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by henning 4y ago
It's just like the rebellious web designs of the 90s, where 1.5 mb Flash splash screens wouldn't load on broadband.
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by henning 4y ago
Web 3 is going great!
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by henning 4y ago
Celeste's challenge does not derive from executing individual moves, it's about chaining them together in clever, fun ways. Please list what platformers/software you work on so I can avoid using them.
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by henning 4y ago
No, they're little affordances to make a challenging game approachable by more people.
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by henning 4y ago
In 2022, there are mechanics people will want for your game to feel good. This will vary from game to game, but I think most games will want coyote time and jump buffering. https://twitter.com/maddythorson/status/1
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Which Parsing Approach?(tratt.net)
3 points by henning 4y ago|1 comments
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Stupid Dog(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
1 points by henning 4y ago|0 comments
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by henning 4y ago
McIlroy would have killed it here on Hacker News if it existed back then. "Show HN: 6-line shell script beats 8-page Don Knuth program"
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by henning 4y ago
> Not brilliant, but hey, it’s a cheap Android tablet, what can you expect? People on cheap Android tablets deserve the same experience as anyone else. You aren't rendering 3d graphics, you're displaying a few hundred character
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by henning 4y ago
> average hourly wages in the U.S. oil and gas extraction industry are still below pre-pandemic levels > We're competing against Amazon hiring drivers Nobody wants to work* now amirite?? *Nobody wants to work at your shitty oil r
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by henning 5y ago
How do you know the other compiler is "clean"? That just begs the question. Also, different compilers could produce different, equally valid instructions, such as debug vs. release builds. There are malware analysts who are good a
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by henning 5y ago
There is plenty of room for excellence in the humble day-to-day glue programming this post talks about. There are arguably better and worse glue programmers. I have gotten better at doing the kind of work the post describes. I also think ma
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by henning 5y ago
rsync + a bash script doesn't sound so bad now. (I don't give a fuck what the market or normies want)
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by henning 5y ago
Hopefully Kubernetes does die. Most companies write shit slow software and then think they're big smart boys because they have to buy $20,000/month of servers to make it not be unusable. In many shops it could and should be replac
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by henning 5y ago
> We need new thinking to create something much better than what came before. No we don't. Google needs to go back to what made it successful: showing web pages that have the words you search for, untainted by SEO shit.
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by henning 5y ago
The number of lines in a file doesn't necessarily mean anything. SQLite is compiled as a single file: https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html . It depends on the structure that is in that file. If this app was factore
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Free Book: Mining of Massive Datasets(mmds.org)
1 points by henning 5y ago|0 comments
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by henning 5y ago
> If you're not communicating the state of the thing you're working on with the people who need to know then you have a problem. You're acting like it matters that you're communicating that there has been a setback or
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by henning 5y ago
This is sort of like philosophical arguments where someone concludes the universe doesn't exist and then everyone leaves to get lunch. Like, what are you supposed to do? Not get out of bed? There are real legal issues over bad uses of
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by henning 5y ago
I translated a few important parts: > If you’re not making your delivery timelines and this is a surprise to your organization, you and your manager have a problem When the bullshit arbitrary estimates you gave became bullshit arbitrary
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by henning 5y ago
The author has the luxury of not needing to do constant side projects and professional development. I envy his professional achievement/job security/indifference.
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by henning 5y ago
I typed in "support vector machine" and got an error. The page was blue and no content loaded. In the console, there was a stack trace: react-dom.production.min.js:216 Error: Invalid TLD {"parts":["scikit-learn&quo
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Xenobot(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by henning 5y ago|0 comments
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Internet Congestion Collapse in 1986(youtube.com)
3 points by henning 5y ago|0 comments
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by henning 5y ago
This is frustrating. Very realistic and true to what playing golf IRL feels like.
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by henning 5y ago
> I once worked at a small company of insanely productive engineers. Which one? https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearlleff/ only shows internships at Tumblr, Amazon and LinkedIn. This sounds like those contrived mor
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by henning 5y ago
Yes, especially if your entire universe of possible choices are almost identical to what you use now, by definition, everything under consideration offers no new ideas. Anything with actual new ideas is automatically excluded without consid
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by henning 5y ago
> You Might Not Need NPM If it's like every other JavaScript project I've been on since 2016, it's going to actually require thousands of JavaScript packages and doing everything with it is going to be slow as molasses eve
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by henning 5y ago
> I totally get where they are coming from but it does make it sound like unsupported software That's exactly what it is, exactly how it says in the license: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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by henning 5y ago
You don't know what people are actually going through without gathering more information. Maybe they are in the wrong job or field, maybe their coworkers are just jerks and they have insecurity due to how poeple have treated them in th

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