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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 …

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…

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…

How can vodka help with alcoholism?

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.

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…

Does anyone else find these extremely uncomfortable? The thoughts of what I should say are not hard, but talking to no one is very unpleasant. Is anyone else running into this with…

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 …

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 recre…

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.…

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 …

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…

I see well written comments say one thing and the top reply says “No” and says almost the opposite and it’s as well written as the comment it’s replying too. Does the US have a sta…

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 s…

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 th…

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 …

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…

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 ha…

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, AW…

Ya and we’ve sure done a bang up job of making sure nature doesn’t make any decisions for us.

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…

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 e…

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 …