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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And 299999999 is divisible by 13⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Never say never. 1/0 = 0
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
And in reality: chatgpt.com/…/66f519a6-1348-8002-96eb-bb61fb25287…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Do you even know what regex is? Your neural network needs more training.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone used a programmable keyboard with "home row mods" like this?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Putting Ctrl in the home row by replacing the useless Caps-Lock is sufficient for me .

Alt is easily reached with the thumbs and shift is already close enough to the home row, with shift-ctrl using both pinkies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway were electric in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your understanding is that in one of the countries with the least difference between rich and poor only the rich can afford cars?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Of course not. But they can, whenever they choose to. Parent comment said they have to grow since they are public, unlike private companies like Reddit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Are you not aware that public companies split the profits too? They do not need to grow to have value for investors.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
No, of course it’s not surprising that they’re not a charity. Sure, the big app stores exploit their near-monopolies with exorbitant fees.

Good for Apple, Valve and Google, but I think it’s better that game dev studios and app developers get money instead. However, devs don’t currently have a real choice but to pay up.

Competition can change that, so we should support technically worse stores like Epic so developers will not have to pay their unreasonably high fees.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I understand why people like and buy from Steam. It gives real value.

However, especially for smaller game studios, I believe I get more value if actual game developers get more money than Steam getting it. Let’s say a studio gets $1m in revenue after years of work. Having $180k more ($120k Epic fee vs $300k Steam fee) to spend on artists and developers for their next games/DLCs is a big difference.

Those $300k is literally 0.003409% of Steam’s revenue (estimated 8.8 billion in 2020). Valve could have an army of over 40,000 developers at a yearly $200k compensation and still be profitable just from selling other people’s games.

So I make a big convenience sacrifice when I buy from Epic. I also don’t like to support Tencent. But unless the dev is selling Steam keys directly from their web site, that’s where they get the most money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Steam is a better product, but you give less money to the developers of the actual game. Unless it has Steam exclusives (e.g. Steam workshop) I would rather buy wherever I give the devs most money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, those are all unreasonably high, which is why they have so many billions of dollars in profit. The cost of running their services is a pittance compared to their revenues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you wrap your head around large established software projects in order to contribute to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Some developers seem to enjoy making their code obscenely difficult to understand, either because it actually makes sense to them that way, or because it makes them feel smarter.

Be wary about this mindset. This type of explanation sets you up for conflicts with existing developers. Several times I’ve seen developers coming into a team and complain about the code, creating conflicts that can last the entire working relationship for no good reason.

Much of the time the people who constantly work with code are already aware of the problems and may not be happy with it, but there’s no time or big benefit in improving working code. Or it’s complicated for good reasons which may not be immediately apparent. (ie. inherent complexity).

Here are a couple of benign reasons which probably will serve you much better.
1. It’s much more difficult and time consuming to make code that is easy to understand. Even in open source, there’s a limited amount of time to spend on any particular thing. This explanation is like a variation of Twain’s “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”, or more abrasively Hanlon’s razor “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ~~stupidity~~ time pressure”.
2. When writing the code, the developer has the entire context of his thought process available. You don’t have that, and that’s also the reason why your own code can make no sense a while later. Also it’s just much harder to read code than to write it.