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by _bxg1 6y ago
People panicked at first about the GL Apocalypse when Apple decided to use Metal instead of Vulcan. But here's the way I look at it: OpenGL was created to abstract over graphics hardware and operating systems both at once, and yet was
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Game developer. It's a highly-competitive field riddled with crunch culture, lowballed salaries, and employment-instability, but if it weren't for all of that I think it would be the most fulfilling thing I could be doing.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Like I said, often it's not that simple. Each iteration on re-inventing the wheel usually incorporates some new lessons learned. I won't disagree that more perspective on history would be a good thing, but that's no reason to
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> I don't see any reason to keep the worlds of online and offline plotting so completely disjoint I would guess it's less about "online and offline" than "in a web browser and out of one". The web offers sev
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Hate is a way of acting toward other people. It doesn't have a particular creed or political party or belief. Fighting hate with hate makes the whole world cancelled.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I'm just so exhausted.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
You're getting pretty far off-topic (and actually making a point that I'm trying to make myself in a separate subthread). This is the sentence I was pushing back against: > All those years of missed revenue add up quickly I&#
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> There's probably no better language on earth to build a data warehouse in than java Slightly OT, but I'm curious why that is?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
You're just reiterating the cynical mindset that I'm recommending against, because it's: a) Atrophic to one's career b) Just a generally miserable way to live as a programmer I don't believe things are so bleak, and
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by _bxg1 6y ago
We can debate all day about specific tradeoffs made for specific projects - I would almost never advocate a rewrite just for the sake of using a newer technology unless it has more-than-incremental benefits - but that's not what I&#x
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Try adopting a perspective of curiosity: "How does this new tech work? What new benefits might it provide?" Or at least one of professional duty. All knowledge workers have to keep up with the latest developments in their field; l
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Work-life balance is important, but this: > they realize that that to learn how to do the same thing with 167 technologies is not a real development is quite an arrogant view to take on new technologies. It assumes that the sole reason
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I don't like this mentality. Maximizing lifetime revenue isn't some emergency to panic about. It's one goal to balance against many other important things in life. If your income provides you a lifestyle you're happy wit
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Ask HN: What functions/forms should all lisps have?
1 points by _bxg1 6y ago|2 comments
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by _bxg1 6y ago
There are definitely constraints on background activity, but I don't know for sure whether that applies to the camera, and I don't know what its precise relation is to the screen being locked
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's all been reactionary. Individual states and even cities are opening up when people clamor for summertime fun, and then frantically closing back down when the inevitable spike hits a couple weeks later. There is no attempt at cohes
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's a difference of degree, not of kind. Any indirection forces the user to reason about a constructed concept instead of the literal facts of what's happening. By introducing one, you're making the assertion that the abstra
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I'm curious too. I assume it's better, but I don't know firsthand. I tried googling it and every result was about manually opening the Camera app from your lockscreen.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> Nice thing to do I don't believe Google does anything because it's a "nice thing to do". There's some angle here. The angle could just be spurring general innovation in this area, which they'll benefit fro
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think the bigger story is that this is possible for an app to do at all on Android, in a way such that the user might not realize it can happen/is happening.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> Macros bring syntactic abstraction, which is a wonderful thing. It helps make your code clearer, by describing your intent without getting bogged in implementation details (indeed abstracting those details away). It helps make your cod
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all. Of course very few people make "the best" of anything. What I'm saying is that the internet, and in our case open-source software, have caused "the best" to be all that
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Yeah, shortly after posting the question I found this coverage of the same results: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/cheap-steroid-first-...
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Ask HN: Has anyone heard about steroids being used to treat Covid-19?
3 points by _bxg1 6y ago|8 comments
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by _bxg1 6y ago
My point is that the ideal scenario, where you write something generic that also meets people's real needs (better than what's already out there), has become a very rare thing.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
For many of us, writing something pure and generic and beautiful is much more gratifying. And it's depressing to think that we'll probably never write something like that that's good enough to be picked over the version that
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by _bxg1 6y ago
We're not compromised but we do it anyway to be safe. We leave non-refrigerated items in the garage for three days and wipe down everything else. We're making up the delivery fee and tip by not eating out or going to the movies, a
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I remember reading an article a while back about how professional photography has become a commodity. You can find and license any imaginable photograph, for pennies, in minutes. From the best photographers in the world. So from a business
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Even with a mask you're putting yourself at some risk. This is the safest option for anyone who can afford it.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Clever how they managed to reuse both the light positions and the stairs so the same set could be three different places

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