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Programming Throwdown

Inside Video Game Programming

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This show covers game development at a AAA company, featuring Dave Smith from Naughty Dog Inc. and Florent Devillechabrol from Ubisoft. Jason: The Mythical Man Month http://amzn.to/1DGOwbW ; Patrick: Armada http://amzn.to/1L4j2Pj.

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0:13.0

Programming Throwdown, episode 45.

0:18.0

Inside video game programming. Take it away, Jason.

0:23.0

Hey, everyone. I upgraded to Windows 10 on my Windows machine. It's pretty cool. It's a big upgrade. I skipped, I had seven, but I skipped, I guess it's eight.

0:36.6

Yep, and everyone skipped nine.

0:38.7

Everyone skipped nine because no major company wrote code that could handle Windows 9

0:45.7

without accidentally calling it Windows 98.

0:48.9

So they skipped that one, which was smart.

0:51.9

And went straight to Windows 10, and got it it's pretty cool but it's

0:56.2

not a beta anymore right it's actually like out out yeah it's totally out um the only thing that was

1:03.9

uh was hard was um my sound blaster card soundblaster said they weren't gonna create drivers for Windows 10 until October and so

1:14.6

But then it turns out somebody created some third-party driver which is

1:19.6

Probably like leaching my credit card another valuable information

1:22.6

I was to say it's probably better but it's probably mining bitcoins

1:25.6

Yeah, I'm just kidding it's probably it's probably it's actually when probably mining bitcoins yeah yeah i'm just kidding it's probably

1:28.3

it's actually when i ran the setup it is the same i i think he just somehow monkey patched the uh

1:35.3

the the existing driver to fit windows 10 because the install shield is exactly the same and everything

1:41.1

uh yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean it's something about my social and credit card or something. But other than that, it worked fine. I attempted to do it, and I got this error. It said, something happened. And then the subtext, something happened. And then... That's it? Yep. And you could close. So were you in like a limbo state now like where you're your your machine's

2:02.3

no no it was like you know you're supposed to i was supposed to create media for it or whatever

2:07.6

and so like i i have a feeling that you know you're supposed to wait for your turn and it's not been

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