akrotkov

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by akrotkov 1y ago
Anecdotally in the past month or so, I've started seeing a large uptick in recruiter reach-outs. I had none for the past year (aside from directly reaching out), but there have been 4 cold contacts in the last couple of weeks alone now
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by akrotkov 1y ago
Two, surely? The previous one still being used and the new one being written. (Note that this is how most rendering artifacts were fixed long ago - the on screen and the off screen buffers were swapped, so nobody would "see" in pr
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by akrotkov 1y ago
I wonder if that's a similar mental state you have while lucid dreaming or just after waking up. You feel like you have all of the answers and struggle to write them down before your brain wipes them out. Reading it over once fully luc
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by akrotkov 1y ago
I spent hundreds of hours 20 years ago playing Kung Fu Chess[1], which was the (first?) online version of this concept. That was a fun time. The physical board and magnets definitely add a cool factor to it as does the physical dexterity el
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by akrotkov 2y ago
Hello! miniKanren was my introduction to relational programming (SQL aside!), and I had hours of trying to wrap my head around the Reasoned Schemer. Were you aware a miniKanren-inspired language was the foundation of a large chunk of Amazon
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by akrotkov 2y ago
I believe the comment-to-upvote ratio is triggering an automated down-weighing on most of them.
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by akrotkov 2y ago
I'll ask the question that I'm sure many are thinking but I don't see answered on the page: Why choose this extension over uBlock Origin, which has years of trust built?
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by akrotkov 2y ago
To be clear, it's not Jagex you're competing with. It's the 20+ other indie MMO solo developers who are trying to do the same thing as you, including but not limited to: RetroMMO, New Eden, Valorbound, Carth, Eterspire, Omuri
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by akrotkov 2y ago
Set your expectations accordingly. Coding is the fun part, but it's less than 5% of actually launching and making a successful product. If you don't think you want to spend most of your time not coding, don't try to make it
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by akrotkov 2y ago
Huh, this is fun! I built Genfanad ( http://genfanad.com/ ) as a browser based game with similar inspirations to yours a few years ago. A lot of the technologies you mentioned are very similar. It's surprising how easy g
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by akrotkov 3y ago
I've been looking for a concise soundbite (ironically) for this exact issue and Pendulum Blindness definitely fits what I've been trying to summarize. Going to definitely yoink it for next time I have this discussion. It applies t
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by akrotkov 3y ago
The lack of a low end scanner market could also be attributed to the fact that everyone these days has a device with a camera that is either good enough or in some cases better for digitizing documents than those old scanners.
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by akrotkov 5y ago
There's physical Amazon Fresh stores in the Seattle area (at least) which has the just-walk-out technology. I tried the one in Factoria out and it was ... interesting. A lot of groceries were pre-packaged but it had most things that I
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by akrotkov 5y ago
Incidentally, when I moved to Google after a decade at Amazon, one of the few tools that I missed was iGraph.
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by akrotkov 5y ago
I don't believe this is much of a secret. A lot of internal services have been gradually shifted over the past couple years, there was a re:Invent talk this year about it.
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by akrotkov 5y ago
Incidentally, when I was looking for an animator for a short animated segment for an indie game trailer, it took many many months of searching. There's a few companies that do it as part of a fully-fledged package to produce video (at
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by akrotkov 6y ago
As we joked about in my previous job, error pages are very quick to render!