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by zeroq 1y ago
This is nice, and works really nice for her use case! Two things to note when thinking about color schemes: (1) dr. Cynthia Brewer spent way too much time developing the color scheme for maps with information and similar inforgraphics. I
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by zeroq 1y ago
This is fucking amazing! Everyone and their mother are trying to hop on the band wagon of AI and make a half assed service just because it may sell just due to the "ai" tag attached to it - this is different! Chapeau bas! It'
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by zeroq 1y ago
i will call it "webification" of C!
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A fellow Elbonian made a book [1] depicting the ugliest places in our town. Despite the tongue-in-a-cheek mood it's a great piece of nostalgia trip spiced with some interesting local history lessons. He also have an automotive youtube
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by zeroq 1y ago
And god forbid you to accidently ship the font with your game or mobile app! :)
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by zeroq 1y ago
JS aside, I recently tried my very best to introduce proper logging and error handling to otherwise "look ma, no handlebars" codebase. Call it a thought experiment. We start with a clean implementation that satisfies requirements.
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by zeroq 2y ago
"The fantastic element that explains the appeal of games to many developers is neither the fire-breathing monsters nor the milky-skinned, semi-clad sirens; it is the experience of carrying out a task from start to finish without any ch
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by zeroq 2y ago
> they can't seem to turn the work of their talented engineers into great new products I think about this a lot. The most famous example in tech world is obviously Jobs and Apple. And it's a great example because it's a bo
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by zeroq 2y ago
In my bubble it's general consensus that Google - as we knew it - is done. Sergiej and Larry phased out and what is left is more of less a headless chicken, too big too fall, but without any clear direction and goal.
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DeCSS(cs.cmu.edu)
1 points by zeroq 2y ago|1 comments
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In 1999 a 15 year old Norwegian reverse engineered Hollywood’s unbreakable DVD encryption (the Content Scramble System) and wrote a tiny program called DeCSS. His goal? Simply to play DVDs on Linux. Hollywood’s reaction? Full blown panic. S
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by zeroq 2y ago
modern day coal mining
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by zeroq 2y ago
In similar spirit, a minimal implemention of KV store, in 22 bytes: export default new Map
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Show HN: DeCSS
2 points by zeroq 2y ago|0 comments
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So which one actually ejected? Tre or Cheez?
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This really resonates with me. Every time I try desktop linux it feels like it's 30 years behind in usability.
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At the same time my graphics card asks me to log in with my facebook account to download an update.
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The fantastic element that explains the appeal of games to many developers is neither the fire-breathing monsters nor the milky-skinned, semi-clad sirens; it is the experience of carrying out a task from start to finish without any change i
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by zeroq 2y ago
My point is, if you're forming a new team from people that never seen each other and they communicate during random zoom calls the chances they will grow a real bond are very slim. People will join the stand up call saying routine like
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by zeroq 2y ago
it is both harder and very different. Given that there are plenty of people on the spectrum working in IT a promotion can be a devastating blow to some. The thing you've mentioned about poor performance resonates a lot with an unfinish
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by zeroq 2y ago
I've been gathering anonymous feedback from teams I've worked with as a lead or eng mgr. I usually ask the scrum master or someone neutral to talk to the team and gather a few bullet points. I always talk to the team first and ask
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by zeroq 2y ago
Fallout 3 is the best example of uncanny valley phenomenon. In original Fallout you enter a city which spans across four screens, repetetively uses the same set of limited sprites and is inhabited by some random moving pixels acting as citi
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by zeroq 2y ago
This correlates to my parent post - when my generation started with Flash around 2000 there was no literature on how to programm in Flash, it just happened. So we went to the nearest bookstore and got a bunch of other books on programming.
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This. I have a pet project (let's call it home brew Plex) that I've started some 10 years ago and every 2 years I come back to it with the same experiment - let's see what do I have to change to be in line with the current ja
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by zeroq 2y ago
This. At one point people decided that tables are lame. Iframes on the other hand posed a security issue (cross site scripting) - you have two pages living inside the same window, with possible access and trivial attack vectors like creatin
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by zeroq 2y ago
I call it the biggest bs since I had my supper.
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The ususal question - why would I want to use it instead of Box2D?
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I worked for an investment bank and on the inside no one even pretends, it's just a part of the job.
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I remember a project from some 20 years ago that acted as a proxy and kept a local copy of every single page you visited. I don't remember any details other that you could access that app and search through the history based on time, u

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