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vishaalkon Books for Game Developers

Does anyone know if the books in this list cover "gameplay systems"? I am 9 months into my game dev job after 7 years of experience at SaaS, and I looked a lot for examples of how to design something like a buff/debuff system or passives and came up short. Would appreciate some literature in this space because I feel like so many games have them that I don't want to re-invent the wheel each time.

vishaalkon How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time

You nailed my emotional response completely as a satisficer. Any advice on reading with a neutral eye? As a satisficer I dread the convos with my maximizer friends who seem to imply I am worth less since I don’t want to grind all the time. Perhaps that’s a problem with the friends, but I’m not sure how to differentiate.

vishaalkon One way to fight a coronavirus recession: $1k for every American

People lost their jobs and therefore their income, so there was a material loss in demand.

vishaalkon Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees

I think he means you can't (or it's not feasible) to do both an Uber ride AND a Lyft ride at the same time. Unless they magically align, you will be punished for going off itinerary for both.

vishaalkon Linux Toolbox

https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/design-trends-introduction...

Common in art communities and smaller circulations. Just an easy way to bundle things together and circulate them. Making zines are "democratized" now so they're seeing a comeback

vishaalkon How to sleep at night having a cloud service: common architecture do's

Great article Sada :). Hope OneNote is treating you well!

vishaalkon “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research

Your analysis might be sound, but I think your physicist example is off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries#2...

Ctrl+F Albert Einstein.

Many things in history are discovered very close to one another--suggesting that maybe 100 or so average physicists (not sure what this means though, most people who get to that level are extremely intelligent), would probably work out what Einstein did. People have suggested discovery is "inevitable".

"But if you take that guy out of the team, then the other 9 could expend infinite resources and would never get anywhere." This leads me to believe the physicist example is off here.

vishaalkon Cooking as a Service

Nice article, and good data find. I think a point missed at the end about how we can potentially avoid "healthiness" as a premium/luxury option is by setting a base-line, with canteen style food. Here is an HN discussion about "canteen-style dining": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19792674. India also instituted a similar program at their Aganwadis: https://www.akshayapatra.org/anganwadi-feeding. In addition, there was no coverage about the environmental impact of "Cooking-as-a-Service". It could be worse because of having to transport the goods (and keep them warm or cold), including the packaging that may be disposed, or it could be better if the packaging was re-usable (sent back somehow? everyone uses identical swappable packaging?) or it turns out that scheduled deliveries is more optimizable than N houses all driving to the same restaurant.

vishaalkon The Dying Art of Disagreement

Thanks for your salient comment. I also reached the conclusion you did in your second paragraph.

Does this mean that most policy debates boil down to philosophical ones, trying to convince the other person to change their value(s)? First we must agree on a set of values, then we do research to find the best way of living by those values. We must sometimes acknowledge that these facts do not yet exist, and so we can't resolve our disagreement until that research is done.

I suppose if two people have the same value (e.g. immigrants have substantial moral worth), they can still disagree on how best to help them. If the data turns out that immigration makes everyone worse off, are we forced to bar them entry? It seems at odds with my moral compass, which leads to a muddled area of bending facts to appease moral codes. If you're available I would love to pick your thoughts on this.

vishaalkon Ask HN: Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?

Can you speak more about how you've integrated Typescript? As far as I've seen it's not officially supported, so I am wary. I also use Expo

vishaalkon How to Design Programs, Second Edition

Can you explain what you mean by this?

I'm interpreting it like: this book is acting more important than it is, you turned a single page, and then closed the tab because you thought it wasn't worth reading.