mtinkerhess

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by mtinkerhess 3y ago
Or, you know, language shifts over time
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by mtinkerhess 3y ago
You don't always get to pick your tools. If you're using GitHub, ctrl+F should find what you're looking for.
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by mtinkerhess 3y ago
Jacob Collier is a legit next level musician. He does a lot of overdubbing of himself but he does other styles also. His recordings like Moon River and Flintstones are incredible both in terms of arrangement and performance. In a very diffe
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by mtinkerhess 4y ago
If you’re in C major, the V chord is G7, which contains a tritone between its 3 and 7, B and F. You can say, what if instead of B being the 3 of the chord and F being the 7, F is the 3 and B is the 7? Then you discover that the root of this
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by mtinkerhess 4y ago
I would be more than happy to give up almost everything if it would stop climate change, but unfortunately even if I make all those changes, everybody else will continue driving cars, so it seems my personal choices have nothing to do with
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by mtinkerhess 5y ago
Yes, the game industry is incredibly secretive. Any hint of any news from a game studio will make headlines, and studios want to control the marketing narrative, so part of the job is learning to keep those secrets.
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by mtinkerhess 5y ago
I found the same video it looks like all those dangers are preventable? Don't do acrobatics at low altitude, don't fly over water, don't start the engine on the ground, don't buzz trees or other obstacles, don't get
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by mtinkerhess 5y ago
Vaccination greatly reduces transmission.
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by mtinkerhess 5y ago
A C++ pure abstract class is equivalent to a Java interface.
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by mtinkerhess 6y ago
Let's take it one step farther, and have each second be 99.999% of a second from December 20 and June 20, and be 100.001% of a second from June 20 to December 20. Problem solved!
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by mtinkerhess 6y ago
"What about..." There are better solutions.
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by mtinkerhess 7y ago
It's problematic because the article isn't about their ethnicity, and your comment boils down to "hey guys just so you know, they're Jews." Who cares? Unless you're going to tie that back to the story somehow,
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by mtinkerhess 7y ago
This was submitted by a user that only submits articles from the same site, almost none of which are really on topic for HN. Flagged.
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by mtinkerhess 8y ago
">>" can be read as "is much greater / larger than"
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by mtinkerhess 8y ago
I totally hear you that this is not a huge inconvenience in practice. Part of me is worried that it becomes more and more of a problem the bigger the project gets. But mostly, it just seems like a really weird call to make for the language.
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by mtinkerhess 8y ago
A lot of people are replying saying this isn't a big deal in practice. I believe them but I'll chime in and say this is also a dealbreaker for me. I would love to find a language for game / engine development that's as
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by mtinkerhess 8y ago
For a lot of problems performance really isn't the problem. In many, many cases the engineering cost to optimize C++ to get a benefit over Java / C# will be way more expensive than just paying for more servers. Even in game dev wh
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by mtinkerhess 8y ago
It depends on the genre and the specific game. RTSs can do it this way and some fighting games do, although some fighting games use a variation that involves predicting player input and rewinding the game state on misprediction in order to
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by mtinkerhess 8y ago
Yes it does! FWIW it doesn't come off as patronizing to me, it has connotations with organic / locally grown / health food.
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by mtinkerhess 9y ago
Learn blueprint scripting. It takes a little getting used to but it's essential to being productive in UE4. Once you get the hang of it it's basically another scripting language. You can get a long way without writing any C++, and
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by mtinkerhess 9y ago
Money is a social construct. A person can only earn money because as a society we've decided to create the rules and institutions that allow that to happen. Our current free-market system that assumes money should be accumulated freely
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by mtinkerhess 9y ago
I have a 14" 1080p Blade at home and another one for work. Overall it's my favorite laptop I've ever owned. I can do game dev, VR dev, and play games on it. It boots up fast. It's solidly built. The keyboard feels good t
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by mtinkerhess 9y ago
As a game developer I'm 100% okay with that!
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by mtinkerhess 10y ago
A few years ago I wrote a proof-of-concept interpreter for a small stack-oriented prefix-notation language inspired by languages like Python, Lisp, io, and GolfScript, written in Python. I had fun with the project, learned some stuff about
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by mtinkerhess 10y ago
Sure, if you plan to never get sick, have kids, or get laid off. Or if you're not trying to settle in one place.
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by mtinkerhess 10y ago
You have the same as what you have after watching a movie or reading a book.
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by mtinkerhess 10y ago
Michael Abrash gave a great talk later in the presentation about future directions in VR. He talked about retina tracking in the context of foveated rendering, which he said has a higher accuracy requirement than avatar eye direction. He se
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by mtinkerhess 10y ago
I recently quit my job to start my own indie game studio. I came dangerously close to being unable to file the paperwork to prove that I was experiencing a "qualifying life event" that would allow me to sign up for ACA insurance o
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Furthermore, the terrorists want to create division between Muslim and non-Muslim / west and middle east. They know what our knee-jerk reactions will be and are hoping we will follow through on them.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Not in the EU so I'm not sure what the atmosphere there is, but to me that sounds pretty racist. I bet it's an extraordinarily small percentage of Muslim immigrants who are violently inclined.

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