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Cuntpunch posted:Your points are completely valid and reasonable, but I've been out of the gamedev world for a while. Even in a 'keep the class tree flat as possible' don't you still end up with *some* sort of structured orchestration of the game? Where various systems are orchestrated and things are largely kept away from one another? yes, that sounds pretty bad. i’d probably build something like that as follows: ‘shooting’ is hooked up to a generator which is responsible for creating a new id for the projectile and mapping its dependent properties into relevant collections; sprite, position, velocity, collision bounds, etc. then these systems would run in some sensible order in the main loop: a system responsible for updating position of nodes moving at velocity. a system responsible for testing collisions of projectiles and things they can hit (say, things with health). a system responsible for despawning projectiles that exit predefined world bounds. a system responsible for drawing sprites. then if you want to add fire bullets or w/e you just need to split or replicate the middle system and tag your data so only appropriate data is munged by appropriate systems. having each node be responsible for itself is a very non-performant way of dealing with large-ish sets of elements. your coworker’s approach will probably work fine for the likely 10s of elements they have on screen.  stated completely differently: games have finally gotten back to the idea of batch processing because writ large, the costs of context switching matters a lot. at least if your primary concern is throughput. probably i should read up on job scheduling papers from the 70s and 80s. nothing is new.
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lifg posted:It's weird to read older books on software development, specifically before the agile revolution of 2000, and realize that there was a whole body of knowledge on that was simply tossed out and forgotten. I've been reading stuff by Capers Jones, who did a lot of hard work of analyzing and reporting on large projects, and I'm convinced I can use his insights to help plan the next thing I get put on. It's not surprising given this industry's deep-seated loathing of anything "old". If you want to make big bank, read a few of these old books, invent some buzzwords for the core concepts, and sell these repackaged ideas through books, consulting, conferences, ...
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redleader posted:It's not surprising given this industry's deep-seated loathing of anything "old". Agile Function Points, coming soon to a consultancy near you.
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Jun 16, 2019 21:44
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Yeah it's pretty crazy how completely non-scrum has been memory-holed and how a lot of PMs have never encountered anything else. It really shows up when talking about QA and deployment. I still think we should be making people read McConnell's Rapid Development first before letting them out.
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Jun 16, 2019 22:07
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Every generation of developers and project managers will rediscover things that are spelled out in The Mythical Man Month. It's just tradition at this point.
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ultrafilter posted:Every generation of developers and project managers will rediscover things that are spelled out in The Mythical Man Month. It's just tradition at this point. I’m pretty sure an offhand reference and then need to explain second system syndrome led me to a job offer. As there were some worried looks around the table.
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ultrafilter posted:Every generation of developers and project managers will rediscover things that are spelled out in The Mythical Man Month. It's just tradition at this point. When can we learn the lessons of Peopleware and get something other than an open office? 
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Jun 16, 2019 23:23
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To be fair, it's not like pre-scrum methodologies were any better at delivering projects.
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Clanpot Shake posted:What a doozy of a badwrong opinion. Code reviews are a great tool to improve code quality and team knowledge of the system. I came into my company's IT dept a year or so ago. In trying to drag their small appdev team's SW dev practices into the light, I suggested code reviews, and the use of git/cicd for their projects. You've never seen a bigger deer in the headlights look.
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Jun 17, 2019 00:25
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shrike82 posted:To be fair, it's not like pre-scrum methodologies were any better at delivering projects. Yeah, management likes to pretend coders are fungible tho
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xiw posted:Yeah it's pretty crazy how completely non-scrum has been memory-holed and how a lot of PMs have never encountered anything else. It really shows up when talking about QA and deployment.
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Jun 17, 2019 03:40
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Vulture Culture posted:individual contributor devs shoveling code into production. Everything is fire and dev is making it worse. I like that metaphor.
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Jun 17, 2019 03:51
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shrike82 posted:To be fair, it's not like pre-scrum methodologies were any better at delivering projects. I remember the good old days of pre-agile and pre-continuous delivery where we'd get a new build every month. Half the time, the build wouldn't even install. We'd spend months in meetings about requirements. There was no test automation, and no VMware - all servers were manually deployed. Forget getting working software every two weeks - even the most simple poo poo would six months. It was a project manager's nightmare.
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FlushablPet posted:I came into my company's IT dept a year or so ago. In trying to drag their small appdev team's SW dev practices into the light, I suggested code reviews, and the use of git/cicd for their projects. You've never seen a bigger deer in the headlights look. when I turned on mandatory code review in github at $job-1 there was just about an actual rebellion, and this was mostly ansible playbooks and the like that were used to install and update mission critical poo poo for very high-paying customers. Terrifying. I'm also certain they turned it back off after I left.
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Jun 17, 2019 04:54
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:Everything is fire and dev is making it worse. I like that metaphor. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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Comradephate posted:when I turned on mandatory code review in github at $job-1 there was just about an actual rebellion, and this was mostly ansible playbooks and the like that were used to install and update mission critical poo poo for very high-paying customers. Terrifying. Just "turning something on" rarely yields the desired result though, does it? That's like "turning agile on" or "turning scrum on". There is a good reason "change management" is important if you introduce something new, because otherwise all you manage to do is to antagonise people. I see this a lot with companies buying in self-service BI tools (e.g. Tableau) without trying to get the Excel/SAS/whatever crowd or an IT department used to providing cubes on board. The result is that your fancy, expensive new introduction doesn't get used properly, and that you gave people something to work against, rather than toward. Institutional inertia is a good part of the reason why enterprises move so slowly (alongside risk-management), and that's not a technology problem. That's partially why I asked about code review before, because that clearly isn't a technological problem, but a people problem. The thing with small teams or startups is that you can just hope to establish new practices before they ossify. Creating tomorrow's legacy today, etc.
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Tableau is a good litmus test of an organization's ability to incorporate basis BI into their workflows - it's lightweight enough that an "Excel" org would theoretically be able to get some use out of it without much fuss. Many orgs can't even cross that hurdle.
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Sometimes changing management isn't enough and you need to 
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For the love of christ, people, brush your teeth, floss, and see a dentist regularly. I feel like we've largely moved on from the "doesn't wash anything, smells like cheese" body hygiene phase of developer culture, but too many of us are still capable of killing things with our atrocious breath.
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Jun 19, 2019 17:27
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I'm not familiar with the "brush your teeth" or "see a dentist" dance emotes from Fortnite but I can floss. 
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Jun 19, 2019 17:59
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I ride the bus and the number of people in the morning that smell like sweat strongly suggests an over-emphasis on saving water or something.
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Jun 19, 2019 23:22
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Covering yourself with only the finest expeller-pressed extra virgin olive oil and scraping it off with a mother-of-pearl scraper is the path to enlightened personal hygiene. And for the mouth, oil pulling. (  )
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Che Delilas posted:For the love of christ, people, brush your teeth, floss, and see a dentist regularly. I feel like we've largely moved on from the "doesn't wash anything, smells like cheese" body hygiene phase of developer culture, but too many of us are still capable of killing things with our atrocious breath. My theory is that there's some kind of really personal pheromone component to bad breath. There are people that by all appearances have totally fine hygiene, their teeth even look fine, but up close, their breath is just repulsive to me. I would say that generally speaking, I don't like these people. My suspicion is that people who actually do like them would find their breath inoffensive. I do not plan to ever actually test this theory, but it's worked so far.
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good jovi posted:My theory is that there's some kind of really personal pheromone component to bad breath. There are people that by all appearances have totally fine hygiene, their teeth even look fine, but up close, their breath is just repulsive to me. I would say that generally speaking, I don't like these people. My suspicion is that people who actually do like them would find their breath inoffensive. I do not plan to ever actually test this theory, but it's worked so far. There is actually some science behind this, where people with complementary immune systems will find the scent of someone "compatible" appealing while others will find it off-putting. That said, dental hygene is A Thing and involves way more than just brushing your teeth. Most people don't do a very good job of it, and will often have nasty breath because of it. In the US, it's very fair to put a significant portion of the blame on this on our healthcare system, where a lot of people will avoid hospitals or doctors of all types unless it's an emergency, out of fear of gigantic bills that they cannot afford. Dentists are one of the multitude of ways in which the life expectancy in this country is going down.
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I know what the problem is. At my past three jobs, I’m the only one I’ve ever seen brushing my teeth after morning coffee and/or lunch. Y’all - if you eat and go to an afternoon meeting without brushing, you’re the one with the bad breath. Sorry to break it to you. Keep a toothbrush in your desk drawer.
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Jun 20, 2019 16:32
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Starbucks coffee tastes burnt. Is it any wonder that so many of their consumers have bad coffee breath?
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A surprising amount of people don't brush their tongue. That thing stinks if you don't scrub it. Brush your tongues, people.
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I've never really had to smell my coworkers breath. Ever. Also brushing immediately after eating actually damages your teeth.
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Rubellavator posted:I've never really had to smell my coworkers breath. Ever. just call in
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Jun 21, 2019 00:18
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Work fully remote like a real professional
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I had to open my office windows once to clear out the bad breath of a coworker who came in and asked me a question. Then, right when the smell had gone away, they came back.
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The grossest hygiene thing I've seen with a colleague is a person who, I'm not sure how better to describe this, would sometimes have a coating of white, dried spit around their mouth. Seemed to happen when the person was stressed out so I felt bad about it.
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Working in Development: Oral Backlog Grooming Someone will eventually come up with a way to have employees that most need to take care of their personal hygiene fix it and truly earn the billions they deserve for keeping people from conducting domestic terrorism in the workplace with biological weapons.
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Jun 21, 2019 00:56
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After making my previous post, I encountered a coworker brushing their teeth inside the bathroom stall.
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Jun 21, 2019 01:19
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From one of many places: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1141786872387010561
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Volmarias posted:From one of many places: I need context edit: so this is an application that converts gifs to pngs. fuzzer bug is when you input lots of garbage characters?
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i saw esr and i immediately understood
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quote:In Japan, It's a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home On Time? Slashdot
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downout posted:I need context A fuzzer is a form of testing, generally security testing, which will blast random input until something happens. It's very good at finding uncommon cases, buffer overflows, etc. In this case, he's "solving" a potential exploit by just having the program quit on segfaults (where the program tries to use memory that it doesn't own) instead of taking the next step to understand that a motivated party could instead plant exploit code there which would get blindly run. Anyone using this library could get exploited. He's solving his serious security issues by pretending that they don't happen and actively sticking his head in the sand.
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Why do I even know who that blowhard is? I'm under the impression he wrote some useful piece of software 30 years ago or something?
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