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Here's Why Microsoft Buying Valve Is A Terrible Idea
  • Someone on the internet hasn't heard it so that must be wrong then!

    Save your saltiness for 9gag, friend. I saw that you specifically wrote that but you also continued using exodus in the first sense, as the one you replied to did. But you just wanted to be snarky to that person I guess.

  • How to conduct a software audit?
  • You can stop reading when you find the answers to the requested questions.

    Eh no not necessarily. This depends on the type of audit and the questions specifically, but should never be a default stance if you want to provide a full report. Moreover, if you are learning to do software audits, it would be beneficial to check everything because experience is key to know what you are looking for

  • Probably the wrong meme format
  • WASM is great and as it becomes more accessible it will likely take over more and more

    OPs meme is just a sign of someone not understanding the softer parts around development. The meme also seems to forget that we tried java in the browser for two decades and it was just... Horrible from all perspectives, in all layers

  • My wife was unimpressed by Vim
  • Not op but yes, I actually do. Dev for about 20 years, and the vast majority showing vim/emacs struggle when presenting. Could be presentation jitters ofc but the answer to:

    You think thousands of developers are handicapping themselves for bragging rights?

    Yes, yes I do. Thousands is not all, but they are definitively in the thousands

  • Well? Tell me!
  • "I like horses". Proceeds and takes one of my horse with one of their horses. I take their horse with my pawn. "Don't fuck with my horsies" I get as a response.

    Two-three turns later (this was 20 years ago, forgive me) I can check them by grabbing the same horse with a bishop.

    "Why dont you like my horsies"? I get as a response

    I proceeded to check mate two turns after that. It was a competition, I proceeded to the semifinals after this. I lost that semifinal due to a skillful check mate including a horse to lock it down. And the person from the previous game leaned over at the end turn saying " that is my backup horse"

    I laughed my ass off and I'm not sure I could get of the check situation but fuck I lost my focus

  • Should I cancel?
  • You are talking about synonyms here, and its highly subjective. The above poster has some good points with the more clear verbs but this whole end of the flow would work just as well as well with a "yes, I'm sure" and "no" instead of cancel

  • This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
  • I find the amount of engineers who have built an "alternative to google on their spare time" truly fascinating. Because if you think that is possible, IMO, you have no idea what Google actually built.

    Its just not a search engine, and also, as a search engine, it stopped being a good model to follow a decade ago.

    Build on the ideas and build something new instead

  • What I want to become Vs What I do
  • I personally think it's a bit of a fallacy to equal structure with less creativity.

    Look at Calatrava https://duckduckgo.com/?q=calatrava&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images

    Further, you can't design something like the Burj Khalifa without creativity

    Maybe the line goes where you are risking peoples life or not, maybe somewhere else. It still makes me sad that you equal programming with chaos. But that is very context driven. The drive for new software, new interfaces, new tech overall naturally breeds less oversight and less structure naturally ofc. But it doesn't have to be that way, nor should it be if you ask me

  • What I want to become Vs What I do
  • Your notion of an engineer is correct in a wide sense

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

    The fact that you feel programming is not that makes me sad. But likely dependent on what software and what you work with. For example, if you build software for NASA or Baxter and dialysis machines and the likes, you'll get fired fast for not being structured. Working for Elon Musk and Twitter... Well...

  • Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )
  • Oh sorry it seemed offensive or negative in any way, I just wanted to clarify that "seems like" i s a vast understatement. Dune 2 predates all of them, and became a template for mechanics and layouts. We've gone a long way since, but dune was the first of the models that we build RTS games as today

  • Why iron sights in video games suck
  • "in this essay" The article you've written is not an essay. It is at its top, an opinion article

    And as Vodulas points out, they generally serve as a game mechanic. Either you are recreating set guns from history or it's lower level gun meant to be a bit crappier.

    What even is this articles point? Iron sights are crappy? Yeah, we know, that's why that was improved upon and they barely exist on IRL guns today

  • How to get feedback on visually-impaired accessibility for web apps?
  • Great to hear you focusing on accessibility! I'm on my phone and can't type everything that should be mentioned but I've found that this article helps many developers I've worked with understand what's expected and how to think

    https://webaim.org/articles/screenreader_testing/

    But overall, yeah, you should be able to test and verify this yourself. User testing is always valuable but they are also users, and are more or less proficient in these programs themselves so feedback can vary a lot.

    If you want users, reaching out to organizations or social media groups that deal with impairment in different ways can probably help you find someone who's willing

  • Why iron sights in video games suck
  • "in this essay" The article you've written is not an essay. It is at its top, an opinion article

    And as Vodulas points out, they generally serve as a game mechanic. Either you are recreating set guns from history or it's lower level gun meant to be a bit crappier.

    What even is this articles point? Iron sights are crappy? Yeah, we know, that's why that was improved upon and they barely exist on IRL guns today

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