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by madrox 5y ago
Unity has been courting the VFX community for years for building prerendered scenes. Unreal is doing much better in that area than they are. Gaining more ground here was why they acquired WETA Digital. If Unity can gain a foothold, then the
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by madrox 5y ago
At this point, I think the "will it or won't it?" questions of crypto are meaningless. There's simply so much mindshare wrapped up in crypto that even if it stops being exchangable for dollars people will keep doing thin
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by madrox 5y ago
The older I get, the more jaded I become at the illusion of democracy in society. Lobbies don't even need to bribe politicians to change their minds. They simply donate money to candidates whose thinking already aligns with their inter
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by madrox 5y ago
I think companies have tried, but it simply hasn't worked. Yahoo tried to do a lot of this, and simply failed. Arguably they could have done it better, but I don't think many will have a better shot than them for a while more to c
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by madrox 5y ago
Regardless of how you choose to phrase it and how unavoidable it may be, it is a detour that's hindering our ability to expand our understanding and improve our way of life.
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by madrox 5y ago
While reading this update, I can't help but think about the book Seveneves whose whole message seemed to be think of what we could accomplish if we just looked beyond this Red vs Blue crap.
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by madrox 5y ago
This shows that you don't own a Tesla, it owns you Come now, kicking someone out of a beta - former employee or not - who is using the access to post reviews is hardly new or unique to this situation. Nor is it unethical.
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by madrox 5y ago
Indeed. I can hardly blame any company for shutting down a free tier of service. I think many people would've been happy if Google Reader would've stuck around for a monthly fee.
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't know if you've ever read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, but I get something different out of it at every stage of my life and your comment made me think of this book.
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by madrox 5y ago
I think the failure to grok stems from you imagining yourself in this position and thinking about how you'd feel instead of imagining other kinds of people and how they'd feel. If it helps, women tend to think about parenthood dif
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by madrox 5y ago
I think people with families can be incredibly protective of it and anything that may create emotional upheaval in it. If I were in his situation, I'd be thinking more about how this might impact my wife or children. Depending on upbri
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by madrox 5y ago
"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be" and all that. Any time there's discussions of this kind, though, it feels like a slippery slope to Gattaca. If you think about it, in many ways the urge for your genes to b
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by madrox 5y ago
If you're a certain kind of person who is either lonely or lost in life, it's a mission with a purpose whose reward may be a connection that makes you feel less alone. Readinging between the lines of this article, it sounds like t
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by madrox 5y ago
This is so incredibly sad. At this point in my life, I empathize with the involuntary donor quite a bit. While the author might not understand his position not wanting her to have any contact with him or his family, I certainly do. It'
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by madrox 5y ago
It's bad science, but it's great shorthand for an HN comment. Otherwise you get into a quagmire of "how do you define quality games" and I didn't want to type out the text of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanc
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by madrox 5y ago
Ads negatively affect how viewers reflect on their watch experience, and as long as you have potential customers out there who've never tried Netflix before, you want to make sure they get the best experience. Netflix is smart to put o
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by madrox 5y ago
If that was really a consideration that correlated strongly to success, the market would've shown that a while ago and the most successful projects would sail through Apple approvals. However, this is not reality, and when our philosop
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm a little surprised by that myself, but I think what's happening is this actually in a related article: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/02... What the government w
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by madrox 5y ago
4chan has taught me a lot about the internet. They're the epitome of the red team.
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by madrox 5y ago
Having worked with Apple on games, I can tell you that as an engineer they work fine. Metal isn't bad. The problem isn't technical. The problem is how Apple approves apps and thinks about the gaming experience. For example, a game
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by madrox 5y ago
My favorite theory comes from an HN comment describing it as the "toaster fucker problem." I'd attempt to re-explain it, but the original comment is great (and easy to search for. Not many mentions of the phrase "toaster
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by madrox 5y ago
You're confusing generalized contractors with "contract to hire." They aren't the same.
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by madrox 5y ago
I was going to include this in my original comment and then deleted it, but you just described Netscape before Internet Explorer. You may enjoy the history of the img tag: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-origin-of-the-img
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't think it's awkward silence...there's just very little so far that meets HN's guidelines for on-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It was on the frontpage the other day when E
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by madrox 5y ago
Nothing radical about it. People have reinvented this idea for decades. It's called "contract to hire," and it's a great way to hire a good line cook and a horrible way to hire a good software engineer.
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't know how much hiring you've done, but in my experience, everything you're asking for does not correlate to hiring quality employees. If you're hiring a senior role, there should be demonstrated experience in thes
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by madrox 5y ago
As a hiring manager and someone who has designed interview processes, I probably wouldn't use this product, but in fairness to Litebulb I wouldn't use any overly structured code assessment tool in interviews. You'll likely fi
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by madrox 5y ago
The history of the OS calculator is rooted in skeumorphism to look like the pocket calculators of the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator I doubt any OS calculator got built through a modern software developm
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by madrox 5y ago
I can't help but think about all the non-web3 protocols this applies to, like email, html, etc. It's slower, but it's more powerful. While Signal could implement video chat any time, true...we don't need another closed v
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by madrox 5y ago
I had a similar thought, but this strikes me as a city commuter bike. While I used my daily driver a lot, I wouldn't say I used it hard. This probably has a lot of the same structural concerns as a convertible car...servable, but proba

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