smadurange

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by smadurange 7y ago
My concern about this state of affairs in software engineering is that it may be producing generations of engineers who couldn't actually build/conceive things better (eg. Building a rendering engine or a mobile OS) if they wanted
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by smadurange 7y ago
Same here. Unless all parties use the same encrypted email service, this made no sense to me actually.
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by smadurange 7y ago
I think one should write the code that's most suitable for a specific scenario. Senior vs junior has nothing to do with this (at least not in a categorical way). I have met many who call themselves seniors who really just aren't a
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by smadurange 7y ago
I can't see how these accidents point to cheap incompetent labour unless you are saying that the product managers, chief engineers, principal engineers are being outsourced. Are you saying that a plane that tends to tilt up dangerously
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by smadurange 7y ago
"We just lined up electeons" :)
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by smadurange 7y ago
Inspiring! Looks awesome. Hope this will go on to become a huge success. All the best!
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by smadurange 7y ago
Didn't you guys get fined for reporting bs recently? I'm gonna just give it a few more weeks before taking this seriously :p
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by smadurange 7y ago
Well, it's not like the professional journalists don't lie at all for profit and self-preservation. Lol. Facebook does a lot of disageeable things but making everyone a journalist isn't one of them. This just decentralised jo
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by smadurange 7y ago
That's an excellent point!
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by smadurange 7y ago
I studied that book for my literature course in high school. That book is a joke. It tried to imitate the story of the buddha but twisted it to fit a western narrative. Author did himself a great disservice writing it. Would have been bette
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by smadurange 7y ago
The issue I had with the original article is the way it starts by shedding what the author considers as myths. As I mentioned, to understand Buddha's story, it should be done in the context of the most important teachings of Buddhism w
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by smadurange 7y ago
Wasn't beating about the bush. I just forgot her name. Either way, her name wasn't important enough for me to look it up. The point was, someone who has no credentials about gender equality, video games or psychology were raising
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by smadurange 7y ago
There's a whole lot of people who have studied fields that are irrelevant to today's industry needs and have ended up with no real marketable skill. Various forms of activist movements have money in it. Modern developed societies
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by smadurange 7y ago
I use Duck Duck Go and I actually find it better than Google Search (better in the sense that there's something refreshing about the results I get as opposed to the stuff I see on Google Search, I can't comment on accuracy). I nev
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by smadurange 7y ago
Or you are just so bogged down in history that you have a difficulty changing your opinion. Few decades is a long time in our line of work. Microsoft didn't change out of charity or ethics. They were forced by the direction industry wa
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by smadurange 7y ago
Loved that story about the video decoder. Simply brilliant :) All the best!
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by smadurange 7y ago
Not really sure if Google is the right gatekeeper for this kind of thing. Google as a company has often take clear political stances.
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by smadurange 7y ago
That's a very good observation. I think it's true that having the free option changes the context very much. There are people who pay for paid password managers when free alternative products available. I myself pay for a number o
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by smadurange 7y ago
Nowadays if a site does this I simply don't visit it. If it's a really important site (which often does support FF anyway), I just use Edge. Chrome is now like an absolute last resort.
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by smadurange 7y ago
I don't think the comparison with literature makes sense. API is what defines a software. For instance, if someone copies Microsoft suite full public interface (including the UI which is part of the interface it would be a problem even
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by smadurange 7y ago
I was about to set up my own domain with a paid email account too. My reason was privacy. But then I was wondering even if I have my own encrypted email service, does it defeat the purpose if the sender is using Gmail? Since Google would st
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by smadurange 7y ago
Recently I switched from Chrome and Google search to Firefox with Duck Duck Go and found it refreshing actually.
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by smadurange 7y ago
That's so nicely put.
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by smadurange 7y ago
I agree. Possibly to just give a bit more weight to what they say. So far, I've mostly seen this with Google employees here. Can't remember seeing anyone else mentioning this except when promoting a product. 1. Regarding policy, I
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by smadurange 7y ago
I agree with the part that it's very good if a new developer gets to work with an amazing team. Thus us probably not mutually exclusive with earning potential either. Best people do tend to end up in places where they get paid well. Ob
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by smadurange 7y ago
Her speech didn't seem genuine to me at all. It looked rehearse and the content was banal. We need to work on climate change and we need to be more mindful about the environment. But this is like someone said down below, "emotiona
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by smadurange 7y ago
One practical way gamers can respond to this is to avoid preorders. That might work.
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by smadurange 7y ago
I think the points you listed are very understandable from an engineering point of view. On the other hand, there were also games that just looked like downright lying in E3. Not sure if thats acceptable specially when we are talking about
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by smadurange 7y ago
The Last Of Us series with the up coming 2nd installment, Unchartered among others are just amazing. There are amazing exclusives for XBox too. Way to go brother.
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by smadurange 7y ago
Those access modifiers are there for a reason and they work very well in not just C++ in many other object oriented languages like C# and Java. So, using Python to justify that style of coding is a far cry from anything that is reasonable.

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