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by jaaron 6y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Designers | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Remote COVID NOTE: For the duration of the health crisis, we've transitioned into a fully remote, work-at-home environment. We can interview, hire an
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by jaaron 6y ago
Was just chatting with a friend about this. It makes no sense. The Quest is the perfect machine to share with others. I can take it to friends or family (well, pre-covid I could). VR _needs_ to reduce the friction to trying it out. Even jus
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by jaaron 6y ago
My anecdotal experience as a hiring manager in tech firms for over a decade: it’s not about money, it’s about quickly finding qualified employees. Unemployment has been (until recently) low. There wasn’t some large supply of unemployed, qua
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by jaaron 6y ago
All the other comments note how risky the approach of giving feedback to your boss is, and they're right. As a manager, it's on ME to setup the environment for candid feedback. It's something I have to emphasize over and over
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by jaaron 6y ago
I'm honestly envious and this has me thinking about how I can move some of my workflow back into emacs because I do think it was more sane . Definitely allowed for more deep work. I know, for some folks not already familiar with emacs
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by jaaron 6y ago
Yes. I really miss it, but I'm just not sure how practical it is anymore.
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by jaaron 6y ago
I used to use emacs for, well, everything, but email in particular. I've never felt more productive. So what changed? Smartphones: with a smartphone becoming more and more of my life, I wanted my information synced across devices. In t
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by jaaron 6y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Designers | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're hiring! Let's get a few details out up front: For the duration of the health crisis, we've transitioned into a fully remote, w
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by jaaron 6y ago
Grew up in Pittsburgh. PA has the worst highway merging habits and I blame onramps like this. There's a number of them that are too short or have stop signs like this: https://pghroads.tumblr.com/post/44161958475&#
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by jaaron 6y ago
While I agree most in Hong Kong would probably prefer to move to other large cities like Vancouver or Sydney, it's not due to language. Having lived in both for many years, most folks in Hong Kong wouldn't have any language troubl
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by jaaron 6y ago
Discord (we're a game company). Email too. And some folks are starting to use Google's chat.
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by jaaron 6y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Designers | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're hiring! Let's get a few details out up front: For the duration of the health crisis, we've transitioned into a fully remote, w
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by jaaron 6y ago
Views still need to be backed by solid data and in this case, the Stanford study the article is highlight has a number of issues with its data: "I think the authors of the above-linked paper owe us all an apology. We wasted time and ef
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by jaaron 7y ago
Carl Quinn passed away this week from complications to covid-19. He was a co-host of the popular Java Posse podcast and left his mark across the industry, having worked at Borland, Sun Microsystems, Google, Netflix, Riot Games, and, mostly
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The Java Posse: Rest in Peace Carl Quinn. Covid-19(twitter.com)
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by jaaron 7y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Technical Artists | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're hiring! Let's get a few details out up front: For the duration of the health crisis, we've transitioned into a fully remote, wo
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by jaaron 7y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Designers | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're hiring! Let's get a few details out up front: For the duration of the health crisis, we've transitioned into a fully remote, w
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by jaaron 7y ago
Oh! Yes. Doesn't seem like I can edit the comment any longer. The URL is: https://www.singularity6.com/careers
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by jaaron 7y ago
I'm a (hiring!) tech director for Singularity 6, a game studio startup on the west-side of Los Angeles. We're actively hiring. If anything, we're trying to be _more_ aggressive in our hiring. There's some concern that ta
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by jaaron 7y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Recruiter | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're a VC funded (a16z) game studio in the westside of LA dedicated to the idea that online games can deliver deeper, more meaningful experie
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by jaaron 7y ago
Cinematics are outsourced. There was an effort to build an in-house cinematics team, but that was abandoned years ago. They often partner with Blur, but use others as well. Music production is largely in-house.
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by jaaron 7y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Recruiter | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're a VC funded (a16z) game studio in the westside of LA dedicated to the idea that online games can deliver deeper, more meaningful experie
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by jaaron 7y ago
Chiming in as another one. I live in Los Angeles. Four years ago, I bought a pick up truck. In my case, I don't have a long commute. I can bike to work. So when I need a vehicle, it's to take my kids around, haul something I can&#
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by jaaron 7y ago
I remember when JavaOne was definitely worth going to. I've not heard anything like that for years and just assume it's dead as "Code One." Anyone want to confirm?
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by jaaron 7y ago
I really like the title and I don't think it's link-bait-y. Why? Because too many engineers I've worked with would bump into this situation and this would be their answer. They wouldn't take the time to debug the situati
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by jaaron 7y ago
Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Recruiter | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Onsite We're a new, VC funded (a16z) game studio in the westside of LA dedicated to the idea that online games can deliver deeper, more meaningful ex
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by jaaron 7y ago
Sounds like a great doc to start on github and source contributions.
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by jaaron 7y ago
Great list! I'm bookmarking this.
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by jaaron 7y ago
Downtown is booming: - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/business/revitalization-p... - https://urbanize.la/post/la-urbanized-sparks-downtown-la%E2%...
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by jaaron 7y ago
I often wonder about this cost to the US economy due to a lack of universal health care: how much productivity is lost due to people staying in jobs just for health care, how many businesses not started, etc.

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