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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by ben_jones on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:06PM (#12427347)
What was it like working with Andrew Gower? He strikes me as a technical genius with some of the stuff Jagex was doing with Java circa early 2000's [1].

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVUegwSKlY

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by carlio on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:01AM (#12428812)
Holy crap, I wrote that forum software. I left in 2007 so I had no idea they kept it but if it wasn't rebooted for years, probably.

The whole ethos of the company, driven by Andrew, was "minimal software for maximum output". I learned a lot about how much you can benefit from concentrating on efficiency up front compared to how much that ends up creating problems down the road.

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by rhaps0dy on Monday September 05, 2016 @03:42AM (#12428740)
I couldn't quite understand the video. Why did they clone Maya and maintain feature parity and use the same formats?
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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by hollander on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:07AM (#12428836)
They didn't clone Maya, but the features it has. Being able to build everything, including all 3D material, in their own environment, made it easy to link everything together. And when something changes, that requires an update to the 3D model, they don't have to go back to Maya to edit the model there.
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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by ufo on Sunday September 04, 2016 @09:06PM (#12427535)
Wasn't expecting the Chuck Norris joke in the end. 2009 was an interesting year.
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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by Cyph0n on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:25PM (#12427408)
Damn, that's impressive. Thanks for linking it.
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