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by optymizer 1y ago
What's old is new again. It's Adobe Flex for the kids. I like it.
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by optymizer 1y ago
If your site requires people to explain your thought process, your presentation has failed, unless your goal is to confuse as many visitors as possible, in which case I wouldn't change a thing.
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by optymizer 1y ago
What a confusing website. The website is named 'defcon', like the famous defense conference. What does 'defcon' have to do with Q? What even is Q? The landing page is uninformative. No explanation of what Q is. Reference
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by optymizer 1y ago
> Your passion side project needs to be fueled by passion Maybe he's in that valley of despair right now that the article shows occurs many times. Passion is fleeting and at times you just need a little inspirational jolt to get bac
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by optymizer 1y ago
Well, we had massive layoffs, so I don't think the incentives worked.
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by optymizer 1y ago
You know, setting expectations for yourself when you're young for what you want your life to be when you're old is great, but it can be a bit like providing estimates for how long a project will take when you have barely started i
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by optymizer 1y ago
Perfectionist here. I'm on my third child. Can confirm - this person speaks the truth.
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by optymizer 1y ago
I see you.
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by optymizer 1y ago
It is. I used to customize everything. On Windows 95/98/2000/XP - custom cursors, themes, icon packs, custom Windows loading screen, the works. When I used KDE (and Gnome for a while) and compiz came out, I enjoyed flaming wi
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by optymizer 1y ago
About 17 years
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by optymizer 1y ago
I would like to be able to do that - I have such a long list of things I want to learn and do - but I can't just turn off my work brain at 4pm. I get sucked in by interesting problems. Low level optimization? They pay me for 9-5, but y
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by optymizer 1y ago
I was the TL on a Facebook app feature driven by us, the engineers, that was 100% in the category of "good for humanity and it solves a problem for billions of people". I had to fight internal org leads to launch it, because there
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by optymizer 1y ago
This tsk-tsk is misguided. There's a time and place to shame companies for acting in bad faith, and we should do it, but I don't think it's the case here. It does not seem like damage control for intentional malice. The TL on
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by optymizer 1y ago
They want you to be intimidated by their reputation because it's easier if you make concessions first hoping to get some benefit later. Keep in mind, these are business people and they're very good at it (otherwise they wouldn&#x2
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by optymizer 1y ago
You can "do whatever you want with this code", but there's a catch: you have to give credit to the original author. You might not care about the credit, but lots of people care. You can't just cherrypick the things you l
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by optymizer 2y ago
For those who don't feel like taking math courses in a formal setting, making games from scratch is a fun way to learn and apply linear algebra and calculus. I never really needed determinants in my life until I tried moving a spaceshi
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by optymizer 2y ago
Is there anything out there for Android?
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by optymizer 2y ago
> The concept of compile-time programming having the same appearance as runtime programming is very cool in my opinion https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/compile-time-function-ev...
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by optymizer 2y ago
1v1.lol is fun! The mouse movement gets janky at times but I had a blast
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by optymizer 2y ago
Algorithms by Sedgewick is pretty good for learning the fundamentals, imo, and sufficient (together with the Cracking the Coding Interview book) to pass interviews at the FAANGs I've worked at (and was an interviewer at for years).
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by optymizer 2y ago
Offtopic: I grew up in a tiny post-soviet third world country. Aside from the usual daily struggles, one lesser known aspect of that life is that we did not have access to primary sources of information or the people who invented the things
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by optymizer 2y ago
In my experience with a mesh wi-fi project, physical devices come with real world physical side-effects: accidents happen, devices go offline, or get stolen, or knocked off the walls/shelves, a physical location needs to be negotiated
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by optymizer 2y ago
How is this hacker news? From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal
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by optymizer 2y ago
Walter, I'll take any chance I can get to say: thank you for creating D! One thing I was wondering about is the limits of compile time execution. How does the D compiler ensure correctness if the machine the compiler runs on is differe
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by optymizer 2y ago
Happy New Year to all the hackers!
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by optymizer 2y ago
We move fast and break things ;)
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by optymizer 2y ago
(Android dev at Meta here, though not involved with the Kotlin migration. Opinion below, completely my own) We have: public and internal apps, tests for those, tons of wrappers around Android APIs, autogenerated infra code, did I mention th
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by optymizer 2y ago
* To serve content that can be accessed on networks using captive portals * To serve content on localhost while developing * To serve content on devices where setting up letsencrypt or other SSL is either too much of a hassle or no
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by optymizer 2y ago
> Why would we not? Because it's a random axis to split the data on and you only do it for the US, which makes zero sense to do when comparing entire countries. What about Tunisian immigrants in France? Maybe they'd be at the v
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by optymizer 2y ago
Why would we control PISA scores for US demographics in the first place? Why are the 1st and 2nd generation immigrants removed? The education system is the same for all the kids, unless US Whites are using a different curriculum from the ot

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