arduinomancer

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Ask HN: How does the current job market compare to dotcom bubble?
9 points by arduinomancer 1y ago|3 comments
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by arduinomancer 1y ago
But they can’t make the product for that price so what’s the point?
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Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently?
9 points by arduinomancer 1y ago|13 comments
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by arduinomancer 1y ago
Wait till you hear about UK masters degrees
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by arduinomancer 1y ago
This is surprisingly popular among programmers
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by arduinomancer 1y ago
I generally don’t really care about what programming language I’m using To me algorithms and solving problems in the abstract sense are the actual interesting part of the job If discussing language/framework choices is the most interes
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by arduinomancer 1y ago
Not everyone is cranking out boilerplate web services/web apps
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Instagram artificially boosting negative comments(reddit.com)
6 points by arduinomancer 1y ago|1 comments
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by arduinomancer 1y ago
I don’t understand I get that you can assemble a phone PCB with SMT parts yourself, that’s not that crazy But is there actually an American made SoC that can be used for a phone?
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
Yep, fixing bugs/performance is just not valued by big companies No one gets promoted doing it
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I built my ideal mini computer(youtube.com)
1 points by arduinomancer 2y ago|0 comments
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
Not sure about UE but I’ve worked on other engines and usually you just have an interface that abstracts platform APIs and each platform implements the same interface The implementations get compiled in based on whatever platform you’re com
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
I think when you first start out as a programmer you’re impressed by complexity and complex solutions But once you’re more experienced you realize complexity is arbitrary and anyone can make things more complex
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
What do you mean low level? Do you think the Linux kernel could be written in a language without types enforced?
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
What makes you think they avoid it? When I was in uni CS majors could take multiple gamedev classes but they were electives
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
The problem I find with the gamedev subreddit is it seems like it’s 90% beginners And the focus is like all on 1-person indie projects with very little content from professional/AAA devs
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
I’m curious if this system would have some sort of checksum to know if the data was loaded correctly? I guess a more general question: do barcodes have checksums? Or QR codes for that matter?
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Cauzin Softstrip was the first commercial 2D barcode format, introduced in 1985(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by arduinomancer 2y ago|2 comments
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
Not completely tech related but I think at the moment culture is very maximalist Hyper-comercialization of music, social media, influencers, marvelification of movies, etc… Feels very saturated and overproduced at the moment I wouldn’t be s
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
Doubt it 2D printers are not open source and you can still print pretty much anything
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
It offers first party titles, you said it yourself
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
There’s nothing worse than listening to the audio of someone else scrolling TikTok Hearing the same 10 second clip of a song 20 times
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
This feels like one of the weakest PG articles The writing quality feels like that of a university student Just lots of assertions thrown out without any real backing
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
It’s covered if you major in computer engineering rather than CS Digital circuits, FPGAs, microcontrollers, basic electronics, lots of making stuff on breadboards One of my big undergrad projects was to build a CPU from scratch on an FPGA a
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
Obviously OP didn’t mean literally nothing else to do
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
Wow that is a cool concept Thanks for sharing
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
The end of this poem always sticks in my head Another good one is The Tyger by Blake https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
I typed in “violin” as an interest and it suggested getting a “personalized violin pick” as a gift Unfortunately thats not a thing, you don’t use a pick to play violin Classic AI (The actual links were to guitar picks)
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
It depends more on the team than the company Working at Amazon on boring internal HR tech is very different than working on S3
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by arduinomancer 2y ago
At least someone filmed a tour before it closed a few months ago https://youtu.be/OohnXELGQ74?si=UgHyjv6AKeaTF3kK

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