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One easy way to avoid this problem is to give each feature its own independent space of “dice rolls” by hashing the user ids with feature-specific constants before interpreting them as dice rolls: feature1_enabled = hash(user_id + "-feature1") / HASH_MAX
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing
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I sent a patch to a bigger and more known software company, now defunct. I ended up writing some rude comments in the bug submitting form, after being forced to enter endless data about me, the company that I worked for and a lot of information about how to reproduce the error. Not proud of it, but I understand the GP: you're helping them and they treat you poorly. They included the fix in the next version of the too…
It is quite maddening to have to provide personal information to report a bug. My city stopped allowing anonymous reports of broken traffic lights, so every time I report one (much rarer now that they’ve made it harder) I always give bogus information.
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I sent a patch to a bigger and more known software company, now defunct. I ended up writing some rude comments in the bug submitting form, after being forced to enter endless data about me, the company that I worked for and a lot of information about how to reproduce the error. Not proud of it, but I understand the GP: you're helping them and they treat you poorly. They included the fix in the next version of the too…
It is quite maddening to have to provide personal information to report a bug. My city stopped allowing anonymous reports of broken traffic lights, so every time I report one (much rarer now that they’ve made it harder) I always give bogus information.
Sandra Powers (who finally figured the problem out) and her husband have been writing and running their own MMO for quite a while now. Check out http://projectgorgon.com/ if you’re interested in something handcrafted, quirky, and high quality.
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It is quite maddening to have to provide personal information to report a bug. My city stopped allowing anonymous reports of broken traffic lights, so every time I report one (much rarer now that they’ve made it harder) I always give bogus information.
Wow ... how often do traffic lights break in your city?!
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You stopped playing because they listened to you and fixed the bug for everyone?
Because they lacked decency and intellectual humility to acknowledge his email despite benefiting from it.
Or their internal communication was haphazard and not designed to handle this case. I could totally imagine the bug report getting passed informally through a game of telephone and losing the connection to the external reporter (e.g. at some point the report got paraphrased, so the developer who fixed it doesn't know where the report came from, and the person who received the initial report doesn't know if it had merit or if it was fixed).
Really didn't expect to see AC at the top of HN. Asheron's Call was the first game I worked on and I remember all the times we'd joke with Wi about it and watch monsters beeline for him. It seemed like one of those "Haha sure, player perception" problems and not something that was actually real. IIRC someone did a very cursory look at the code at one point but it never bubbled up as important enough to assign someone…
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