someexgamedev

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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I've heard of places where HR requires you to write a (probably) glowing Glassdoor review during onboarding. Or severance which is conditioned on not writing a negative review. Goodhart's Law at work.
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Oh yeah I also don't agree with OP. Separation of concerns is good. JSX isn't perfect either. This yearly js poll always brings out the fanboys. The amount of "heard of it but would never try it" responses demonstrates t
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Ember uses MVVM
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
As someone who used to make async multiplayer games I think Stadia is a good fit currently for that style of game. Using it for latency-sensitive AAA games seems like a decade or two too early for the tech. Cloud gaming has huge multiplayer
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I would happily pay per show or movie I watch if I knew the people involved got the cash. As long as there's money men in the middle, wringing their hands over how to extract their middleman tax, I'll work to subvert them. Deliver
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I made games in flash for over a decade and miss the ease of dropping an experimental game idea onto the web where everyone could enjoy it. If you had a free weekend, you could release a game to 99% of the internet. JavaScript game libs sim
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I've heard the RTS genre described as three sliders. 1. Amount of control over units 2. Amount of control over a hero 3. Amount of control over building infrastructure By that definition, RTS is still alive and well. It's just tha
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Do Happy Meals constitute gambling then, because they contain one of eight great toys?
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Not sure how they are going to solve the pixel density issue without going to interactive displays, which would be a mistake. Malls trialed interactive maps sometime in the last decade and it was a worse experience. One print map can servic
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
This is how I feel about AGI too, and I also include self-driving cars. I don't think those are just around the corner either. In general I don't think our current approach to AI is all that clever. It brute forces algorithms whic
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
This reminds me of oil companies sharing footage of their employees scrubbing oil off ducks.
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I've experimented with this theory by opting myself out of these vanity metrics using a browser plugin I wrote to hide them. I can say that hiding them has reduced my engagement, which was my goal (the plugin is called Disengaged), but
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
GitHub supports noreply emails from git cli. Configure it so you don't pwn yourself! https://github.blog/2017-04-11-private-emails-now-more-priva...
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Game engines live or die based on how they adapt to the constantly changing landscape. Unity made sense of the mobile landscape first and that led to their ascendancy. With mobile gaming on the decline and a looming new console generation,
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Cable subscriptions are a single subscription that gives you access to everyone's content. Netflix's digital innovation is that they did it at a tenth the price. Now that all the content creators have realized the digital value of
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Is this reset mechanism conceptually flawed? Even with one attempt before invalidating the code, you have a 1:999,999 shot of stealing someone's account by lotto. Not bad odds for an automated process. It's like every account on I
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I recommend cancelling prime for a small window of time and reevaluating, if you can manage. Partly to see how thirsty Amazon is for you to sign back up for prime. You could fill a textbook with the dark patterns. The article mentions one o
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Is this what makes clear plastic card sleeves stick together? I always figured it was static electricity but maybe it's this?
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I wrote a browser extension to collapse HN comments past the first depth and ended up just attaching their css classes and setting the sub-comment count myself. It was the fastest behavior I could find at the time for reasons I've sinc
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
It must be doing something right otherwise why spend the time writing a thousand words about how bad it is? If it were truly bad it would just fade into obscurity
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Often viewers are incentivized to watch the tournament, by being offered exclusive cosmetic items in game or some premium currency for the game. This makes the view counts artificially inflated by people just looking for the handout. But th
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Most of the blogs and content aggregation sites shrivel up and die. A bunch of pay walls go up around the good content ppl would actually pay for. There's less crap on the internet because there's less spying to make the crap prof
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Why hasn't anyone, or pi-hole themselves, made a public DNS that does this? Pass everything not on the blocklist thru to 1.1.1.1. The fact that this requires special hardware, bash commands, etc is severely limiting the audience. The m
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
This will sell to indie gamedev scenesters and they have the perfect designer roster to hit that audience. From a commercial success standpoint, I'm bearish. Common pitfall in comedy is to make jokes for comedians. This scene has a sim
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I set up a WordPress site for a family member a couple years ago and threw wordfence on there just to see what the ecosystem is like. I get near daily alerts of attempted hacks mostly from Eastern Europe. Most common thing is trying to brut
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
I use firefox and am probably affected by this but don't even really notice atm. This doesn't even register on my user trust spectrum when the only other option is the browser that defines surveillance capitalism. I think we'
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by someexgamedev 7y ago
Middleware company is right. Supporting the platform is not worth the trouble. Data shows again and again that Linux gamers will be a fraction of a percent of your customers but generate an outsized amount of support tickets. Most of these