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by wwilim 4y ago
I'd love to read a similar article about the cultural phenomenon that is de_hoejhus in CS:Source
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by wwilim 4y ago
> I used to think, ugh, I’d have to define types everywhere, make struct (or classes) in advance, and sometimes make wild guesses because those things were unknown or not finalised A defined wild guess of something which is not finalised
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by wwilim 4y ago
Full-stack employee
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by wwilim 4y ago
Don't you think working to solve homelessness has a slightly threshold of entry than 128x128 image generation?
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by wwilim 4y ago
Isn't what they mean just "be able to export the model in a form that a) is portable enough to be taken and integrated by someone else, b) has a reasonable runtime performance, and then c) explain how to use it to an application d
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by wwilim 4y ago
Captain Obvious here - the witches were already there, they were just closeted
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by wwilim 4y ago
Well, this is a mint 93 Miata body. In a few years, it will be more valuable than the Holy Grail
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by wwilim 4y ago
> Where do you go to chat with offline / air-gapped systems enthusiasts? Presumably not online
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by wwilim 4y ago
People who can think of weather in terms of plotting and correlating it are usually technical enough to code
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by wwilim 4y ago
There are plenty of fish in the sea. Change jobs and see if that helps. It might remedy the burnout as well.
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by wwilim 4y ago
It also has a route planner which can plan a walk around a given spot that takes roughly the specified time or is roughly the specified distance
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by wwilim 4y ago
I don't think they're abandoning it, they are just going to hire a new team to remake W1 in Unreal Engine, while the core team works on new games using proprietary tools
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by wwilim 4y ago
In Poland, we have this wonderful system called BLIK. You provide nothing except a single-use 6-digit code, then you confirm the payment in your bank's mobile app. It works in online payments, physical stores and ATMs, it supports bank
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by wwilim 4y ago
If someone told me they're striving to achieve 100 days in a row of contributing, my first thoughts would be "egocentrism" and "dishonesty". Helping isn't about you helping. And if you're aiming for 100 da
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by wwilim 4y ago
I mean no disrespect to people in wheelchairs, but isn't it a bit silly to add support for avatars in wheelchairs instead of working on solving actual accessibility problems? Virtue signaling 101...
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by wwilim 4y ago
I just did a powerpoint about how we should avoid integration hell in a project by releasing early. The timeline only had "now", "God only knows when" and "much earlier than God only knows when". There was an a
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by wwilim 4y ago
I agree wholeheartedly, increasing quality of cooperation with stakeholders is exactly why I think it's great in certain scenarios
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by wwilim 4y ago
From the dev team's perspective, sprints are a good tool to force the business people to pay attention to you. Booking a few hours of your prospective end users' time each week helps ensure they focus on collaborating with you, th
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by wwilim 4y ago
In the case you described you can become a 10x developer by developing some BA skills and having the guts to refuse to work until details are provided.
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by wwilim 4y ago
The bear in the movie Annihilation passed the Turing test, but it didn't seem to have much intelligence
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by wwilim 4y ago
Look for new but already existing jobs which have fewer than a few dozen people worldwide working them. High density hydroponic farmer? Zero-G farmer? Artificial meat engineer?
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by wwilim 4y ago
Having a baby in a few months
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by wwilim 4y ago
Another reason is that people will _care_ about Shelob. It builds a community. They wouldn't care about an InternalWebCrawler.
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by wwilim 4y ago
I think what the article describes is something like a cousin of the X-Y problem and Five Times Why. The example given comes off like encouraging layering duct tape "because the business needs this thing for yesterday", but I thin
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by wwilim 4y ago
For me, this is the difference between senior and tech lead
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by wwilim 4y ago
The fact that you are reading Hacker News implies you won't have much trouble finding _some_ work even in the middle of a recession. Also, in my opinion, it's better to get fired from an exciting job than from a boring one.
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by wwilim 4y ago
The French President just gets a nice office and a limo for a few years, he doesn't inherit hundreds of years of imperial money and retain strange godlike reverence for life.
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by wwilim 4y ago
Depends on your reasons to be loyal to your current employer. Is it because they're really a great place to work at? Is it just to maintain some kind of arbitrary integrity? Is it the people, and if so, are they truly worth it and woul
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by wwilim 4y ago
Ironically, this is typical "strawman extrovert" behavior
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by wwilim 4y ago
Tea is better for planning and thinking alone, coffee is better for repetitive work once you've planned it out with tea, and for discussing things with others. That being said, coffee is essential in the morning for low blood pressure

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