Tips & Tricks, page 2:

Quote: “Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.”

Another Quote: “Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own. “

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Quote: “A correlated sub-query is a type of query, where inner query depends upon the outcome of the outer query in order to perform its execution.”

Another Quote: “Correlated sub-queries are slower.”

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Quote: “in both these cases we can be 100% sure that we’ll be deserializing this state on the executable which is identical to the executable which serialized the state.”

Another Quote: “Even when comparing with home-grown code with per-field serialization, our Ultra-Fast Serialization still wins (up to 1.5x-2x) “

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Quote: “Pretty much whatever-we-do, there will be a certain percentage of players which are trying to run an obsolete version of the Client forever-and-ever”

Another Quote: “It is very important to keep updater transaction-oriented.”

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Abstract: Apparently, in practice there is big difference between cross-platform determinism and same-executable determinism, both in abilities they can provide, and from implementation complexity point of view

Quote: “Cross-platform determinism is the strictest definition of determinism I know; not surprisingly, there are quite a few factors which can break it”

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Quote: “each of the stages of the rendering pipeline is operating on a large set of items (vertices or fragments/pixels)”

Another Quote: “These days, even if the program uses fixed-pipeline, that fixed-pipeline is simulated over shaders anyway 😉”

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Quote: “In games, more often than not, we’ll be dealing with so-called Phong reflection model.”

Another Quote: “with orthographic projection, the lines which project points from our 3D world onto our 2D screen, are no longer converging to one single point; instead, they go parallel to each other.”

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