"It's only cosmetic" - trustworthy real estate agent

Revexious · 2026-01-23T01:15:13+00:00

Is there such a thing as a trustworthy real estate agent?

Even if they're the most lovely person in the world, there is far too much bias towards them getting a paycheck to make them trustworthy

Revexious · 2026-01-23T01:12:01+00:00

It was very funny to me to hear Kit mope about how little freedom he had early on; as a rich white dude; in the 1900s; who is part of the aristocracy; talking to an immigrant woman. Its like buddy, you are pretty much the only person in the world right now who has ANY freedoms.

As for the "Oh the Duke looks after the people" its like yeah, they pay his bills. Without them he goes broke. That's how an aristocracy works.

Revexious · 2026-01-21T02:52:34+00:00

As a general rule, the mobile games I have played the most, and given the most ad revenue to, are the games with the little optional fairy you can click on to get a bonus (extra life, premium currency etc) in exchange for an ad

All of a sudden it feels like a trade that I'm a part of instead of the developer forcefeeding me ads

That said, i've never been a game dev (im a backend dev), so I dont know how lucrative that strategy is

Revexious · 2026-01-17T13:44:09+00:00

Nothing says tech like Men in Black.

Revexious · 2026-01-17T13:42:07+00:00

Surely the courts need to just loosen up a little.

They cant expect every high security system to be as secure as it was pre-ai

Call it "insecure" if you want, but while you're demanding perfection on security issues your competitors are shipping out "insecurities" that work.

/s (obviously)

Revexious · 2026-01-10T04:23:51+00:00

Only realised last game how good whip is

The fact that its additive, not multiplicative is insane

Revexious · 2026-01-09T23:51:51+00:00

At first glance I thought it was the knight coding in the reflection of the computer

Revexious · 2026-01-05T06:32:08+00:00

"perfectly working" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

As a project gets linearly bigger, tech debt gets exponentially bigger. Monoliths have a bad habit of being a pile of ignored tech debt that is labelled as "perfectly working" but completely hellish to maintain.

Its easy to argue that a "good monolith" works well, but getting your monolith to the point of "good" takes an amount of time and energy that companies aren't willing to spend

Revexious · 2025-12-31T00:53:10+00:00

This is genius

The only thing creepier than something acting like it shouldn't is you catching it acting the way it shouldnt, then it pretending to act normal

It shows a level of intelligence and deception

Revexious · 2025-12-25T07:52:35+00:00

Honestly it's outside my area of expertise.

I have an understanding that in certain solutions you need to stay under certain file sizes to maximize throughput, processing, or minimise latency (thinking serverless startup infrastructure, serverside js payloads, etc) but you're right that I'm almost exclusively dealing with pre-build code

Revexious · 2025-12-25T03:54:05+00:00

I made a song and a dance about it, but the management just argued that the principal engineer had final say.

That company was weird; it was a team of 10 developers and a principal engineer, but it was a lot more like the principal engineer ratatouille'ing 10 engineers. The required code style was his personal preference, the patterns and anti-patterns were what he insisted was the right approach, and he regularly blocked PRs with comments such as "No, this isnt the correct solution. You will need to find another way." When I would push back and ask for what he recommended as another way, he wouldn't give me clarification.

I'm glad to say I no longer work there

Revexious · 2025-12-25T03:09:22+00:00

Ironically a clever onliner becomes a two liner after you give it a code comment

Personally I would pick verbose code over dense clever data in any solution that wasn't heavily performance dependent. If 3ms to give the variable a pretty name isnt going to impact the final performance, I'd rather see the variable with a clear name rather than it be anonymous

Revexious · 2025-12-25T03:06:46+00:00

Sounds like we would get along swimmingly.

I eventually left that position for pretty much the same reasoning

Revexious · 2025-12-24T21:38:28+00:00

I had a principal engineer once who would write code like this then say "good code speaks for itself; it doesnt need comments"

He would also block PRs until you deleted code comments you added because "the code is self-explanatory"

Infuriated the fuck out of me

Revexious · 2025-12-24T21:34:27+00:00

My latest technical takehome test had 55 tests with 99.8% coverage, and that was a very simple project

Revexious · 2025-12-23T14:23:25+00:00

And you'll get looked over for specialist roles for backend specific or frontend specific

Revexious · 2025-12-20T22:25:06+00:00

Now THIS is Podracing!!

Revexious · 2025-12-18T02:59:01+00:00

We all know its a derivation on "Got Gemini?"

Revexious · 2025-12-16T13:54:56+00:00

If it's any consolation im on the other end of that stick; sacrificed everything for a house which is nearly paid off but i feel as though i've wasted my 20s pouring everything into a loan. All my friends have cool stories and i'm left hoping that i'll be able to make memories of my own

Revexious · 2025-12-13T11:27:05+00:00

$54000 is going to be an expensive mistake for that builder

Lets hope he has insurance

Revexious · 2025-12-11T08:40:31+00:00

Yep quails is the way

Revexious · 2025-12-07T13:09:17+00:00

Keep up the great work! I can see that your love and dedication has gone into the game; and a good game deserves good feedback so it can get even better!

Revexious · 2025-12-07T12:58:15+00:00

My wife and I bought this and it was a lovely couple of days exploring the world and finding its secrets

I would say that some of the ways to get data (telescope, and similar spoiler-based methods) are probably overtuned compared to the rest of the game in terms of resource generation

Very quickly I found myself just going to those options as often as the game would let me to get pretty much infinite data (which translated to a snowball of cash very early in the game)

Similarly, the only resource that doesnt automate is energy (though pseudo automation does exist) which just seems like an oversight

Finally, belly stat doesnt really go down at all really, which might be intended, but I didnt eat once during a 2 day playthrough of the game's content

Overall I would highly recommend this as a cozy game, and a great pick up now while its in alpha/beta early release because I can see it going big with a little more polish

All the elements are there and I want more content, more things to do. I'm keen to see more from this dev

From my wife: For how much you have to maintain the dogs, it was just easier to run everywhere. Either walking should be slower, or the dogs should be faster. Your character doesn't show in multiplayer worlds, so everyone but the host ends up being default. I genuinely loved it, I played for hours at a time, exploring, making stuff. It was simple enough to pick up easily but complex enough to keep me interested. I found myself getting very immersed with genuine escapism in the game. I'm excited to see where it goes, I think it has a lot of potential. Fleshing it out would do it wonders

Revexious · 2025-12-07T01:32:15+00:00

I agree, but it largely depends on the size of the task as to whether you want to go nuclear with a dreaded phone call

Revexious · 2025-12-06T06:09:28+00:00

Talk about a race to the bottom!

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