I wish I could just submit my solution and be told if it passes instead of dealing with the AI Interviewer. A lot of problems don't have a leetcode equivalent.
You can try to short-circuit the AI Interviewer by just entering your solution into the IDE. OR you can ask to end the interview, and then you'll get a link to the solution.
We built it this way on purpose, though... the intent is to mimic an interview and gently force you to talk through your thought process, not to have yet another LeetCode clone.
The HN crowd often says they want something, but what they want tends not to stand out and be successful in the market. For example, HN people say they want a simple car with physical controls, or a basic non-smart TV, or a small smartphone. But either they're not successful, or manufacturers don't want to sell those.
The author is clearly a C++ programmer. I've been noticing that these AI tools are worse at C++ than other languages, especially scripting languages. Whenever I try to learn from people that are using these tools successfully, they always seem to be using a scripting language and working on some CRUD app.
They seem to be a game dev judging by their other posts. I imagine there’s a lot less content online about that for LLMs to scrape than yet another CRUD app.
I was disappointed that the book didn't have much to say about Alpha Centauri. I wish he would do a GDC postmortem for Alpha Centauri like he did for Civ 1.
I think in general the book isn't so much focus on the game design itself, sadly, but a lot of stuff around it.
However, is the whole "Back to the future" chapter basically about Alpha Centauri? Some time ago I read the book, but seems to be mentioned a bunch there: https://imgur.com/a/6d0U6oH
It is a shame that "Civilization: Beyond Earth" was such a disappointment. Instead of interesting leaders, factions, and ideologies, we got "Space Africa" and "Space Australia".
I wonder if there some legal issue preventing Firaxis from making a true Centauri remake.
I feel like Beyond Earth was a great game trying to break out of a mediocre one. I love the way the quest system forces you down a particular victory condition, the way you can bully other factions using fear rather than respect, and how the affinity system makes factions that truly feel different toward the end game. I hate how you can pick a quest pathway that you don't have the resources to follow (e.g. you might inadvertently pick a purity quest answer, but only have access to xenomass), how dumb the AI is at victory conditions, and how uninteresting the tech tree (er, I mean web) is.
Engine these days implies one of those IDEs with everything included (scene editor etc). I don't know how or why, but language drifted in the last 20 years or so.
Have people gotten into trouble for having a nearly empty phone when they get searched? Like using a burner phone or doing a factory reset prior to the trip. I've wondered if that would be considered suspecious.
At least one person has been subject to secondary screening and ultimately denied entry on the accusation that they had two phones.
> I thought I was just going to be given my passport and sent on my way, or maybe asked a couple of questions, but they made some pretty outlandish accusations. They said, ‘We know you have two mobile phones. We’ve been tracking your calls. We know you’ve been selling drugs’.
Oh my god, the story/stories from that post are awful. I didn't know it had came to the point where people with valid visas could be detained, rejected and visas cancelled. :(
You can accelerate the benefit of experience by paying closer attention to what your co-workers and immediate managers do when there's a crisis, disagreement, etc. Try to figure out what tactics they're using and think about how well or badly what they did worked. Also think what you would have done in their shoes and try to game out how others might have responded to that.
There's also plenty of books out there on people skills. 99% of them are rubbish but a few have stood the test of time, e.g. the Dale Carnegie books.
I see it as someone who likes baking pastries for their family not fully understanding to what it is like to bake pastries for hours everyday. Or someone who likes to tend their garden thinking they should become a farmer. Although I'm guilty of this with regard to turning programming as a hobby into a career. At least the pay is better than my alternatives.
I'll have to do something with my hands, kitchen skills are probably the only manual labor I can do better than average.
It's not a matter of fantasizing about an idealized version of a dirty, hard blue collar job, but an honest assessment of something that will last longer than coding and will pay me money to feed myself.
