I make games.
I love tea, RPG, software architecture, engine programming and my cats.
Former Rockstar North, Frima Studio, Ubisoft Paris.
Plusieurs membres du PS se scandalisent de l'idée de désobéissance aux règles de l'UE émise par Mélenchon. Pourtant, les socialistes se sont toujours déchirés sur l'Europe, rappelle @CandarGilles. Notre émission sur l'union de la gauche dans l'Histoire :
https://www.arretsurimages.net/emissions/arret-sur-images/nupes-cest-pas-le-programme-le-plus-a-gauche-de-lhistoire
Found out today that there is a free official version of one of my favorite #boardgames : Codenames! It has both the original version and the duet version. Pretty cool.
@ebel It could also be "I like it, and I'm really impressed by the way you married the colors of the background with the clothes of the foreground character" but people are rather negative in their critics (which join your initial comment: it's easier to criticize than praise!).
@ebel @ebel In France we are taught in schools that criticizing something/someone, and finding flaws into what they produce is the proper way to show interest.
When you are shown a drawing and you answer "that's nice", it shows a lack of attention to what you were provided.
For proving you actually cared and analysed it, you need to provide "constructive criticism" which is often something like : "I like it but I think you could improve it by modifying this specific area."
@ebel I'd say that's what being French is about :)
Jokes aside, in French contrary to English we have two words for defining someone emitting critics:
- critique: someone providing constructive criticism (such as movie critic)
- critiqueur: someone that likes blaming, criticizing, and censor others.
I've checked and both terms seems to be translated as "critic" in English although one source was mentioning "fault-finding" as potential translation.
I just noticed "foreach" on npm is controlled by a single maintainer.
I also noticed they let their personal email domain expire, so I bought it before someone else did.
I now control "foreach" on NPM, and the 36826 projects that depend on it.
@textovervideo I know of Mandrake Linux, french GNU/Linux distribution that used to have a Tux dressed as a magician for its logo.
https://www.linux.com/images/stories/41373/fig-2-mandrake.jpg
@ciazkavatar I guess it would help if you create an hashtag introduction and talk a bit more about yourself for giving people more reasons to follow you.
Good luck finding your audience!
note: you can "verify" your website in your profile by following this advice:
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/108245858984927046
@Sellars I loved Moon and Source Code, liked Inception in cinema, but found it disappointing upon rewatching, and got extremely disappointed at Ex_Machina.
Haven't seen Tenet yet. Although my favorite movie from Nolan remains The Prestige.
"What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, really": https://arnaudbrousseau.com/notes/what-every-programmer-should-know-about-memory-really.html
Arnaud's key concepts and takeaways from reading the original and much longer "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" article, which you can find here: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
I really like this article from 2020 on the difference between "REPL-driven" programming languages vs "just programming languages that happen to provide a REPL".
This is basically my complaint about systems like Javascript (Node is *a little more* REPL-friendly than, eg, Python, but you still often get a strong sense that the REPL is a place You Should Not Really Be - for example, if you try to do ES6 imports)
https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/
(it hit Hacker News today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31277149 )
Apple will now allow Blink and Gecko based browsers in iOS after lastest EU ruling.
@davscomur I'll add this book to my reading list. I've been looking for new interesting books to read lately.
@davscomur That experience with translation convinced me that I should try reading books in their original languages when I could. I improved my English level tremendously thanks to that. It's very rare nowadays that I stop reading a book due to the language.
Last time it happened was with Catch-22 but even in French that book was extremely hard to read for me.
I'm a very fast reader and that book kept playing with my expectation of what was coming, forcing me to peruse each sentences.
@davscomur My first encounter with translations issue was as a child.
I read a wonderful translation of David Copperfield from a library.
I enjoyed this book so much that I bought a cheap edition few months later for my personal library.
I got extremely disappointed, thinking that maybe this was the kind of books losing its charm on second reading. I grew suspicious though and compared. I noticed that sentences were very different. Less impactful, less funny, less smart.
That was a true treason!
@davscomur Funnily, I just gave away last week my edition of Notre Dame de Paris to a public book case.
I'm always a little bit doubtful of the interest of reading translated classic French literature though, as most of the time the story is rather dull as the only care the writer put was in the style.
French literature is a good example of Style over Substance. Worst offender in my opinion being Madame Bovary.
This said, Notre-Dame de Paris might be one of the best to select.
@bob My university (and most university I knew) were also publishing by default the content of your local user files on the web.
I still encounter from time to time pages with that pattern: university_name.org/~username/index.html
About regression of the web, I'd say that's mostly the influence of google and the fact that for being relevent you need "proper seo". That system created a hierarchy and basically rendered invisible small websites preventing them from getting their audience.
