brendan0powers

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by brendan0powers 2y ago
One of the things I often find missing in articles and discussion of these topics here on HN is the understanding that different people are really quite different. Articles or comments like this often read like moral judgements. You should
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by brendan0powers 4y ago
This looks like a form Epic would send to software vendors who have not passed one of the industry standard security certifications (SOC 2, for example). This is common practice for large enterprises when engaging with new vendors. These ar
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by brendan0powers 5y ago
tl;dr If you've got an embedded system (Arduino say) and you need to communicate with it over seiral/USB/etc, Bakelite takes care of all the tedious bits like data serialization, framing, etc... I wrote this after seeing many
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Show HN: Bakelite – making it easier to communicate with your firmware(github.com)
4 points by brendan0powers 5y ago|1 comments
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by brendan0powers 5y ago
This is one of those things you just have to try and see if it works. I've quit caffeine completely for a few weeks, and didn't notice a difference in my sleep quality.
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The Danger of “What If...”(brendanp.com)
2 points by brendan0powers 5y ago|0 comments
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by brendan0powers 6y ago
This is doable. I'm using the Quest, so you don't have access to the camera images, but you can do a calibration phase where you figure out how a user's hands map to keys. I'm not sure the hand tracking is accurate enoug
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by brendan0powers 6y ago
I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be quite challenging. It feels really good when
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by brendan0powers 6y ago
The fact that this article exists makes me happy.
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by brendan0powers 7y ago
Most people find it very hard to delete things. Even archiving it for later is harder than you'd think. Easing into it seems like a better approach if you haven't run across this concept before. Clearly, you don't have that p
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Burn Your Backlog(brendanp.com)
4 points by brendan0powers 7y ago|3 comments
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How to Write Interview Questions That Don't Suck(brendanp.com)
1 points by brendan0powers 7y ago|0 comments