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by thurn 5y ago
this page should probably be linked to on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , I had no idea there were specific rules for the 'Shown HN' prefix
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by thurn 5y ago
cables are almost never exclusive, the economics just make more sense if you have partners because adding extra capacity before you start laying cable has a very low marginal cost
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by thurn 5y ago
I assume virology labs are not randomly distributed across the country, e.g. there could be many reasons why a lab studying coronaviruses might be located in close proximity to an area with a high risk of outbreak.
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by thurn 5y ago
Neat, I'd never seen outpost generator before, quite useful. I wish it were possible to generate blueprints directly from mods so stuff like that could be directly integrated into the game.
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by thurn 6y ago
This is super cool, but like the other deepmind projects it's a bit frustrating. I've got nothing against "we did something hard with AI and it worked well", but would greatly prefer it to be followed with "... and
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by thurn 6y ago
Are there any good examples of these minimal lisps which include typechecking? I'd personally like to learn more about incorporating that aspect, but it seems fairly uncommon.
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by thurn 6y ago
You would have a hard time naming a AAA game which doesn't have a huge chunk of its actual gameplay logic in a scripting language (or something like Unreal blueprints). There's a huge amount of value in using different tools for
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by thurn 6y ago
Legitimate question: are the differences in standard of living something you could buy somewhere else if you had 2x or 3x the total income? Or is it more intangible?
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by thurn 6y ago
But... why are you excluding the top 5% of companies? That seems like it's precisely the answer to this question, there are several large companies with engineers in Berlin that pay in this range. levels.fyi shows numerous data points
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by thurn 6y ago
one of the main reasons why I work at Facebook (4 years now) is because I genuinely like the product, and I know lots of people who it brings legitimate value to. Obviously we have made lots of mistakes and bad decisions -- nobody can den
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by thurn 6y ago
If you legitimately agree with Bernie Sanders that "billionaires should not exist" (an increasingly mainstream idea), it seems unsurprising that you would get this outcome. If someone thinks smoking is killing people and you say &
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by thurn 6y ago
It's more that some tracking is important to result quality. For example, if I search for "eclipse" on Google, I get 5 results about the IDE, but my wife gets local maps & youtube videos about eclipses.
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by thurn 6y ago
Also the personality type matrix of people who chose to work from home is different from the general population -- of course those people have higher wfh productivity. My wife is the most extroverted person I've ever met, so she&#x27
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by thurn 6y ago
It can be quite hard to come to game development from a web programming background, because "good architecture" for a React app means a set of best practices (e.g. one way data flow, immutability, discrete mutations and events) wh
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by thurn 6y ago
Huh, I've always found Unity orders of magnitude better than something like Unreal, never seen more than 10 seconds to compile which seems quite reasonable to me. (You do need to turn off Auto Refresh though, no idea why they think hav
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by thurn 6y ago
What exactly are the limitations that prevent this game from working in Firefox to the point where they need a "please download Chrome" banner? Just curious, I thought WebAssembly and WebGL were pretty competitive these days.
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by thurn 6y ago
I prefer the remote control app instead, why find a remote when it can just be on your phone, y'know?
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by thurn 6y ago
no young children :)
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by thurn 6y ago
I agree with this for really large codebases, but I think you can get a surprising amount done before your program becomes "non-trivial" using a good dynamic language. For example, the website you are writing this comment on has b
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by thurn 6y ago
I suggest you try and talk to some people who actually get positive value out of Facebook for an alternate perspective. The HN audience (mostly young, nerdy white men) have always been one of the worst demographics for social networking pro
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by thurn 6y ago
Lisp programmers realized in the 70s that having an artificial division between code and data was frequently problematic, hopefully other languages continue to catch on as well :)
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by thurn 6y ago
I started learning rust as a quarantine project, and my <5000 line project takes ~10 seconds to do an incremental development build and 1-2 seconds to typecheck
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by thurn 6y ago
Skipped over my personal biggest annoyance, the inability to abstract over mutability (example: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2a721y/ )
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by thurn 7y ago
"Type-sensitive" code is encouraged when using the functional style, where you treat objects as dumb "bags of data" that have no inherent functionality of their own. It's still discouraged when following an object-o
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by thurn 7y ago
anything in here about exhaustiveness checking? In my mind that's half the value of pattern matching.
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by thurn 7y ago
I would reword it as "the primary representation is also a data structure literal in the language itself". I think "literal" is basically what they mean by "primitive type", i.e. there is first-class syntax to
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by thurn 8y ago
the fact that essentially 100% of big tech companies use monorepos seems like evidence that it is at least possible to do it in a scalable way...
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by thurn 8y ago
Where do they source their scooters from? they seem pretty high quality, you'd think they were pretty expensive. I'd like to buy one myself.
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by thurn 9y ago
I conduct this style of interviews. It's easy to complain, but much hard to propose better options. Most alternative hiring proposals do not meet the fundamental criteria of Big 4 hiring: they must reject approximately 99% of applicant
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by thurn 9y ago
As usual, failing to take into account equity and bonuses makes this less useful. Salary is <= 50% of the story for most senior roles.

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