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Factorio should be the interview test ;) Tech’s Ender’s Game.

(factorio fan, but with little time to enjoy it)

I would love to see ~ "Factorio - 524 RPM base, trains only no drones" on a resume

Or heck, even completing either Angels or SpaceEx mods show a serious amount of dedication, "self-starter-ness" and competence in reading documentation. I've put 5000+ hours in and fell off spaceex in the green space science - so much depth.

Honestly yeah, I'm gonna add a link to my 1k SPM walkthrough to my resume. Down downside seems very low and the upside very high.

I think that low downside could be a useful company-screening mechanism. Any company who takes that as a negative would probably be somewhere with a poor engineering culture that I wouldn't want to work at. Could certainly be neutral or an eyeroll at some good places, but I'd guess anyone who counts it against an applicant probably isn't a great place to work.

Been playing Space Exploration mod with some friends for a little over a year on the same map now. Mabye ~300-400 hours into it and just starting to get naquitie feeling solid. Absolutely enormous scale to it

Oh man after I made my first blue space science I knew I had to stop. I have a family and a career and a base back on Navus to worry about. It became clear that success was so vastly out of reach that I wouldn’t be satisfied for months, and my IRL would go far further downhill. Still, I had to try setting up a couple moon bases, and I never got around to building a ship :/

If you could figure out how to hook up Factorio to AWS APIs and get kids to build/maintain your org's infrastructure...

There is psDoom [1] to manage *nix processes in Doom. There is Dockercraft [2] to manage docker containers in Minecraft. Managing AWS in Factorio seems like next logical step!

[1] http://psdoom.sourceforge.net [2] https://github.com/docker/dockercraft

There are docker instances for Factorio, I think I made my own at some point.

But someone should figure out how to simplify the Clustorio installation into a docker-based one. Then everyone could enjoy 60k SPM giga-bases. Even better add auto-scaling to spin up a new EC2 instance when UPS drops below 60 on any node in the cluster.

Here's a Terraform provider for you-

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/efokschaner/factorio...

"Sorry about that brief outage, the biters got closer than I realized and I had to scramble to rebuild the defense system before they overran our Aurora cluster."

>Tech’s Ender’s Game //

Spoilers!?!

Playing Factorio is actually doing some sort of real-world silicon design, or when you I'll the aliens you're really killing aliens... ?

Not read the book, only watched the movie. Probably someone will come and tell me I misunderstood it.

I assumed it was a less subtle reference to the fact that you spend half the game massacring untold numbers of bugs, and the aliens in Ender's Game were referred to as bugs.

There's a company that actually does factorio in interviews, was mentioned on HN

> Tech’s Ender’s Game.

I think the last starfighter would be a more apt analogy

Touché.

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