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My impression is that they had created a system where management cared very deeply about "number go up", and very little about "which number?"

> C, C++, and JavaScript are immortal (for now!), with Java a maybe Feels like someone hasn't spent much time in the enterprise. Java is still doing pretty good in that space

> In 2001 Mark Probst implemented tail-call optimization in GCC MSVC didn't add tail-call optimisation until sometime in the 2010s, IIRC. I distinctly remember sending a tail-recur…

> FB at one point had a very badass engineering culture Perpetually kneecapped by one of the worst management cultures I've ever seen

Well, right, but I'm not sure the tech elites actually own much in the way of resources in that sense. Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zea…

Did you also get hold of a billion dollars at some point? For some reason, those of us who work for a living seem less inclined to such psychosis

> Like Zuckerberg‘s shift to VR that looks like he came out of the theater of Ready Player one. They took most of us employees to see Ready Player One in the cinema when it came ou…

> or those with the resources to buy might This feels a bit like those rich survivalists who think they are going to fix bomb-collars to their bodyguards to ensure loyalty in the a…

> I don’t even think most of it is deeply philosophical. Part of the problem is that a lot of it is shallowly philosophical. I used to attend Zuckerberg town halls, and as smart as…

I don’t disagree, and in this case a simple google search would have sufficed, it in the more general case, how?

I refer you to his mea culpa: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours...

It is what he claims happened: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours...

> without having the time, energy, or incentive to dive deeper into things I don't think anyone would disagree that survival comes first. But for those who do have the time/energy/…

A pretty healthy proportion of games also shipped a DX11 renderer alongside their DX12 one, since the addressable audience of DX12 was pretty lousy for a long time

> Stealing an open source repo and launching it as your own app is a brazen move Do you think he stole it directly, or an LLM reproduced it complete with existing bugs?

Indeed. Folks with a trust fund/juicy investment account/etc have always been able to self-fund their solo gamedev career. It’s a whole other process to take a pitch deck to a publ…

I think the answer is always scope creep. You hit it big on a game, your ambition grows, the next game costs an order of magnitude more… eventually you either run out of money, or …

> how can it be that and then inside the article i read > > Last year’s indie darling, the Myst-inspired Blue Prince, was funded by a solo developer’s personal savings and the ad r…

I wonder how much increasing fidelity requirements are the main culprit here? Myst was made by a team of about 7 people (only 4 of them full-time), in just about 2 years, and cost …

> Demand is elastic. If the price of potatoes rises to $1000 / kg most people will switch to using pasta or rice for their dinner instead. There might be a shortage of potatoes at …

Under current administration, I'm not even sure its possible to build out green energy for this sort of thing at scale - this article[1] was on the front page just yesterday [1] ht…

> Opecode’s 60 USD of deepseek usage is charged at much higher rates than what deepseek themselves charge at Per the open code zen pricing page[1], it appears that the token prices…

> Only to to find out they end up in a much worse place Like Europe?

> "saving grace"? For whom? For Anthropic and OpenAI, presumably. And the rather large economic distortion field around them, that may or may not go very badly for all our retireme…