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by offtop5 6y ago
How much of that was active dev time. I guess they spent half that time just in the concept stage. I also have to question why you would try to develop your own engine for such a project. Had they used Unreal they can at least point to Epic
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by offtop5 6y ago
My plan is to deal with it , every job is a another job. Trying to retire within the next decade. I don't want a boss period.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Is CRDB that much better to justify all of this. Getting your boss to buy into a new tech is hard enough
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by offtop5 6y ago
So if I write OfftopAPI as a service which basically deploys Cockroach for clients , but adds a thin Node JS API on top , is that ok ? Feels like you could play a game of chicken with them. I know many big companies would probably stick to
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by offtop5 6y ago
Looks like you took the path that looks very good to me, I would be able to take about 2 months off next year. Maybe I'll visit both Southeast Asia and Central America to determine which I like better. As a practical matter Spanish is
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by offtop5 6y ago
Couldn't you also encode data in audio itself ? I heard of a project to do this where you send out an inaudible sound and receive it elsewhere
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by offtop5 6y ago
Or they could do the original Episode 9 script instead https://youtu.be/itdfe5yQ0Hg
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by offtop5 6y ago
I'll make a career out of it once I make my real money in normal software development. The game industry is too unstable to make a living out of. I tired once upon a time
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by offtop5 6y ago
I want the freedom to do whatever I want. If I can live off my million in savings , I’d make games and music all day.
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by offtop5 6y ago
How so. I’m very careful on who I let into my life , and my monthly expenses are less than half of my income. No matter what job you have , it’s still ultimately a job. Their has to be more to life
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by offtop5 6y ago
Long ago I was getting evicted and the girl I was dating simply didn't want to deal with it. I'd tell my sister to avoid any guy going though an eviction or without stable housing, likewise I don't get involved with anyone wh
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Ask HN: Anyone here retire early, how do you like it
15 points by offtop5 6y ago|20 comments
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by offtop5 6y ago
As for SQL, I think I just don't put the time into learn it. At the higher levels, it's definitely it's own programing language with a radically different herritage from the JS/C# I'm used to.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Can't the UK respond by blocking FB ?
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by offtop5 6y ago
Regex, like SQL is a black art I'll never understand. At best I tolerate it. Usually easier to split the string into an array and manipulate it then.
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by offtop5 6y ago
The older I get the more I noticed a need for exclusion. At this point if I get a girls number, if anything is off about her I'll almost immediately delete it. I recognize the wrong person can derail my entire life. Took alot of pain t
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by offtop5 6y ago
I'll admit when I was wrong, let's hope this does lead to some actual change. I do think social media is absolutely cancer but I've sort of accepted it's going to be with us.
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by offtop5 6y ago
I doubt it, much of this is just going to be finger waving. Case and poin the FTC sued the Match Group for fraud, but I can guarantee you nothing's going to come of it. If you could pay a $5 million fine after increasing your valuation
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by offtop5 6y ago
>how social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information; Facebook can definitely figure out your race , and the race of who you've dated. I told this story here be
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by offtop5 6y ago
Another way to look at it , I tend to be very good at math. As a kid I could easily do somewhat complex equations in my head, to the frustration of my teachers. Perhaps Pokemon was training for that.
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by offtop5 6y ago
How I or anyone else feels is irrelevant, they purchased an asset for four billion and already made more than that. Likewise code Masters expect them to milk these franchises dry until you ultimately don't even want to play the games a
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by offtop5 6y ago
Disney has already made back it's 4b and then some. Sure they've diluted the franchise a bit( I know I'll never see a Star Wars movie in the first week again and TROS's strange attempts to overwrite TLJ). But it's
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by offtop5 6y ago
I'm a bit split on boot camps. On one hand if you're already a high income earning person, such the lawyer and you need to pivot it can be an option. But they're targeting high school grads and others who aren't as prepa
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by offtop5 6y ago
Cave Story comes to mind. One dude did all the programming and art. I wouldn't put too much weight on doing it alone though. I've hired various artists and contractors to assist in my game development. I'm also very liberal w
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by offtop5 6y ago
Chrome lives in the causal consumer world. Many of us believe, with some justice, the causalization of computers has been to the diminishment of power users. Therefore chrome bad gets hundreds of upvotes. I guarantee you not everyone read t
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by offtop5 6y ago
I'll actually blame the internet for this. In the 1980s if you wanted to meet someone you had to build a social circle and do things. Even though I don't like clubs, my friends would pull me to them , and occasionally I'd mee
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by offtop5 6y ago
If anything I see computers being more open now. You can buy a Raspberry pi for 30$,and run whatever you want on it. For those in lower income nations this is an absolute game changer. Phones need to sorta be closed, who wants a null pointe
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by offtop5 6y ago
Lost Connections is a fantastic book on this. While it's definitely worth a read, the author's core argument is eroding community structures have led to an explosion in mental illness. He has a very interesting tale of a man in a
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by offtop5 6y ago
Maybe it's gotten fixed in the last year ? Thank you , I'll keep that in mind the next time I build a front end testing stack
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by offtop5 6y ago
Will instantly fail if you need to nav to a different domain at any point in your test . Say you have happysite.com , but your using parentsite.com to authenticate, Cypress will explode instantly. If your test will ever leave your first dom

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