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541.
by zemo 8y ago
cool that this worked out for you but I think you're an outlier here. edit: wait don't you still have to actually buy the game if you use parsec?
542.
by zemo 8y ago
> Fortnite wasn’t designed to be a Second Life-style experience, or even a digital “third place“; it became one organically. I don't even know what to do with this comment. All multiplayers games are designed to be a third place, th
543.
by zemo 8y ago
what if you need two clients to connect to the same process
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by zemo 8y ago
not knowing is half the fun.
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by zemo 8y ago
dunno if they still do it, but this was normal practice at Etsy when I was an engineer there (2013-2015). Every so often (once a quarter maybe?) I had to spend a day answering support tickets. We discovered (and fixed) a lot of bugs that wa
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by zemo 8y ago
yeah I mean, it's impressive how they inked a $25m contract on the same day mostly after hours, and had time for their lawyers to write and negotiate the contract and their press people to put out the PR content for it. Like wow, Impro
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by zemo 8y ago
and oh COME ON with this "we started in a barn" nonsense. The CEO of Improbable comes from a business dynasty: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-4531144/... This isn't some sh
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by zemo 8y ago
Improbable's story doesn't add up. Improbable acted as if Unity changed their terms overnight, but that's not accurate. This is Improbable's original statement: https://improbable.io/company/news&#x2
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by zemo 8y ago
That paper is mentioned in the comments of my first link. I would be surprised if the Go team doesn't know about it. In that thread, as well as here, both you and the other poster haven't actually stated how the paper's strat
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by zemo 8y ago
the fact that you call Rob Pike "Erik Pike" really reads like the complaints of someone who doesn't do their homework and asks questions that have already been answered in many places. Generics is a major tell, too, since the
551.
by zemo 8y ago
the poster suggested Amazon -start a city-. If they're starting a new city, isn't that by definition nowhere?
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by zemo 8y ago
"it"? They're people.
553.
by zemo 8y ago
> It's nice to believe that an Amazon could basically found a new city given their history of labor violations in their warehouses, I don't see any reason to think that Amazon creating a city would be "nice".
554.
by zemo 8y ago
this is insanely tone-deaf. they're moving existing employees there. People don't want to live in the middle of nowhere. People don't want to be moved without their consent to start a new society. This is painfully, ridiculou
555.
by zemo 8y ago
> sharing the advice with people in similar conditions this piece doesn't do that, since it doesn't analyse what the author's conditions are prior to moving to SF. The reader is not armed with any useful means of deciding
556.
by zemo 8y ago
young people, please don't take the advice in this article seriously. > My objective in this post is to convince you that you need to move to SF. There are many ways to have an enjoyable life. Anyone telling you that you have to mak
557.
by zemo 8y ago
A company is not either "good" or "evil"; it's not binary, there's no evil bit in corporate ethos. Some companies are more evil than others, and to pretend everything slots into either "good" or &quot
558.
by zemo 8y ago
If you view your work through a lens of pure abstraction and intellectual curiosity, what's to stop you from working on something that hurts people, just because the problems are interesting?
559.
by zemo 8y ago
of course it's not callous, you're describing purpose as a motivator. Most people in most industries in most societies in most parts of the world are at least partly motivated by purpose. It's the opposite that is callous: to
560.
by zemo 8y ago
Only 7% of private sector laborers are in a union of any kind in the US. That rate has fallen sharply for several decades, and the political apparatus of the United States, especially the Republican party, has been deliberately eradicating
561.
by zemo 8y ago
game industry workers don't have the same bargaining power that people in other industries have. > "Cash Up Front" ... or immediate stock ownership to offset your personal risk so a grant with no vesting schedule? please e
562.
by zemo 8y ago
acknowledging your emotions is not being ruled by them.
563.
by zemo 8y ago
ignoring your emotions and the emotions of others and seeing all of life as an exercise of pure rationalism is not emotional maturity, it's emotional cowardice.
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by zemo 8y ago
it's data that asks to be investigated. There is no reason to query meaningless data. A query that tells you something you didn't know is infinitely more useful than a query that tells you what you already knew, and a dataset that
565.
by zemo 8y ago
like so many things written about software, this ignores everything in the process that isn't a computer program. Future-proofing is a natural consequence of a management style that doesn't clearly set goals and boundaries. Engine
566.
by zemo 8y ago
why would you ever not want to like something? liking something is universally better than disliking something.
567.
by zemo 8y ago
everything is a function if you contrive hard enough.
568.
by zemo 8y ago
the point of Go is to have one language that's the best of both dynamic and static languages. the point of Rust is to be safe and fast. if you're building an infrastructure where you're externalizing the dynamic language runt
569.
by zemo 8y ago
didn't notice this comment until now. This is a somewhat deep rabbit hole, but what I will tell you is that you'll probably have a hard time finding what you want in a chiclet keyboard because there's not much of a market for
570.
by zemo 8y ago
please tell me he has a really loud mechanical keyboard to go with it

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