MikeTheRocker

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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
What about the system level integration of the Unity game engine?
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I agree a house is a lot lock in, but there are many other nuanced pros and cons to home ownership. - Homeowners can modify their dwelling. Renovations, painting, etc. - Banks lend millions of dollars to ordinary people through mortgages. S
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
On timescales less than a decade or so, this idea that rent is "money sent down the drain" is often inaccurate in certain VHCOL markets like the San Francisco Bay Area. Rent typically costs much less than a mortgage payment, and t
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
This makes no sense unless you're going to redefine what management means. > If one tech bro can organise a thousand CPUs globally, what is his manager organising? A programmer leveraging distributed compute is nothing like coordina
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
San Francisco is in desperate need of this. The only dark beer I typically see at restaurants here is Old Rasputin.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
My guess is that Google will ship a commodity AR/VR operating system, which will be used by other phone manufacturers like Samsung, Asus, etc. to power their headsets, just like Android on phones.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Quality comments like this are what keep me coming back to HN. I certainly agree. I’m not sure exactly how, but it’s clear there needs to be some sort of incentive for institutions to actually achieve their purpose, but as soon as a metric
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Oh neat! I used this when I worked at Meta about a year ago. It didn't support Vulkan at the time, so it's great to see they added that. It's nice that IGL abstracts the CPU-side code, but you still end up writing shaders for
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Definitely AR/VR. I’ve been following it since 2013 and working in the field since 2018. I suspect many big Android phone OEMs will get into the space in the next year or so and it will explode in popularity.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I can corroborate this experience. Last time I rode BART, someone lit up a joint while we were in the airtight car under the waters of the San Francisco Bay. The time before that, I had a crazy guy screaming the whole ride.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Staff level engineers at big tech companies and late stage startups earn in that range, typically based in Silicon Valley, Seattle and New York City. Check out https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/S
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
It all comes down to wages. Sure, you can argue Canada has some stronger social programs or quality of life per dollar, but when you can earn 2-4x the wage for the same work by moving 200km south from Vancouver to Seattle, it's a no-br
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Having also written Android code at Meta, I 100% agree.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
That seems like a separate concern from productivity though, no? Whether you build the right thing is distinct from whether you produce a thing.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I think this is a significant reason why authoritarian figures like Xi and Putin have strong support from the populace.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Google Glass was also only very primitive AR in that there was no scene understanding capabilities. There was no ability for the system to convincingly augment the real world (for example, using plane detection to anchor digital entities to
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I'm loving this post Heroku era of cloud. So exciting!
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
100% agree here
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Depends on the use case. I personally undervolt my AMD 7950X in my gaming PC to use less power and thus generate less heat and fan noise. It makes a big difference.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I know of several smaller companies that do this. It's a great policy IMO.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
The average American spends something like 3 hours per day watching TV, and upwards of 6 hours of total screen time, according to a quick Google search. Is it really that much of a stretch to imagine a world where the screens we use are par
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
Ah, you're right. My bad! Edited my original comment.
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
The asymmetry between employee and employer is especially troubling to me. The socially expected forewarning for quitting a job is 2 weeks notice. In contrast, it's common for employers to terminate effective immediately. I get that it
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I am so terrified for the effects on technological and economic progress a US/China military conflict over Taiwan would bring (not to mention the obvious other tragic and heinous consequences of war).
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by MikeTheRocker 3y ago
I live in an older apartment complex that doesn't have the requisite connections to get wired internet from any mainstream provider in the area, so I have 5G home internet and it's quite good. No less reliable than wired was for m
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by MikeTheRocker 4y ago
I don't disagree with your point, but it's not the one I was disputing.
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by MikeTheRocker 4y ago
Maybe I'm the odd one out. Everyone on HN seems to complain about over-the-top chores when checking out of Airbnbs, poor quality, no support when needed, etc. but that's never been my experience in the ~20 I've rented over th
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by MikeTheRocker 4y ago
Wow, as someone who loves to travel and has the good fortune to do it often, the idea of not being able to or not wanting to leave one's home country is unfathomable.
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by MikeTheRocker 4y ago
I love Scratch! I credit it partially with getting me into programming in middle school.
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by MikeTheRocker 4y ago
Curious why?

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