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Re: Autodesk laying 925 people off
this quote referring to autodesk is amusing, sounds like it's coming from a former 3ds max developer - "The really bad part about laying off developers is the loss of mindshare about a product. It takes years and years for devs to gain knowledge about a product. Then they are let go, then a new generation of developers… -
Re: Autodesk laying 925 people off
thomasp said: Huge swaths of code abandoned due to shitty coding commenting practice, this to some degree explains the lack of significant improvements to max over the years. with employees taking years to learn the software, the code uncommented and them not giving a shit for what have the code does id be firing people… -
Re: Autodesk laying 925 people off
maybe so but by far not all employees in those divisions will be software engineers directly assigned to the product's development which i think is what ton referred to. you'll have tons of other staff who are not directly contributing to the codebase of these apps and i'd expect they will not send their core coders to… -
Re: Autodesk laying 925 people off
working through a tool that has million lines of code isnt that easy... readable code is not enough... -
Re: Autodesk laying 925 people off
Uhh... Well, i was taught to try to write my code in a way that it's readable without comments. Different practices i guess. -
Re: Autodesk laying 925 people off
Sounds about right in leaving chunks of shitty code. Considering Autodesk totally cocked up the Max 2016 release. I mean the grouped object bug was probably the most hilarious bug I've ever seen. And speaking of which, and I the only one who is a bit pissed at how slow Autodesk is dealing with fixes with the 2016 releases…
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