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by wkirby 3y ago
For anyone interested in starting their own Godot journey, it’s hard to go wrong with Heartbeast. He just posted a new video this week to get a game done _today_! https://youtu.be/PjN9w_egTeA?si=evG941ZWrwNYi4X0
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by wkirby 3y ago
I recently picked up PICO-8 after about a decade of bouncing around different game engines. There’s something so satisfyingly simplistic about the SDK coming from Unity and Godot. Highly recommended!
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by wkirby 3y ago
> just
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by wkirby 3y ago
I'm consistently surprised by the commenters on HN who seem to think jQuery is just a DOM selection library, when in fact it is a widely supported, incredibly stable tool set for (yes) DOM selection, but also attribute manipulation, Aj
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by wkirby 3y ago
Self-employed for 10 years now as the co-runner of Apsis Labs ( https://apsis.io); we're a software development agency with a focus on healthcare technology and HIPAA compliance. After a decade of building products for clien
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by wkirby 3y ago
Sounds fair to me, teach the 4 year old the consequences of unfair division --- that's the whole purpose of the exercise. The cutter _always_ has the ability to divide the whole in a way that will result in an unfair outcome: that&#x27
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by wkirby 3y ago
A worthy variation of "I cut you choose" --- the only fair way to divide anything.
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by wkirby 3y ago
> is no longer an accurate measure of exceptional performance in the role It never was. No real-world job performance has ever been accurately measured by solving leetcode puzzles for one simple reason: problem solving is only ever going
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by wkirby 3y ago
Even that future seems massively unappealing as a consumer. Plus a $3500 dev kit that lets me set a kitchen timer, while simultaneously recommending I not wear the device while cooking, seems crazy to me.
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by wkirby 3y ago
This seems like a prank. I simply cannot fathom wanting this even if it were free --- and I own and have used multiple VR headsets. The idea that I'd want to live any significant portion of my day in one seems like absolutely madness.
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by wkirby 3y ago
Good.
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by wkirby 4y ago
I've been using Godot for hobby projects on-and-off for a while now, and overall I vastly prefer it to Unity. The scene hierarchy of Godot is a better mental model (for me) than the GameObject/MonoBehavior ever was. That said, I h
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by wkirby 4y ago
Flash of Unstyled Content and Flash of Invisible Text. * FOUC: when you see content in the wrong font, then it switches to the correct font, sometimes leading to page layout jumps. * FOIT: when you see _no_ text content because the desired
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by wkirby 5y ago
Not OP, but the first thing that comes to mind is https://origami.design/
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by wkirby 5y ago
Yes. But I (and most of the people who work here) tend to agree: the capital concept of infinite growth is fundamentally broken. We're a small company, we have a flat salary policy (everyone, including the owners, earns the same wage).
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by wkirby 5y ago
How many monitors do you have? Do you never need to switch between multiple terminal windows or text editors or PDFs or word documents? I with cmd-` I can swap between just the windows inside the application context, and with cmd-tab I can
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by wkirby 5y ago
Shai Agassi was on the cover of WIRED back in 2008 and college me thought he was going to save the world. Like a proto-Musk if Elon were actually in it to save the planet.
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by wkirby 5y ago
Poor mac user here; just want to weigh in with the opposite: I feel bad for Windows users with their single key combination and inability to discern between cycling windows and cycling applications. Just to show that this kind of variabilit
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by wkirby 5y ago
I’ll chime in as a business owner. We peg our raises to the SSA cost of living adjustments. This means our bump for employees at the end of 2021 was just under 6%. If current trends continue, likely a similar number at the end of this year.
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by wkirby 5y ago
Not quite what you're after, but Blender in sidecar works really, really well for pen-based workflows. I can sculpt and texture paint with the Apple Pencil and it all just... works.
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by wkirby 5y ago
My company once took a project on Azure, and ended up giving a 35% cut on our invoices to move to AWS. The bugs I filed while working on that project are still not closed. That was 4 years ago.
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by wkirby 5y ago
I don't understand why this is so hard for so many programmers. As the person frequently on the other side of the table, I can tell you this process is pretty easy to get right. Engage with the question. I'm asking it for a reason
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by wkirby 5y ago
I’ve see no mention of dinghy ( https://github.com/codekitchen/dinghy ), which is what I used to roll before Docker for Mac really got up and running. I pulled it up yesterday and everything still works. For anyone who
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by wkirby 5y ago
Nah. I'm good. See ya 1password.
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by wkirby 5y ago
I’m a cofounder. At a surface level this is a running joke between me and my team: they won’t unionize no matter how many times I insist they do. More fundamentally I come from a strong Union family. My father is a professor, my grandfather
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by wkirby 5y ago
It's ok. The workers refuse to unionize though, which is a real problem.
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by wkirby 5y ago
We _love_ side projects --- that's why we started our company, because we didn't want Bezos to own our zombie card game.
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by wkirby 5y ago
Not at the moment. We always post in the Who's Hiring thread when a position opens.
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by wkirby 5y ago
My company’s core philosophy is that there are only 20 productive “creative” hours of coding in the average week. We employ our devs and ask that they aim for 17 hours of billed time to our clients; the remaining 3 hours is spent on our int
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by wkirby 6y ago
One of the Apsis devs here. Happy to answer any questions.

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