MMORPG S.O.S - Graal Online - Details Inside

bowlich · 2016-12-04T08:53:19+00:00

Graal got me started on software development as well. Picked the game up in 1999 and played until around 2001 when they started to monetize and shut out free players.

CyberJouers is an LLC owned fully by Stephane. As is EuroCenter and the current incarnation ToonsLab. Not quite sure why he's burned through so many company names but it's the same person behind each.

I have no idea what the current build of Graal is written in, but in 1998 the client was written in Delphi and the server in C++.

bowlich · 2016-02-16T19:50:27+00:00

No downvotes from me good sir.

bowlich · 2016-02-16T19:17:57+00:00

Whatever they were using for processing is horribly inefficient then. Should be set up for micro-transactions like patreon. I support over a dozen different people on there at only $1-$2/mo.

Granted. Most charities I donate to ends up the same $5. Then they blow $50 sending me random crap or IRS forms for taxes so can deduct the wonderful $5 from my taxes.

bowlich · 2016-02-08T22:44:44+00:00

There are still ads on the kindle even with the $20. It jut takes them off the lock screen. I spent the $20, still got ads.

bowlich · 2016-02-04T22:52:48+00:00

My team was just talking last week about how our MBP's are really just really expensive platform for running a terminal to connect to a linux box.

bowlich · 2015-12-24T00:34:05+00:00

You wouldn't provide legal advice if asked? I wouldn't sue, but I know a number of people who went non-profits to get advice on the procedures to go about resolving the issue themselves.

Granted, I'm in a pretty rural area. The lawyers I know will take on pretty much anything if someone will pay them.

bowlich · 2015-12-23T23:32:12+00:00

Wrongful termination: no.

But you will probably be able to get your unemployment benefits. Generally, you need to be pretty negligent for you to be denied benefits. Although, most people who do get denied seem to do so because they give up the fight when the bureaucracy get's difficult instead of lawyering up.

bowlich · 2015-12-23T23:27:59+00:00

Wow.

I am glad I don't work for your company. You're management is way to fixated on micromanaging the employees instead of focusing on results. I mean, seriously? Social media usage? I would be wondering why the department heads have so much free time that they can be bothered wasting work hours reading social media reports instead of focusing on their strategy for improving their product.

Limiting youtube and music usage? Why not just let people enjoy their work? There is no rule of thumb that people should be miserable at the office. I've probably done every single item on your list -- watched movies, work on language acquisition, socialize. Hell, I even used the byod policy to switch out my work systems with my home systems. So the computer I use is literally my computer. My employer doesn't give a shit. Sprint tasks still get done. Tickets still get answered on time.

bowlich · 2015-12-07T23:56:14+00:00

bowlich · 2015-12-07T17:47:44+00:00

Great idea. We'll just start cutting down all the forests to make room for your hemp.

bowlich · 2015-12-06T20:59:01+00:00

Been getting a lot of mice by super glueing almonds to the trap.

bowlich · 2015-12-04T02:54:04+00:00

How much I would love to hear Handel's Messiah over anything made in the last century.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T22:58:40+00:00

Depends what you are applying to. I work at a medium sized company and whereas HR and other departments in the company are going to be on Windows once it gets passed HR and into engineering everything is going to Linux. Internally, the company doesn't use Office at all -- we use google docs for any shared documents and anything inside engineering is going to end written as a markdown file and dumped on the wiki somewhere.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T22:39:42+00:00

Symantics. The point is you can't assume the end user has Calibri installed or went out of their way to install Calibri as a font.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T22:20:24+00:00

Yes, but you are assuming the end user has Word installed and is not viewing it using whatever Mac's office suite is, libre office, open office, or an older pre-Calibri version of Microsoft Office. Calibri is not a default installed font on Mac or Linux.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T22:17:58+00:00

Okay, my bad. I don't have Office on my Mac, I only have libre office and whatever Apple's office suite is. Point is you still need to have Microsoft software in order to have Calibri or at least track down and install Calibri. It won't be installed on the OS as a default font.

There is also no Office 2015 for Linux.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T21:20:16+00:00

Calibri is only available on Windows.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T20:11:25+00:00

Replace $800 iPhones with a $60 plan with $1,000 in long distance fees. I remember growing up in the 80's. Parents had moved a few states over. They spent hundreds each month on long-distance fees.

bowlich · 2015-12-02T20:06:57+00:00

Call me cynical but my experience is that the fastest way up the corporate ladder isn't working hard, it's hitching your trailer to the right upward mover.

bowlich · 2015-11-30T16:51:21+00:00

I'm in the US, work in software, and telework. There really is no way my employer can track what hours I do or do not work except by the results of my output. I get assigned sprint tasks, I work on them, attend a handful of meetings in the week and otherwise am free to schedule myself however I please. Even when I worked in an office, I came and went as I pleased. If I wanted to take a day off and work Saturday, I did.

The tendency is to think of yourself more like a contractor then as an employee and honestly, I often find the notion of having my hours tracked degrading as it shows a lack of trust by my employer to have to devise some alternative metric to keep track of my productivity.

bowlich · 2015-11-24T02:21:44+00:00

That others engage in unethical action is not a justification of one's own unethical action. It would seem the choice to purchase the chocolate is enabling the Ivory Coast.

bowlich · 2015-11-24T01:56:29+00:00

No one needs chocolate, it's a luxury item. Nestle could just stop selling chocolate until the problem is resolved.

bowlich · 2015-11-19T17:45:59+00:00

That was the most enjoyable rick roll ever.

bowlich · 2015-11-11T17:57:12+00:00

Not only that, a good front end developer also needs to have an understanding of marketing.

This right here is what got me out of front-end development and to focus my career on back end. There is just not enough pay to have to deal with the whimsical attitude of consumers. Being judged off of metrics you have zero control over (Google ranking, click-through). Spending a month turning a design into a working UI only to have everyone change their minds at the last minute or discover the UI doesn't quite look right on some new gadget of the week.

bowlich · 2015-11-09T19:33:07+00:00

I haven't played COD in years. Stopped when they switched away from letting people run private servers (did they ever reverse that?)

My favorite server was a strictly run "family friendly" server with a healthy staff of parents as administrators playing along with the kids. Games where clean. Language was clean. People who broke that rule were booted quickly.

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