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The prices are going up for every provider. It’s across the board. Porkbun.com too.

Paragraph 3. They did, just not in the last 6 years.

Hi bilb, this is blab. I just wanted to say thank you for your approach. You run a wonderful server.

Hahaha. Yea. Been there too.

Totally agree.

I think we should all strive to do better. Unit tests, mock-ups, UX design, 2 week sprints with actual working deliverables, well documented use cases, every thing neatly stacked in Jira, dev,test,staging,prod environments, continuous integration and every thing else we are told to do.

Then reality sets in……

With all that said, 25 years as a dev, this utopian environment is almost impossible to find unless forced by regulatory compliance. Medical devices, life critical systems, etc. or if you have big piles of money.

Yep. I’ve been there.

This is very true.

Unfortunately most product managers SUCK at designing or making software.

Agile tries to fix this be supporting frequent iteration.

Unfortunately most programmers SUCK at writing good code.

TDD tries to fix this by forcing the consideration of end results (testing) at the beginning. It forces programmers and product teams to actually think and work. Make clear design decisions earlier on, but not to the point of waterfall.

It’s just a giant cesspool of failure due to human laziness that usually falls on the shoulders of QA.

Bottom line, making good software is hard. It takes time. But the market won’t support slow development. The business and sales teams remind me of Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka.

Completely agree and understand. I'm just in a situation where I'd like to be able to wield the same great information in a different format. Maybe someone can recommend a different youtube channel. I think thats what I'm ultimately searching for...

Can you provide some examples of what you are looking for? There are a handful of private edu trackers that may have the content you desire.

This is one of the single most important pieces of advice. Unless you have access to topsites, then this is about as close to the source as you are going to get, except for FitGirl repacks that can be DDLd from her site.

Yep. The approach that Denuvo utilizes has been discussed forever, but games didn't really have the extra CPU cycles to run around and validate the integrity of each and every function. Most games are balls to the wall and using every CPU cycle it can. Point is, games that require heavy performance suffer under Denuvo unless your system is bleeding edge. This means the vast majority of their customer base suffer. There are all sorts of ways to prevent piracy for games.. but most companies can't utilize these approaches due to the very nature of disorganized game development.

Many do provide some form of checksum.