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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: April 14, 2024, 08:15:15 AM »sniptbh as my domain is exclusively in native applications, I know nearly nothing about that field so I'll just take your word for it.
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: April 09, 2024, 08:32:01 PM »the blind hate for electron apps in this thread is my pet peeve. Hating on electron because it's "bloated" and "uses a lot of memory" is an opinion only profoundly junior engineers who have never shipped anything can have.Because those applications are bloated and do use a lot of memory. All the electron-based apps running on my system right now consume at least 300 MB of memory each.
I don't think that's entirely the fault of the end developers though because Electron itself is the issue, namely every app spinning up its own Chromium instance.
Does a rendering engine and an HTML, CSS, and a JS interpreter/JIT compiler use 300 MB of memory? I highly doubt it. If by chance they do, then I think it's high time to supersede these old standards.
The only thing that ever came close was the web, and it's here to stay and just gets better and better.Idk one of the things keeping me far away from web development is the constant cyclical fad of new frameworks to solve the never-ending issues of web development - largely caused by the shortcomings of Javascript.
although there definitely is a problem with developers (in general, but as a web dev myself i feel entitled to say that it's especially bad in this field) simply not caring about software quality and performance and resource management. a degree of performance issues is caused simply by the use of these higher level languages which hide a lot of it from you, but i would venture to say that most of it is just because devs don't care enough.I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say that if I was working as a web developer in an environment where the only thing that my manager/boss/employer cares about is getting a product to launch as quick as possible (especially with how cutthroat it is now) I probably wouldn't care much about performance either.
I think the only way around this is to change the tools and standards that can perform better in that kind of industry.
If even the best JS interpreters and HTML+CSS renderers are too slow then it's probably an issue with the languages themselves and we should start looking for a new replacement.
Maybe a scripting and a markup language that are quicker to parse and interpret? What about having them be compiled to bytecode and binary formats? Who knows.
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Off Topic / Re: I found myself, also where did everyone go?
« on: March 26, 2024, 01:13:32 AM »where did everyone go?Everyone just moved on. There's only about 2 or 3 people still habitually talk here. It's more like a never-ending high school reunion now than an actual community.
Respectfully, I'm not sure why you are asking this. You were inactive for less than 2 years.
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 10, 2024, 02:26:14 PM »we are talking about software engineering right? "whatever apple does tech companies follow", what's wrong with that? Apple did a lot of good things in software engineering believe it or not. Be precise in what specifically annoys you instead of being vague, saying "Apple bad" doesn't mean anything and reflects some ignorance on the subject.I'm not sure where you are coming from. I never once suggested or implied Apple does not contributing anything to software engineering. It had nothing to do with that at all. You vehemently defending the company when I was directly critiquing every other company speaks a lot more how you view Apple than I do.
Be precise in what specifically annoys you instead of being vague, saying "Apple bad" doesn't mean anything and reflects some ignorance on the subject.I understand that English may not be your first language, so please understand that when I say "no matter how stupid" both does not mean and is far removed from "this company only produces bad software and/or products and I hate it" or however you are interpreting it.
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 02, 2024, 12:59:26 PM »sorry that's not software engineering but typical blind Apple hatredHow did you possibly conflate tech companies blindly following whatever Apple does with "blind Apple hatred?"
if you're unable to recognize the contributions they've made to the industry for the past decades, then perhaps you need to delve deeper into the subjectWhat the hell are you talking about
Apple does release excellent things every year for the development on their own platforms along with their own API kits which sometimes are very innovative and opens up new use cases, apart from 1. the whole App Store situation where they are reckless and we can all agree on that, 2. the fact they remove support of old software (not hardware) a bit too quickly in some cases
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: February 27, 2024, 01:13:18 AM »
For decades whatever Apple does no matter how stupid becomes the next trend other tech companies will mindlessly chase.
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Off Topic / Re: Bushido passed away
« on: January 18, 2024, 06:01:54 AM »
Bushido was an absolute legend in this community.
Rest in peace, Bushido
Rest in peace, Bushido
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Off Topic / Re: You know, at least Blockland never advertised for Home Depot
« on: December 29, 2023, 03:10:04 AM »does it really need an industry though? we still have blockhead researchI think having a small industry is a good enough line to draw, given that nothing on the Internet is sacred enough to not have at least some research of it.
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Off Topic / Re: You know, at least Blockland never advertised for Home Depot
« on: December 28, 2023, 01:35:29 AM »
I've told my friends that Blockland died with most of its dignity as it never developed a small industry of 3D animated research like Roblox and Minecraft where it's just cube primitives smashing against each other.
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General Discussion / Re: old Team Deathmatch saves
« on: December 11, 2023, 11:28:42 PM »
God I loved TDM and CTF servers growing up, they were and still are my favorite gamemode. It's a real damn shame that they died out long ago.
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Off Topic / Re: Personal Text:Yolo, I'm Solo.
« on: November 22, 2023, 03:01:26 AM »
i took a nasty stuff this morning that clogged my toilet. you should've seen it
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Off Topic / Re: what do greek2me/ravencroft's avatars look like?
« on: November 06, 2023, 05:58:14 AM »
Off the top of my head I know that by jumping off the slope of tree bricks, you can rapidly accelerate to a point as long as you keep jumping and holding down W. Your jump height will be low but you'll move pretty quickly for a short while.
When friction begins takes over you will begin to decelerate and your jump height will return to normal. As far as I can this mostly works on flat surfaces, as hitting a wall or falling a few bricks will return your speed and jump height to normal. My guess is this is a quirk with max player velocity where you are trading horizontal speed for vertical speed.
It's pretty fun, sometimes I'll load up Beta City and mindlessly do this.
When friction begins takes over you will begin to decelerate and your jump height will return to normal. As far as I can this mostly works on flat surfaces, as hitting a wall or falling a few bricks will return your speed and jump height to normal. My guess is this is a quirk with max player velocity where you are trading horizontal speed for vertical speed.
It's pretty fun, sometimes I'll load up Beta City and mindlessly do this.
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Off Topic / Re: I keep opening the forum to see if there's anything new and interesting on here
« on: October 29, 2023, 02:44:41 AM »
Same here, I don't have the site bookmarked but it always shows up as the 3rd item in my address bar.
I wish I stuck around more like you did and made some lasting friends here. At some point in my teenage angst I "left" the forum for the good part of 3 or 4 years or something like that, and removed anyone associated with the forum from my Steam friends list. While I did make a lot of friends in high school that I still talk with regularly today, it'd be nice to know someone I've known since I was a kid to reminisce about our time here.
Unrelated, and you may not remember it but I remember sending you a hate PM a long time ago way-back-when your Night Fox account was still fresh. Something along the lines of "furries bad, go back to your old one". Either way, I sincerely apologize for that and I wish you well.
I wish I stuck around more like you did and made some lasting friends here. At some point in my teenage angst I "left" the forum for the good part of 3 or 4 years or something like that, and removed anyone associated with the forum from my Steam friends list. While I did make a lot of friends in high school that I still talk with regularly today, it'd be nice to know someone I've known since I was a kid to reminisce about our time here.
Unrelated, and you may not remember it but I remember sending you a hate PM a long time ago way-back-when your Night Fox account was still fresh. Something along the lines of "furries bad, go back to your old one". Either way, I sincerely apologize for that and I wish you well.
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Off Topic / Re: who are you, Guest?
« on: September 25, 2023, 12:42:52 AM »My guess bots archiving it looking for "groomers". If so they're gonna be surprised when they realize it's 90% tony and the rest is people genuinely watching colorful horses.Probably bots, but it's more than likely they're web crawlers scraping forum posts for training data.
Either that or someone actually likes the thread and doesn't wanna lose it but I kinda doubt anyone would put the effort into it unless they were trying to dunk on someone.