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by jmfldn 6y ago
Actually not any more. I'm a software engineer these days in the energy sector so nowhere near as glamorous! Gaming industry is a young man's game so I decided to move on and scratch my programming itch instead! I didn't fanc
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Hey there, nice to meet some fans! Yeah it did really well critically and we shifted a lot of units but the marketing investment killed the profit as we spent on it like it was going to be the next Guitar Hero. It was always going to be mor
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by jmfldn 6y ago
This is awesome. I was heavily involved with designing the audio and gameplay for DJ Hero, the sequel to Guitar Hero. I'd love to see you do this for DJ Hero next!
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Hmm yes I see your point. Improving safety for kids makes sense as long as they do it without fanfare as a way to get even more youngsters on there. In other words, do it to improve safety not as a marketing exercise. I just don't trus
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"Kids almost universally use Instagram and Facebook makes money from that" Purely anecdotal but speaking as a dad myself I don't know any kids using Facebook or Instagram. By kids I'm meaning pre-teens here so maybe our
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"Kathryn Montgomery, senior strategist at the US digital rights group Center for Digital Democracy, said: "Facebook claims that creating an Instagram for kids will help keep them safe on the platform. "But the company's
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Facebook urged to scrap Instagram for children plans(bbc.com)
3 points by jmfldn 6y ago|5 comments
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by jmfldn 6y ago
""If Bitcoin were to be adopted as a global reserve currency," he speculates, "the Bitcoin price will probably be in the millions, and those miners will have more money than the entire [US] Federal budget to spend on ele
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Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble(bbc.co.uk)
45 points by jmfldn 6y ago|106 comments
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Walled gardens, ad tech, lack of full ownership over your machine, less general purpose computing. I see where the writer of this is coming from for sure.
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"I'd love for computing to get back to that utopian vision of the bicycle for the mind but if you look around these days it's more of a train-wreck of the mind." Same here. I'm increasingly not interested in machine
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by jmfldn 6y ago
This stuff is no doubt promising, not least for disabled people but this neuralink-type stuff seems terrifying. Anyone who is excited about having an Internet connection into their brain needs their head examined. Us humans don't exact
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure if it's just a matter of scale or of the fundamental nature of the thing. It might be that the computer / neural network metaphor, whilst isomorphic to certain brain procesees, may ultimately no
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Fundamentally different I would say. I understand enough about the brain to say that talking about any kind of machine intelligence in relation to brains, is comparing apples and oranges. Its not computing things in any way analogous to how
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"Computers have not become intelligent per se, but they have provided capabilities that augment human intelligence, he writes. Moreover, they have excelled at low-level pattern-recognition capabilities that could be performed in princi
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"I'd like to point out that as a manager, my stress and anxiety level have gone through the roof during this WFH period" That's interesting for sure. I guess, as with so many things that happened during covid, the effect
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"I'm from mainland Europe and have been living in the UK for more than a decade: bundling up all European countries under one 'Europe' umbrella isn't helping" Sure, Im not implying that Europe is homogenous, ju
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Yeah totally agree. The UK is much more enlightened and progressive than a lot of Europe on many things (unfashionable opinion, particularly for a "remainer" like me)
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"Working from home. I realised being in an office - especially an open-plan office - was setting off my social anxiety all the time." This! It's been such a game changer for me too. My career has been turbo charged over the l
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by jmfldn 6y ago
So not the EU obviously but in the UK, or London at the very least, I don't know of a single white collar worker where much-increased WFH won't be the norm. I'm not just talking tech but banking, law and so on. We do indeed s
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Looking at the answers there're definitely a lot of common trends. But yes, I see your point. Part of the problem is separating the pure productivity question ie how to fit in hobbies, vs asking whether the question itself points to de
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Sorry to hear. I've felt like this at times too. A couple of thoughts... 1. I think it's normal yeah. Social media and advertising make us think everyone else is a super achiever but that's mainly nonsense. Us modern humans a
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Well done for doing that. It's empowering to bear in mind that you are interviewing them too. If your interviewer is highly unpleasant then why on earth would you want to work for them / a company that thinks its OK to be represen
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by jmfldn 6y ago
It absolutely does. One of my first programming interviews, post MSc graduation, was essentially a 3hr whiteboard interrogation. I should have walked out after an hour as, in retrospect I was stuck like a rabbit in the headlights, unable to
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by jmfldn 6y ago
It shouldn't be possible for an intern to leak a password, or if it is, the blast radius should be limited. In other words, it's the job of senior people to make this sort of thing hard or at least not super damaging when it occur
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Why Are Fibers Fast(typelevel.org)
1 points by jmfldn 6y ago|0 comments
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by jmfldn 6y ago
DP were great but in the second half of their career what they were good at was continuing to cultivate their mystique and their image. That in itself is quite a hard thing to do in the way they did it. Kraftwerk and only a few others were
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by jmfldn 6y ago
I think the author means activities which have intrinsic reward and don't necessarily further some project ie the "being" state of mind. This is contrasted with "doing" activities motivated by a desire to be differe
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Veteran Scala dev here. I'm not here to convince you to choose it over F# but I can tell you that it's a beautiful language. Scala is used heavily for backend web dev, in fact, it's all I use it for. Don't worry about ad
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"For me, F# is a beautiful, goldilocks language that has both the expressiveness and elegance of Python/Ruby and the strictness/compile-time safety of a statically-typed language, all backed by the .net ecosystem. There'

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