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by wolframhempel 2y ago
Blender, in my view, is one of the best arguments to develop native desktop applications over web view wrappers like Electron. Everything is responsive and instant, you can open new 3D view windows by just sliding them open at 60 frames a s
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I particularly like the confidence in the succession diagram. Pythagoras->Da Vinci->Descartes->Pepsi...obviously...
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"Breathtaking" – Pepsi's 2008 logo design document is almost satire [pdf](goldennumber.net)
4 points by wolframhempel 2y ago|2 comments
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I feel that most people instinctively assume that some institution, e.g. the government or the dictionary publishers are the authority on what constitutes "correct language". It's important to emphasize that language (include
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
A lot of good things have already been said, but having worked on similar initiatives within larger banks, here are some of my key takeaways: - Treat it as a product. Build something that would be appealing to real world customers. Spent ti
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I feel there's a place for YAML and JSON and that they are quite different: - YAML is for files written or edited by humans - e.g. configuration files for servers with lots of comments and explanations, but generally quite simple key v
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
Aside from duplication there's also competition. If you bake for your family, your pie will be appreciated, regardless of its novelty. But if your pie is meant to go onto a supermarket shelf alongside other pies, you need to give the c
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I agree with that - but in many cases, I think I'd at least define "works" as "is a benefit towards the set aim, rather than a detriment". Although in many cases, it'd be fairer to define it as "is a net b
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I'm not sure that "education" as the article states is one of them. But the war on drugs certainly is.
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I love this article as it speaks to one of the most overlooked aspects of modern life: There are a lot of fundamental things that we take for granted and practice every day - a lot of things with lots of experts and powerful institutions ar
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I need to develop better impulse control. I was already halfway through filling out the shipping address when I took a deep breath and thought - really? Are you ever gonna seriously read this? But then again, it does come wrap in space foil
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I'm wondering if at this point its more of an autocracy of systems. And whilst you can vote for the top layer that (nominally?) governs the system/institution, the system itself is permanent and continuous.
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
Just wanted to share the related Wikipedia article. Germans do - factually - work fewer hours annually than any other developed nation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
As a German who lived abroad a long time, but moved to Berlin eight years ago, here’s my (completely personal) assessment of why Germany is going down the drain economically - and will continue to do so: 1) Mindset and Culture. The idea of
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I studied art history, and this always bothered me when learning about Christian symbolism. When reading about numbers related to cathedrals, such as the number of statues on a ledge or the number of archivolts (the bands around doors), so
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Greetings from the future - it's fucking boring(blog.joinodin.com)
3 points by wolframhempel 2y ago|1 comments
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
Fair enough - let's take Stardew Valley as an example then.
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I feel, the current generation of AAA Games are a great example for why you should make something you enjoy rather than something designed to make money. Look at Baldurs Gate 3 vs Skull and Bones. Make something you love and are passionate
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by wolframhempel 2y ago
I've got to admit, Descent was the only game to ever make me physically ill. Not because it was bad - it really wasn't - but for a short while in the 90s the Genre of "fly tiny spaceship through low resolution, spinning 3D ma
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How we've saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database(hivekit.io)
9 points by wolframhempel 3y ago|0 comments
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by wolframhempel 3y ago
Fair, should be 98%. Can't change the title anymore though
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Saving cloud costs by writing our own database(hivekit.io)
211 points by wolframhempel 3y ago|160 comments
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by wolframhempel 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Finance & Trading Technology, Web Apps, 3D/WebGL, Realtime Data I'm a highly experienced one-man army with a focus on finance, complex web apps with realtime data and 2D/3D visualizations. I'v
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by wolframhempel 3y ago
I'm actually with traviswingo. Just launch. Chances are, no one will care about your website for quite a while. Unless you're building a product with a lot of hype around it, there's likely going to be a huge gap between laun
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What techies keep getting wrong about industrial automation(hivekit.io)
37 points by wolframhempel 3y ago|14 comments
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by wolframhempel 3y ago
It's an important point. We've ended up using two Hilbert curves, rotated by 90 degrees to tackle this problem. If it is close on either, it is close in 2D space
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by wolframhempel 3y ago
I've bookmarked it, just because the site is so pretty.
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Show HN: Realtime API for Location Tracking and Spatial Logic(hivekit.io)
3 points by wolframhempel 3y ago|0 comments
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by wolframhempel 3y ago
It's important to say that this isn't in the VCs interest either. As a VC, you want to keep the founders motivated to make you money and grow the pie - or at least to stay on and continue what they are doing. Taking away their per
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Of Hexagons and Hilbert Curves – The Headaches of Scaling Geospatial Stuff(hivekit.io)
1 points by wolframhempel 3y ago|0 comments

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