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by swalsh 6y ago
I'm bull Epic too, but honestly, I don't care about the quality differences. The main thing Epic has going for them that Unity does not is it's diverse marketing channels. They are becoming huge in the cinematic, and broadc
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by swalsh 6y ago
Reminds me of a program I read about a while ago in Iraq. Planes would circle cities with a camera and some huge hard drives installed. If an IED went off they would rewind the tapes, and watch every stop the people who planted it went th
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by swalsh 6y ago
I really wish google had public data for something like average page number or something similar for a search term. We have data for what people are searching for, but its hard to determine how successful people are in finding what they&#x
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by swalsh 6y ago
This kind of feels like a test run of Modern Monetary Theory. I guess once we have a vaccine, and the full effect of all this stimulus settles, we might find out if our fears are warranted or not.
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by swalsh 6y ago
What does that solve though? I don't NEED a mouse to copy data.
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by swalsh 6y ago
These firms specialized in digital transformation. But the digital transformation is over, now its the digital cleanup. The companies that understood the benefits of digital technology moved to it, and the majority of the others went out
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by swalsh 6y ago
Curious, does Stripe have a "Get the kids to take up smoking strategy" or do startups drop Stripe generally once they reach a certain size?
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by swalsh 6y ago
Here is someone on Twitter who has been building some, albeit toys, using the tool. It seems pretty powerful: https://twitter.com/jsngr I found this to be very impressive: https://twitter.com/jsngr/sta
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by swalsh 6y ago
Oh finally, some real news about hackers.
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by swalsh 6y ago
Writing a highly niche book like this, probably compensates you more in the "exposure" side of things (i realize that word has negative connotations now, but it is a real thing). I have to imagine consulting gigs would go up. And
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by swalsh 6y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I don't really use Windows any more... so i'm not super familiar with how things work today. With the new Linux subsystem, does Windows even need separate support for PHP anymore?
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by swalsh 6y ago
This feels like capping extortion. The real problem in my opinion is the delivery apps masquerading under a restaurants name online, and then then charging for it. When I order online, I have no idea if i'm ordering from the restaura
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by swalsh 6y ago
OP has a point. The NY Times recently began a process of shedding their ideals of objectivity too. They claim the views and inclinations of whiteness are accepted as the objective neutral. https://www.nytimes.com/2020&#x2F
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by swalsh 6y ago
Because Tik Tok takes data collection to a whole new level. It uses this, and every other trick in the book. And that matters because it's not clear that this data will be constrained to the activities of sending me extremely targete
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by swalsh 6y ago
Wow some actual hacker news.
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by swalsh 6y ago
Wikipedia demonstrates that an authoritarian governance model is more functional than essentially anarchy. But that does not mean we should settle for it. Wikipedia is known for its restrictive culture. A lot of good information does not
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by swalsh 6y ago
You don't need every tool. There are multiple ways to get the same job done. There are some things I'd consider essentials. A table saw, drill, some decent chisels, and maybe a #5 plane. And you can get pretty far with that.
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Start a Company Using NASA Tech(technology.nasa.gov)
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by swalsh 6y ago
I think you misunderstood my intention. I don't go into the hiring process explicitly thinking about the ideal hire from an age/sex/race point of view. I look for a series of soft skills, because I personally believe it&#x2
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by swalsh 6y ago
"The fact that they are probably right just adds to the pain." 100% true. It's the dichotomy of leadership. Typically in engineering environments, the debate will be to take a risk or not. Risks can have rewards, but they
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by swalsh 6y ago
I find myself biasing towards older devs. The old guys tend to trend towards reliable tech, reliable architectures. They're done playing around. They have families at home, so they want to get the work done... and go home. They do
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by swalsh 6y ago
Ubuntu is good right after you install it, but then steadily decreases in quality. I got to the point where I avoided updates, because random things always broke. After trying several distributions. I ended up long-term moving to Arch, it
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by swalsh 6y ago
In my brief time trying out Unity (as a non-game-developer) I found the programming paradigm very frustrating. I wanted a more object oriented approach. But what I found was to get things to work in a performant way, you'd end up wit
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by swalsh 6y ago
These are just baby steps, but holy shit is that impressive. It kind of feels like working with offshore devs, but it's in real time.
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by swalsh 6y ago
I can think of a legitimate use case for this. If you watch some of these scammer youtube videos, one common thing they seem to do is get on a screensharing application, and have the user log into their bank account. From there, the scamm
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by swalsh 6y ago
Given the creation of the new Space Force, it's hard to justify NASA on defense related stuff, and given the build up of the private space industry, it's probably going to be even less important. Deep down, I personally want NASA
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by swalsh 6y ago
I kind of get the feeling, that we're trying to build a plane by making the wings flap like a bird.
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by swalsh 6y ago
Something I noticed over my career. Programmers tend to get super beefy machines. My machine has 64GB of memory, and 12 cores. But the typical users who use our software don't have anywhere near those same specs.. but programmers of
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by swalsh 6y ago
There are definitely diminishing returns at this point. However, I think there's a lot of room for impressive Physics demos.
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by swalsh 6y ago
There's a possibility Valve might release Source 2

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