MichaelEstes

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by MichaelEstes 10mo ago
That is not a very big studio or very big production, Blender falls over in the pipeline department. It’s a constantly changing API that doesn’t allow for the extensibility needed to get a major project out the door, just the fact that only
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by MichaelEstes 1y ago
I might be in the minority, but I hate type re-definitions, I want types to just tell me how much memory a variable is using and it’s bit interpretation. Every variable already has a name, use that to communicate the data’s representation a
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by MichaelEstes 2y ago
I've been working on language for a little over a year now. There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would take less time than it has, but it's b
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by MichaelEstes 2y ago
How can vodka help with alcoholism?
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
PlayCanvas is a game engine that runs on browsers, but I’m not certain what it’s future will be, it was bought by SnapChat, but SnapChat has shut down running games in app.
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
A long time ago I had a company backchannel someone I actually would have listed as a reference except I knew he was out of country and on vacation. That left a sour taste in mouth and I ended up not going with their offer. So if you’re goi
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Ask HN: Required voice notes for job applications
1 points by MichaelEstes 3y ago|2 comments
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Ideally Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Python, React, Unity, Three.JS, AWS, Maya, C4D, Substance, Photoshop Résumé/CV: estes.es Email: Michael@estes.es Red Fl
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
Depends on the asset, most code or UI tools would probably be a no without a good amount of effort to port, 2D and particle assets you can most likely rip the image files and recreate in another engine with some work. 3D assets usually come
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Unity adding a fee for each time a game is installed(gamesindustry.biz)
8 points by MichaelEstes 3y ago|2 comments
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
If you’re on OSX I haven’t found any program better than Sequel Pro (sometimes referred to as Sequel pancakes). It’s one of a few programs that makes keeping a Mac around worth it.
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
Does anyone know how accurate these are to the raw data a CT scan produces, it looks really clean, has it been touched up any significant amount or is this actually the quality of the machines?
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by MichaelEstes 3y ago
I’ve spent a good amount of time on YC’s cofounder matching service and my biggest problem is not anything that can be fixed by a better platform. Most the “ideas” for products are dystopian, moral-less get-rich-quick schemes that I’d have
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Ask HN: Is how banks work opinionated?
1 points by MichaelEstes 4y ago|0 comments
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
In computer rendering and simulation: They have an Oscar. The Academy Awards has a separate event for scientific and technical awards, I don’t think it’s something you can really strive for, but as far a social proof goes I bet it works rea
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
I’ve mostly used ChatGPT for finding functions in more obscure or densely documented APIs, it shaves some time off when I go “I know Maya must have a python function that can do this” and I can ask CharGPT without having to dig through thei
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
Similar to the rest of the tech industry, game dev is a very wide field, if you want to work on large games I would suggest you figure out where in the pipeline interests you most (technical art, gameplay, tools/engine, networking, aud
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
It’s still odd to me that the sentiment on HN around the iCloud CSAM scanning was very negative, but from what I’ve seen the sentiment around AI tools built on scanning prior works (Dalle, Copilot) seems pretty positive. In my mind they’re
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
One interesting thing I’ve noticed over my career bouncing between the video game industry and general software industry is that every decently sized game studio I’ve worked for has had people in the role of technical artist, these are the
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Preferably Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, C#, Java, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript (Typescript, Node JS, React), Unity, WebGL, Glsl/hlsl, AWS/GCP Résumé/CV: https://drive.goo
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
Ya and we’ve sure done a bang up job of making sure nature doesn’t make any decisions for us.
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by MichaelEstes 4y ago
I’ve had to opposite experience as someone who’s worked extensively with platforms that utilize webviews, when Safari 15 released it broke a lot of WebGL things with their shift to using Metal and all I can say to users that are experiencin
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
Spending time reminding myself that there is no soul, god, afterlife or anything likewise as a reminder that we’re just animals and our consciousness’ need to be anything more is ego getting in the way of being truly empathetic and reverent
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
I ran into this situation earlier this year, minus the horrific personal tragedy, I hope he's in a better condition now, I'm deeply sorry about having to go through that. I called AWS To deactivate my account in May of 2020 becaus
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
That's interesting, because Niantic went from lab to maturity amazingly well, but only after being spun off from Google during the Alphabet restructure.
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
Oops, I missed a word. How do you find consulting work with that little of a time commitment?
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
How do you work for the couple of days? If you don't mind me asking.
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
They make money from selling the better head strap, the Quest 2 elite strap is $50 extra.
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
I use my iPad for my workflow when I’m away from my Cintiq or when I want to work on my couch. Photoshop and Illustrator are basically the same as the desktop versions and Nomad Sculpt has really impressed me. Art is pretty much where the b
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by MichaelEstes 5y ago
I'd imagine most first person games use their occlusion culling as their base for network visibility, but I could be wrong.

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