#dependencies

[askagamedev]

If two different games run on the same basic engine (ex: Source, UE4/5, Unity), how much does the “If it runs on the same engine, it can or should have features 1 and 2 as the other,” carry for post-release development games?

Those arguments don't really hold water at all. Games are more than just the sum of their parts. Making all of the pieces work together cohesively is a huge amount of work. Every game is a complex web of features and content. Any given feature is dependent on a bevy of other systems and features and any failures can easily cascade into catastrophe. One of my acquaintances works on the Call of Duty franchise - she told me that they often have difficulty porting features between the single and multiplayer versions of the game due to the way the technology is set up. It can take days of engineering and scripting to bring a feature from DMZ to regular multiplayer or another game mode.

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[fnord888]

I was going to say something like “reasonable professional diligence reduces leftpad to a headache rather than an emergency, whereas that’s not true of node-ipc”, but actually reasonable professional diligence does in fact reduce node-ipc to a headache rather than an emergency.

I think I mean something more like what happened with leftpad is in the broad class of threats where reasonable professional diligence is good protection, and what happened with node-ipc is not. There are a few aspects to this:

1) You’re only in the position to be really hurt by the leftpad rug-pull if you’re the kind of person who should be practicing professional diligence, ie, a professional. If you’re just a kid trying to learn programming, it’s annoying (and confusing) if you can’t download your dependencies for a while, but nobody is relying on you. Whereas that same kid could suffer painful data loss from node-ipc.

2) While pulling leftpad was bad, if you’re in a position where you could be hurt by leftpad and don’t have procedures in place that deal with issues like leftpad, you’re in the position to get hurt by random, non-malicious errors.

3) If the malware included in node-ipc were more sophisticated, it’s possible that reasonable professional diligence would not reduce it to a mere headache.

[rechargeyoursouls]

Responsibility is the outcome of Independence. That is why most people are scared of Being Independent. They love dependency.

[tomorrowimokay]

Comfort can be a deceiving thing. If you ask yourself what makes you feel comfortable, what comes to mind? For me, comfort is found in all the things that are bad for me. That person you know is isn't the one, but you're so comfortable with them being in your life you don't want to let them go. Or the comfort of your bed, we all know very few productive tasks can be preformed in a place designed for sleep. Or that bar of chocolate you ate, that isn't good for you either, but it made you feel comforted.

Let's not get comfortable, let's achieve more than that.

[rvexillology]

You asked, so here they are: all the European states in the style of Marshall Islands + some edits & five dependencies so there's no weird blank space

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Snuck the Isle of Man in there I see ;)

[victorianhouses]

Plattsburgh New York - W. W. Hartwell House & Dependencies - AKA - Regina Maria Retreat House - Brinkerhoff Street by Onasill ~ Bill Badzo Via Flickr:

[batsdraws]

Dependencies and packages and libraries galore

make, gcc, zlib1g-dev, which is it this time