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by japhib 4y ago
Was this a hack?
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by japhib 4y ago
But there are jobs, and people work in them. I, for instance, use Elixir in my day job, and so do 100+ other engineers at my company alone. I’ve also been approached by recruiters on LinkedIn for other Elixir jobs. So yes, there is a signif
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by japhib 4y ago
At my current company we’ve got 100+ engineers writing Elixir. Fintech in the US. Almost none of them know Elixir when hired.
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by japhib 4y ago
<10 jobs is still significant.
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by japhib 4y ago
The Elixir job market is getting better in the US as well. I’m currently employed at a company that uses Eixir exclusively for backend, and we’ve got 100+ engineers. I’ve had multiple recruiters from other Elixir-using companies reach out t
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by japhib 4y ago
I’ve been working at a job that uses exclusively Elixir for backend work, for 100+ engineers. I’ve gotten multiple messages on LinkedIn from recruiters from other companies that also use Elixir. So I can’t speak about those other languages,
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by japhib 4y ago
This, right after laying off HUNDREDS of staff ... Source: https://kotaku.com/unity-ironsource-merger-ad-tech-layoffs-1...
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by japhib 4y ago
I used Zig for a couple of Advent of Code problems last year. I decided that Zig is not a language I’m going to be using. Here’s why: - If you ever want to allocate memory, you have to pass in an allocator to the function doing the allocati
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by japhib 4y ago
> I think that the thesis (as professed by the article) that the "deglobalization" is largely due to the decline of the US Navy is pretty silly Why?
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by japhib 4y ago
Looks awesome! Congrats on the release, and it seems like you're getting a pretty good reception so far as well. A few questions: 1. How did you get all the assets for your game? Did you make them yourselves? I also work on games as a
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by japhib 4y ago
If “my dude” offended you, I’m sorry. I was just trying to make it lighthearted. I get frustrated at the number of comments on HN articles that are mostly irrelevant if you’ve actually read the article.
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by japhib 4y ago
You should probably read the post first, my dude. > Half of the time if you need to sort, you're doing something wrong and the data should already be sorted OP is literally talking about the C implementation of Postgres. He probably
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by japhib 4y ago
Did you even read the article?
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by japhib 4y ago
This comment is hilarious ^
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by japhib 4y ago
This is how PICO-8 game cartridges are contained in a small PNG of the game itself! https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://robertovaccari.com/blog/2021_01_03_stegano_pico8/
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by japhib 5y ago
This is a WebGL tutorial -- for OpenGL there's a fantastic tutorial at https://learnopengl.com/
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by japhib 5y ago
An if statement???? Can you imagine? Next thing you know we'll need VARIABLES
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by japhib 5y ago
Yeah, I saw the headline and was hoping it was something crazy like Rust compiled for mobile and wasm
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by japhib 5y ago
Cool! I’d recommend tweaking the dictionary a bit though … here are the first 5 words in the English one: aahed aalii aargh abaca abaci I don’t think I would ever think of putting in any of those words, so if that was the solution, I’d just
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by japhib 5y ago
Here’s the thing though … VR headsets are terrible to wear for a long time. They make some valid points. I think it’d be cool to use one, IF the comfort issue is resolved.
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by japhib 5y ago
I wonder if you also get a couple of wasted bytes between structs to achieve word alignment on an 8-byte boundary? In which case you’d be saving HALF your memory instead of just a third.
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by japhib 5y ago
Nice! I've been looking to start using Kotlin for game development, and this seems like an awesome starting point!
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by japhib 5y ago
Summary: “I was pretty sure NFTs were pointless, but they’re so hyped that I thought I must be missing something. So I bought one and sure enough, they are pointless.”
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by japhib 5y ago
This is awesome. Sad to see the work is kind of “wasted” in the sense that it’s not officially supported and any update to Go will likely break it. But I learned a lot reading this article.
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by japhib 5y ago
Interesting tidbit about Papers, Please: it's written with Haxe (a programming language), on top of OpenFL (an open-source Flash alternative), which uses Lime as its foundational cross-platform library. The nice stack traces you see in
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by japhib 5y ago
Safari is pretty behind the times as browsers go, especially with WebGL. For instance, it doesn't support WebGL 2 (except maybe in beta?), which means you have to use WebGL 1. I'm guessing that's where some of the performance
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by japhib 5y ago
it's just Unity's WebGL export
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by japhib 5y ago
Doubtful, but there is TypescriptToLua: https://typescripttolua.github.io/ Here's a whole list of languages that compile to Lua (many of them statically typed): https://github.com/hengestone/lua-la
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by japhib 5y ago
Is there something special about CL as compared to other Lisp dialects? Why not choose something like Clojure, or LFE (Lisp-Flavored Erlang) with better async/library support? Then you skip over the community aspect entirely by piggyba
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by japhib 5y ago
I'm in the closed beta. There are some interesting design innovations compared to Godot/Unity. But I don't think I'm allowed to talk about much of it yet ... so I guess you just have to wait until the open beta!

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