VRay

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by VRay 5y ago
At two large tech companies I worked for, people loved to throw around the term “blink of an eye!” to justify anything around 100ms “Oh, that’ll load in the blink of an eye! Only as much latency as the blink of an eye!” etc It was damn fru
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by VRay 5y ago
Amen.. The only reason I keep playing pancake games is because all my friends are there. It'll be awesome when they're all in VR someday
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by VRay 5y ago
I dunno, I don't have any numbers on hand, but it's pretty blatantly obvious that everyone gets sick in VR when they move around. I've never seen someone claim otherwise except this dude and a few random wackos on VR subredd
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by VRay 5y ago
I don't think that's true. We can see in the comments that there was almost no useful discussion. It just immediately devolved into personal attacks with tons of upvotes.
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by VRay 5y ago
IMO it's pretty disingenuous to just casually gloss over the fact that most people have to carefully condition themselves to get used to VR motion If you try to just power through the sim sickness, you can reprogram your body to get si
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by VRay 5y ago
Outside of STEM classes, the only thing I learned that was relevant to my career was from my Technical Writing course, where I learned that people in charge can be capricious and screw you over in the process. The teacher didn't like
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by VRay 5y ago
I wouldn't mind if this flame war got a little less engagement from some of its participants, personally
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by VRay 5y ago
I wonder if you could make a business out of helping qualified US residents apply to these fake job postings and suing the companies when they get turned down..
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by VRay 5y ago
The guy has a point, any experiences that move you around will make almost everyone who tries them sick after 10 to 30 minutes. Nobody’s found a perfect solution yet. On the upside, even a boring “stand around and talk to people” game will
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by VRay 5y ago
Man, that’s a great point. Most of the commenters here can afford to just hop on a plane wherever they want with their limited vacation time, and of course a real trip is usually going to be better than a VR one.
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by VRay 5y ago
Yeah.. I’m a bigger VR fan than most, but nobody has figured out the UX for it or any killer use cases yet. I don’t think Facebook is particularly likely to be able to ship something that can compete with whatever Microsoft or Apple can pu
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by VRay 5y ago
Most people are really attractive with the right clothes, makeup, and attitude.
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by VRay 5y ago
"Well, Mikey Ouse on HackerNews vouched for him"
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by VRay 5y ago
Is there a way to use Matrix without signing up for it? That’s my main problem right now You can usually get some use out of Discord by just clicking an invitation link, but for Matrix it looks like I have to create an account with some sh
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by VRay 5y ago
Yeah, the way we solved that is by including all the UI framework code in shared libraries bundled with the OS or separately installable. But for some reason people like to spaghetti-code in JavaScript inside a bloated web browser now
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by VRay 5y ago
Bleh, this was a very unpleasant story with an even more unpleasant ending. Be wary of wading into it unless you’re ready to be depressed
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by VRay 5y ago
I love it
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by VRay 5y ago
What's your plan for "anonymized" data that's all hilariously easy to de-anonymize? Example: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...
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by VRay 5y ago
Man, some Eastern Europeans offered to write an app for me for $2000, and I assumed it was a scam since it'd be 50+ hours of work. Maybe I should hit those guys up again, if someone posting to HackerNews is making less as a programmer
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by VRay 5y ago
you can usually roll your company's 401k savings into a self-managed IRA with level 2 options once a year, FYI
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by VRay 5y ago
They definitely ARE all-in on arbitrage. The FAANG megacorps are all pulling in upwards of $2M in revenue per year per coder on average. So what if some of them cost $600k/year?
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by VRay 5y ago
I wish I could get a company to just give me 15 weeks of paid vacation instead.. alas
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by VRay 5y ago
Blind is a real hive of scum and villainy, but at least you can get real numbers from real people
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by VRay 5y ago
Ah, I’ve worked with a lot of people who didn’t hit it big with stock options and suffered ruinous tax liabilities in some cases.. Zero is probably too little, but if you’re being paid way under-market in cash and having to dip into that to
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by VRay 5y ago
Man, every time I think I’ve finally caught up to the market rate, I find out I’m behind again I’m a senior FAANG coder making 350k TC, and it looks like I should be able to net 400-600k at this level if I go to Apple or Google. Hoo boy, l
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by VRay 5y ago
Facebook makes it hard for me to keep in touch with people, since I have to manually pick through a mountain of bullshit to find any posts that are actually from my friends and actually about their lives At first I could set up a list of “A
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by VRay 5y ago
If I’m in the same house or at least the same city, I can keep some pretty impressive tech working Having a working prototype with a technician on hand means you’re only about 10% of the way to having a mass-producible product though
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by VRay 5y ago
Probably worth mentioning that you aren’t safe if you hide out in some low-paying European job. Sooner or later the US/Chinese platform companies are going to come and eat your boss’ lunch So you may as well come over and get a share
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by VRay 5y ago
Nah, all the new grads will be able to balance a red-black tree on a whiteboard in seconds, so they should be able to easily handle all other engineering tasks
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by VRay 5y ago
They should, though.. I had one profess with real world experience who tried to explain this stuff, and the other dozen or so were lifelong academics who didn’t know anything about reality. Really wish I’d listened to the one more..

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