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Thanks for checking out my portfolio! I have to admit, it's a bit out of date, but I also don't think that my background in games matters all that much in any specifics. I can talk…

Undoubtedly? Modern video games are pretty good, and there's a lot of them. They're mostly written in mainstream programming environments. I don't see without explanation how the t…

Do you not feel as though that's incredibly anti-social? It's a very zero-sum "I'd prefer if things were better for me in direct proportion to how much worse they'll be for '_other…

A few quick q's, since I'm working on a game with a hand-rolled rollback impl (we have state copying, so we can do some nice tricks): - Is there anywhere we can follow you about th…

I need to emphasise that this is dramatically different. Comparing the first clip of OoT to [1], I see: - Higher framerate - Real-time lighting - Real-time shadows - Higher render …

Most likely, I'm just passing on what's noted in the post. There's likely a lot more nuance to the actual decision-making :)

Specifically, he's not just investing in startups, but investing in ones that have a factor that is either unknown or unknowable. That's a different strategy from YC's "Invest in p…

I believe the new legislation says, if GP were to be punished for not being available for such a call, that'd be illegal and they could launch some sort of action. This seems total…

I believe this is a feature that exists with Copilot in VSC too. I'm also not convinced it's useful. Either the commit message contains surprising information that cannot be derive…

They're in the process of swapping out their Mono fork for a modern Core fork, which I believe they're planning on upstreaming changes to too. A few years ago, someone demonstrated…

Troupo is citing facts, you're citing incentives/habits. While incentives are powerful and those habits have been borne out repeatedly by Apple, one of you has the clearly more doc…

I disagree with Harriet Johnson in at least a few cases, but the entire thrust of that piece and her argument within is "it's insane that people make judgements on my quality of li…

I hear this claimed a lot. They removed it from their motto, but have retained it in their code of conduct, according to Wikipedia[1], and Alphabet has also adopted a similar motto…

I'll note, for the purpose of discussion, that this is put forth as part of an example engineering strategy document. The author does not recommend _the reader_ do this, at least n…

I guess that's the parent's annoyance. It'd be nice to be able to use something like tags or labels for other things than releases, but since they're commit referents, they're pret…

This is something that both interests me and seems difficult to build. I went to a random university in Australia, where there was a decent softdev club-ish thing with some graduat…

I've heard of software shops in Australia that work on this model, too. I'm slightly unsure that it's actually beneficial for companies? Seems like having a bunch of juniors around…

With "something meaningful", I'm using the parent's terminology. If Guzey has written arguments against non-meaningful stuff, I don't think that's evidence for the meaningful stuff…

Not exactly a knockdown argument, but: if he was wrong about "something meaningful", Guzey probably would have added it to his list. More generally, if you make a claim and someone…

If you think there's no value to present money flows, I'd love to take $1MM from you. I'll pay it back later, so there's literally no cost to you, right? Opportunity costs, or any …

Looks like a high quality execution of a product I've seen people hack together previously. Would work well for families and for parties, and lends a physicality to the music we li…

It seems fairly apparent to me that vegetarian != minimally-processed. Definitely a lot of "junk-food vegans" who eat lots of chips and other heavily processed food. Processed also…

Melbourne beats Brisbane for it by a mile, as much as they're otherwise comparable cities.

As an Australian, I wish I could pay less money and get less floorspace. Pretty much the only way to get that tradeoff is student accomodation, and the kitchens there aren't built …

I sometimes like to read or write all-lower. Oftentimes, for me, it signifies a more casual air, so I tend to do it in text chats more often than not. I find the font and size in t…