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Re:Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?
on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @02:51AM (#29238001)
The Factorio Friday Facts blog often contains some excellent deep dives into difficult problems solved during development.
One of my favorite posts is on an update to their pathing algorithm for biters: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317
Re:Welcome to the Decade of Concern
on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:32PM (#26665015)
Having no prior knowledge of national security planning and outlook, this was a great read.
Using real time strategy games a reference point for the uninitiated was a nice touch.
Re:Happy New Year HN
on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:46PM (#25596924)
Happy New Year! HN has been a great place to spend my time this year.
Re:Game Workers Unite
on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:49PM (#16663323)
I don't think the grandparent's point is an issue of sides. It's more of a problem of gathering a useful heuristic of an engineer's performance. Given a variety of every day engineering tasks, how can you know exactly the difficultly of a person's work short of having done it yourself? I believe that experience is the answer in some cases, but others it is not. As another poster stated, it could also be done by working with the engineer through it all.