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by allenu 5y ago
To me, working from home during the pandemic has made my employer fungible. Having to commute to work used to mean that where my job was located mattered. Being physically located at the office meant more socializing with coworkers, so comp
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by allenu 5y ago
Wow, do you know if it's because people quit or were sick at home with Covid? I remember the week after New Year's going into a grocery store (Ballard Market here in Seattle) and there were probably around 50% of the employees nor
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by allenu 5y ago
Site is down, unfortunately. (At first I thought the broken link was a joke about not having a blog.)
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by allenu 5y ago
It honestly scared me too when I saw it pop out of the side of the screen. I've viewed this blog before and had the same reaction. It's cute, but I'm sure you and I aren't alone.
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by allenu 5y ago
That was fun. I'm genuinely shocked pineapple on pizza is in a dead heat. I'm a fan and I thought it would be less popular, but this makes me realize why debates rage on about it.
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by allenu 5y ago
Oh I don’t disagree with your comment about integrity. I just don’t think good work is enough in the corporate rat race. I know when I’ve done good work and I’m proud of it, and I do my best to put good effort into whatever I do, but I’m no
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by allenu 5y ago
> If you meet your goals early and announce that, you just get more work. Not only that, the larger the company you work for, the more likely the more people will be involved in your project. That leads to all sorts of inefficiencies. If
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by allenu 5y ago
> You win if by win you mean fool everyone to pay you for nothing, if you're someone who gets satisfaction mostly from feeling smarter than others and "winning", that sounds adequate There have been many times in my career
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by allenu 5y ago
This reminds me of a case of a director asking a "tough question" of a dev team as a way of providing feedback. I don't think the feedback was taken the right way in this case. I was in a meeting where a group of devs were pr
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by allenu 5y ago
This is very similar to documentary series today on streaming services. There's not a whole lot of story to fill 4-5 episodes, but they need to pad it, so they have meandering narratives and asides that don't really add to the ove
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by allenu 5y ago
I agree. I can't believe I had never thought that a public QR code may be untrustable until now. This is going to make me a bit more paranoid now when scanning them for parking purposes.
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by allenu 5y ago
I leafed through that and many other books at the library when I was getting into computing as a teen. I remember the Norton books were as thick as phone books and had just about everything you wanted to know about PCs.
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by allenu 5y ago
Can you elaborate on your success rate and how frequently you work on new ideas and retire failed ones? I'm curious how you decide to pursue an idea and how you measure if something is working now that you've done this for a while
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by allenu 5y ago
I was taking stock of all the streaming services I have recently (too many now) and realized Netflix is one I can easily do without. I'm not super into their originals and many movies I do want to watch aren't on the service anywa
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by allenu 5y ago
> Some people genuinely like the green cast of the 2008 Blu-ray. I never did the see the original Matrix movie in theaters (I watched on a "DivX;)" rip provided by my roommate at the time). Did the original theater version not
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by allenu 5y ago
I think you're right. The RGB values clearly show it's green-gray.
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by allenu 5y ago
Not only that, but riding the appreciation of AMZN and GOOG stock (or just tech in general) in the last couple of years. It appears from the graph that this person had a lot of investments in tech and that the recent bull run helped them tr
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by allenu 5y ago
> The GFX ROM and the 68000 instructions ROM as burned separately. The problem Akiman describe is that the GFX ROM had been burned but he could still make changes to the instructions. The sprite data was already burned to ROMs, but they
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by allenu 5y ago
I think this is where a lot of us don't see the similarity between artificial and real scarcity. The real scarcity of physical collectibles is not only due to their limited numbers, but also, I believe, due to the fact that they are ph
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by allenu 5y ago
That’s funny. I’ve been in it for 20 years and I feel like we should be okay with hacks like this more. Isolated fixes like this usually don’t cause any knock-on effects, get the job done, and usually don’t change much. Of course, hacks in
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by allenu 5y ago
We had a case of this recently where I work. The project I've been on for the last couple of years has had dashboards and monitors and we as engineers have been striving to keep the system humming and if any issues trigger alarms, we j
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by allenu 5y ago
Perhaps you were thinking of SFIBM/SF2IBM, aka SFLIU [1], a homebrew version of SF2 for PCs written by a Korean dev. There were specs of the file formats used out on the internet at the time and I remember the image files were stored a
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by allenu 5y ago
It has had such a cultural impact to those of us who grew up with it. I was a teenager when SFII came out and have very fond memories of playing it at arcades and convenience stores with friends. I started learning how to code back then and
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by allenu 5y ago
I love Fabien Sanglard's work. I've read through his books on Doom and Wolfenstein and never would've imagined he'd start looking at sprites for Street Fighter II. This is really great stuff and I think important as &quo
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by allenu 5y ago
I've had similar experiences on many projects. You start out thinking something is going to be super simple and you provide estimates that match your naive design and later find it'll take 2.5x-5x longer than you wanted. It's
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by allenu 5y ago
To me, a big part of my mental shift was just realizing how much code or process I follow doesn't actually deliver customer value. I want to make things that affect people or improve lives and the longer I spend polishing what I'm
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by allenu 5y ago
I think I've spent too much time on learning and also too much time in planning earlier in my career and life. I think it's a blind spot if you're an analytical type. It ends up being an excuse to not complete things. There&#
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by allenu 5y ago
I don't have any advice about what you should do next, but what you're experiencing is common amongst people who've become rich "overnight". Look at the difficulties Notch, the creator of Minecraft, had with his suc
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by allenu 5y ago
I remember about 10 years ago or so, smartphone addiction was something we talked about as well. People looking at their phones during dinner out was something we consciously called out. Now, it's such a normal thing that in commercial
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by allenu 5y ago
It was such a smaller world. I remember how exciting it was that someone on a local BBS responded to a post. I got even more excited when I wrote a post on FidoNet and got a response from someone on the other side of the continent. I was a

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