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razorsuKe
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prosatan
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WombaT
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BulgarianToss
Bulgaria490 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26265 Posts
On July 29 2024 22:19 BulgarianToss wrote: [b]Everyone in programming knows - dates are tricky.[\b] Jokes aside i wonder what happened to their database or who pushed this piece of magical code to store the dates. We are good with season resets only, no need to add new features This was genuinely the biggest source of frustration and mystery to me retraining into that field. Non-IT folks don’t believe me! | ||
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Garrl
Scotland1975 Posts
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iloveav
Poland1481 Posts
We have time travel at home. Time travel at home: | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17267 Posts
![[image loading]](https://content.invisioncic.com/r322239/monthly_02_2019/post-13-0-54168600-1549792735.png) i think the original Blade Runner took place in 2019. I wonder why so many "near future" type universes decided upon 2019? | ||
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b0lt
United States790 Posts
On July 30 2024 12:17 Garrl wrote: 2106. Probably doesn't actually use a 32-bit value to store the date because it's set to June the 2nd, but for some reason the lower bytes got set to 0xFF. Presumably that's actually 0xFFFFFFFF using American date formatting combined with a timezone that's west of UTC-7. | ||
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LUCKY_NOOB
Bulgaria1518 Posts
I like that one of the maps names is Impossible Paradox haha ^_._^ https://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/comments/1cx2jam/the_future_is_now_2106/ | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17267 Posts
On July 29 2024 22:19 BulgarianToss wrote: Everyone in programming knows - dates are tricky. Jokes aside i wonder what happened to their database or who pushed this piece of magical code to store the dates. We are good with season resets only, no need to add new features Everything can be 'tricky'. Any bog standard FOR loop can be tricky. IT personnel propagandize these types of issues to increase their perceived competence while lazing around behind a help desk. Blizzard botched something basic. Amongst software engineers and computer scientists database programming is considered easier than stuff like AI programming, real time programming and actuarial valuation tool programming. That's just off the top of my head. I can prolly name another 50. Again , Blizzard botched something basic. Please, do not let them off the hook by claiming this stuff is difficult. This is another L for the 'Games As A Service' paradigm. Nothing beats local/couch competitive game play. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26265 Posts
On July 31 2024 00:09 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Everything can be 'tricky'. Any bog standard FOR loop can be tricky. IT personnel propagandize these types of issues to increase their perceived competence while lazing around behind a help desk. Blizzard botched something basic. Amongst software engineers and computer scientists database programming is considered easier than stuff like AI programming, real time programming and actuarial valuation tool programming. That's just off the top of my head. I can prolly name another 50. Again , Blizzard botched something basic. Please, do not let them off the hook by claiming this stuff is difficult. This is another L for the 'Games As A Service' paradigm. Nothing beats local/couch competitive game play. Those are all difficult things that people assume are difficult and hey, are difficult. Dates are something people assume are trivial and are occasionally a pain in the arse. Tricky/finnicky, not tremendously difficult no, they’re different things. Nobody is going ‘aw give the intern a break, dates are really hard!’ or whatever. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17267 Posts
There are all kinds of new RTS games coming. I'm sure the makers of these games will benefit from stuff like this. | ||
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Garrl
Scotland1975 Posts
On July 31 2024 00:09 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Everything can be 'tricky'. Any bog standard FOR loop can be tricky. IT personnel propagandize these types of issues to increase their perceived competence while lazing around behind a help desk. Blizzard botched something basic. Amongst software engineers and computer scientists database programming is considered easier than stuff like AI programming, real time programming and actuarial valuation tool programming. That's just off the top of my head. I can prolly name another 50. Again , Blizzard botched something basic. Please, do not let them off the hook by claiming this stuff is difficult. This is another L for the 'Games As A Service' paradigm. Nothing beats local/couch competitive game play. Way too intense for such a minor bug, man. These things crop up all the time, and this would be a very low priority issue for any developer as it doesn't affect gameplay. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17267 Posts
On July 31 2024 01:58 Garrl wrote: Way too intense for such a minor bug, man. These things crop up all the time, and this would be a very low priority issue for any developer as it doesn't affect gameplay. nah, Blizzard markets itself to hundreds of millions of people vying for billions of dollars. they set expectations high with their own marketing efforts. Blizzard is screwing up, a lot. Blizzard deserves credit for being transparent about how little resources are on the game though. | ||
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