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by allenu 4y ago
Really cool! I always wanted to see a shooter that made use of the Itano Circus style. I always imagined it would be fun and stylish to fly around dodging missiles like that. Is there a shooter out there that does that?
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by allenu 4y ago
I had the same experience when I went to Vegas for the first time. I wanted to walk from building to building but they all felt so much further away than they appeared. It never occurred to me it was because of this bit of visual trickery.
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by allenu 4y ago
When they introduced auto-layout, I started using it all the time. The debug spew from the console was definitely frustrating to debug though. Eventually I tried going back to manual layout because a coworker still used it all the time and
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by allenu 4y ago
There’s definitely a ton of features in it that aren’t obvious. These days I typically use cmd-control-left/right to navigate the open file history and then cmd-shift-[/] to navigate open tabs. Also worth noting that you can find
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by allenu 4y ago
Not quite the same thing, but I wrote BBS door games back in the day and I keep thinking about writing one today for the iPhone, with ANSI art and all.
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by allenu 4y ago
Thanks for the link! It's good to know my personal observations about projects is shared by others. I'll have to read that book.
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by allenu 4y ago
For me, I think of projects as sort of having two phases: the discovery phase and the "get it over the finish line" phase. In the first phase, there are a ton of unknowns. You don't know what all the technical challenges are,
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by allenu 4y ago
I read it as Time Train as well until I read your comment! Time Retain is a poorer name, in my opinion.
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by allenu 4y ago
> Understand why you're in an argument and what you hope to accomplish by being in an argument. There's a spectrum here, but I've noticed that a lot of people like to debate things online because they're genuinely try
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by allenu 4y ago
When I was a kid, there were no free compilers. You had to pay for tools like Turbo Pascal. You were either lucky if you found a decent free C compiler to download off a BBS or you pirated one.
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by allenu 4y ago
Agreed. This is just a random employee bemoaning that his large, bureaucratic employer is slow to move, and the opinion document he wrote got leaked for some reason. It doesn't "explain" why Google has become slow. Anyone can
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by allenu 4y ago
Interesting stuff. I did some searches on some songs I like and the general gist was right. I tried it on American Pie and it seemed to match my understanding of the song, but this line stood out a bit: > Additionally, the line “Them goo
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by allenu 4y ago
I bought a printer about a year ago and I use it all the time. There is definitely something nice and convenient about having a physical copy that you carry with you. I needed some info when I was playing a video game, so I looked it up and
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by allenu 4y ago
I definitely get the sense that it's getting worse. It's very hard to visit a site without getting a popup to subscribe, purchase, or donate. Apps are constantly pushing you to subscribe or create an account. I wonder what the end
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by allenu 4y ago
I've had the same experience in my career. I really do wonder how much of YAGNI is only learned through experience. Earlier in my career, I wanted everything to be more perfect, and I wanted to make sure I fully designed for all eventu
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by allenu 4y ago
I'm not really arguing for one way or the other, just pointing out the reality of working with lots of people means lots of opinions on how to do things, so it's never that straightforward to get things done. It's just a fact
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by allenu 4y ago
If what you’re saying is true, I wonder how much of the quality issues is just a company getting really big over time. Harder to standardize or keep tabs on such a large number of developers.
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by allenu 4y ago
If only it were that simple. As we’ve seen in this thread, you’d instead likely have: Somebody else: Where I used to work we called them pull requests. Let’s have a meeting to discuss changing the terms to match industry standards. We may a
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by allenu 4y ago
It's funny, I think hearing somebody say this in person and seeing the exasperation on their face would invite empathy on my part and help me understand their situation (i.e. they're in a bad mood because of this problem), BUT see
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by allenu 4y ago
Good suggestion. I always forget AppleScript exists.
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by allenu 4y ago
I really enjoy seeing how you demo the features of Bike. The design is really thought out and you do a great job of communicating how it works in simple terms. (I'm an indie Mac/iOS dev myself, so I'm going to take pointers o
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by allenu 4y ago
Good points. I think this is a great example of where an individual can really innovate on their own, but they do need to have a good mix of experience with developing on a particular platform as well as a good sense for UX. Working in a la
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by allenu 4y ago
Perhaps some are concern trolling, but I think it's still a legitimate problem if you want people to take up the technology. I use mastodon, but I know it's not the easiest thing to pick up. A lot of the complaining, to me, is jus
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by allenu 4y ago
You have a point, but think about it from the newbies perspective. They have no idea how many posts they won't see. Everybody is used to centralized where they see everything and now they're being told to check out this alternat
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by allenu 4y ago
I've been using Mastodon on and off for a few years now and the thing that bugged me was that the benefits it was pushing at first were absolutely uninteresting to me as a user: it's decentralized and you can pick your server. Tho
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by allenu 4y ago
I feel like the fact that there are different servers out there has made zero difference in how I use mastodon. I follow some people and that's it. I hardly ever view the local feed. I suppose the problem is I didn't really shop a
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by allenu 4y ago
I agree that somebody walking around asking for your order and bringing it to you while you bang away at code would be a super nice gesture. The problem in the case I described though was everyone was working from home, so picking up your o
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by allenu 4y ago
One place I worked had layoffs and project cancellations, so morale was way down. As a tone deaf move one day, we got an email saying as a treat because we appreciate you all being here despite how shitty everything is, you can purchase you
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by allenu 4y ago
I was with the author until I got to the picture of the sausage people. I like the idea of normal-looking people, too, but these all have the same face! Their eyes, nose, and mouth are all in the same locations. None of them stand out in an
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by allenu 4y ago
I remember one of the first MODs I heard in the early '90s was "Smart E's - Sesame's Treet" (i.e. the Sesame Street song remixed as a dance tune). I blew me away back then that that such a high fidelity sound could

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