Brianna Wu / John Flynt - DEAGLE NATION STILL LIVES

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So for the last week and a half I haven't had internet and I was afraid for a second that I would miss Wu's grand release of Rev 60. Of course I came to my senses and realized we still got another couple of years before that happened.
 
DangerousAngel said:
Gil seller spam is a big problem on smaller servers in XIV. It wouldn't be unusual for someone to receive a dozen or more tells an hour. So Wu would know where to go to get gil for cash within a few minutes of joining any server that's not on constant lockdown due to max population.
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Any idea what the rate is on 15 mill? I'm curious how much money she burned on this game. Why play an MMORPG if you're going to have people carry you through it so much that you don't even learn how to play it? That seems more like cheating yourself more than anybody else.
 
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Norvic said:
She does have a small column in MacLife, a second rate, tiny circulation monthly magazine. I highly doubt she's "well paid", maybe a couple of hundred bucks a month at most.

Sample column:

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So pretty low effort stuff.
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What is remarkable, yet unsurprising, about this article is that while it's a silly fluff piece of probably of about 1000 words or so, it's still riddled with factual errors. You can absolutely buy, and have always been able buy, so as long as the line has existed, a rMBP with a discrete GPU. This article also seems to discount the fact that the entry level Mac Pro, despite only having 4 cores like the rMBP, is actually using xeon cores. Wu assumes it's simply the number of cores that is important, yet ignores the capabilities of the cores. It's like saying a BMW M3 and a Chevy Malibu are pretty much going to yield the same performance since they both have 6 cylinder engines. The thesis of the article seems to be that, while it's simply not possible to draw a conclusion, the ideal machine for game development is EXACTLY THE MACHINE HE HAS RIGHT NOW. BIG SURPRISE!!!.

On a side note, I've been working for over 16 years professionally in software development, and I have never heard any developer, at all, ever use the term "bake a binary" in my life. Perhaps I'm running with the wrong circles or am not up on all the new lingo though. What the fuck do I know?
 
Eli Whitney said:
On a side note, I've been working for over 16 years professionally in software development, and I have never heard any developer, at all, ever use the term "bake a binary" in my life. Perhaps I'm running with the wrong circles or am not up on all the new lingo though. What the fuck do I know?
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It's a specialist term, so I'm not surprised you never heard of it. It refers to the practice of overheating your Macbook by running a poorly-optimized game on it, to the point where you can bake griddle cakes on it.
 
Eli Whitney said:
On a side note, I've been working for over 16 years professionally in software development, and I have never heard any developer, at all, ever use the term "bake a binary" in my life. Perhaps I'm running with the wrong circles or am not up on all the new lingo though. What the fuck do I know?
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The closest I've heard true and honest developers using the various forms of "bake" in relation to programs and compiling them is discussion of settings and whether they should be/are "baked" into a program or parameterized.

I have never once heard anyone refer to compiling a program as "baking" it though...
 
HarblMcDavid said:
The closest I've heard true and honest developers using the various forms of "bake" in relation to programs and compiling them is discussion of settings and whether they should be/are "baked" into a program or parameterized.

I have never once heard anyone refer to compiling a program as "baking" it though...
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It's just another attempt by Wu to use words that make him sound like a true and honest programmer, when to actual programmers it just makes him sound like a tryhard failure.
 
Eli Whitney said:
On a side note, I've been working for over 16 years professionally in software development, and I have never heard any developer, at all, ever use the term "bake a binary" in my life. Perhaps I'm running with the wrong circles or am not up on all the new lingo though. What the fuck do I know?
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Googling "bake a binary" returns five hits, but only one of them is a site that isn't blocked with a security warning. That piece was written by a guy who uses the phrase "baking a binary" to describe his approach to embedding a binary file "as a const char array in a C/C++ header."

A search for "baking a binary" returns three hits, all to the author mentioned above.

There's no telling where Flynt/Wu picked up the phrase or what he means when when he uses it. (OK, that last part is not quite true. What he means is: "Here's some nonsensical babbling that will help cement my reputation as a software engineer among those who have no idea whatsoever how computers work. It is the I-know-software equivalent of his I-know-history sperging about all the people who died of dysentery on the Boston-to-San-Francisco wagon trains in 1780.)
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Googling "bake a binary" returns five hits, but only one of them is a site that isn't blocked with a security warning. That piece was written by a guy who uses the phrase "baking a binary" to describe his approach to embedding a binary file "as a const char array in a C/C++ header."

A search for "baking a binary" returns three hits, all to the author mentioned above.

There's no telling where Flynt/Wu picked up the phrase or what he means when when he uses it. (OK, that last part is not quite true. What he means is: "Here's some nonsensical babbling that will help cement my reputation as a software engineer among those who have no idea whatsoever how computers work. It is the I-know-software equivalent of his I-know-history sperging about all the people who died of dysentery on the Boston-to-San-Francisco wagon trains in 1780.)
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I'm fairly sure that it was an Oregon Trail reference.

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This one's popular enough that it's universal.
 
Jaimas said:
I'm fairly sure that it was an Oregon Trail reference.

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This one's popular enough that it's universal.
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Screen more often seen by Flynt/Wu:

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I have to admit that I find it very easy to believe that Flynt/Wu's knowledge of the history of the trans-Mississippi West is based entirely on this game and that he has merely forgotten -- an easy mistake, could happen to anyone -- that the Oregon Trail didn't start in Boston, didn't end in San Francisco, and didn't exist in 1780.

EDIT: I see that this site comes armed with software that makes it impossible to correctly describe that part of the United States that lies to the west of the Mississippi River. I laughed.
 
Kosher Dill said:
It's a specialist term, so I'm not surprised you never heard of it. It refers to the practice of overheating your Macbook by running a poorly-optimized game on it, to the point where you can bake griddle cakes on it.
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This.

Back in the day I owned an early 2008 MacBook Pro, as far as I can tell the thing was designed with too weak fans and used its aluminium casing as a heat sink. The thing got nearly hot enough on the outside to burn your fingers, so that might be an explanation.
 
I can't believe rev60 finally came put.
What a fantastic birthday present, Flynt really outd-


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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
An AR-15 is not an assault weapon, you stupid cow.
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What is it then?

Batman VS Tony Danza said:
Or Feminist War Cult just gave it to her. Or she used someone else's screenshot so she can be outraged. I don't know how Final Fantasy is but in the MMOs I used to play players really, really hated people who bought in-game money. MMORPGs always eventually get a fucked up economy because the foundation of that economy is shit that basically appears out of thin air when you kill a mob. Gold farmers hasten the inevitable inflation but they're also unavoidable which is why it's easier to shame people who buy gold online. When a game's inflation gets too high then developers try to create money sinks in an attempt to stabilize things. It never works. The money sinks are often more for bragging rights (like a mount or some rare piece of gear that looks cool but doesn't offer that much) and the gold farmers don't give a fuck about that shit so they just keep at it because demands for gold have just increased even more.

So yeah, the people who buy gold help ruin shit for everybody else. Mainly for casual players who just want to blow off some steam at the end of the day.
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Is there any way to track characters in FF14?

HarblMcDavid said:
The closest I've heard true and honest developers using the various forms of "bake" in relation to programs and compiling them is discussion of settings and whether they should be/are "baked" into a program or parameterized.

I have never once heard anyone refer to compiling a program as "baking" it though...
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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Googling "bake a binary" returns five hits, but only one of them is a site that isn't blocked with a security warning. That piece was written by a guy who uses the phrase "baking a binary" to describe his approach to embedding a binary file "as a const char array in a C/C++ header."

A search for "baking a binary" returns three hits, all to the author mentioned above.

There's no telling where Flynt/Wu picked up the phrase or what he means when when he uses it. (OK, that last part is not quite true. What he means is: "Here's some nonsensical babbling that will help cement my reputation as a software engineer among those who have no idea whatsoever how computers work. It is the I-know-software equivalent of his I-know-history sperging about all the people who died of dysentery on the Boston-to-San-Francisco wagon trains in 1780.)
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Dont Unreal Engine games data usually lie in a folder called "CookedPC?" Maybe this is what she is referring to? Does Unreal community use this lingo?
 
HarblMcDavid said:
The closest I've heard true and honest developers using the various forms of "bake" in relation to programs and compiling them is discussion of settings and whether they should be/are "baked" into a program or parameterized.

I have never once heard anyone refer to compiling a program as "baking" it though...
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Yep, I hear and use the term "baked in" all the time-used to describe a capability or feature being present. e.g. Oh yeah, support for the fibbity-floob is baked right in.

The article is a perfect example of a misuse of terminology commonly used in "Wu's industry". He also used "documenting" where most people would say "commenting", but who am I to nit-pick.
 
DragoonSierra said:
Is there any way to track characters in FF14?
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There must be a way but i dont play FF14, also dont bother trying to talk to Wu in MMORPG he is just going to plain ignore you or the cucks are not going to let you get close to him

I remember a long time ago i posted a pic of his twitter where he was saying the server where he lurk, but considering that he barely play online is a waste to buy the game just to troll him
 
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