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[–] [email protected] 137 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From what i've heard of the game industry, being a gamedev is already survival horror.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I had a friend doing mobile gamedev, making near unheard-of money for their then city of residence, had everything going well for them... except the job was soul-crushing and draining, eventually giving them severe depression.

When I was getting my first dev job, they said I'd be really sorry about doing outsource, and I just thought that out of us two, I'd be the really happy one, even making much less than them.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not really visual anymore innit

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

Spotlight studio

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah so you gotta buy the lumafly lantern before you go in that area

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I never expected a Hollow Knight reference here

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Knew a programmer that was near blind who only used magnifier on maximum zoom with his IDE. One of the best programmers I met, but his screen looked very much like that. Don't know how he did it.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Programming happens in the mind. Whats on the screen is a pale and lifeless polaroid devoid of the moving, complex soul of real code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

That feels like that scene in Amadeus, when Mozart dictates his music to Salieri.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well put, however I find code formatting itself has a shape, texture and smell. How the programmer weaves the patterns of formatting tells a lot about his mind and style.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Agreed; or their mind and style style.

Auto formatting is often too rigid for me and gets in the way of context driving the style.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Albino? There was an albino in my IT and the poor dude would literally be like 4 inches from the screen at all times. I guess that must be pretty close to his experience, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I worked with an albino like that who used a handheld magnifying glass. It actually inspired me to write a magnifier application for windows (which didn’t have one at the time, this was in 2006). That then led me to write little windows apps every day for a month, which got a lot of attention.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

non-AMOLED devices spreading misinfo by enabling dark mode by default on low battery and it's consequences...

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago

TFW when all of your bugs are like cockroaches that run away from the light but hide in the dark where you can’t see them.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

This is a blessing. You won't have to look at the spaghetti the last dev left behind.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

It should play a jump scare sound when you get an exception

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

With a good eye-tracker and some tweaking, this might be usable...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

...and OLED screens the price of LEDs...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I use an LCD monitor so there is no difference in power consumption. I preferred the old view, how do I go back?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Just have to delete the system32 directory. That gets rid of the changed settings the fastest.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

That's a $10.99/month subscription

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This should be considered a war crime

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

laughs in IntelliJ multi cursor mode

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

What…. Why..?!

Is it for double speed ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It does get its uses. Mostly editing similar lines, multiple methods at the same time, etc. Makes you look like a ninja too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

If you have multiple similar lines, you can perform the same editing on them all at once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's the joke? VSCode has multi cursor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

With multiple cursors, we can see more of the dungeon, uh, I mean code.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

The animation that goes with this is pretty slick: https://x.com/Phantom_TheGame/status/1748457358521426375?s=20

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Coincidentally, there are writing (as in fiction, not code) apps just like this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Oh hey, it's modern ed!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

The real horror is when you discover the monster behind all those errors haunting your sleepless nights... Was you all long

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Makes a change from Visual Studio turning white because it has hung yet again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

You have been eaten by a grue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Anti-peeking filter is looking dope! Nobody will be able to look at my screen anymore, me included!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Reminds me of when CodeBullet turned Pacman into a first person horror game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I kinda want this to be real…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's not too far off from how ed works!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone remember when something like this actually happened? Maybe it's the Mandela effect but U sweat at one stage a whole heap of sites were using black/dark mode to save the planet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I use it to save my eyeballs

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