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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I think it's important for teams to establish best practices and enforce them. It's good for team cohesion and culture. For example I've worked on teams that blocked PRs on minor typos in code comments. The signal this sent t
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I don't think the problem is an obsession with collaboration. I've observed that it's mostly a defensive measure. The amount of damage that (sorry for putting it this way)... stupid people... can do is unbounded. The potentia
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
It's much more likely that the library would do more harm than good. Libraries tend to cover broader spectrum of use cases than you'd need. Usually that's okay (eg: URL parsing, string manipulation, HTTP client, etc) but in c
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
You didn't state the use case initially. The context of the discussion is evaluating the value of the approach. What I'm saying is that you can't make that evaluation without stating the use case. Obviously one can think up a
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Straw man. With all due respect, you're making a classic mistake: presenting the solution to a problem without tracing the problem back to the use case. Why do you need to include the logic matrix in the schema? I can promise you that
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Keeps your attention on the speaker. It's helpful for speakers that don't have "presence" on stage. Content alone is not enough.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
What did it for me was financial independence. It's easier to set boundaries when the fear of missing out is gone. When I started setting those boundaries (eg: not working evenings, weekends, etc) I discovered a few interesting things.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I wish that the big studios would find a market for games with more depth. There is soooo room for innovation! Imagine what a AAA budget could do for a game like EFT.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with the occasional late night session. Or even pulling an all nighter every once in a while. If I had a chance to redo my choices then I'd keep a lot of those sessions. Nothing compares t
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I've always thought of brute force work (like marathons) as compensation for not being as gifted as rms, Carmack, etc.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
No, but if you have a less open ended question then I'm happy to answer.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> Several 'death marches' over my career were in fact necessary for business reasons. Large penalties can exist in contracts when deadlines are not met. This is why management should be setting internal deadlines LONG before th
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> At this point in my career, I am so much more comfortable saying "no" to upper management. Me too. But I also don't care about career progression or money anymore. 10 years ago that wasn't the case.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> In fact, if you happened to work for a growing unicorn, and you gained those rewards and promotions with those long hours, you may even have made lifechanging money from unicorn equity, from those long hours. That's what happened
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> Is this indicative of a cultural shift in the industry? Yes I think the industry is changing. In my anecdotal experience, the quality of programmers has taken a nose dive. I think part of the reason is that it's been a lucrative i
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
This is true. I was only able to reflect on these things after "making it". I feel comfortable financially and confident that I'll get work for the rest of my life, if I need it. There was a cost though. Like a greek tragedy
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> the impostor syndrome is real Take this with a grain of salt, but I've found myself happiest working for small companies with people that I like being around. The list of reasons why is quite long (I can elaborate if you like), bu
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> Guess what happened? The client just randomly pushed the deadline back a few months making all the overtime unnecessary. Sounds familiar. I'd push hard to reach a deadline only to see the deadline get pushed back because other, mo
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
It took me over 15 years in the industry to realize a couple of things. If you're young and reading this then I hope you at least spend a few minutes thinking deeply about it. 1) Any productivity gained over that one-or-two-day session
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
Wow. I was expecting the UI to feel dated/retro, but it still looks really good. And the window snapping behavior is still as satisfying as it always was. Timeless?
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
For me it's that 1) most people won't even care and 2) someone is going to ruin it anyway, eventually. I've observed a cognitive dissonance that I can't quite put my finger on. You'll work with (and for) people who
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
k8s is complicated (have you seen the docs on node affinity and taints? come on). i've seen several cases where a group of k8s experts pitched the infra as easy to configure/maintain and 12 months later they're being crushe
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
They made it in-house. The engine is called COBRA. Their other games (Planet Coaster, Jurassic Park) use it too. The engine has gone through several generations now and started in 1988 (by name at least).
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
I would never run VPS-sized pods because that negates most of the advantages k8s provides (as an infra abstraction). I would not run k8s in the first place. > I wish... This right here is a big part of the problem. "I wish". &q
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
You're talking about Linux desktop, no? It's apples and oranges because I assume we're talking about maintaining production systems here. k8s is a mess IMO. It's a giant abstraction and you're forced to interact wit
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
Can only speak for tech. Nope, not envious. Early in my career I felt fear. PhD/etc are thrown around as status symbols and I felt inferior to my colleagues with an honours/master/PhD. I also knew there was no way I could ove
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
> What's interesting to hear is that even in big tech companies with established hiring processes getting to know the right people matters. Even more so with big tech companies IMO. The same isn't true for IC work though. It ki
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
I find the opposite. This topic is fascinating to me actually. I'm a system oriented thinker. I don't know how I do it, but I'm able to design forward-thinking systems in my head... really well. Like large complex systems. I&
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
Experiences vary wildly so take my with a grain of salt. From what I've seen though good EM positions are acquired more from social engineering than anything else. It's all about who you know. Get to the know the right people, wor
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by 0xFACEFEED 6y ago
It's rough. General question for the HN crowd: If one is passionate about building dev tools then what's a good path for monetization? The options seem so very limited. Fixed prices are nowhere near enough to cover the costs of su

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