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by hunterloftis 5y ago
> It's not even interesting that the M1 is "slightly" beaten by a Mac Pro's Xeon, because _nobody is doing raytracing on CPUs._ This is backwards - Nearly all major raytracing workloads today are done primarily on CPU
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by hunterloftis 5y ago
They did more than imply that it was protected from bankruptcy; they made the claim directly in their contract with students: > ...a qualified educational loan…subject to the limitations on dischargeability contained in…the United Stat
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by hunterloftis 5y ago
I agree that it is frequently a "code smell" that indicates a function should be refactored into smaller units.
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by hunterloftis 5y ago
I use this pattern frequently, with minor changes: function getArrow(direction) { const missing = '¯\\_(ツ)_/¯' const arrows = { left: '<--', right: '-->', } return arr
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Getting into the Industry(linkedin.com)
2 points by hunterloftis 5y ago|0 comments
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I spent five years in this space (in a small consultancy that was acquired by GlobalLogic last year). I think this is how one of our salespeople might describe the process. The reality tends to be somewhat messier. I especially disagree wit
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
That's a pity for Stack Overflow, but I don't blame him one bit. Also: I recognized the name immediately because gman helped me out with a WebGL question* last year. * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62784
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
My setup is a USB-C hub + switch that toggles my monitor/keyboard/mouse/headphones/webcam between my work (MBP) and personal (homemade frankenstein) machines. Ubuntu Budgie + https://github.com/rbreaves&#
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
This is surprising to hear. I only tried Budgie recently but I found it more responsive and reliable than previous window managers (xfce, mate). This includes workplace switching which I use extensively.
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I just moved my home desktop from Manjaro XFCE -> Ubuntu Budgie and it's significantly snappier. I don't say "faster" because I didn't do any before/after quantitative benchmarks, but my experience has bee
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> Like one place I did well on 3/4 coding challenges and kind of bombed the system design interview. None of these companies will look at that and say, well this person has potential let's give them a chance. They all will say,
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Clearly I don't know HN's formatting very well. I should have made the top level a link and the post an explanation.
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Show HN: Date Night Questions
3 points by hunterloftis 6y ago|3 comments
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Thanks! And that's great feedback. We built it mobile-first, for touch controls, and added clicking just to make it feel natural on a PC. Moving backwards when clicking on the previous card makes perfect sense & I'll add it to
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
OP here - I built Date Night Questions with my wife over the Thanksgiving holiday. She's a designer, I'm a developer, and we've been wanting to build something together for a while. But, to be realistic, it needed to be somet
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Show HN: Date Night Questions – learn more about friends and loved ones(datenightquestions.com)
5 points by hunterloftis 6y ago|3 comments
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I felt creative for implementing this book in Go as a learning exercise: https://github.com/hunterloftis/oneweekend Reading the other comments here, I'm starting to think that's how you're supposed to
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
The Linux desktop experience is sufficiently hardware-dependent to make single-sample distro comparisons useless. As a counter-example, I recently installed Manjaro (Arch-based) over Pop OS because Pop was slow and buggy on my relatively hi
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
From a technical perspective it's a marvel, but as a user, "works flawlessly on the device you have," beats, "mostly works, but with daily annoyances, on your device and many others."
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Fluree, the graph database with blockchain, goes open source(zdnet.com)
23 points by hunterloftis 6y ago|3 comments
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
Thank you! That's another bit of consistent user feedback! :) And I agree. I'm rebranding it for the move from MVP hack -> v1.0 product.
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> I think the point about things visually looking bigger than you is important. Initially, I dismissed this when building my remote D&D app [0] but it's been a persistent question from beta testers. It's the sort of thing t
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I'm not aware of any game engines that simulate general relativity / 4D spacetime. I think what you may be noticing is that, as you reduce the tick frequency of a newtonian physics simulation, parabolas become less accurate as int
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
It's surely debatable, but Valve's $999 outside-in (lighthouse) wired unit is about two generations behind the Quest 2 (closer to the Rift). I believe $300 inside-out tracking wireless headsets are much more likely to push VR out
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I think this is a reasonable argument for requiring accounts / checks for specific social apps in VR. But a VR headset is not a chat device any more than a keyboard is a chat device. It's a general I/O device that can be used
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
To be clear, I think the FB/Oculus devs are doing impressive work. I get value out of FB (that's why I still have an account) and Oculus is the primary driver of progress in VR today. However, I don't believe it's a user
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I'm very excited about VR. I bought the GearVR, then the first Oculus Rift, and most recently the Quest 1. Now, instead of buying the Quest 2 (which is unquestionably the best-value headset available today) I'm waiting for a compe
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I would love to be happy with Linux as a daily driver. It's been years since I last tried it, and I would give it a shot on this machine, but I've got an Nvidia GPU!
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
> TBH, I'm struggling to think of anything Linux or MacOS has that Windows 10 doesn't... The issues that still bug me are: 1. Less-useful keyboard navigation (I use Autohotkey to mitigate this) 2. Frustrating file system (I use
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by hunterloftis 6y ago
I run Win10 for my personal dev machine. High performance on commodity hardware, without the Apple pricetag or Linux config headaches (particularly caused by GPUs in both instances). It has WSL for a terminal and Docker for projects with en

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