MrScruff

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by MrScruff 12y ago
Do you think anyone who aspires to work at the leading edge of their chosen field is smug?
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I meant industrial design. I would think the (pretty small) industrial design team at Apple work longer hours for more pay than their equivalents at Dell, though that's just a guess.
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by MrScruff 12y ago
You'll find this applies to any creative industry. The conditions will be terrible compared to less creative jobs because the work is fun and everyone wants to do it, creating intense competition. However, people will find it tough to
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by MrScruff 12y ago
I took "be the best" as meaning, be the best in your chosen field. Some people like to see how far they can push themselves because they are competitive. Working at the high end offers opportunities to do that. Compare with being
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by MrScruff 12y ago
> It will not suddenly become self-aware, self-improving, and evil. While I agree that worrying about it would be silly, the only thing I know about strong AI is that I don't know what the implications of having strong AI would be.
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by MrScruff 12y ago
For the vast majority of low end DSLR shooters, buying a fast prime lense (eg. 35mm 1.8 for 1.5x smaller sensor) will have the biggest single impact on their photography. It gives them much more headroom in low light and much shallower DoF
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by MrScruff 12y ago
They wouldn't say that, they'd say 'I'm not sure if this person is a good cultural fit for our company'.
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It's done on frames because that's how renderers work. You build a description of a single image and the renderer renders it. The renderer will generate threads which will all render a 'bucket', which is just a square bl
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There's a great deal of iteration (look development, lighting) past animation approval.
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Perhaps he's not, but he certainly can't escape any blame if he writes things such as: '...should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they wer
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by MrScruff 12y ago
The overhead of learning a new language is pretty small. The overhead of learning a new framework is much bigger.
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Interesting. And looking at his previous video (the one that went viral) it got 40m views. So he could potentially have made $80,000 from that?
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I'm slightly curious how this individual can afford to destroy multiple $600 phones. Will he make that back from 400,000 views?
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Your comment has significantly less content than his. Not that I particularly wanted to mention it until reading your comment, but I also don't particularly understand associating yourself with the activities of strangers who happen to
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I would assume Walmart are focused on the US market share figures.
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I think you're taking the ski thing a little literally. I'm using it as an example of how people will do something quite arduous, expensive and dangerous because it gives them a unique experience. Obviously the 'overhead&#x27
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Fair enough. I didn't have any of these problems. I would say that every Mac OS update ever has generated a bunch of traffic on user forums as well, though it's always difficult to say what percentage of the user base were affecte
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I guess what I'm saying is that if the experience is 10x more compelling (which is what I think it will be), then people will put up with it. Putting on skis and getting to the top of a mountain is inconvienent but people still do it.
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by MrScruff 12y ago
If I recall correctly, wasn't the iOS7 update a shit show? Not sure what you're referring to. I'm happily using iOS7 on a iPhone 4 (a 4 year old phone) to this day.
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I don't argue that it would be an easier sell if it wasn't so anti-social to use. But it certainly can't be compared to 3D TVs or movies for that matter, which are an awful hack. This generation's VR is the real deal, an
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That did seem like a feature dreamt up for the youtube commenter generation, sadly.
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In my opinion you're utterly wrong about VR, it's going to be a transformative technology and will precipitate a massive push for high end real-time graphics. People want new experiences without leaving their sofa and VR will brin
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Personally, I spend far less on phones than I do on coffee, so I guess I'm not really that price sensitive if I have a preference.
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This is true fashion oriented technology in the same vein as Beats headphones. If it becomes a fashion statement to wear it, people will buy one at $350. Probably not many HN readers though.
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But you were responding to a quote ">Woman. Probably not a good coder" Which would imply the probability of a woman being a good coder was lower from the probability of a man being a good coder. This is quite different to the p
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I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you suggesting that because there are more male programmers in total and hence more male programmers that are 'above average', that a randomly selected male candidate is statistica
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I think there's some truth to this. The assumption that there will be low hanging fruit in the profiler when you eventually start worrying about performance isn't always true. Also, the more you worry about writing performant code
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I highly doubt the engineers responsible for Dtrace are designing icons.
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I actually don't typically like endlessly tweaking my software either. I was prepared to do this with vim only because a text editor is such a key tool for a developer that it justifies the outlay of time. In addition, I wanted an edit
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Much of what you're looking for is provided by plugins (eg. command-T). There's no question that vim requires a lot of messing around with initially to get it configured the way you want it. But that rapidly fades away and it&#x27

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