Wiki - AGuideToRustGameFrameworks2019
Anyway, so here’s the story. ggez is, naturally, The Best Rust Game Framework, ’cause I maintain it. But there’s several other game framework crates that have very similar goals to ggez: Make it easy to make a nice 2D game with minimum friction. However, they have different approaches and make...
Hasnain says:
Extremely in depth read on game frameworks in rust, by the author of one of the more popular ones (ggez).
Disputed rant on piston aside it’s pretty solid
Posted on 2019-06-02T23:41:08+0000
I’m a former elite athlete and I call BS on tech’s obsession with working long hours
As a champion gymnast, I trained 22 hours a week. Now, as a startup founder, I see how dangerous “hustle culture” can be.
Hasnain says:
“Sometimes what our jobs or our companies need isn’t our our most brilliant selves. It’s just completing a pile of tasks. But there’s nothing glorious about that, and let’s stop pretending that working 80 or 100 hours a week is a righteous, practical, or sustainable practice.”
I really wonder where Silicon Valley’s fetishization of long work hours began. It seems easy to link it to the puritanical work ethic in America but I’m not sure if that’s causal or just a correlation.
Posted on 2019-06-02T19:14:07+0000
The Zankou Chicken Murders
When the patriarch of the hugely popular fast-food chain killed his mother and sister, then himself, he left behind a family wrestling with fate—and each other
Hasnain says:
This was such an interesting human interest story about an immigrant family, an LA institution, and some really good food.
I’m glad a Yelp review pointed out I should search for something about the murders.
Won’t stop me from having the shawarma though.
Posted on 2019-06-02T18:19:33+0000
Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy
Here's what occurred.
Hasnain says:
Medicine, biology, history and politics all in one. This was a great read!
"Twenty years after Takaki had eradicated beriberi from the navy, Japan faced Russia in the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905. The army hospitalized 250,000 soldiers with beriberi, 27,000 of whom died. The shocking toll ended the army’s resistance. In the middle of the war in February 1905, Gen. Masatake Terauchi ordered the army to mix barley with its rice."
Posted on 2019-05-28T14:36:13+0000
Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers
As the birthrate plummets in South Korea, rural schools are emptying. To fill its classrooms, one school opened its doors to women who have for decades dreamed of learning to read.
Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019
In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which…
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Super in depth analysis on podcasting. Love the data and the conclusions
Posted on 2019-05-25T08:10:42+0000
Men Cause 100% of Unwanted Pregnancies
Our conversation about abortion places the burden of responsibility on women. I argue men are the root cause.
Hasnain says:
Can’t pick out even a single thing to quote because this is all so good. Each paragraph and point is so heavy hitting
Posted on 2019-05-21T05:06:10+0000
How a cheap, brutally efficient grocery chain is upending America's supermarkets
Aldi, a discount grocery chain, is on an aggressive growth spurt in the United States, pressuring even Walmart on low food prices.
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"With smaller grocers disappearing, there’s probably room for both Walmart and Aldi to pick up the pieces, Vu added. In the meantime, Aldi will keep leading the price wars, putting pressure on the bigger players, too.
"They're incredibly successful," he said. "We haven't seen a disrupter in the grocery space like this in a long time.""
Posted on 2019-05-19T04:48:58+0000
Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
Must. Go. Faster.
Hasnain says:
Some really cool scalability work; and cool data structures!
Posted on 2019-05-18T19:33:24+0000
MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types
Here’s my second post from C++Now 2019! On Friday morning, Andreas Weis gave a very good summary of how exception handling works in C++. I particularly liked that he didn’t just focus on the Itanium ABI (as I would certainly have been tempted to do), but showed in-depth knowledge of how exceptio...
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Learnt more about C++ than I ever thought I'd want to know.
If you're curious about how exception handlers are implemented under the hood and why you might want to avoid move-only exceptions in cross platform code...
Posted on 2019-05-12T08:23:28+0000