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Or, you know, language shifts over time

You don't always get to pick your tools. If you're using GitHub, ctrl+F should find what you're looking for.

Jacob Collier is a legit next level musician. He does a lot of overdubbing of himself but he does other styles also. His recordings like Moon River and Flintstones are incredible b…

If you’re in C major, the V chord is G7, which contains a tritone between its 3 and 7, B and F. You can say, what if instead of B being the 3 of the chord and F being the 7, F is t…

I would be more than happy to give up almost everything if it would stop climate change, but unfortunately even if I make all those changes, everybody else will continue driving ca…

Yes, the game industry is incredibly secretive. Any hint of any news from a game studio will make headlines, and studios want to control the marketing narrative, so part of the job…

I found the same video it looks like all those dangers are preventable? Don't do acrobatics at low altitude, don't fly over water, don't start the engine on the ground, don't buzz …

Vaccination greatly reduces transmission.

A C++ pure abstract class is equivalent to a Java interface.

Let's take it one step farther, and have each second be 99.999% of a second from December 20 and June 20, and be 100.001% of a second from June 20 to December 20. Problem solved!

"What about..." There are better solutions.

It's problematic because the article isn't about their ethnicity, and your comment boils down to "hey guys just so you know, they're Jews." Who cares? Unless you're going to tie th…

This was submitted by a user that only submits articles from the same site, almost none of which are really on topic for HN. Flagged.

">>" can be read as "is much greater / larger than"

I totally hear you that this is not a huge inconvenience in practice. Part of me is worried that it becomes more and more of a problem the bigger the project gets. But mostly, it j…

A lot of people are replying saying this isn't a big deal in practice. I believe them but I'll chime in and say this is also a dealbreaker for me. I would love to find a language f…

For a lot of problems performance really isn't the problem. In many, many cases the engineering cost to optimize C++ to get a benefit over Java / C# will be way more expensive than…

It depends on the genre and the specific game. RTSs can do it this way and some fighting games do, although some fighting games use a variation that involves predicting player inpu…

Yes it does! FWIW it doesn't come off as patronizing to me, it has connotations with organic / locally grown / health food.

Learn blueprint scripting. It takes a little getting used to but it's essential to being productive in UE4. Once you get the hang of it it's basically another scripting language. Y…

Money is a social construct. A person can only earn money because as a society we've decided to create the rules and institutions that allow that to happen. Our current free-market…

I have a 14" 1080p Blade at home and another one for work. Overall it's my favorite laptop I've ever owned. I can do game dev, VR dev, and play games on it. It boots up fast. It's …

As a game developer I'm 100% okay with that!