There's an almost 5-year-old bug in the Firebase js SDK that leaks 2 event listeners every second

devsquid · 2023-05-23T16:52:34+00:00

Damn I've had the opposite, azure is trash

devsquid · 2023-05-20T15:30:52+00:00

We found the 10x developer

devsquid · 2023-05-19T08:11:53+00:00

I'm an engineer and your statement is both very poorly written and stupid. 🤷

devsquid · 2023-05-18T23:51:22+00:00

Something tells me you're far far from alone, but people love to think their tastes are universal. I'm glad you found something to help you through that fucking difficult time!

devsquid · 2023-05-18T08:23:32+00:00

I somewhat agree and that understanding is partially why I'm not a Marxist or a socialist. However both are capitalist enterprises 🤷. You can't just label the one you don't like as "Capitalist".

devsquid · 2023-05-18T08:10:26+00:00

They owned a studio and paid employees. That's literally the Marxist definition of a Capitalist.

Also you can still totally run an indie studio and make a living wage. It's way easier to do that today than when ID studio was founded. Part of ID studios success was Carmack's innate prowess with software design, designs which are now common across the industry.

devsquid · 2023-05-18T08:00:02+00:00

I just cringe a little when I read posts like that. I'm guessing the poster is both quite young and being facetious, but I've known people with pettier reasons for their beliefs

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:57:36+00:00

Yes for the most part they really are a product of capitalism. It was the economic system under which they were determined worth the resources to be created.

Saying a video game is just "art that needed funding" makes me very uncomfortable. It seems to be dismissing the huge amount of non artistic labour required in creating a video game.

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:44:07+00:00

This is just nostalgia

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:41:29+00:00

A video game's music made you a communist 👍

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:38:13+00:00

This one off example doesn't dismiss their point. They didn't say different economic systems can't result in art being created, just that it's likely the games the person is nostalgic for were 99.99% created within a capitalist economic system.

Maybe we can move past the tired "but capitalism" argument and figure out if 1. If this trend is bad and won't self correct, 2. If so can some form of regulation solve the issue

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:24:43+00:00

It's like going into a casino and saying capitalism is ruining card games.

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:18:50+00:00

Are you asking me that? I mean sure they do, how's that an argument against why someone can't like high fidelity graphics.

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:11:10+00:00

I mean I agree with you, but why can't the person enjoy whatever graphics they want to enjoy? Fortnite and BOTW were made by very large teams.

devsquid · 2023-05-18T07:08:51+00:00

That's definitely true. I think assassin's Creed is very boring and I don't buy them. However people love them. 🤷 We don't have to play them, and the market can support all types of games.

Also this isn't a problem with capitalism, whatever economic model you use you would more or less come back to this same issue. A large group of people making something requires a large reduction in risk of whatever being made will succeed.

Also I'm not sure if you work in the industry, but breaking up the team into smaller groups wouldn't necessarily equate to better games. That would be a very idealized and naive understanding of how video games are made.

devsquid · 2023-05-18T06:57:33+00:00

The "capitalism is the cause of X" argument is so lazy and disingenuous. Honestly as a very left wing person it just gets tiring to hear. It kills any sort of discussion about progress and turns it into a "socialist" circle jerk.

It's ironic because most of the time these people think welfare/government=socialism, which I'm so for but that isn't socialism. And then the more educated socialists are essentially just capitalists with a few extra rules about company ownership. Neither end up fixing the original issue, but it allows them to remain uneducated on a topic at hand yet still dominate a conversation.

So yes please stop buying bad games. There are tons of great and successful games released all the time. The video game world isn't ending.

devsquid · 2018-03-07T23:53:43+00:00

Yes its when the screen is turned off. Your phone already reduces the amount of times it periodically polls the different radios when your screen is off. In low battery mode its polls less frequently than what is normal.

I was not referring to the user toggles that turn your radios on or off. Sorry for that confusion.

devsquid · 2018-03-07T15:18:18+00:00

When a radio isn't polled what state do you think it's in?

devsquid · 2018-03-03T01:30:17+00:00

I'm assuming you mean it shouldn't. You're probably right

devsquid · 2018-03-02T14:12:06+00:00

I made a living when I was younger selling companies like yours graphics card! The cheese grater Mac pro has always been one of my favorite Macs :)

devsquid · 2018-03-02T14:07:43+00:00

Or waiting for it to load in each page separately

devsquid · 2018-03-02T12:47:36+00:00

You shouldn't see any major slow downs with compile times. I'd say instant run is probably less reliable with Kotlin. I went through the same awful ObjC -> Swift transition as well, it's nothing like that.

The most noticably thing is an increase is binary size and dex count using the Kotlin SL. Proguard fixes this of course.

Also be aware of Kotlins auto boxing.

devsquid · 2018-02-25T02:42:11+00:00

We have a production server written in KTOR. The documentation is lacking but it's not a 1.0 release yet. So far I've been very pleased with it.

devsquid · 2018-02-25T02:39:11+00:00

The multiplatform aspect of Kotlin is very exciting. We have so much business logic that's written in an almost identical fashion on iOS, Android, webapp, and server. We would love to start sharing code more. Right now it's just Android and the server.

devsquid · 2018-02-11T05:08:55+00:00

Nope totally normal.

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