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New comment by TheFuntastic in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

TheFuntastic — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:08:47 +0000

Careless People (the book) is a great study on how Facebook ran out of growth in western territories (due to market saturation), combined with a callous disregard for the consequences to regular people - led to an ever increasing willingness to deploy political levers in order to keep the hyper growth train running...

New comment by TheFuntastic in "I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year"

TheFuntastic — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:51:55 +0000

This very might well be their one thing already... but the risk of failing your "one thing" is so paralysing because then who are you without that?

In that regard the second part is good advice: "diversifying the portfolio of who you are as a person". It might not help finish the thesis, but will help life feel more whole if they don't.

Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development

TheFuntastic — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:16:37 +0000

Article URL: https://thefuntastic.com/blog/why-rust-is-the-future-game-dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033247

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

Fighting Rust’s Type System – An OOP Programmer Learns about FP

TheFuntastic — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:32:17 +0000

Article URL: https://thefuntastic.com/blog/fighting-rusts-type-system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24856264

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by TheFuntastic in "A Documentary to Celebrate Conway's Game of Life 50th Anniversary on SciAm"

TheFuntastic — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:27:32 +0000

Me: No way I'm watching all 23 mins... 23 mins later, fascinating!

One of the best explanations of Turing completeness in Game of Life I've come across

Building a tide clock with Rust and Raspberry Pi

TheFuntastic — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:21:01 +0000

Article URL: https://thefuntastic.com/blog/rust-tide-clock

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24695997

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A casual dev from 2009 is impressed by modern site building tools

TheFuntastic — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:01:56 +0000

Article URL: https://thefuntastic.com/blog/hello-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373137

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Creatures: The game that used machine learning AI in 1996

TheFuntastic — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:37:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6DzI-krUQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23688005

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by TheFuntastic in "Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous"

TheFuntastic — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:36:45 +0000

As a game developer working in managed languages (aka Unity/C#) this problem is one of my biggest headaches. I was hoping the article would provide divine insight, unfortunately the recommend solution doesn't really solve the problem (as I see it).

Whilst 2n array alloc is better than 3n, both are creating short lived memory objects. Do that in a hot code path and suddenly you've got tremendous garbage pressure your garbage collector is going to choke on.

One can optimise this by calculating results into a cached array, but that creates opportunities for bugs (results of previous caches persisting). I would dearly love to see a solution that allows me to code in a functional style without sacrificing performance.

New comment by TheFuntastic in "Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)"

TheFuntastic — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:31:39 +0000

This reads to me as a failure of imagination. Any mid size game development shop is going to feel this pain - not just giants like Microsoft and Google. I believe the Unity Game Engine has a user base in the millions? Even a subset of that may be small in comparison to the entire developer population but by no means microscopic.

New comment by TheFuntastic in "How to Run Great Product Team Meetings"

TheFuntastic — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:36:06 +0000

This starts off as another "let's bash standups" article, but after I read further down I found myself nodding more and more.

It put into words something I've seen first hand - how blockers are actually unmade decisions. And then gives useful guidance on how facilitate this from a project management point of view.

I've often seen how three people around a white board can make more progress than months of discussion and decision paralysis. Also the article states how standups can be useful towards the end of a product lifecycle when most decisions have already been taken. This was a new way to think about for it me, but I have to agree.

There seems to be lots of pragmatic real world earned wisdom in the article, unfortunately it's hidden behind a clickbait opening.

Cadence – a game of creating music using logic

TheFuntastic — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:48:12 +0000

Article URL: http://madewithmonsterlove.itch.io/cadence-demo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9196028

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Cadence – a music puzzle game that only the technically minded seem to solve.

TheFuntastic — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:07:34 +0000

Article URL: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232627088

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7435253

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TheFuntastic in "JavaScript Scope Context Coloring"

TheFuntastic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:30:58 +0000

Many thanks!

New comment by TheFuntastic in "JavaScript Scope Context Coloring"

TheFuntastic — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 07:57:56 +0000

Can anyone point to which particular crockford talk this was inspired by? I've had the idea for scope highlighting bashing around my head for a while now, would love to know more.