Topher
Gold Member
Did you even watch the video? He described the problem, told that he wrote similar code before and a bunch of stuff had been already in place.
The truth is that the modern level of developers is quite quite low. And from my observation, a lot of good developers these days are leaving for science area (not data science but more into mathematical sciences, physics stuff like that).
As a developer (non-gaming), what Tim Cain described should be obvious to just about any coder. Certainly shouldn't be difficult for any developer who works in video games. It is literally incrementing values in a list. He even said the callbacks are already there so all the developer has to do is take the value damage and who delivered (both of which would be passed into the callback) and store those values in an enumerable data structure. The item in that data structure with the highest damage value will be the NPCs target. That's it. Four weeks? No way.
Bullshitters everywhere.
Just got to hope someone has the knowledge or intuition to call them out on it. I don’t have tech experience so what do I know if a coder says 4 weeks?
But if I’m setting company targets and a sales guy says the target of $10M I calculated for him is too high due to falling sales trends, I’d just check what’s going on. We’ll according to me your sales trend is fine, you got a new product line launching and supply chain had fully caught up so no more out of stocks. Add all that together and it looks like $10M to me. Prove me wrong or fuck off.
Nice try at getting a negative growth target.
Exactly. And this is an old tale, ain't it? Happens in every day life as well. The guy who is fixing my car could be bullshiting me to hell and back and I sure wouldn't be able to challenge him on it. He's taking advantage of my ignorance. You just hope the guy you hire is honest. But if you are not ignorant and are able to call out a guy who is trying to overcharge you then who the hell isn't going to do that?
Here, Tim Cain knows better. And that's why that developer tucked his tail and ran when Cain said he had to explain why this simple task was going to take four weeks.
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