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New comment by douche in "Defining Environment Language for Video Games"

douche — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:15:57 +0000

Sandboxy games definitely have more replayability. If I look at my steam stats, Medieval Total War 2 is in the lead, followed by Paradox grand strategy games, Mount & Blade, Skyrim, then things like Terraria, Rimworld, Stardew Valley, Prison Architect, Gamedev Tycoon, and so on. I have to go pretty far to hit something with a defined story.

New comment by douche in "Defining Environment Language for Video Games"

douche — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:09:54 +0000

Mass Effect 1, at least, was most fun when you said to hell with the official objectives and just started treating it as a sandbox. I had so much fun using the sniper rifle from as far away as possible, or taking the mako places it really shouldn't have been able to go

New comment by douche in "The iPhone killed my inner nerd"

douche — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:52:53 +0000

Quite possibly we would have been saved the pain of the start screen, "Metro" apps, and maybe Cortana.

New comment by douche in "The iPhone killed my inner nerd"

douche — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:49:39 +0000

Maybe this is changing, but in my generation, gamers are typically more proficient in a lot of the low-level nuts and bolts. Modding was such a big force in pc gaming, and typically the tools to do it were a little sketchy and rough.

I remember hacking around in data files for Civilization II, or poking at python scripts for Mount & Blade, way before I learned any proper programming.

New comment by douche in "How do you cut a monolith in half?"

douche — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:35:59 +0000

Hmm, I submitted this yesterday, but it got lost in the scrum.

It's always interesting to hear real reports from the trenches that aren't essentially ads for technology XYZ. I'm afraid that all too often, we make things more complicated for bad reasons; whether ignorance, chasing the latest trend, or resume-driven-development...

New comment by douche in "Increasing Rust’s Reach"

douche — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:43:02 +0000

Once in a great while, unicorns are found.I

How do you cut a monolith in half?

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:51:27 +0000

Article URL: http://programmingisterrible.com/post/162346490883/how-do-you-cut-a-monolith-in-half#_=_

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14663284

Points: 1

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New comment by douche in "Ask HN: What happened to the ORM?"

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:01:21 +0000

I'm still using Linq-to-SQL in the .net world. For 99% of what I need it to do, it works golden. Once in a while I've got to go in and profile and rewrite a query when somebody that doesn't know what they are doing has introduced an n+1 query, or done something overly "clever" that's resulted in gnarly SQL being generated.

New comment by douche in "Increasing Rust’s Reach"

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:43:33 +0000

Quite likely, the people that are capable of doing that sort of hard technical work are not capable of doing the soft, identity-politics ridden outreach functions, and vice versa.

Bang-up programmers are typically not the ones you want pressing flesh and pushing buzzwords.

New comment by douche in "Increasing Rust’s Reach"

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:37:34 +0000

Maybe there's some magical place where you can actually learn how to program from someone else, but for the rest of us, there's no substitute for solitary hours grinding away actually doing the work.

New comment by douche in "Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices and it was a big mistake"

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:22:02 +0000

In Bavaria, I've seen beer carts going along factory production lines at noon time, handing out a couple lagers with lunch. Didn't seem to affect quality, safety, or output.

New comment by douche in "Taking the pulse of ESPN"

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:58:09 +0000

I can't bring myself to watch espn any more. They've gutted so much of their actually insightful talent, while retaining the hot take artists and trolls. And I don't need to be constantly bombarded with left-wing propaganda and outrage with my sports scores.

In addition, their broadcasts are just not very good. Watching TNT and Espn during the NBA playoffs this year was like night and day.

New comment by douche in "O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store"

douche — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 01:44:11 +0000

That and their daily half-off sales have resulted in me spending far too much money on their books... At least they generally have good editing and a pretty high quality bar, better than I've seen with Packt or Apress.

New comment by douche in "A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle’s $15 minimum wage has bad news"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:12:44 +0000

Granted, I'm a redneck from the back woods, but there are lots of people I know that don't make $15/hour in skilled trades, let alone minimum wage jobs. If you're going to pay minimum wage of $15, then all other wagesshould correspondingly increase

New comment by douche in "Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:48:32 +0000

They made fun of this, I believe, in 21 Jump Street (the remake).

New comment by douche in "Diving into the world of hash tables"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:44:26 +0000

Because it is JavaScript, and there's some kind of unspoken rule about not doing things properly and instead releasing broken things.

New comment by douche in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:19:44 +0000

I would not terribly surprised... I already have an Amazon Chase credit card that gives me significantly more cash back for Amazon purchases.

I don't think Amazon is planning on a standing army or navy yet, however

New comment by douche in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:11:11 +0000

It works for a while, until it crashes down, ala groupon

New comment by douche in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:09:52 +0000

Blockchain is just another square on the enterprise bingo game. You know something has jumped the shark when IBM global services starts pushing it.

New comment by douche in "Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering"

douche — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:07:30 +0000

The British East India Company was able to do this; they issued their own currency at various times. I'm not sure we'll ever see a company with that kind of temporal power again, though.