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It’s a cool building. I got the privilege of being part of a hackathon that was run out of the building after it was no longer in use. I had a startup making a laser tag style game…

What is probably happening, based on my own experience inside companies doing hiring, is that we generally get flooded with CVs anytime we put up a job listing, and most of them ar…

As a non-German living in Germany, the German insistence on you buying your kitchen in a rental is really really stupid, and serves no purpose. Besides the schemes listed here, whe…

The big advantage of macs when it comes to GPUs isn't their direct speed, its the unified memory model. If I want to buy a GPU that has 64-128GB of addressable memory, it will cost…

As a video game programmer, I can speak to this. For video games, we generally need geometry. Flat planes, things you can collide against, things we can reason about. Gaussian spla…

I'm also from Helsinki, and I lived in Chicago, and I can tell you that Chicago gets MUCH colder than Helsinki does. Chicago regularly gets to -10-20C each winter, for weeks on end…

The industry has those roles now, and I know people in them. They're not wide spread, but they do exist and I do work in games. This is something that has come as the industry has …

Holy shit! I ran into this growing up in California. Would have been early 1990s. I have long been bitter that I had taken algebra in 8th grade, and starting high school in 9th gra…

Also in Germany edibles aren’t legal, so we are stuck with smoking or self baking

Not anymore! These are allowed at least in the UK and in Germany (where I reside) now. It was not the case when I first moved here a few years ago, but read about how they're withi…

I was fluent in 3 languages before school, as is my little brother. Parents from 2 different countries, and moved to America when I was a young child and my brother was born in the…

Helicopters also glide, it’s called auto rotation. Helicopters can also land in much more confined spaces than airplanes, even with an auto rotation. As we helicopter pilots like t…

I also love my XM5s, but yeah, the touchpad is useless and far too sensitive. I kept accidentally touching it whenever I move my hair out of my face to tuck it behind my ears, or o…

I moved to Germany from the US, and broadly speaking (I have my own issues with German policies and politics) I like the system here better. In Germany, outside of being a “public”…

Multiple times in my game development career have implemented or worked with proprietary byte code in a project. I've done it on PCs, embedded devices, consoles, etc. The first gam…

As both a US and EU citizen who lives in the EU, I actually run into issues with this. I book my flight with my US with my US passport, and it's a round trip, so it ends up with th…

That actually happened in real life too. Look up the North Hollywood bank shootout. I remember being at work watching it happen live on TV (I lived in LA at the time, but was not n…

I've been a manager in software development on and off for the last 20 years now, and to echo what many of the more experienced managers here say, interviews at best give you some …

I worked and continue to work in the video game industry, and I started in 1994. In my industry, the norm is not to leave mid project, and so job hopping frequency correlates direc…

As far as I know, it’s based roughly on the Hanford plant. It is in Washington, but very close to Portland, Oregon. The Hanford plant looks very similar to the one from the Simpson…

This won't be the fault of Microsoft if the Infocom stuff is lost, that's the fault of Activision. Source? I was there. I worked at Activision soon after Bobby Kotick took over, an…

As a person who has lived most of their life in the USA, but now lives in Germany, I find the German/EU law about likenesses being a perfectly sane alternative to the US law. If yo…

I second this, as someone who did this 5 years ago and ended up closing at a higher sale price than the realtors even promised in interviews, with a total of... $500 in fees. This …

This happened to me at the start of my career too. I work in video games, and started right at the end of 2d consoles (one of my first projects was a SNES game). My second job was …

I actually have a full queen size cardboard bed that looks similar to this, and they're amazing! I bought it as a temporary bed while I waited for my furniture to arrive during a c…