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This has been superceded by Scalar ( https://github.com/microsoft/scalar ) and again merged into Microsoft's fork of git ( https://github.com/microsoft/git…

It is generally not super difficult - most professors at universities have Masters and PhD level grad students, and more often than not, faculty are listed on the university websites. Find a local uni…

As someone who perpetually overscopes side projects and ends up biting off more than I can reasonably chew given my free time, I really love this idea. What happens with me is I start a new project, …

Good for you dude, keep sharing - Hacker News content feels like it is predominantly from top-tier CS-degree'd wunderkinds, and for anyone just getting into the industry it feels like an awfully …

Especially in games, the difference between 1ms and 3ms is huge. So perhaps the code doesn't need to be optimal, but ideally it is optimized.

Join Google to change the world as a top tier software engineer, then spend all your time updating protobuf definitions to keep internal tools glued together as Yet Another Widely Used Internal API im…

I use Unreal in my day job and I am very familiar with it, and I found it much more difficult to learn and operate than Unity. Even as an Unreal "expert", for personal projects I still use U…

"Food tasters" seems a little out there, but it's certainly plausible that they're lackeys ordering for higher-ups. Or also probably equally likely, themselves and/or teammat…

Is this effectively v3 of Thunderhead? Good to see the pivot towards using k8s, the 20+ minute propping of a 1-2GB container on vanilla Playfab/THv2 really made it a non starter for our company&…

I was going to comment the same thing, all the Carmack era id software open source code (Quake, Doom) is very nicely structured and quite easy to grok.

I don't know what they do at Shopify, but I have seen teams be successful with using dbt's ( https://getdbt.com ) unit testing methodologies and tooling. It makes it very easy to …

At my former job (large search engine) until a couple of content moderators sued the company for damages related to PTSD, they did virtually nothing to protect their employees. The other management st…

The once ubiquitous UltraEdit text editor for Windows used to have a similar message on its website and still does to this day. I remember it being a little odd back in 1997 or so when I first starte…

Ballmer era Microsoft is a very different beast to Nadella era Microsoft

"Bootstrapped" typically implies self-funding, so most likely no VCs were in the picture.

The games industry is not that big, it is not difficult to get backchannel references on almost anyone who has been in the industry for more than a few years.

It feels like a less comprehensive look at the Japanese concept of "Ikigai", at least the version that has been popularized in the west. The "prestige" and "what the world ne…

I know that you are being sarcastic, but there is an honest answer - most people I have met in the industry who are treated like shit are either: a) Too young or inexperienced or fearful of reprisal t…

Or, alternatively, just don't work for companies that treat their employees like shit. There are plenty of game dev companies where employees are treated well (I work for one of them) but "g…

This is some top tier hacking and reverse engineering, incredible stuff.

I'm in my 40s and haven't experienced that - perhaps you're not looking in the right places

You do know that experience with a particular technology is only a tiny part of the equation here, right? A veteran with 20 years in the industry has seen a LOT more stuff than someone with 10 years …

He is a vestige of a bygone era, his time has passed and he should be given the boot.

People may not like that feature (I sure don't), but I would bet a decent sum that feature didn't drive increases in negative metrics like churn, and increased positive metrics like hours wa…

I am white but with black (and now slightly grey) hair and a beard with tan-ish skin. More pertinent to your implication I assume is that my middle name is of Muslim descent and can pass for being of…

Getting knives past airport security seems not particularly difficult from the experience of my circle and other anecdotal sources. I've had friends and family accidentally get knives through se…

I've worked on content moderation systems for some Really Big Platforms and it is definitely not uncommon to have a list of "super popular" content that is exempt from the automated ban…

Great overview OP, and it's nice to see a kind of "in-between" scenario tested, i.e. not a super fast web request or transformation, rather something more akin to a lightweight batch jo…

I've found that the biggest marketplaces are on the Chinese web, places like taobao have a HUGE number. Also Russian social networks as well.

It won't stop anyone who has the skill to author cheats themselves (i.e. someone with basic reversing and programming experience) but it does do a good job of detecting and banning players who ar…