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by andywood 15y ago
I'll believe there might be a talent shortage just as soon as one single person, who is not a colleague with whom I have a close personal rapport, approaches me either directly or through my network with an opportunity. That's what I'd expe
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by andywood 15y ago
For real-time rendering on modern GPUs, I recommend http://realtimerendering.com/book.html
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by andywood 15y ago
I've been here 6 years, and my observation has been that the startup culture as a whole leans away from MS, if anything. Startups founded by ex-Microsoft employees do seem to be more likely to use Microsoft tech, but certainly not always. B
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by andywood 15y ago
Begrudging the 'Google chef' is taking the effects of market forces that influence the relative pay of chefs and software developers, and trying to apply them by sheer assertion to the stock option lottery. The mechanics that influence pay
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by andywood 15y ago
I came to say the same. We have all three in my household, and the Android UI absolutely feels 'cheap' compared to the fluidly animated lushness of both WP7 and iOS.
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by andywood 15y ago
I don't excuse the individuals who embody such behavior. Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to internalize this type of culture.
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by andywood 15y ago
I suspect #1 is trying to get at something more general (like 'be humble'), but it isn't always true. There are also a lot of mediocre people working in the industry. In more than one instance I've seen recent college grads - and even no-co
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by andywood 15y ago
Labeling it an experiment or a "hack" doesn't change the fact that there is a large group of cooperative participants on one side, who feel violated by one or a few non-cooperating rogues on the other. Imagine something similar happening "i
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by andywood 15y ago
They declined as much as lots and lots of other normally-volatile stocks that are not recent IPOs. Making the story about recent tech IPOs is uninformative at best.
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by andywood 15y ago
1. All entities named in a way that describes their purpose as precisely as possible. Prerequisite: a design that carves the problem into concepts clear enough to permit precise naming. 2. Well-factored at all levels.
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by andywood 15y ago
Just remember, it isn't a matter of whether self-driving cars ever fail. They only have to do better than the current, abysmal ~3,000 fatalities per day.
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The Principles of Good Programming(area.autodesk.com)
64 points by andywood 15y ago|3 comments
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by andywood 15y ago
Not to mention things like Orcs & Elves, and Wolf3D for the iPhone. Carmack is a really bad example here!
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by andywood 15y ago
I don't think so. I usually sleep 7-8 hours. It really is just rotating priorities around. Like, I don't have to do any one of those things every single day. Some days are "work" days, where I pick something to work on. I don't always work
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by andywood 15y ago
I don't think side projects are mutually exclusive with work-life balance. Granted, I don't have children; but aside from that, I think I've been living a very full and action-packed life. Time-consuming outdoor hobbies, girlfriends, friend
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by andywood 15y ago
It isn't my definition. There's a fairly coherent consensus view of the salient points of the intro/extra dichotomy. You're distorting it. For example, the first half of your sentence beginning "Jung" is correct, but the second half is gros
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by andywood 15y ago
You're still doing it. Introversion is not social anxiety. I am categorically an introvert. I do not suffer in the slightest from social anxiety - I'm perfectly comfortable in crowds and most social situations. What you're doing in this com
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by andywood 15y ago
I totally agree with this. The article really put me off by beginning with outright moralizing. By all means, tell me the game isn't fun to play. Tell me it's all corridors and cutscenes. Tell me it's slow and buggy. Those are things I care
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by andywood 15y ago
I struggle constantly with this problem. As I see it, the main practical problem is that services have a 1-to-1 mapping from identity to account. This is compounded by the fact that the services often depend on one another - e.g. when I nee
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by andywood 15y ago
I relate to this very strongly, and it's the #1 thing stopping me from publicizing my work more. I see a lot of comments saying things like "I don't see the problem; I use X for work and Y for personal life." That isn't the problem. The pr
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by andywood 15y ago
I'll just point out that making this - or any other measure - into a vote, runs into the same problem that IMO is at the core of the overall "decline of HN" problem. Democratic decisions will tend to be compromised by the diluted community.
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by andywood 15y ago
In every case where I read or viewed a news story on a subject I had specialist or insider knowledge of, I've been dumbstruck by how much journalists get wrong. Simple facts have been mixed up. Statements that I gave or heard first-hand hav
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by andywood 15y ago
I started reading HN about 2 years ago. Jokes and "Internet snark" were extremely rare, if I ever saw them at all. To me, that was the single greatest thing about HN - much more important even than the articles. Subjectively, I've noticed a
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by andywood 15y ago
Yes. This is the paraglider version of a trike, which are usually based on hang gliders.
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by andywood 15y ago
Lots of MS employees have iPhones, or use Google in the course of work. Responses vary. Fellow enthusiasts may give you the high-five. Your peers, and even younger managers might give you a light-hearted ribbing. Old-timers might give you a
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by andywood 15y ago
For me, it induced a pleasant, mild hypnotic trance after about 5-7 minutes. Then, mild visual "floaties" dancing around in psychedelic patterns. I imagine this wouldn't be any good for people who are light-sensitive in negative ways (e.g.
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by andywood 15y ago
Very, very cool, for what it is. After about 7 minutes, I begin to see fairly interesting evolving kaleidoscopic patterns that are in my mind, and not actually on the screen. I'd like to go further, but the sound stops randomly after 3-7
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by andywood 15y ago
Yes, when I've discussed this with people I've often referred to the things I create as "my version of kids" or "my idea of a legacy". I never thought of it in terms of projection of ego, but that seems spot on.
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by andywood 15y ago
This post has me wondering about the health of my figurative soul. Not because it didn't move me - it did. The last sentence definitely brought tears to my eyes when I first read it, and then again when I thought of it again. No, the reas
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by andywood 15y ago
And then, there is Alex Grey. http://www.entheology.org/edoto/anmviewer.asp?a=295&z=4 http://www.google.com/search?q=alex%20grey&tbm=isch

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