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by mthg 17y ago
I know the author of the piece in question, Chris. He's a writer with no technical background whatsoever, and his job is to write whimsical jocular short pieces for Slate. This isn't a serious critique of any sort. There's nothing to see he
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by mthg 18y ago
Hey there, were you a coworker of Kyle's at EA? A fellow game graphics programmer from Rockstar Games here. I remember Kyle mostly from his days as a comic artist at my alma mater, Univ. of Virginia. I was a comic artist and editor several
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by mthg 18y ago
A lot of companies use in-house languages with similarities to popular outside languages. Unreal script for example would be accessible to anybody coming from a traditional java background but it is different in some ways, i.e. polymorphism
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by mthg 18y ago
I agree with this sentiment entirely. I went to a public magnet high school with SAT scores averaging around 1480 and at least half our graduating class every year ends up in an ivy / mit / stanford. I'd say more than half of those who made
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by mthg 18y ago
SDL for boilerplate, ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) for the physics. My understanding is that ODE was started by a ex-Havok employee, and it is in fact an excellent oss physics engine.
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by mthg 18y ago
Well, the article is talking about a USC grad program, not really comparable to one of those video game only niche 'colleges.' The way I see it, it's not unlike other interdisciplinary sort of grad programs (e.g. robotics). In the end thoug
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by mthg 18y ago
Hello to you there @ Bear Stearns. I'm a Bloomberg core infrastructure engineer, and I can second that. I can type in a symbol and type in a functional mnemonic, hit enter and see a news aggregate pertaining to a certain security, along wit
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by mthg 18y ago
I tend to agree with those who believe that your immediate community of associates to have a much larger effect on your personal outlook than the defining characteristic of the your city of residence as a whole (although certainly each majo