GameDev @ BGS, Programmer, has-been competitive gamer
Dallas, TX
Joined April 2013
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Truly incredible, both the bug and how accurately and quickly stackexchange was able to diagnose and fix my problem.
I restarted my computer and the mouse cursor was moving with the arrow keys. Windows updated, new accessibility feature accidently enabled maybe? Nope.
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Michael Marcin retweeted
declaring a new term:
A Bach Faucet is a situation where a generative system makes an endless supply of some content at or above the quality of some culturally-valued original, but the endless supply of it makes it no longer rare, and thus less valuable
Started watching basketball playoffs. I wasn't aware shots to the dick were such an integral part of the modern NBA.
In middle school I found out that you could play games on the TI-85 graphing calculator. I couldn't buy a data cable so I would print out programs off ticalc.org on the track feed printer and punch them in by hand while waiting to go home at my family's business.
A friend I worked with would say "Warez is for children and poor people." Certainly was for me, I would not be a game developer without access to those games and programs as a teen.
All things in moderation. Reading a long article is great but would be difficult if it was one long run on sentence. Breaking into paragraphs and sections helps. Especially because usually you are jumping into the middle and it's best not to have to understand everything before.
Michael Marcin retweeted
Q&A and customer service workers should be viewed as a valid career path. It's not just the development fields like design, programming, audio and art that matter. ALL of it matters and all roles are important and should have career growth.
If you need a stable ABI you can make a stable ABI interface wrapper. If you truly have a team with a large code base that needs to migrate to a different language this isn't really an issue.
Michael Marcin retweeted
significant speed ups in some specific cases, but multi-core and GPU acceleration brought back the prospect of integer factor speed ups. With today’s CPU/GPU systems you can be 100x over scalar C++ code, or 10,000x over loops in python, but most apps work ok without the effort.
I've written production code in C, C++, Action Script, Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Python, Lua, Go and more. Worked on embedded, cloud, console, mobile, ngage, smartphone, feature phone, web, and even prototype hardware. Programming language wars are dumb as fuck.
Or someone misconfigured a material and now batching is broken. Or someone took Cinderella's Castle and scaled it down 100x to use as a dollhouse. Or a script has an infinite loop that you only timeslice out of after 10,000 iterations per tick.