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by allenu 5y ago
Absolutely. I remember when I first tried the game out in a computer store back then being blown away at how real it all felt. I will say, seeing the ray tracing clip here with the dynamic shadows sort of gave me that same feeling of seeing
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by allenu 5y ago
The inverse to this is the old quote attributed to Joe Biden: “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” If you want to see what someone values, look at where they spend their time, money, resourc
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by allenu 5y ago
Could rounded corners help here?
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by allenu 5y ago
I followed the link to the flatgame game jam and tried a few of the submissions. I really like the aesthetic. There's something comforting about its non-digital art. It's always nice to see creative projects like these, so thanks
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by allenu 5y ago
Even then, Twitter is finding more ways to shove "More Tweets" at you. I remember back in the day you'd expand a tweet and just see it and the responses, but now you immediately get "more tweets" below it that have
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by allenu 5y ago
Zillow Offers. The name of the iBuying service the company provided. (Former Zillow myself, as of a couple of weeks ago.)
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by allenu 5y ago
Wow. This is so incredibly well done. The tech itself is amazing, but so is the design of everything, not to mention it’s all well presented visually. It reminds me of the classic “mother of all demos”.
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by allenu 5y ago
I've noticed it too. It seems like they've been all coached to have a "power stance" as they present.
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by allenu 5y ago
Thanks for sharing the story. I'm always surprised whenever I read about the time it takes to prepare for these presentations. On stage, it looks absolutely effortless, and dare I say, simple? As though the products are so easy to use,
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by allenu 5y ago
It’s unfortunate, but I’ve found that the people who end up running companies are the ones who do well with the hierarchical structure, so they end up biasing the company towards that model. Anyone who wants to “move up” or contribute in a
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by allenu 5y ago
I was disappointed about their move to a subscription model. Luckily. I had purchased their previous version and that thankfully still works. It’s a beautiful app and makes creating mind maps easy. To the other poster’s comments, I use mind
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by allenu 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this. That was my first question, i.e. was the star background hardcoded (or at least statically generated)? That's super interesting that it was built-in at all. I suppose so many shooter games had starfield back
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by allenu 5y ago
This is very cool. Nice job on this! I like how slick the UI feels when I'm scrolling up and down the tutorial steps. One quick piece of feedback that I saw right away: Clicking on the next step on the left and then seeing the video up
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by allenu 5y ago
I've seen something similar where some automated unit tests always passed and when I tried to run it locally would always fail. After digging around I realized it was making assumptions about the timezone it ran in, which was on the ea
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by allenu 5y ago
Yup, good callout. There's definitely tweaks I could make to get a better "feel". For some background, I have a state machine for the animations and I've set up some to be interruptible starting on certain animations, an
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by allenu 5y ago
This is great! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to share it with some friends. I once had a goal of working on a beat 'em up engine for fun. I wrote one version on Mac and then later thought to write it in javascript. Like many other
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by allenu 5y ago
I've noticed myself doing this in the last year or so. I've done it all my life, I'm sure, but it's the first time I really recognized the behavior. I wish I had caught it sooner because it definitely comes across as rud
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by allenu 5y ago
I often sit through ads when watching sports on TV because I can’t be bothered to reach for the remote to mute it. However, when I watch YouTube on my phone, I instantly mute the device and look away as soon as an ad plays. After a few seco
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by allenu 5y ago
I immediately thought of the Hipster PDA as well. I'm so glad the page is still up after all these years!
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by allenu 5y ago
This is one of my favorite talks. It also helped things click for me regarding state. I try to use immutability wherever I can now and when there are unavoidable state changes, I try to understand and constrain the factors that could lead t
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by allenu 5y ago
I've gotten quite good at using Inkscape to design my own app icons. What really helped me understand it better was reading The Book of Inkscape [1]. [1] https://nostarch.com/inkscape2E
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by allenu 5y ago
You can't even pump gas without having an auto-play video start at the pump after you've started filling up your tank. I know I can choose not to watch the video, but I can't avoid hearing it play as I stand there waiting for
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by allenu 5y ago
Oh no, I didn’t hear that the LCM shut down. That’s a real downer. I went there a few times, including one time when they had a vintage computing fair.
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by allenu 5y ago
I've also found brainstorming isn't great for more "creative" thinkers. In a group setting it's easy to say "no that won't work" or not get buy-in on the spot, so ideas that aren't mainstream get
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by allenu 5y ago
At some point in my 20-year career, I've realized there isn't a tight coupling of the work you do when it comes to effort, time, and overall impact and the pay that you receive. I've been on both ends where I worked extra har
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by allenu 5y ago
It sounded like their workplace essentially eliminated any incentive to go beyond expectations after their job was redefined.
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by allenu 5y ago
This is my first time reading about this OS and the naming is very strange to me. I don't understand why they decided to go with "!_" in the middle. It feels a little too techy for a mainstream user. Why not PopOS or Pop OS?
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by allenu 5y ago
> Engagement around conflict works at all age ranges though. I've noticed that the best way to get people to engage in a problem is to state an opinion that is so obviously wrong. People go out of their way to tell you that it'
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by allenu 5y ago
I agree with the author. Learning to write good code, and well designed systems, requires writing lots of code. The best way to do that is just pump it out. It’s harder to write a lot of code if you try to make it perfect and cover a lot of
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by allenu 5y ago
It's a fun game and I like that you can only play once per day. I have to admit I was surprised to find that the game was free, especially after seeing the NY Times article with its narrative of "Wordle is a love story". I th

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