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by ganonm 7y ago
So if currently the recommended route is simply a function of journey time, could a map have a more sophisticated utility function that takes into account other variables like number of connections, mode of transport and pollution levels et
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by ganonm 7y ago
Java and some Ruby just to make sure it wasn't over optimised for a single language.
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by ganonm 7y ago
I impulse purchased the carrying case they released recently... Tbh not very happy with it. The molded foam inside the case only fits the keyboard but not the silicone wrist rests, which imo are vital. The space efficiency of the case is pr
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by ganonm 7y ago
Yep totally agree, in fact sometimes when people see it and ask me questions about it, I suggest they stand at my desk and lay their hands on the two islands. Even without typing a single character they almost invariably react extremely pos
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by ganonm 7y ago
This is a very good question and it did in fact occur to me when I was designing the keyboard layout. Partly due to this concern I stuck with a QWERTY layout for alphabetic characters, so I'd at least retain some familiarity with tradi
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by ganonm 7y ago
It's not just about improving the bandwidth (although that is nice), the one thing I wouldn't trade that the Ergodox gives me is a very low error rate in typing. This is hard to achieve with a traditional keyboard, especially when
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by ganonm 7y ago
Yeah I found it very painful at first (like learning Vim but perhaps 5x times worse). I highly recommend using typing.io to get used to it. Since the training examples are source code, it ensures you get exposed to special characters, which
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by ganonm 7y ago
Around 2 years ago now, I took the plunge and bought myself an Ergodox EZ split island keyboard. Quite franky, it is the biggest quantum leap in the ergonomic experience of interacting with a computer I have seen since learning Vim. It is c
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by ganonm 7y ago
Thanks! Yes there are possibly applications in the architecture space but I'm not very familiar with it so it's not a priority right now.
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by ganonm 7y ago
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/level-design/mod... Launched this a few months ago. I've made about $14 a month. In terms of return on investment I would have been better picking up pennies i
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by ganonm 7y ago
There are a lot of technical reasons why this may not be possible. For example, modern real-time lighting often uses precomputed data such as lightmaps to speed up/avoid real time calculations. For static geometry and lighting much of
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by ganonm 7y ago
Space itself is actually growing as well as celestial bodies having some relative motion that on average moves away from a common point. The growth in space itself is called inflation. Last time I studied cosmology (university) this was an
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Burnside's Lemma(brilliant.org)
1 points by ganonm 7y ago|0 comments
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by ganonm 7y ago
I worry that widespread camera tracking is an effective route to determining identities of otherwise anonymous online accounts. If you can work out times when people are unlikely to be posting content online (e.g. because they are seen carr
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by ganonm 7y ago
Apple service is atrocious. Don't they make you book an appointment and turn up at their store just to get someone to look at it? I hear of people who spend more time taking their laptops to the local Apple store than most people with
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Programming a Binary Search Using Sentinel Values(medium.com)
1 points by ganonm 7y ago|0 comments
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by ganonm 7y ago
One issue I find on mobile with HN is accidentaly hiding or flagging articles. It's very easy to do considering how close together flag, hide and comments are.
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by ganonm 7y ago
I delved into this exact area in the last startup I was at. I worked pretty extensively with Kuka 6 axis industrial robots and spent a lot of time programming them as well as integrating them with our custom hardware. Totally agree that the
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by ganonm 7y ago
I'm going to safely assume you're not an idiot. The only major hurdle I can see would be not fully grokking the core concepts. I suspect this might not be helped by the domain specific terminology that isn't used much outside
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by ganonm 7y ago
Thank you! It's all a bit of a shot in the dark for me and I have set my expectations very low for any sort of revenue - I mostly did it as a learning experience. Hopefully it's helpful to some people though.
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by ganonm 7y ago
Yes, there are many gradual paths to learning Unity. I would highly recommend following the official introductory tutorial series. This covers core topics like Components, Transforms, Prefabs, Game Loop etc. After this it gets a bit less cl
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by ganonm 7y ago
I'm a software engineer who has until now mostly worked on web applications (backend and frontend). I have recently been learning Unity3D which has been immensely satisfying. The breadth and depth of skills needed to tackle projects in
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by ganonm 7y ago
I feel like Software Eningeering and Contract Law have many parallels and similarities. What does a contract and a codebase have in common? 90% of the content is covering bizarre edge cases and eventualities.
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by ganonm 7y ago
"Since the ground-fault current path has inherently much higher resistance than the neutral wire, the amount of current flowing through the circuit jumps enormously during a ground-fault." This is incorrect (probably a typo) - the
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by ganonm 7y ago
Sleeper trains make so much sense for travel over land. They are often competitively priced with air travel, they pollute a lot less and the time saved can be huge when you consider that you spend time travelling when you would otherwise b
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by ganonm 7y ago
I feel like the best desktop interface I have used is Ubuntu's workspace implementation. Typically you have one app, e.g. your browser, per workspace and seamlessly transition between them using ctrl + alt + arrows. The animation is ve
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by ganonm 7y ago
If the proverbial 'man from mars' took a look at developed Western society what might he see? A middle aged man gets up at 7am and climbs into a car, conveniently parked right beside the shabby dwelling he sleeps in. He then spend
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by ganonm 7y ago
You can represent 'primitives' as objects at compile time and treat them as primitives at runtime. Kotlin does this for example.
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by ganonm 7y ago
Well, the problem with a value not having a corresponding hash is that it can't be used in any code that relies upon it having a hash. E.g. in Java, there are many hash based data structures that work for any object as they all have ha
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by ganonm 7y ago
Yes, I agree, I don't understand why modern languages don't make references immutable by default. The best I've seen is symmetry between val and var. Talking about safe defaults, I remember being very disappointed when Jetbra

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