VonGuard

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by VonGuard 6y ago
I mean, the Bay Area can read a graph and understand math. It's the dominant industry here, math and data. I don't think the same can be said of the LA region...
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by VonGuard 6y ago
Correct, it is not their fault. But they ended up spending all their time on it, and in an unproductive manner, I feel.
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by VonGuard 6y ago
This is a good thing. When they were independent, NPM was a disaster area. The company spent 100% of its time chasing down social issues and insanity in the community and never figured out how to make money, or at least, it took them FOREVE
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by VonGuard 7y ago
It's still here, but people were so excited about it when it came out, and some folks actually thought it'd be usable on other platforms. Here were are years later and it's just a niche language for iPhones. Everyone who was
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Apple's been like this forever, it's only gotten much worse since the late 2000's and the launch of the iTunes App store. Even in the old days, when Mac Classic existed, Apple would change its mind about stuff for developers
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Ask HN: Easiest way to turn Raspberry Pi into fool-proof video chat machine?
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Because gameplay matters 10X as much as graphics.
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by VonGuard 7y ago
I'm sure they will. We have a lot of Canadians in our midst. My HR lady is a Canadian!
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Technical Marketing Manager 4 is my job title. Thanks!
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Red Hat | All Positions Remote | Everything | https://www.redhat.com/en/jobs Red Hat. You know who we are. We're also the world's top Kubernetes provider with OpenShift (well over 1000 customers). We're
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by VonGuard 7y ago
This post is totally accurate. I am a corporate blogger, and when I started at this company, we had a ridiculous approval process involving legal. Now, we just don't do that process, and focus on getting the engineering stuff right and
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Terry Cavanagh is one of the greatest game designers of our time. His simple mechanics and designs often remind me of something like Chess or Go, where a simple ruleset covers a massively deep game, or is used to communicate a story in a ve
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Ethiopia is on a real tear right now! The prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, came into power about 2 years ago and the first thing he did was release 100% of political prisoners in the country. It's the first time the country has had no polit
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Hey Snide! I used to contract at GameSpot, and was even at Ziff when it was spun off into it's own thing. I'd just like to say I was fired in 2001 for pissing off an advertiser. Game journalism was already dead by '08. It nev
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by VonGuard 7y ago
In 2008 I found a parcel of bare EPROMs at a flea market container 27 games. 1 of those games was Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park, and it was spread across 12 chips, each one showing a progressive state of development across 9 mon
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by VonGuard 7y ago
You're right, let's burn the library down because one book has a liable chapter in it. This argument is so horrible as to be actively harmful to Archive's work. Jason Scott is a god, and if we didn't have him, we'd
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Just FYI, cracking the game now that the DRM is expired is 100% Fair Use in the USA under the DMCA 1201 exemptions. Thanks EFF!
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by VonGuard 7y ago
This article doesn't seem to take into account that Helium is becoming scarce, and when used in airships, it's eventually just released and lost forever. NYT Article on the shortage: https://www.nytimes.com/2019&#x
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by VonGuard 7y ago
What has been digitized is fully text searchable!
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Can confirm. Spent 12 years at a tech magazine and was making $70K at the end. Was laid off for being too expensive. Now I work at a large tech company and make double that. Oh, and no one threatens my life if I get a detail wrong anymore,
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by VonGuard 7y ago
It's a lot like Sun Microsystems and Java. That was a big improvement in the lives of developers, but the company behind it never really figured out how to make money on it.
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by VonGuard 7y ago
This also happens on TV, and you probably have no idea. There are applications on iPads and phones that work with ratings firms, like Nielsen and so forth. These firms work with content producers, and they embed inaudible tones into TV show
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by VonGuard 7y ago
First time I saw one of these 4 years ago was when it popped into a Steam sale advertising window. Really creeped me out. A sure sign Comcast is pretty much 100% infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy. Still they offer Internet that
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Maybe. But I blame the work for the death because he only took sick leave a few months back, then suddenly died. That to me says he worked right up until he couldn't anymore. A normal person would be retiring at 65 or so. And while the
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by VonGuard 7y ago
I feel really bad for Hurd and his family. Why work that hard? The 24/7 CEO lifestyle seems like such a waste of time if you end up working it to the day you die. Like, why work that hard? For the family you never see? The vacation hom
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Because Portugal decriminalized everything.
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Everyone in this thread below is assuming after the 30 minutes I just fuck off and do nothing. LOL, why would anyone pay me if I did that? Obviously, there's always a ton of stuff to do. But, again, it's about results, not hours w
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Reminds me of an old adage about tech work and other skilled labors: If you give me a task that takes a normal perosn 8 hours, and I finish it in 30 minutes, you're paying me for the skill, knowledge and experience that allows me to do
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Seems like this https://phys.org/news/2005-09-world-built-in-wi-fi-enabled-d... . invalidates the patent. Nikonn CoolPix had wifi support in 2005. I'd imagine if you could select specific pictures to upload wherev
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by VonGuard 7y ago
Lamo was a twitchy little fuck with lots of enemies. He was a miserable person, always unhappy, plagued with mental illness, and a past spotted with fucked up relationships. The only people I have ever heard speak kindly of him are the pres

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