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A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

The whole "don't reinvent the wheel" mantra in software development is strong, and for very good reason. When a company basically does so, repeatedly, and are repeatedly successful at it, that truly is notable.

I guess that's just your comment though, with more words and no examples lol

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