jakevoytko

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by jakevoytko 4y ago
For what it's worth, games like Dota 2 already default all communication on new accounts to "off". It's a rite of passage for new players to play some games and realize they haven't heard anyone say anything. Then t
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
Totally. My team often had people working past 8pm. But you could take a walk around the office at 6pm and find whole open floor plan areas that were completely empty. And you’d hear rumors that some other teams were expected to work 70 hou
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
My favorite hacks mostly came from when I worked in a robotics+computer vision research lab, ~13 years ago. If you've never worked with stereo vision systems, they have multiple cameras as input. The algorithms need to know the exact p
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
At least one high-follower account on my timeline posted that their newest notifications were from October
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
Location: NYC Remote: Open to it, prefer hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I've worked professionally in Go, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Python, Java, CSS, Bash scripting, C, C++ (sorted from most-recent to least-recent). I'm
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
I'm colorblind (protanopia), which makes most color schemes unusable in some way. I use the default Visual Studio Code darkmode color theme. It's perfect for my type of colorblindness! The colors have great contrast for me, and I
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
As always, NYC is one of the safer US cities in the nation across basically any metric you can find, and sometimes one of the safest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... We leave our trash i
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
It can happen for tons of reasons. Some coincidental, some were initially benevolent. Imagine a company with an office in Atlanta, that hires a disproportionately large number of black employees relative to the rest of the company due to th
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
Your approach feels similar to mine, actually! I write lots of exploratory code (and mention it in my comment). I just view it as trying to understand the problem and solution instead of coding, since it's not usually the production co
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
Understand the problem and solution before coding. It sounds simple, but it's hard to have perfect discipline. Especially if you have a strong bias towards action like I do. It's shocking how applicable this is! Don't code an
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
Google's Real Names experiment helped simplify this equation. They proved that people don't even need anonymity to be fuckwads; all they need is an audience. I remember a lot of low-level bemusement and high-level consternation wh
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by jakevoytko 5y ago
The skill floor of really old games gets skewed dramatically. If you don’t have a ton of people flooding into 0MMR, and people start to filter out of the game, the bare minimum required to make it at the very bottom of the competitive game
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Making the Web Better. With Blocks(joelonsoftware.com)
68 points by jakevoytko 5y ago|3 comments
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by jakevoytko 5y ago
I got the same kind of enjoyment from this game. I went through a kick a few years ago where I tried improving my best time, and my best run was within 10 minutes of the world record. I found it fun to learn how to play the game quickly, bu
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by jakevoytko 5y ago
I've had a lot of sleep problems in my life. I haven't solved them completely, but I've largely controlled them with a basket of measures. I wear a sleep mask, I get ready for bed around the same time every night, I only drin
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Seven steps to writing a better software engineering resume(there.dev)
1 points by jakevoytko 5y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 5y ago
Developers end up at local maxima because a whole bunch of practices add up to a working system. It's a mistake to champion any single practice without understanding how it fits into an ecosystem: time budget, testing, language feature
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
Gmail. Using web-based email clients was a nightmare before Gmail. They had limited storage space, and the UX was pretty bad, they were hard to search, etc. You spent all your time figuring out what you wanted to delete, or seeing your emai
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
Thank you for the link - I particularly enjoyed section 4, which really helped drive home that they're referring to patterns that induce a loss against some ideal: individual autonomy, societal welfare, etc. The paper puts much less of
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
Totally, I agree that some of their specific examples mention this. Reading the whole site, it was not clear to me whether they holistically viewed "being honest about these things" as inside or outside the scope of their categori
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
This is interesting - I feel like the site should separate dark patterns that add information from ones that lie or obfuscate. In my experience, consumers feel differently about these categories. I've sat in on a few dozen user researc
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
I've gotten lots of mileage out of "How do big decisions get made at this company?" And you want to turn it into a conversation - probe their answers, ask for examples, etc. You learn about how each interviewer experiences th
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
That's an excellent question. To me, the difference is "is agile development part of our process?" or "is agile our entire process?" I once worked on a development team that did a great job of using agile as a narro
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
> Developers don't like having to have their work parceled out so specifically. But it's not for them. It's for managers and stakeholders who have to report progress and who are responsible for budgets. As someone who disl
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
For what it's worth, you can make a copy with "File > Make a copy" and delete the edited doc. The copy will not preserve history. You can verify this yourself - after making the copy, the only thing in the copied doc'
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How Amazon increases conversions with short circuits(notmagic.tech)
2 points by jakevoytko 6y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
It's worth listening to the 30 minute explanation on their podcast feed if you want a legitimate explanation to that question. They really try to account for it. They relied on the gut-check from other terrorism experts, what was publi
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Launch Your Damn MVP(notmagic.tech)
2 points by jakevoytko 6y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
Yeah, combine the basic challenge of the local maxima problem with the risk-averseness of a management chain whose reputation depends on running a division with a few popular services, and you end up with a small army trying to move the oth
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by jakevoytko 6y ago
This is a good point. We did have a heavy up-front design phase for any projects between these teams, and it mitigated lots of problems before any code was written. This helped modify the conversations to a back-and-forth about specific imp

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