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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I'm not talking about real time though. Pre-recorded light field videos would already be high enough resolution. It might not be perfect but like the CGI nowadays close enough where there's moments you can't tell
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
As far as I can tell Magic Leap is working on light field technology. Essentially the big problem with AR right now is that it only fools half of the human visual system. Parallax is one way your eyes estimate distance. All the AR headsets
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I appreciate other opinions which is why HN is so much better place than Facebook. Yeah I trashed it, it was bad for me. And I have a feeling it is for many others the same. And you might be right that I'm just a cynical jaded ass, I w
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
It is. But I don't like the idea of using a platform designed to hook you in. Everything is about "engagement". Facebook is not above messing with your mood and life outlook to get more eyeballs. If you engage more when you&#
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
The key is that most services don't need to be reliable. I think the cloud has huge promise here. Engineers tend to think their app needs five-nines reliability when we live in a world where the banks close twice a week. I don't t
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
This isn't universal, but prepare for a bunch of BS :). The bigger the company the less efficient they need to be to survive. Shenanigans and lazy work are often overlooked as individual contributions matter so little to the overall bo
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I hoped to strike a chord with people currently using it for the same reasons I did. My post is partially self-deprecating and doesn't attack anyone specific. I'm sure there's people using the platform with no issues, and I t
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I didn't delete my account but I let it go dormant about 4 years ago. Don't miss it a bit. Social media is all about making you feel bad. Its a platform for people with low self esteem to dream about what their lives could have be
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
And exactly the reason their engineers are treated as a cost center. Logistics and sales are more important than sound engineering.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Eh, I don't buy it :). Every company has sales, accounting, marketing. The thing that makes a software company special is their technology.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
It really depends on the company. If your product is software then the CTO is in charge of your entire company minus ancillary functions and should definitely get a ton of equity. If your startup sells shoes or something the CTO isn't
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Hahaha that's the best 99 throwback I've seen a long time! Funny part is the web is just as influential as they thought it would be someday, just in a different way than many expected. Seems like the hype cycle brings out all the
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I think, unlike the author, I had pretty solid reasons why I didn't like it. Most applications are glorified forms on the front-end and Angular2 has the most rigid and difficult form handling I've used in a web framework. Form val
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
It just happens that hard drives still have crap error correction. Probably because most of their failure modes are catastrophic anyways. Part of it is also Sandforce. The flash to make SSD's existed a few years before they came on the
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Angular 2 kinda sucks. Simple oversights like not having a way to change focus on input fields leads me to believe it's run by crazy purists. There's many other mistakes, like not having access to component state for custom valida
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Opus is amazing. Also your DAC and phone sound processing don't matter when using Bluetooth. It's digital straight to the headphones
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
I think this is a short-term issue just because error correction is so good. We have many error correction algorithms that approach the theoretical limit for efficiency. Eventually error correction will take more bits than it saves and the
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Events and asynchronous operations are sufficient enough for a concurrency library to be built on top of JS with minimal changes. I wouldn't consider what JS has now a reasonable concurrency model but the asynchronous event handling co
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
The difference is you're not concerned about where those come from. It doesn't matter whos water it is or where the power is coming from. And they're both simple commodities with few metrics. We're trying to fit somethin
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
The "cloud" is a hilarious failure at the main marketing point. Decentralized just means you have no idea where your servers are. Scaling is the only real selling-point of cloud and far more people think they need it than actually
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Why not just punish slow sites? It would have been a lot easier than the zillion hours spent building AMP and the caching system.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
If AMP was so innocent Google would give users an easy way to disable it. It seems trivial to do, the fact that it's not in V1 says to me that there's ulterior motives. There's more reason Google wants you to use AMP than &qu
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
All Google had to do to fix this was move slow sites down in search results. Instead we ended up with this huge walled garden
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Mostly because Google serves the page from their own servers and starts loading it before you even click a search result. It's great for Google search and bad for everyone else.
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
The AMP client source is available but worthless. Google validates that you're running their blessed version of the framework and if you change a single bit in the files Google doesn't serve your AMP content anymore. It's a c
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Yeah, the main problem with LEDs is that you only get max efficiency if you can find something with the right bandgap. Right now that means deep blue. 220 w/lm is theoretical max for a smooth spectrum of white light. If you get to choo
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Roughly, if the average color of something is white your eyes will make it look white. Since we only have three color receptors you only need red green and blue in the proper amounts. The rest of the visible spectrum is naturally interpolat
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
LED's are nearing theoretical max efficiency, somewhere near 220lm/watt for pure white light. Essentially the perfect light source. The most efficient white LED's are actually blue ones with a white phospor but it's stil
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
Too lazy to check my games right now but the Unigen Heaven benchmark was the first time I saw "tesselation", which used to be known as displacement mapping in software rendering days. Crank that thing to max and wander around a bi
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by slackingoff2017 9y ago
That's a very "get off my lawn" argument against Typescript :). You install it off npm and type one command to compile everything to JS, then you can pretend it doesn't exist. It's like you're arguing against d

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