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by zemo 6y ago
> Most of the world set up some VPSs, logged in, configured them, and prayed that everything would work well. Your website went "down for maintenance" every time you did a release. that's not really true, configuration man
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by zemo 6y ago
it's more than five years old but the username @fart wasn't taken so I'm pretty sure it's not taking off anyway I'm https://subreply.com/fart
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by zemo 6y ago
From the article: > while it’s too soon to declare the end of Quibi, it’s still worth asking: is the promise of the quick bite already over? And what went so wrong? it doesn't say "it failed" it says their adoption has col
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Unpacking tech’s response to the killing of George Floyd(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zemo 6y ago|0 comments
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by zemo 6y ago
what in this piece do you consider "hate speech"?
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by zemo 6y ago
> I think most apps will need a transaction involving more than 25 rows at some point I ... can't think of a single time I've ever needed this.
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by zemo 6y ago
I'm sure it differs from company to company, but I work on the multiplayer servers at Jackbox games and it's very clear that people are playing a lot more than they were at this time period last year.
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by zemo 6y ago
that's what a lot of the industry is. that's ... exactly why games like fortnite, league, cs:go, dota, etc are all based around monetizing cosmetics and other DLC. lots of people play games like that. a lot of them ... just play f
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by zemo 6y ago
weird flex but ok
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by zemo 6y ago
at least six
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by zemo 6y ago
been writing Go since 2011, have written many http servers, have never really worried about net/http performance. the bottleneck is usually the storage layer. let's say you have no storage, your bottleneck is probably serializatio
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by zemo 6y ago
you're 26 you got heaps of time. You didn't include all sorts of info like your location, your target pay, and any identifying markers. The industry has a lot of bias; whether or not you need a degree is a question of the existing
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by zemo 6y ago
oh, yeah I get what you mean, I was thrown by the framing of metrics . That abstract makes perfect sense in a very specific context , which is: it's using the language and tools established by prior fields of study as lenses through
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by zemo 6y ago
yeah, their stuff is good! They had a video about Celeste last year that was really fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yorTG9at90g That stuff is very in-the-weeds on the mechanics of platformers. If you like that vi
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by zemo 6y ago
if you're on HN you should probably just read all of Ian Bogost's articles in The Atlantic. I don't mean that to sound reductive; I'm an engineer by training working on a game design MFA now, his writing was some of the
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by zemo 6y ago
this is a list almost entirely about how video games make money. There's very little here of substance about video games as a medium, and very little that seeks to investigate how video games function as cultural artifacts. This isn&#x
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by zemo 7y ago
when you say http do you mean a roundtrip per data point? curious if you went from 1 http request per data point to webrtc or from something more like 1 websocket message per data point to webrtc.
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by zemo 7y ago
not sure what you have in mind, but no not currently
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by zemo 7y ago
have you ever actually done this? I don't mean to sound smug, but I'm the author of the Jackbox Games multiplayer servers, I regularly handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous websocket connections from players' phones. I
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by zemo 7y ago
really not sure what you're getting at and how this is connected to the pandemic. Contrary to what HN may peddle, "startup" is not an industry. Many startups are in industries that are doing extremely well right now. E.g., wi
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by zemo 7y ago
a question I like to ask to my reports is "are you solving a problem or are you solving a puzzle?" puzzles are neat! They're a lot of fun! But we shouldn't mistake puzzles for problems. Just because something isn't
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by zemo 7y ago
yep, still in Chicago, Jackbox and Jellyvision both (although we're completely separate now).
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by zemo 7y ago
how many people were in it? I'm trying to set something up for my family to play Jackbox with more than 10 people, google hangouts caps out at 10 and I don't really want to make everyone set up the zoom app since I'll have to
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by zemo 7y ago
jitsi has dedicated apps for mobile https://jitsi.org/downloads/
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by zemo 7y ago
> DynamoDB is a non-relational database that has two main features : it’s immediately consistent and ... that's ... only true if you're exclusively using strongly consistent reads, but if you're exclusively using strongly
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by zemo 7y ago
I give candidates the option to do a take-home or in-person assessment. For the take-home I communicate that they own everything they produce, and I create an EC2 server for them to use for the interview so that whether or not someone owns
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by zemo 7y ago
the responses to this are breathtaking. I think I would decline to hire the majority of HN users because of their arrogance. My partner is learning about data science now so I asked them if I could try this question on them in the context o
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by zemo 7y ago
the whole "computers in schools aren't working" part of the article is being overly focused in these comments. the important part of the article is this: > STEM ideologues and real educators are pursuing very different goa
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by zemo 7y ago
the entire "STEM Against Science" section is about what he means by "technology" so I am really not convinced you've read the article. > The sciences and mathematics have a historic place in the curriculum, and
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by zemo 7y ago
they do almost zero advertising and their stores only exists in the New York, SF, LA, and Boston metro areas, plus one shop in Portland. The majority of Americans have never heard of Muji.

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