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by allenu 6y ago
What I think of when I think of Deus Ex was back then it was receiving accolades and a year or two after it came out I decided to give it a try. I saw they had a really inexpensive version out that was called Deus Ex: Special Limited Editio
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by allenu 6y ago
Amen. I have similar experiences working with designers and PMs and this is my ideal as well. Designers don’t know the software architectural constraints and what is easy to code up and what is not. Engineers do. PMs know what trade offs th
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by allenu 6y ago
The two things that fall apart for me about using games to teach children in the future is 1) learning is not just remembering facts, it's also interacting with others; and 2) not everyone learns the same way, some are not going to be
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by allenu 6y ago
I am working on a new flash card app for macOS and iOS. I was tired of trying to use things like Anki or online options for language flash cards that were either hard to use or not open enough. My app is easy to use, provides stats, offers
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by allenu 6y ago
My issue with it is that a hand-wavy qualification that communicates only what you want it to mean. How does one define "best" at all in this context? If you devote all your efforts to researching a problem no one is looking at an
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by allenu 6y ago
This is so cool. I just loaded up the Seattle one to get a feel for the city pre-COVID.
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by allenu 6y ago
I am working on a flash card app and specifically did not want to have to create a SaaS to support cross-device data sync, so have opted instead to create a journal of the data mutations on each device and having those (i.e. it's CRDT)
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by allenu 6y ago
I think that attitude is the right one. Make decisions as if you cannot predict the future and you will be on a better path than one where you think you can. The way I look at it, you have the most unknowns and risk at the start of a projec
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by allenu 6y ago
I think there can be debate on what is "minimum information". I'd also say "easy" for one developer may be challenging for another developer if the domain of the model is foreign to them. A lot of frameworks require
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by allenu 6y ago
So much of coding and seeing good and bad design patterns is unconscious pattern matching and unconscious heuristics. I have the same experience of trying to put into words why one design pattern is better than another and it definitely is
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree with the notion. I find that a lot of less experienced devs I work with like to prioritize "ease of use" in API design over other things, such as testability, orthogonality, decoupledness, reversibility, etc. If an API is
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by allenu 6y ago
Same here. I think as a kid I tried to work out what the fold-in would look like without messing up the page itself. :-)
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by allenu 6y ago
I try to avoid classes as much as possible these days. I do mac/iOS app development, so I can't avoid it since I need them for defining UI components. However, for non-UI code, I tend to use classes to compose separate pieces of s
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by allenu 6y ago
I can see that happening at Microsoft for sure. There's no doubt legal would've been involved with the conversations and gave heads up to all people on the interview loop.
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by allenu 6y ago
I totally agree. It's a totally different world inside a huge company like Microsoft, though. It's massive and its own little world. After working inside for a few years, you start thinking that it's "normal". You s
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by allenu 6y ago
This was definitely not a great experience, but my hunch is what happened is some higher ups decided no, they don't need to hire you, the original team tells recruiting to notify you, recruiting drops the ball somehow, team goes on wit
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by allenu 6y ago
Yeah, I don't necessarily think the meetings thing is something everyone's experiencing. For my team, the challenge is that the projects we are working on at the moment do span multiple teams, so it's kind of the worst time t
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by allenu 6y ago
I totally agree. I was super productive in the first month of WFH, but that spike is going away, and I think a large part of it is meeting fatigue. The projects we are working on require coordinating with lots of devs within our team and th
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by allenu 6y ago
Very cool demos to play around with there! I was hoping it would go into the psychology of why distortion works, but this was still awesome. I've found that the nice thing about distortion, especially in shoegaze music like My Bloody V
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by allenu 6y ago
Right, good point there. People without kids definitely have way more time and energy to devote to work than those with.
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by allenu 6y ago
My even more cynical take is that companies are finding employees are way more productive working from home. I think part of it could be that with COVID-19, a lot of us are looking for an outlet for our energies, and so are working harder t
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by allenu 6y ago
Totally agree. So much of programming and designing is figuring out what pattern your code is falling into and what stuff "is" or "means". I believe it's totally okay to name things utilities when you haven't y
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by allenu 6y ago
I found the sourcehut page really hard to look at because there's no sense of visual hierarchy. Everything is at the same equal "level" for attention, so your eye just goes all over trying to find something to anchor to but i
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by allenu 6y ago
Yup! See my other post. I was asked to pick computers and I figured they'd all be in the greyish boxes and not the colorful ones. Turns out it was a good assumption.
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by allenu 6y ago
This was great. I failed the first time when it asked for traffic lights. Then it asked to click on all computers and I just picked all the greyish squares since all the others were seemed like shots of "natural" things. Got in th
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by allenu 7y ago
Agreed. As soon as I see a page asking me to create an account, I nope out of there immediately.
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by allenu 7y ago
I’m working on a better SRS-based flash card app. I know there’s Anki and some solutions online, but I have not been able to find a good app-based solution (I.e. make your own cards, with no service subscription). Most of the flash card app
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by allenu 7y ago
Exactly. How many artists draw or paint on the side? How many musicians write music for themselves? How many writers write stories for fun?
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by allenu 7y ago
It doesn't add any benefit to my experience. I'd prefer real keys that I don't need to look at. I could hit volume up/down easily on the previous models. Using Terminal, I use the Esc key a lot for navigating and having
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by allenu 7y ago
My feedback is the story itself has no flavor or personality to it. It’s essentially “we’ve worked in this space all our careers and then decided to start a company.” What I would suggest is to add your personalities and some interesting de

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