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by b0rbb 1mo ago
Disasterpiece is a fantastic composer. His work on Fez is probably some of my favorite video game soundtrack work on any game ever. I remember hearing that he was working on Hyper Light Drifter when it was on Kickstarter and I was thrille
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by b0rbb 2mo ago
lol @ the person spamming Never Gonna Give You Up
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by b0rbb 3mo ago
Awesome, love seeing stuff out of Rochester - RIT or UofR or any of the nearby schools. Totally underrated area for academic pursuits.
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by b0rbb 4mo ago
It's not odd at all to call this economic damage unless you're that disconnected from anything but AI/high-tech SV companies. There's smaller businesses that I know _need_ data capacity (hard drives) that can't affo
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by b0rbb 7mo ago
That animated background is terrible . Incredibly distracting. No way to turn it off (at least within what's provided without using something like devtools.)
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by b0rbb 8mo ago
Oh my goodness I completely forgot about Knoppix.
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by b0rbb 10mo ago
I think categorizing Tech Workers as a whole as being synonymous with this website's target audience isn't a correct assumption. There's some social circles I frequent that are made up of folks that anyone here would qualify
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by b0rbb 10mo ago
I worked at the main Kodak tower in Rochester for a few years in the early 2000s. Mainly as a paid IT intern of sorts to earn some additional money in college. I often had to go to the basement there to store equipment, get equipment, etc.
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by b0rbb 11mo ago
> Upstate New York I'm guessing they meant _Upstate AND Western New York_. Glad someone in Waymo saw the potential for testing for extreme snowy conditions there.
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by b0rbb 11mo ago
This makes me wonder if Carmack's feelings on NeXTSTEP had anything to do with the decision to release the first publicly available release of Quake 3 on OS X only at first. See https://web.archive.org/web/200002
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by b0rbb 11mo ago
There was a REALLY cool project by the design firm Berg in the UK about ~13 years ago. Cute little thermal printer with online services that allowed you to have scheduled printouts of things like weather reports, horoscopes, etc. And... oh
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by b0rbb 1y ago
I don't know about you all but I love a well written RCA. Nicely done.
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by b0rbb 1y ago
I consulted with Epic once and got to visit the campus. Incredible place, super detailed, and I loved the cafeteria setup they had (great food too.) I definitely got a feeling that folks got burned out pretty quickly though.
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by b0rbb 2y ago
The animations are fantastic and awesome job with the interactivity. I find myself having to explain latency to folks often in my work and being able to see the extreme difference in latencies for something like a HDD vs SSD makes it much e
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by b0rbb 2y ago
For some reason, I'm reminded of a particular comic strip from Achewood - https://achewood.com/2007/01/11/title.html . "Fools! I have invented a usb device which can collect votes from the Internet a
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by b0rbb 3y ago
Sega absolutely nailed it with graphic design in those days. My goodness.
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by b0rbb 5y ago
The entirety of the Yakuza series is absolutely fantastic, especially the latest entry (Yakuza: Like a Dragon).
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by b0rbb 8y ago
https://www.supermicro.com is up however, something break with their redirect?
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by b0rbb 11y ago
Real glad to see RIT getting some love on HN. Surprised no one's posted stuff from CSH yet.
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by b0rbb 11y ago
Last week, Judge Alison J. Nathan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that CloudFlare does not have to search out and block customers who use variations on the name “grooveshark.” Instead, CloudFlare must