Searching for "Detroit AI narrative" isn't working well for obvious reasons!
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by lfowles 8y ago
As a resident, Wichita* :)
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by lfowles 8y ago
Thanks! I really enjoy coming up with the themed minigames. The next one planned is a Kanban board minigame ... think of a cross between Tetris and the boardgame Patchwork.
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by lfowles 8y ago
Makin' games, burnin' savings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7MXfg2wt28&list=PLqJcvcLs4C...
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by lfowles 8y ago
Yes, it was the final straw and led to me rejecting that industry as a whole :)

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