frenchie14

Make sure to check Craigslist for high end office chairs, especially if you're in a highly populated area. I got a Steelcase Leap V2 for $300. I've been using it daily for five years

The best "easy to learn, hard to master" that I know of is PICO-8. You can get up and running with a simple game incredibly fast. The entire IDE/Engine is a single program. You write all code, draw all sprites/maps, compose all music/SFX, and play in one place. You will be surprised with what people who have mastered it can create.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

Hey HN! I've seen game design posts on here from time to time and thought I'd contribute mine! If you have any questions feel free to ask!

There's a lot of options! I use Unity3D. For 2D games, I'd recommend something with a more native web build.

This past weekend I uploaded a small game to Kongregate. It's been played 1000 times in the last 24 hours. I'd say the community is still surprisingly alive! Also, if I had uploaded the same game with zero marketing to mobile, I'd have expected zero downloads.

https://www.kongregate.com/games/Frenchie14/factions

If you haven't already, take a look at Mirror - open source reimplementation of UNET with hundreds of bug fixes and improvements

I would claim that playing Factorio constitutes as doing engineering for fun

> Spotify did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

They should probably ask Shopify to comment instead =P

Sorry, let me clarify: conversations that used to take place over lunch at the table can no longer happen because everyone is off eating different things / at different times. So instead, all of the one-off conversations that I used to have over lunches require dedicated meeting time (outside of the lunch hour). This results in a lot more meetings than we used to have.

My company got acquired by a larger, public company. 80-90% of us are still here after 3 years. Acquiring company was also a technology company, saw that our product filled a gap that they needed, and believed that acquiring a company was worthless if the people left. The worst thing that happened was that after two years they took away our lunches (you think I'm kidding, but all my lunch conversations are now dedicated meetings which is a massive drag on productivity). I speak as an individual contributor, not a VP.

Anyone know how this guide compares to tinyrenderer?

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki/Lesson-0:-getting...

MagicaVoxel is great! Even though the program is not open source, the file format is documented by the creator [0]. For a small game I'm working on I read in the vox files and reconstruct the meshes in-game. I can then create procedurally destructed variations by tweaking the vox data and re-generating the meshes in-game [1]

[0] https://github.com/ephtracy/voxel-model/blob/master/MagicaVo...

[1] https://twitter.com/MaxBize/status/1048717357319745538

I'm assuming the loss of height comes from measuring distances directly between points instead of along the surface of the sphere. Much cheaper, but by design you'll cut through the sphere to connect each point

Since `git status` is my most common command I've got it aliased to just `s`. Every time I use another machine it throws me off when the command doesn't work :)

Overwatch changes the colors of its heatlh bars slightly every match so that aimbots can't lock on it

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/6imjce/todays_pa...

I have a similar setup at work, albeit Ubuntu VM in a Mac OS host (I don't like Mac OS). A lot of these sound like VM issues. For example - the copy to clipboard if you select a string. That's how your VM is "sharing" the clipboard between the VM and the host. Try highlighting a string in the VM and then hitting paste in a text editor in the host and you'll see what I mean.

If that call led to you being fired you would have a good case to sue for damages from lost income.

$50,000, but still quite a ways from consumer level

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-v100-dgx-station-gp...

One thing to keep in mind for this article is that it's for a sales position where contacts are a very valued resource

Citations, please :)

Scenario: you have two offers on hand. One offer is for a full time position. The other is for "let's see how the next one to two months goes and then we'll decide if you still have a job or not." Which do you pick? All things being equal, the first offer carries significantly less risk as an employee and is clearly the better choice. If you're an employer who really wants to hire engineers, why would you give an offer that will automatically filter out a large portion of qualified candidates?

Valid point; I hadn't considered it that way. There's still a large difference in audience between the two but ultimately you're surrendering the information to unknown parties.

That's not even close to the same thing. You're comparing involuntary and unknown sharing of personal data with explicit and self-actioned sharing of that data.

Outside of the tech bubble, simply saying "yes" would be disingenuous. They're not even asking the question in the first place

I've tried to learn UE4 multiple times before and I can never get into it. I've been using Unity for several years and the workflow was much more intuitive to me when I first picked it up. Visual scripting doesn't really work for me and the UE4 C++ scripts feel very cumbersome next to Unity's C# scripting (not just the language, but the amount of work needed to get the desired behavior). It's a shame because the tooling, rendering pipeline, and updates for UE4 are way ahead of Unity and I get envious every time I see these releases.

Does anyone here use UE4 to develop small games? If so, what's your development workflow like for game logic?

Because sales has thousands of variables at play and this is just one. It won't be possible to attribute the degree of the loss of sales to a single variable.

That has to do more with how they package the game than how much they changed. Often times large parts of the game are bundled together so a single small change in one bundle causes you to re-download the whole thing

> Eighty-two per cent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one per cent of the global population

It's worth noting that in order to be in the global top 1% you need an income of $32,000

http://www.globalrichlist.com/#na

I guess the question should be rephrased then as "how much have the current owners of bitcoin collectively exchanged for their coins?" This question also becomes more interesting when you factor in every coin that has been mined but not yet exchanged for money. I believe the GP is correct in guessing that the number will be much smaller than the current market cap of BTC

I'm specifically talking about his statement that "It’s definitely not a drop in the bucket for me" seems disingenuous when he appears to have a large amount of wealth. I'm not disputing that he paid for the fee himself.

It's almost like he's trying to make himself seem more relatable by saying the fee was a bigger deal for him than it actually was. To me, it comes off like he's trying to hide something