galacticpony2

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by galacticpony2 8y ago
Basically, know what does and doesn't allocate heap memory, don't give the GC more work than it can handle and measure on the target hardware . Do it right at the start of development and consider things like object pooling and t
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
It's not about the language, C# is generally fine if you know how to work the GC (which admittedly many people don't). The kind of C++ that is used for game code in UE4 isn't exactly "zero-overhead" either and it al
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
> Why? Unreal Engine has targeted iOS + Android phones for 5+ years now, successfully. (Fortnite, PUBG, Dungeon Defenders, Horn, etc). Dungeon Defenders and Horn are not UE4 titles, UE3 isn't available anymore. PUBG and Fortnite onl
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
> I don't know why people are still using unity instead of UE4 How about not having to use the dumpster fire called C++ for game code? C# is far nicer to use. Also, in Unity code hot-reloads instantly and reliably. > Meanwhile, U
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
> Your commitment to the masculine is probably merely a habit, but you've inadvertently highlighted one of the problems exacerbated by the teachings of the average business school -- self-interest at any cost is acceptable, because
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
So, an article in "The Guardian" laments the immorality of teaching capitalism to future would-be capitalists. Color me shocked! What should we teach them instead? The importance of social responsibility, sustainability, diversity
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
> It's not about easy or hard, the point is that it is under your control. My point, if that hasn't been clear by now, is that your emotions are not under your control. Your physical reactions may or may not be. > If your
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
> Exactly, if you are more prone to sunburn, wear more sunscreen. Same as handling your own feelings. If you could "handle your feelings" as easily as putting on sunscreen, literally every psychotherapist would be out of work.
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by galacticpony2 8y ago
> If you have less tolerance, how is that anyone else's problem? Call me a radical, but people should have a modicum of social responsibility towards each other. > Some people are also more prone to sunburn than others, but we do
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
They haven't dropped any language yet. They're planning to update to a newer version of C# and they will drop the other languages as a part of that update.
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
I'm not sure that's really much of a problem, this guy may have just encountered some self-important pricks (and it's good he found that out early). On the other hand, if the position is about <X> and the applicant has
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
It 100% depends on the company and the hiring process. It probably helps with some of the "cool" places. I would certainly value it as a plus in "general skill level", but that's because I'm cool . It will pro
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
I think this is less true today with all the game engines doing 90% of the hard technical work for you, otherwise I would agree. However, the question isn't whether it can show skill (it definitely can), but whether that results in a p
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> So, if they are successful and call themselves communist they are not really communist. China is still very much communist in every way but economically. I don't mind calling them communist, it's just that if we're talki
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
You're talking mostly about military intervention, mostly before socialists got the chance to even implement their policy. Now, wherever you start, a functioning economic system should be able to lift even a destroyed country up eventu
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> It seems to me that you define socialism as whatever it fails and capitalism as whatever it works. No socialist state that called itself a socialist state has been a success. None. Zero. There are democratic countries that may at some
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> Can you define what you mean by socialist? Apparently, anything that fails eventually is not socialist. Hence, "No True Scotsman". > If you don't consider these countries socialist that's ok, but the danger gover
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
Define "massive Western intervention" first. Socialist policy at one point in history ruled half the world's economy. You'd think at that size, if those policies made any sense, it should be able to do fine even without
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
Socialism has failed 100% of the time. You can't get worse than that. Even if capitalist systems failed to improve the lives of the poor 95% of the time, it would still have a better track record. In reality, the most successful countr
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> As frequently happen, the new elite was incompetent, and get corrupted fast. Consequently, Chomsky criticized them. That doesn't just happen "frequently", it has happened in 100% of socialist countries after the "re
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
If you disregard his halo of authority for a moment, you'll find that most of what he says is usually very laboriously articulated whataboutery. It is "thorough and detailed", but that doesn't make it convincing.
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> You did, in fact, make the original extraordinary claim, which was that there are so few high-IQ women that their scarcity significantly explains the 82/18 gender cap in computer science. I didn't actually claim that, you jus
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> Everybody can flag (just click in the x minutes ago link and you'll see that post as top leveel including a link to flag it). Thanks for pointing that out. My apologies to @dang, then. Having said that, that's a pretty lame f
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
reposting my previously flagged post, in the exact wording: > How in the world is this article supposed to buttress your argument that women are somehow innately unfit for STEM careers? I never made that argument. You're in the same
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
... replying here instead because replying @dang is locked: I'm not asking for a "two wrongs make one right" defense, I'm asking for equal treatment. You flagged my comment even though it was arguably much less of an &
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
Why? I'm not the one making strong claims, why should the burden of proof rest on me ? My "opponent" maintains that any "non-social" causes are "neglible". He doesn't have to explain what exact socia
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
Oh really? How about these statements that I had to "endure": "Before you attempt to reason from basic principals to a defense of the status quo, you should attempt to fully understand those principles." "This is ar
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
I'm not saying they'd need to change their beliefs, I'm just pointing out the irony.
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
> Negligible, based on the statistics. This isn't something that's actually known . > The differences, if they even exist, are minuscule, while the gender disparity is enormous. Small differences can dramatically change out
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by galacticpony2 9y ago
How so? You're evading supporting your argument. You just make claims.

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