mguillemot

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by mguillemot 7y ago
4.5 jô (= size of a tatami), which is the unit of surface most commonly used for apartments in Japan. 1 jô = a little less than 2 m^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami (section "Size")
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by mguillemot 10y ago
I'll keep that in mind! (I'm sure there will be many mistakes on the road ^^') In the meantime, my Twitter is in my profile, and I'm pretty sure I'll post a few snaps here and there :)
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by mguillemot 10y ago
In 2017 I want to move my digital electronics skills from "patching together 30 years old ICs on a breadboard while playing with devkits" to "designing a simple board with modern components". I'm finally taking the
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by mguillemot 10y ago
I have tinnitus and headphones (especially noise-cancelling ones) are living hell to me.
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by mguillemot 10y ago
Well... The consensus is that RethinkDB is technically superior (and much more pleasant to use), but unfortunately that doesn't prevent it from being in a hard position business-wise...
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by mguillemot 10y ago
In my experience (10 years living in Japan) it's actually extremely easy to do bank transfers, so easy that actually many people use bank transfer to pay for online purchases. It does cost a bit though (from ~100 to ~600 Yens depending
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by mguillemot 11y ago
I think you refer to this video: https://youtu.be/BBbv1ej0fFo?t=3m40s (bookmarked at the start of the talk about system programming)
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by mguillemot 11y ago
I am a very happy user of Phoenix myself, and also a MMO game programmer, and unfortunately I can say with confidence that you won't implement a real-time MMO FPS on top of Phoenix channels any soon. Not because of Phoenix itself, but
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Ubuntu 15.10 is available(releases.ubuntu.com)
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by mguillemot 11y ago
As a "bilingual Japanese/English engineer who has startup-compatible risk tolerances, is comfortable working in a bicultural environment under a minimum amount of supervision, can solo-ship code in one or more modern programming s
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by mguillemot 11y ago
I'm working on a PC game and spoke to a lot of potential investors, and this is spot on. "Funding an original game that has already proved itself by actual sales, on a proven and stable platform?" Not interested. "Giving
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by mguillemot 12y ago
We are launching our MMO Gangs of Space on Game Boy! https://www.gangsofspace.com/en
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by mguillemot 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Tokyo (Japan) - remote possible French developer living in Japan. I have 10 years of professional experience in game and web development (and 10 more years of playing around with whatever interesting tech I could get my hands
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by mguillemot 12y ago
I think this is a common issue when reading materials not in your native language. I can read a book written in French at least twice faster than the same book written in English, even though I use English daily and consider myself fluent.
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by mguillemot 12y ago
This is where I make my obligatory comment about the game I've been developing on my own for 2+ years: Gangs of Space. It is heavily inspired by EVE Online, more arcade-oriented (but keeping or expanding all the good parts like unique
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by mguillemot 13y ago
Well, if you take lessons from your failures, you end up in a better position after each one. So it's definitely not like flipping a coin with independant outcomes.
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by mguillemot 13y ago
https://www.gangsofspace.com/en It's an action-oriented shmup/MMO which feels a bit like EVE Online on steroids. It is cool because all the game industry AAA developers have been pouring dozens of millions of doll
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by mguillemot 13y ago
Any PC (Windows/Mac/Linux) sold in the last 5 years should be fine (might want ~600 Mb free RAM when a lot of players play at the same spot, but that's all). Up-to-date graphic drivers do help, especially on Linux.
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by mguillemot 13y ago
Shameless plug: if you think you'd enjoy EVE but are put off by the time necessary to get "into" it, or are just curious about alternative MMOs that are not WoW clones, I encourage you to check my game Gangs of Space, current
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by mguillemot 13y ago
My craziest bug was a Java clock issue. If you had some specific model of motherboard, calling System.getCurrentTimeMillis() repetitively could actually make your system clock run faster. I mean, actually CHANGE the system clock. For real.
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by mguillemot 13y ago
I agree with the author, but I think you need to look a bit further behind the common advices for their reason to be. People tell you to make small games because they've seen so many newcomers try to make big ones and fail hard, NOT be
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by mguillemot 13y ago
Distributed systems, I think.
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by mguillemot 13y ago
I did way better than I expected last time for my first entry in the contest, with my Legend of Epikouros ( http://tenseconds.npng.org/ for the curious). Now I feel that I cannot top that >_<' But I encourage ever
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by mguillemot 13y ago
The Legend of Epikouros - a Zelda-like Relay Marathon http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... I made this in 30-ish hours for the compo. Client is made with Unity, and server with node.js.
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by mguillemot 14y ago
It prevents anyone controlling the DNS resolvers of your clients to redirect to faked HTTP website (of course, only for those of your clients who already visited your real website). Imagine you're using my WiFi connection. Without HSTS, I c
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by mguillemot 14y ago
It's worth noting that Rails enables HSTS for the whole domain when you use the following in one of your config files (usually production.rb): config.force_ssl = true
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by mguillemot 14y ago
If they cannot reach you by phone, they can send you a snail mail with some code printed on it that you have to enter into their admin interface. Admittedly they should tell you about that before you try to register (I discovered it after I
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by mguillemot 14y ago
I'd venture into guessing that the parent reason is that ++ and -- operators tend to make easy to bury side-effects where they're not obvious, like in the provided code sample: __raw[args[i++]] = 1; (C programmers would disagree about this,
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by mguillemot 14y ago
BUT=$(echo So do I...)
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by mguillemot 14y ago
It's interesting to note that to prevent this behaviour in such crowded events, they still organize the overnight groups in lines, and they are usually allowed to enter the premises only AFTER a few thousand of the ones who respected the ru

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