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by pmjordan 19y ago
Agreed. A lot of the techniques mentioned in the article are effectively impossible on consoles, which makes turnaround times even worse. (disclaimer: I haven't worked with all major consoles, so maybe some have decent compiler/debugger pai
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by pmjordan 19y ago
It strikes me as odd that this would be decided by some random immigration official at the border. Surely, you'd chip away at getting an appropriate visa at the US embassy back home? Or are there in fact two possible points of failure?
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by pmjordan 19y ago
+1 for sound advice. A few years back I could start feeling the strain in my wrists. I immediately cut back my computer usage and got myself some ergonomic gear. (specifically: natural keyboard, good mouse) The pain was very light at that s
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by pmjordan 19y ago
I'm hoping that getting a visa is easy compared to getting a successful startup off the ground. :) pg's views on this have been widely documented.
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by pmjordan 19y ago
> Could you elaborate on why you didn't like the gaming industry? Whoa, Pandora's box! :) I'll try not to break any NDAs and still be informative. Apologies if this degenerates into a rant. A lot of this stuff depends on the developer/p
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by pmjordan 19y ago
I love creating stuff, especially through programming. I almost started my own "Web 2.0" site while at university, but my study time eventually took over. Then, no longer funded by my parents, I needed a job. I worked for a games company wh
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by pmjordan 19y ago
I really don't see the point of that article. It doesn't even try to hide its patronising tone. Sounds to me like yet another tirade about how our generation leads such a sheltered life, etc. etc. Yawn.
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by pmjordan 19y ago
That's one of those articles that I agree with 100%. I think one of the best signs to consider when working out if someone writes good code is whether they're even concerned about the quality of their code. If they're constantly worrying wh
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by pmjordan 19y ago
Huh. And I just moved away from the UK recently due to the high cost of living. In any case, I wish you success. Having done my time in the UK game industry, I know how backward and tough it is. ~phil
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by pmjordan 19y ago
I'm a fellow hacker, no economist, but I'd say that now is probably a good time. The state of the economy is going to be irrelevant until you go for the first big investment, at the very least. That's typically quite a bit of time down the
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by pmjordan 19y ago
Wow. So, from what I can tell, his argument that functional languages have no future, is that they're not imperative, inherently object-oriented languages, and that they're not strictly typed. Well, that may be so. So really what's going on
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by pmjordan 19y ago
I'm intrigued that nobody has mentioned UnrealScript in this context. I'm pretty sure they haven't dropped that for UE3, and language-wise that's apparently somewhat like Java. Historically, Unreal games have had most of their logic written