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by scraft 8y ago
Yes 100%. It is shocking how long it can take to bting up the share dialog and no indication of progress so you can end up clicking again and that click then gets passed to the share dialog when it finally comes up and starts sharing somewh
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by scraft 8y ago
Sometimes I look at the bug database, pick up the next highest priority bug, have zero idea what the problem may be, sometimes there isn't any screenshots and the description is worded so poorly it is hard to make sense of. So I follow
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by scraft 8y ago
I used to go to a business conference every year in SF (I am from the UK). Also, in the summer a few friends and I would regularly take 9/10 days off and rail around Europe, seeing new cities, exploring and having fun. A few years ago,
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A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy(bbc.co.uk)
194 points by scraft 9y ago|87 comments
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by scraft 9y ago
I am from the UK, typically visit the US once or twice per year, have visited every country in the EU and am currently spending 12 months traveling the world (3 months in at the moment, having visited India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, La
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by scraft 9y ago
Just become a professional games developer, then you are forced to use Windows (for example to develop for Xbox One). The nice thing is: you can then say, 100%, Windows is the right tool for the job, and you can ignore the people claiming L
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by scraft 9y ago
I think the real transcendence is when you try out many different programming paradigms (all of which have loads of good reasons to use) and overtime find out the shortcomings of each. Then just pick the right tool for each use case. The ge
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by scraft 9y ago
You ignored what life presented you, And strived to achieve your goal. You took the time to share with us, The universe, big and small. You reminded us what makes a man, Comes from deep inside. With your wicked sense of humour, And your per
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by scraft 9y ago
I have used Phaser to make games using HTML5 + TypeScript. It was my first attempt of doing a browser game and I found it pretty decent to use. https://phaser.io I don't have the final build of the project I made with it pu
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FastPhotoStyle from Nvidia(github.com)
231 points by scraft 9y ago|79 comments
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by scraft 9y ago
Absolutely, 100%, should you optimise for your resources. In a lot of scenarios those resources aren't CPU, HD, memory and bandwidth, instead they are developers time. But certainly if computer hardware becomes more of a bottleneck (co
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by scraft 9y ago
All of the cases where I have seen Excel sheets get "out of control" are not because someone came along and decided to implement a complex system in Excel, far from it. I tend to see small, well suited, sheets being created in Exc
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by scraft 9y ago
I have hit a number of C/C++ compiler bugs in GCC, MS VC, Code Warrior and various in other languages (for example shader compilers). I agree it is the sort of the last thing you blame, but at the same point, sometimes it really is, so
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by scraft 9y ago
1. I got told many years ago, that when you get that crazily bad emails, where it claims to be from some official source, but there are spelling mistakes, the return email address is obviously wrong, grammer is terrible, etc. the sort where
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by scraft 9y ago
The best interview I had (for a lead games programmer position) was a written test, I can't remember the exact details but perhaps 24 pages and 45 minutes to complete it. Before starting I flicked through the entire test to get a feel
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by scraft 9y ago
Whilst this is true for a lot of cases, it doesn't always hold true for companies which consistently release highly profitable games, an example of such company is Travellers Tales in the UK. With their volume sales, the royalties outw
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Unity creates false positive viruses when building Windows from a Mac(linkedin.com)
2 points by scraft 9y ago|0 comments
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by scraft 9y ago
As a somewhat beginner in French (basically no formal education, but completed the English -> French DuoLingo course and daily reader of childrens news in French from 1jour1acu.com) one thing that intrigues me is how much easier it is to
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by scraft 9y ago
I use some of the unsubscribe options when the sender seems reputable, in other cases I am worried to use it, as perhaps they are just sending out emails to get a confirmation that the account is valid so they can then spam it all the more.
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by scraft 9y ago
Hmm, when we made our first female hire (we are a computer games company), she was a graduate and I did point out that everyone else was male. We offered her the job. She accepted it. She mentioned whilst working she wished more girls worke
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by scraft 9y ago
This is a good point I hadn't really considered - for the massive attacks typically there are pretty thorough write ups about exactly what it does, etc. so that maybe reassurances enough.
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by scraft 9y ago
Is anyone else in games development here? If we are looking to run the game at 60 FPS, we have 16.67 ms per frame to do everything required to run the game. Because of this real time requirement, a decent amount of profiling is typically do
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by scraft 9y ago
Interesting, wonder how it handles much more complex setups. I find a big part of taking a design from Photoshop and getting it running on iOS/Android is often more about thinking about what the constraints are, i.e. does an element si
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by scraft 9y ago
Hmm, I'd certainly consider it, most based on not wanting to deal with the consequences of formatting the machine and starting again (installing programs, set up various setting/configuration options, etc.) I can't 100% say I
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by scraft 10y ago
I got 'talked into' moving a chunk of money out of a current account into a combination of investment ISAs and Personal Investment Plans with Scottish Widows. Over 5 years they have increased in value by about 35%, so average 7% p
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by scraft 10y ago
WireShark and OllyDbg are the usual starting places for me, both have tutorials around for them. OllyDbg in particular has guides around for by passing serial numbers, etc.
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by scraft 10y ago
It isn't that I don't appreciate your point about a live VR concert being different, and right now if I simply put on a VR headset and was there (without any other tweaks at all) there would be a limit to how 'cool' it w
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by scraft 10y ago
Big artists, that have gigs where tickets cost the best part of $100 (I'm UK based and I'm converting what we'd pay for big name artists gigs from GBP to USD) are saying they have 10X the demand of people wanting to see them
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by scraft 10y ago
Employees
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by scraft 10y ago
I'm not sure whether you'd count me: I went from 0 to 10 people in about 5 years (hardly massive growth), there was no secret, just a process of being conservative, slowly growing each year, attempting to full utilize all resource

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