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by bartread 5y ago
Dell XPS with both onboard and discrete graphics. Funnily enough I just tried it on my 2015 MBP, which likewise has two GPUs, and - ridiculously - it runs much more smoothly.
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by bartread 5y ago
It looks really cool (I love the flat poly aesthetic), however some hopefully helpful feedback: - Framerate isn't wonderful (20 - 30 fps on my laptop, which will happily run graphically more intensive JS demos at 60fps usually), and I
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by bartread 5y ago
I remember downloading it at my first job back in 2000 or 2001 but I didn't make much use of it. Even back then there were plenty of alternatives available. I seem to remember that I made quite heavy use of XEmacs for editing HTML and
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by bartread 5y ago
> and people do not lose confidence in the site owner. No, but some of us do get incredibly pissed off with them. It's unendingly tiresome to find that some piece of content has disappeared from the web, or been moved without a re
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by bartread 5y ago
You of course know this already but it's not the machines that are wasteful, but rather the software we run on them and - by extension - the developers who create that software. UI latency is a never ending source of frustration to me,
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by bartread 5y ago
> If it succeeds even a little, though, they'll bake it into our TVs and phones that are plugged in at night. Those are much harder for people to give up. Well, yeah, but having a TV in your bedroom isn't necessarily the best i
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by bartread 5y ago
Look, I don't mind reading long form - in fact, I strongly prefer it - but this rambling slow-walk of an article is an incredibly infuriating read. Moreover the examples the author pulls out as "not being studied by science"
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by bartread 5y ago
> I don't know if I'm interested until I have a fair amount of detail about the posting. Typically recruiters are responsible for multiple roles, and will be dealing with an absolute hail of email. One learns by experience that
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by bartread 5y ago
Yes, but as an employer I use both external recruiters, as well as an in-house recruiter, and we all talk to eachother. Recruiters don't operate in a vacuum. It's really no skin off the recruiter's nose if you choose to be di
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by bartread 5y ago
It's possible this might vary by company or by recruiter. We don't make much use of external recruiters for technical roles (there are a couple that we do use from time to time). We do talk to them about their candidates, and th
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by bartread 5y ago
Understand that I'm not singling you out here because I see similar kinds of comments on lots of recruitment related threads on HN, but this comment: > My advice for engineers is: understand what manner of communication you most pre
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by bartread 5y ago
> Any time I see an application form that wants facebook/linkedin/github details I just close the window. You might be doing yourself a disservice there. It varies by company but I ask our HR team to offer the option of Linke
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by bartread 5y ago
Nokia? Lack of scale? Nokia couldn't compete because they made a string of incredibly poor investment and management decisions, such as the N-Gage, until their mobile division was eventually bought out by Microsoft. Even with Microsoft
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US super-rich 'pay almost no income tax'(bbc.co.uk)
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by bartread 5y ago
A brief observation: this style of "advocacy discussion" or "advocacy interpretation/listening" is sadly not limited to programming languages. It's something that I've seen is prevalent in many aspects of
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by bartread 5y ago
It's OK though, because large swathes of this discussion seem to have turned HN into reddit, at least temporarily. Normal service will no doubt resume in due course.
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by bartread 5y ago
I've made a lot of foul-ups in the course of my career. When people ask me about mistakes I've made and what I've learned from them during interviews it's generally an easy question to answer because I have this overstuf
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by bartread 5y ago
> "deeply passionate about Agile" It makes me low key angry because I simply don't believe that Agile is anywhere near interesting enough to justify being "deeply passionate" about: it comes off as phoney. Beyond
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by bartread 5y ago
I think one needs to be a bit selective here. About 8 years ago I bought the cheapest catering/professional microwave/combioven I could get my hands on. I did this because I got tired of consumer units with overcomplicated UIs des
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by bartread 5y ago
Not really, especially because when playing on the move I'm always wearing headphones/earbuds so the device's internal speakers are irrelevant. The screen size issue is marginal at best. You're trading it for a bulkier d
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by bartread 5y ago
This is the closest story I found: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-35232827 . But I do remember, and I'm sure it was also on the BBC, a piece several years ago where they demonstrated "physical b
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by bartread 5y ago
Haha, yeah... well... brace for the impact of a passing but possibly prolonged fad. It happened once before when the iPhone 2G and 3G came out, plus some of the early Samsung Android tablets. I'd say it's likely to go bigger this
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by bartread 5y ago
I did mention using a physical controller toward the end of the post. But then it's unclear what the advantage is versus doing that with your existing phone (as I say, unless you already have a Duo).
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by bartread 5y ago
FWIW I 100% agree with you about touch controls in cars. I even considered drawing a parallel between the two but thought my post was already long enough.
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by bartread 5y ago
No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! Touch controls for most games suck (I've tried). Replicating somebody's Xbox controller on the second screen sucks . It's unendingly annoying when you die over and over in a game because your thum
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by bartread 5y ago
That's interesting but I don't think it's anything like a conclusive answer on whether tardigrades can travel between habitable worlds on asteroids, meteors, comets, and other objects travelling through space. Plenty of meteo
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by bartread 5y ago
About 5 years ago I briefly contracted for a large multinational, who shall remain nameless, who were still running a version of some Lotus thing (I forget whether it was Notes or Smartsuite) that was well over a decade out of support, and
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by bartread 5y ago
Sure, but it's not like it's trivial to build games of the quality he has: if you have any doubts about that just look at the quantity of really terrible games available for 8-bit platforms. Nobody said that what he's trying
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by bartread 5y ago
I have pissed and moaned at length about the ZX Spectrum Next so I'm not about to recapitulate all of that here. OTOH David Murray (The 8-bit Guy on YouTue), who is leading the Commander X16 project, does have a strong history of execu
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by bartread 5y ago
"The new plan is stupid" is rude because it's not actionable. It doesn't say what specifically is wrong, why it's wrong, or how it could be better. The older I get the less tolerant I am of people simply venting or

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