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Alex Kurilin
Personal blog · kuril.in/blog · on HN as akurilincareerprogramming
Alex Kurilin's personal blog at kuril.in covers career and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Alex Kurilin
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We had to use Perforce (Helix Core Cloud) at my last game studio, and it is the de facto industry standard that most of your creative staff is already familiar with. The programmers don't love it, but they don't rule the roost in games. It's also the safe, verified default for working with Unreal Engine 5. It does show its years though. We were one of the first users of the Perforce cloud offering, as we were small…
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on “Epic Games announces Lore version control system”Submitted What "The Best" Looks Like as a story · 28 points
HN discussionHey Tikhon! The Haskell thing was such a great way to filter for interesting frontier people back in the day, as we both experienced. That was a contrarian bet at the time, but it paid off handsomely for at least a few of us. The number of people we'd get to interview was only a fraction of the broader population, but it felt like 30-50% of the people we would talk to were awesome fits. I talk about that a bunch in…
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on “What "The Best" Looks Like”Submitted Why Game Devs Don't Merge Files as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Code Nobody Reads as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Product Is a Promise as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is a Startup CTO? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Genie, Take the Wheel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Talent Hides as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell at Front Row (2015) as a story · 1 points
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