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by com2kid 2y ago
Salaries in Seattle are sky high across the board. I've seen house painters getting paid 100/hr, that was obviously on the high end, but 60/he isn't unreasonable around here.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Super fun, but not being able to scroll text within an oval using the scroll wheel kinda sucks on desktop. The mobile UI is really slick though! I feel like this UI would be good for some sort of narrative game, where each oval is a room an
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by com2kid 2y ago
Oh damn, I was probably there at the time, working in the building, and was completely unaware of the talk! That would've been awesome! By that time though my org had spun out of Xbox to become the Microsoft Band team, so we didn'
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by com2kid 2y ago
Oh sweet, thanks for the link. It sounds like it was harder getting things running on the XB1's tiny CPU vs running an emulator on monster dev machines, no surprise there! :-D
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Salaries are not set according to how much you need the money. This is not true at all. When I started working at Microsoft in 2007, Microsoft was one of the most profitable tech companies of all time. (They still are!) Salaries in the
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by com2kid 2y ago
The only reason US engineering salaries are high is because of broken housing policies in US coastal cities. IMHO this will be the downfall of US engineering, the high salaries will make US engineers too uncompetitive.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators are still borderline unusable on my new-ish PC. This is unfortunate as a decade ago Microsoft had an internal emulator for Xbox 360 that ran at near native speed. I am curious if that emulator is what it used
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by com2kid 2y ago
This is the type of innovations that AI should be used for. The fact that this type of product wasn't the very first thing Microsoft tried to create is unfortunate. Microsoft is kinda-sorta pushing for machines that can do AI stuff loc
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by com2kid 2y ago
Reading the article my biggest take away is how low executive compensations are in Germany compared to the US. The top ranking ICs at US tech companies can hit low 7 figures!
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by com2kid 2y ago
Contexts has both hotkeys and a visual side bar that may do what you are asking.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Do it all locally. I wrote a blog post[1] describing what a local only LLM could do. The answer is quite a lot with today's technology. The question is - do any of the tech giants actually want to build it? The locally hosted scenarios
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by com2kid 2y ago
I started blogging to record the history of projects I've worked on (e.g. Microsoft Band https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/history-of-microsoft... Launching HBO Max https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I'm told the eggs taste way better, I don't really notice it because I really only eat my own eggs, but perhaps I just got used to them At 2 years old my son could blind taste test tell the difference between my neighbor&#x27
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by com2kid 2y ago
Design patterns are independent of the implementation technology. OO and virtual functions can be implemented in C by looking up function pointers in a table. Reference counting can be done by manually incrementing and decrementing referenc
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by com2kid 2y ago
With people using LLMs instead of googling, there isn't an incentive for people to write tutorial blog posts.
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by com2kid 2y ago
BTW You can extend cursor out with new knowledge and the svelte community has a config file you can throw at cursor that'll add svelte 5 support.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Warner Bros didn't buy out Discovery, other way around really. In return for taking on loads of debt, Discovery got ownership of WB. HBO Max was an incredibly lean org, around 200-300 engineers at launch, 1/10th the size of its co
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by com2kid 2y ago
This comment reminds me that despite having built lots of cool stuff in my career, that in reality I've just barely done anything that can be called "software engineering".
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by com2kid 2y ago
You forgot snes! https://snes-css.sadlative.com/
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by com2kid 2y ago
Get involved with local politics. Join community planning boards, go to city council meetings, and voice support for relaxing rules around zoning. One of the small cities close to Seattle (Shoreline) just announced radical changes to their
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by com2kid 2y ago
Btw that site runs horribly in chrome on a pixel 9. The frame rate is low and scrolling has lots of jank. Also the page width is just a little bit wider than my screen width, so there is horizontal scrolling as well.
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by com2kid 2y ago
There is a max % take insurance companies can have. The easy as hell solution to this is insurance companies collude with hospitals to charge patients more. 5% of 5000 is more than 5% of 2000. In some cases insurance companies just buy up h
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by com2kid 2y ago
My timeline got cancelled because mega corp. I have however blogged about it! https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/history-of-microsoft... for the start of the journey. Turns out if you are designing an embedded OS ( htt
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I submit that this isn’t my reality.I never spontaneously break out a whiteboard., the same way I dont spontaneously break out into a dance routine. Countless times I've walked up to someone and asked "hey can I work through
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by com2kid 2y ago
My whiteboard diagrams are also ugly, but I can draw ugly diagrams on a real whiteboard without cognitive overhead. Meanwhile diagraming tools have friction that a pen doesn't. Also I've been to plenty of meetings where engineers
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by com2kid 2y ago
The number of times, early in my career, I had senior engineers come and hold impromptu learning sessions is one of the reasons why I'm such a good engineer today. Being able to have robust discussions about software engineering, best
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by com2kid 2y ago
Don't overcomplicate things. Whiteboards are way better than even the best of online tools and drawing with a mouse. For that matter, post-it notes on a wall are better than JIRA. At one workplace everyone had glass table so they could
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by com2kid 2y ago
> We're just talking to each other, shooting the s*, and it was cool to meet some Junior Devs who were just starting their career. But none of that made me a more productive worker. I solved an incredibly difficult technical problem
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by com2kid 2y ago
Windows used to work about this well back in the XP days, possibly Windows 7 as well. Plenty of times I hit the "sleep" button that Logitech put right next to the esc key (....) and resumed the system to find everything working as
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by com2kid 2y ago
In the 90s Microsoft's mission statement was to get a PC in every house. To accomplish this, and Microsoft did pull it off, they worked to commoditize every aspect of PCs, and they slowly drove the profits of PC OEMs down to almost zer

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