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Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by csande17 »

philistine wrote: post #37
mhitza wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite bug family, that somehow to sneak in every time, is how their react frontend (or whatever the store runs) manages to semi-crash and the controller inputs are no longer recognized. I kind of hope at least they'll fix such issues permanently before the steam machine release.

That is the bane of my existence. Steam's UI is so slow to react due to its web roots, that I feel like people must be insane to think that Steam is somehow this great app. It's terrible. I shop on GOG.

Steam was rewritten in React relatively recently. I think most people formed their opinion of Steam back when it was mostly developed in VGUI, the same in-house native UI framework Valve used in games for stuff like the Half-Life 2 title screen and the TF2 server browser.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by stavros »

rezonant wrote: post #52
OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it's gotten more professional. 10+ years ago people were dropping the hard R in pull request reviews, now everyone is acting like LinkedIn-speak and Stars will get them their next job

...What? Is this the Linus Sebastian misconception of what the hard R is?

Yeeeah I'm pretty sure I've never seen a hard R on a PR.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by orlp »

RamRodification wrote: post #30
underdeserver wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are dudes, likely some of them teenagers, playing Street Fighter and Tekken. Who signed up for what?

> Who These dudes and dudettes playing video games > what? Military service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Iran

FWIW I don't agree with the comment chain's source, I read "regular people" as "civilians" and don't think there was any nasty connotation meant.

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by 3form »

komali2 wrote: post #15

Valve fascinates me because the devs there occasionally seem to be simply the best on earth in a given field, but despite that, bizarre bugs will persist for a long time. My favorite was how steam in home streaming from a PC to a steam deck wouldn't work if the steam deck had an Ethernet and wifi connection - one of the connections had to be disabled or the stream would always crash. Maybe they need a few average dev…

The company is very small, and they're doing a lot with what they have. Steam alone is full of arcane features that I keep discovering. There's a lot of backend stuff. They're making games and hardware.

Perhaps some of this is contracted, similar to the Linux compat and drivers, but it's still impressive to me, compared to the orgs like Spotify, order of magnitude larger with barely any features at all. (I understand there's legal, huge backend, and I didn't see many bugs over time, but still)

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by hmry »

sph wrote: post #40
cedws wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub discussions used to be so much higher quality though when the platform was for professionals. Now, I see so many discussions that devolve into practically being reddit/4chan threads. Another reason to leave.

Only on those posted to social media including Hacker News. There is no devolving into memes for niche discussions only interested parties know about. Don’t blame Github for getting spammed whenever an issue reaches the front page.

I wish HN would ban posting links to issue trackers with comment sections, like lobsters has done. Although the spam volume from HN and reddit is pretty small compared to that from youtube reaction video influencers

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by throwaway2037 »

cedws wrote: post #36
jofzar wrote: post #5

I know I'm just preaching to the choir here but my favourite thing about open source/published source libraries/applications is discussions on bug reports/pr's like this. It's just something so heartwarming of multiple people coming together to describe their symptoms, workarounds and theories of what could be causing it.

GitHub discussions used to be so much higher quality though when the platform was for professionals. Now, I see so many discussions that devolve into practically being reddit/4chan threads. Another reason to leave.

    > when the platform was for professionals
When was that?

Re: Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

faidit wrote: post #49
gacgacgac wrote: post #19

My unpopular opinion: Valve is basically a parasite or a landlord. They've been so successful it's hard to imagine a world without them, and they say "you gotta give the parasite its due" and we believe them and comply. It's been kept around because they treat their customers ok, but they absolutely exsanguinate their developers. And their engineering culture is... odd. They hire senior people and then let them all f…

Eh, Steam is kind of like the liberal democratic US empire. It may be evil in a lot of ways but it could actually be a LOT worse. We may actually historically be very lucky to have had a non-shittificationmaxxing games platform for a couple decades, just like we were lowkey lucky that the world was briefly ruled by a somewhat democratic country.. Enjoy both while they last, may not be around long.

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