Readit Newsbenchin commented on The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016 talks.golang.org/2016/sta... · Posted by u/signa11
A Golang beginner's question: do these GC improvements make Golang a suitable language/ platform for writing games?
EDIT: I realise this is a vague question. I suppose I was wondering if the order of magnitude GC performance in Go is likely to interfere with game loops you might find in reasonably CPU/ GPU intensive Indie games (i.e. NOT Crysis).
absolutely - if you want to write your games for the terminal https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop
benchin commented on Changing Lives at HackLondon news.mlh.io/fares-alaboud... · Posted by u/kurtalee
As a student for the last three years, the rise in student hackathon and any tech-related activity has been nothing short of immense.
I think a big part of that is thanks to students like those behind HackLondon and similar events who work tirelessly (and sleepless-ly) to get people excited and sharing their work.
It's a good time to be a student in tech!
benchin commented on Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene ammaar.me/connecting-the-... · Posted by u/asronline
benchin commented on Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene ammaar.me/connecting-the-... · Posted by u/asronline
UCL has been organizing well attended Hackathons, seed funding pitch competitions, partnerships with founders and accelerators as well as running its own mini incubator for the past few years. Even a quick skim on google would show a multitude of student (UCL) born startups that have succeeded: Loom, backed by Google Ventures and acquired by Dropbox this year + Vungle, raised $17MM series B this year. I understand that from a Kings perspective the tech scene looks weak, but to discredit the scene as a whole when UCL has been leading the way with significant success for the past few years, is misleading.
I don't think the post is arguing that the student tech scene is weak, just fragmented. These are amazing successes - it'd be great to have heard about them.
It would be such a boost for the student scene to hear from such student-born startups and learn/look up to them.
I definitely don't think it's about whether UCL is leading the way or King's.
benchin commented on Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene ammaar.me/connecting-the-... · Posted by u/asronline
I agree that the UK Student tech scene is quite disconnected.
There are quite a few computer science oriented student societies. For instance, at York (where I did my undergrad) there's HackSoc. There's an IRC channel somewhere on freenode with computer science societies from the uk. We're not completely disconnected, but we're slowly growing to the point that we can start collaborating and having friendly competitions.
I think we have the rivalry part pretty much nailed, especially in London ;)
Really eager to see more on the collaboration side - societies working together to support the greater community: traditional CS backgrounds or not.
benchin commented on Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene ammaar.me/connecting-the-... · Posted by u/asronline
Do you have the name of that IRC channel?
details are http://www.compsocs.uk/
Let schools set and enforce their own policies.
It seems to me that the main result of having an actual legal ban is that teachers are now prevented from using smartphones in class for teaching purpose if they wanted to.
> The only exception is when smartphones’ use is assigned by a teacher.