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I bet he did PI planning for a week. Created 132 user stories. Decided on 2 week sprints at a velocity of 27 story points. Had daily 1 hour stand-ups. Weekly 2 hour sprint retro meetings. Per sprint a 3 hour sprint review meetings and a 6 hour grooming session with his cat. Not to forget the bi-weekly 2 hour sprint refinement meetings. And each sprint had a 4 hour backlog meeting on the potty. All by himself.
Are 1 hour (or anything close to it) really a thing that happens? No wonder people hate on scrum then. It's called a stand up because no one wants to stand still for more than 10 minutes and would like to get out of there asap. 😐
I bet its looked something like:
- Developer in large company was frustrated with how much time was spent just communicating rather than doing.
- Comes up with a new system for effective communication and organization.
- Doesn't get much traction at current company because of inertia.
- Eventually starts his own company or joins a smaller startup where they are open minded because they haven't developed their own system for that yet.
- Less time spent communicating and organizing because it's a smaller company but confirmation bias gives credit to new system.
- Many companies adopt "proven" system.
- Large companies end up in same or worse boat because things still need to be communicated and disagreements still need to be resolved through discussion or orgazational power.
Though just a guess, since my only "experience" with "agile" has been seeing people complain about it. Plus experience working in a large enough team to have experienced the communication problem and to understand that a part of it is with so many meetings that are often irrelevant to the work any individual is working on, the default often ends up being tune most of it out until it's their turn to speak, so they often end up missing relevant stuff anyways and any big meeting is mostly a waste of time.
So the people behind the Agile Manifesto are far more experienced than some random dissatisfied dev. What I think most teams miss is that the only required meeting in the Agile manifesto is to regularly meet up to discuss what has worked and what hasn't the past few weeks, aka retrospective. If there are meetings or processes that don't work for a team and they don't change it after the next retrospective, then they simply aren't agile.
I've read a lot of stories about it, because I'm a fan of the game and also used to dabble in assembly myself. His motivation isn't as crazy as it's often presented.
He used assembly because he had always programmed in assembly on a variety of hardware. He basically had every typical function documented or memorized from other projects. Just as any programmer can remember the statements in a language, he had blocks of assembly code that he could put together to do the same things. Like functions, right? If it's made right and you know what it does, then you don't even need to look at what's between the brackets.
At the time he wrote RCT, he simply couldn't be bothered to start a new collection of scripts in a different language.
It still likely would have been faster for him to write anything new in a new language. And, there wouldn't have been anything stopping him from using existing assembly code in conjunction with another language.
I would say his motivation was pretty crazy. One person making a well designed and polished video game is a pretty incredible feat regardless of the language.
He is clearly a rivertaur.
He looks like a young Monty Burns
Who?
C. Montgomery Burns
Oh.
Don't see the resemblance. His skin isn't even yellow
He loved the project, not the money.
I've thought of this when considering if anti-piracy measures will ever defeat pirates. Anti-piracy engineers are paid to work 40 hours a week. The pirates love it just for the fun and challenge and there are more of them and they work longer hours.
What do you think the push for cloud streaming was about?
Can't pirate it. Don't even have to sell you it, they can just rent it to you for as long as you play.
Suspect the reason that's cooled off a bit is because Denuvo sort of works, and consoles have proved difficult to crack.
I figured cloud streaming was an attempt to rent gaming PCs to people who couldn't afford an up front purchase but could reliably come up with $30-$100/mo or some shit. They wanted to sell even non-gamers on the idea that for a very tiny upfront purchase of a thin client - or even just installing an app - would get them a console or desktop like experience.
Lack of consumer demand is the only reason why it isn't being pushed anymore. They made a solid effort but streaming comes with loads of limitations. It's hard to mod. It's hard to get your saves and port them around. You never actually own anything. Probably the biggest thing of all is that you need a solid ISP just to try and play, then you throw in the fact that all these plebs are using wireless for everything and their wifi is hot garbage or they're on DSL because they're poor and live in the sticks and it's effectively unplayable. You can forget about game streaming while traveling or on a cellular connection too, or even while at a hotel.
To be honest it's not even a poor or live in the sticks problem as far I know. I live in the Netherlands, a country with one of the best communications infrastructure in the world and also a rich country, pretty much everyone has fibre unless you're in some real rural places.
Pleb's internet connection still sucks here with these ridiculous 1Gbit/s connection speeds, because they put one Chinese crapware router down in the corner of their house and expect the WLAN signal to be useful after going through 7 walls, a whole floor and like 10+ meters.
That Experia Box 12 isn't even sending a stable 250Mbit over WLAN if you were right on top of it.
I'd bet money that more than a few anti-piracy engineers are in it for the inside info.
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