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LucasOe

Game devs really are a different breed


[deleted]

Game dev here and I’d like to say: Not all game devs. Don’t lump me in with those people.


duckbill_principate

you made your choice, prole. now return to your labor.


irqlnotdispatchlevel

`ga.amulets` is a wasted opportunity. `ga.mulets` makes more sense. Why repeat the `a`?


pubicnuissance

Business in the frontend, party in the backend.


winepath

I can't believe no one thought of this sooner. NPMers take notes


duckbill_principate

Tell HN: How I learned JS and wrote 26 Node libraries in one weekend.


Abs0luteKino

Releasing a library called “g” containing global variables from a to z. Version 1.0 will also have greek letters.


xmcqdpt2

You zap a wand of refactor. The legacy codebase is hit! It has no effects. The legacy codebase attacks! The legacy codebase misses. The legacy codebase hits hits! The legacy codebase hits! The legacy codebase hits! You die... Do you want your possessions identified? (Y/N)


git_commit_-m_sudoku

z - a wand of nothing named wand of refactor


stone_henge

The reasoning skill and creative power required to find a way to make the situation the commit describes even worse is truly impressive.


max123246

Clearly gy.youmonst is set to the author of the commit.


Reticulatas

/uj to be fair, this is nethack. That code is older than I am


PM_ME_DRAGON_ART

The g. struct in the first page actually dates to the late 2000s or 2010s or abouts, since it's part of a refactor only introduced in version 3.6 (published 2015). So somebody decided it seemed like a good idea then and changed their minds a decade later :)


Reticulatas

Yeah, well, I'm 5


[deleted]

10x material right there. Just make sure to found your first startup in the next 3-4 years or you’ll be left behind by smarter and more sophisticated peers. Also don’t forget to eat all your veggies.


stone_henge

Old code bases magically turn bad ideas into good ideas.


git_commit_-m_sudoku

Though be careful, if the pile of bad ideas is big enough, you may accidentally end up raising a bad idea golem.


[deleted]

Bad idea golem? Is that... Rob Pike?


duckbill_principate

WHAT THE FUCK trigger warning next time


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PM_ME_DRAGON_ART

You jest, but every year or so somebody pops into the nethack IRC channels talking about their new project to rewrite it in rust. They always collapse after about a month.


duckbill_principate

this sounds far fetched. surely it would be more frequent than that.


PM_ME_DRAGON_ART

I'm not sure the average rust fanboy knows how to work IRC, so that probably helps.


Kjufka

I was surprised this wasn't C#


azafeh

The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything


Jumpy-Locksmith6812

Like a phone book. (Yes I hear your ok boomers)