Paul Manta

Your life is not over, that's a ridiculous thing to say. It's a setback (maybe an important setback to you), but that shouldn't prevent you from recovering and being successful later in life.

Thanks!

@livresque I just want to know if the first form is grammatically correct (albeit, a bit odd). I know there are some better formulations.

It does sound better, yes, but they are both gramatically correct, right?

Is it okay to say "it was such a crowded room when I had gotten there" or is it better to say "... when I got there"?

Quick question: If I want to convert coordinates like (x - a, y - a) into polar coordinates, what do I do? How do I deal with the offsets?

To see if I got this right, the simple fractions can be of any form as long as the the degree(nominator) >= degree(denominator) - 1?

@OrangeHarvester Thanks! Yes, it is related to the Laplace transform.

Can someone please tell me how this partial fraction decomposition was done? Specifically, the last two fractions; I don't understand why that is a correct decomposition.

@OldJohn Thanks!

@JonasTeuwen This is no test. I'm asking out of curiosity.

I know how I could get the projection, but taht's not what I'm asking.

@JonasTeuwen I'm asking if there's any geometrical interpretation when both vectors are not unit vectors.

What if neither of them is of length 1?

If one of the vectors is a unit vector, then the geometrical interpretation is the magnitude of the projection.

I have a quick question that I don't think it's worth opening a new topic for. Does the dot product between two vectors of norm different from 1 have any geometrical interpretation?

Do you guys know any general courses on undergraduate calculus that I can find on the web? I know some universities tape their courses and post them on the web.

A matrix that, when multiplied by a vector, gives a transformed vector.

@PeterTamaroff In principle.

Can someone help with rotating some vectors in space?

@Gajet I don't think you can delete answered questions... You posted a comment which (iir) was more like asking for clarification. Anyway, no, I got the answer from some other place and I didn't want to start a discussion here as well, so I deleted it. Way to go on taking it personally, though. ;)

@Gajet I don't want to rotate the object itself. I just want to get the forward vector rotated.

This just gives me back the transform.forward vector.

I tried Quaternion.AngleAxis(90.0, transform.forward) * transform.forward;, but apparently this is not how the function is used.

Say positive degrees are to the right, then Rotate(transform.forward, 90.0) should give me transform.right.

@Gajet I have the transform.forward vector of an object, I want to rotate it a certain amount.

Does anyone have any tips on how to rotate a 3D vector? (I'm working with Unity.)

@Gajet I'm looking at it. :)

It's going to be interpreted as (std::cout << x-- > 0) ? "x was greater than 1" : "x was less than 2";, I think.

@TreDubZedd I suspect that's just going to print the value of x-- > 0.

@Gajet Old! :P

Ah, actually, the studio asks for good English skills. I have an A in a Cambridge Advanced English exam, but would showing some actual articles be better (or mentioning both the exam and the articles)?

@JoshPetrie The Wkipedia articles? I only just though of adding them because the memo you gave suggests you mention articles you've written. :)

There's no way I'm getting that much reputation in a few weeks though. :P

@Gajet I only have about 1000 on GD, but I have 5000 on SO and I'm among the top 7% overall, so that should count for something.

I guess SO is a pretty reputable forum among developers, right?

I'd put those nearer to the bottom, anyway.

@Gajet Including my activity on StackOverflow and GameDev.StackExchange?

@Gajet The reason I was asking is because that memo recommends you to show you are passionate about games. Should I mentioned I wrote those articles?

I'm the main contributor to two game related article on Wikipedia (the articles have received the Good Article status, which one of the highest on Wikipedia). Should I mention these as well? The articles are both Half-Life related: Concerned (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerned) and Codename: Gordon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename:_Gordon).

Ah, and another thing. That memo Josh linked (arena.net/pdf/Open_Letter_To_Intern_Candidates.pdf) says you should mention any game-related experience, including articles you've written.

If yes, should I go into details such as idiomatic programming, familiarity with popular libraries for that language (Boost for C++, for example).

So the first thing to focus on is personal projects. The second, the programming languages I know?

Okay, thanks for the help! :)

@tylerrrr07 Should I mention the current project as well? Currently it's in the very very early stage of development so all I'll have to say about it is engine related stuff.

@tylerrrr07 Here's the forum thread: forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/614233

And also a PDF manual on how to use the scripting language.

@tylerrrr07 Well, on the forum there's a download link to the game (executable game scripts) and one to the source. What more should I add?

However, the game is no technical feat. I was in highschool at the time (I'm a freshman now), and it was a text-based adventure. The only "special" thing it had about it was that I added ASCII art animations into the turn-based battles in the game.

The game was fairly short, so the translation wasn't that much of an effort.