wait is there more than one mod on HN? I for some reason have always thought it was just that @dang guy as the only one. Is he just the top mod and there are others underneath him?
I find it kind of hard to define success or failure. Google search and Facebook are a success right? And they were able to scale up as needed, which can be hard. But the way they started is very different from a government agency or massive corporation trying to orchestrate it from scratch. I don't know if you'd be familiar with this, but maybe healthcare.gov is a good example... it was notoriously buggy, but after some time and a lot of intense pressure it was dealt with.
The untold story is of landing software projects at Google. Google has landed countless software projects internally in order for Google.com to continue working, and the story of those will never reach the light of day, except in back room conversations never to be shared publicly. How did they go from internal platform product version one to version two? it's an amazing feat of engineering that can't be shown to the public, which is a loss for humanity, honestly, but capitalism isn't going to have it any other way.
Are you saying this from firsthand experience? Because it sounds like the sort of myth that Google would like you to believe. Much more believable is that their process is as broken and chaotic as most software projects are, they are just so big that they manage to have some successes regardless. Survivorship bias. A broken clock is still right twice a day.
I was an SRE on their Internet traffic team for three years, from 2020 til 2023. The move from Sisyphus to Legislator is something I wish the world could see documented in a museum, like the moving of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
That's my entire industry, so I can believe it. I'd love to learn large scale game architecture but it simply isn't public. At best you can dig into the source available 30 year legacy code of Unreal Engine as a base. But extracting architecture from the source is like looking at a building without a schematic.
Your best bet is a 500 dollar GDC vault that offers relative scraps of a schematic and making your own from those experiences.
Have you seen the presentation from GDC 2017 on the architecture of Overwatch [0]? If you watch the video in detail -- stepping through frame-by-frame at some points -- it provides a nearly complete schematic of the game's architecture. That's probably why the video has since been made unlisted.
Almost all languages have some sort of object representation, right? Classes with their own behavior, DTOs, records, structs, etc.,. What language are you working in? If you're coupled to a specific database provider anyway there's usually a system table you can query to get your list of tables, column names, etc., so you could almost just use one data source and only need to deal with its structure to provide all your endpoints (not really recommending this approach).
It's a bit weird to me that AoE 2 is the most popular of that series, considering how much more streamlined and balanced Age of Mythology is.
For example, getting to the 3rd age in AoE 2 ASAP is basically mandatory, but in AoM you can potentially start attacking from the 2nd age. On top of that, getting to the 3rd age in AoE 2 takes much longer than AoM. So there's basically a whole lot of wasted time at the start of an AoE 2 match.
You don't need to get to the 3rd age in AoE 2 necessarily, unless you're just sticking with a certain strategy or playing a certain map that warrants it. There are whole metas around going offensive in different ways at each age - drush (dark (1st) age militia units), scout rush, archer rush, tower rush, etc., before getting into the 3rd (castle) age. Usually you start with a scout, and if you're not using it for hunting then presumably you're using it for scouting and if an enemy villager strays too far from safety you can try picking them off. Better players can steal the opponent's boars or sheep, re-locate your town center with higher HP next to your opponent, etc.,.
When I was younger and living in military dorms, I put a old throw away laptop hosting a simple website via Apache on the internet. Every time I checked the log it'd be full of so many random, wild spurts of attacks (granted I had basically 0 legit traffic).
I've test drove my mates atto3, I have model y. He's got lots of regrets, fixes. It's made from good materials, styled poorly and technology is like everyone else - poorly done. Price does reflect it, no free lunch.
I know at least a couple times just the templating side saved me where it was convenient to just run a helm command with --dry-run to get the yaml and grab & modify the relevant pieces and apply those manually where I don't necessarily want the whole package or I want snippets of a package or modified yaml that their helm chart didn't support out of the box, etc.,.
Just curious, why should I believe this is merely neocon propaganda? I've read tidbits about this off & on over the years and it doesn't seem that straight forward, even if calling it genocide is on the hyperbolic side.
Technically its just ethnic cleaning because its trying to destroy their local culture. But somehow I bet you don't want to base your argument on this technicality.
It seems young Japanese doesn't even know who bombed their country. US controls most of the world media: they can highlight or hide any fact, or inculcate whatever interpretation.
US media doesn't particularly hide the fact of the US bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oppenheimer was released just two years ago, to pick one recent and prominent example of the US not hiding the facts.
Can't you just say that about any less than perfect solution? Bitcoin has been used to facilitate illegal drug trafficking, which is a problem. Yet you think more bitcoin is the solution? Bizarre.
So there's already a lack of a stable, functioning government, and the solution you're touting isn't currently a reality, why? In the US when there's little friction in a marketplace people in some communities resort to using Tide laundry detergent as a medium of exchange. There's nothing stopping them from using bitcoin or cryptocurrencies currently, but navigating a market place, finding qualified teachers, finding motivation to use what little resources you have to use a novel medium to pay for teachers in a place with no opportunity, etc., doesn't seem too easy. One tool alone doesn't usually solve any problems.
> One tool alone doesn't usually solve any problems.
I completely agree. The world of developmental economics has had so many great "One tool to fix everything!" ideas, but at the end of the day, they generally don't add up to much without a functioning government that's focused on serving its citizens.
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