hemdawgz

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by hemdawgz 3y ago
I'm curious about this. How many years ago was this, and would you be willing to divulge the general vicinity of the neighbourhood you rented or lived in?
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
MkI was the absolute best tool to do that one thing. Respectfully, MkII compromises on manual control to an unacceptable degree for my usage and an investment in education for beginners along with dumbing down the UI with explicit text labe
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
"Full manual control" is somewhat crippled in Mk II (it switches back to Auto every time I switch back cameras) as well as removing the ability to pin ISO down when making use of tap autoexposure (there is no option but to have bo
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
Or this might just be another confident but baseless HN commenter assertion.
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
You clearly don't work for one of the ones that grant 7 figure salaries. I'm not saying they're common or that any engineer can aspire to achieve one, I'm saying they exist, I've seen it first hand, and I don't
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
Yes, but if this engineer's achievements are well known, competition between companies is what drives crazy comp because they are seen more like a strategic asset rather than another engineer. They wouldn't quite be a low-level em
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
unfortunately, self-promotion matters a lot, sometimes. Shitty or competitive places will require it.
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
People who see it happen don't even have enough hard details to confirm it to themselves aside from the fact that they're witnessing it firsthand. The best I can do, for example, is to say that at FB I worked with someone who was
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by hemdawgz 6y ago
For me it involves scrounging around for anything related as a jumping off point, and sniffing for important keywords and concepts to look up and branch out into learning. Usually it takes me a few days of exploration before I stumble upon
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by hemdawgz 9y ago
I remember at some point on HN those sorts of comments were reasonably well-voted, and now they litter the bottom of any thread they appear in. I wonder when that changed.
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by hemdawgz 10y ago
Explaining the basic concepts of calculus is very different from teaching someone to actually be able to apply them.
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by hemdawgz 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I would have missed that important detail otherwise. The majority of his games are indeed in HTML5, so I do wonder what made him choose Flash as an export target for the one or two such games I've seen.
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by hemdawgz 10y ago
I noticed that some of these 2014 games (in particular the first one) are created in Flash, which to me suggests that there are still some purposes within rich web media it suits better than the plain web html5/css/js stack everyo
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by hemdawgz 10y ago
I don't know how much time it really saves me, but in addition to the convenience I find it much less intrusive (e.g. in meetings or other social situations, or when walking) to quickly glance at my watch to read an incoming notificati
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
This one unfortunately isn't analogous with the others.
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
Little-known tip (I think): messenger.com offers a web UI for Facebook chat similar to their iOS/Android apps, also ad-free and significantly cleaner than the actual Facebook UI. No idea whether it's actually better on power consu
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
The video quality probably doesn't compare but I've used an old iPhone with iPCamera (i'm sure Android equivalents exist) installed for this purpose, which simply hosts an mjpeg stream at a local IP address. It should be simp
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
The existance of a movement still doesn't mean it's popular at large.
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
I use Chrome's Add to Desktop feature for SoundCloud and other webapps, which adds a shortcut to launch the webpage in a dedicated window (without the browser chrome, etc.) The window is managed separately from your normal browser wind
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
I noticed a very similar contrast watching the UK and US police responses to these Twitch streamers who were swatted. American SWAT team bursts in and arrests streamer at gunpoint even after they've established there's no threat,
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
Unfortunately when I tried to set up a local synchronization solution I could not find any simple guides without already knowing what the names of the protocols were. Call me a filthy plebian, but in contrast all of my friends already knew
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
Funny story (missing the point I know), the Dropbox client has provisions to automatically detect other clients on your network and then sync your files to your other computers over LAN rather than through Dropbox servers (files are still s
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
That market was Flash, which has an absolutely huge content base of now-aging vector animations and games. I'm still not sure what the general rationale was for flash support becoming uncool, technical or otherwise. edit: I suppose it
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
He was being sarcastic. Nobody (including me) knows who invented the capacitive touchscreen. Everyone knows who Steve Jobs is.
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
I suppose this misunderstanding boils down to semantics. By definition they are objectively better off. However, past a baseline threshold for human survival it's argued that a person's subjective perception of well-being is relat
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
Almost everyone in the world is better off than they were 100 years ago. That does not make it easier for those at the bottom.
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
The divided opinions on this gallery are revealing. I can see why someone would find these works excruciatingly boring, in that they are all essentially photographs with no variety in artist's intent or 'method of art' for la
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
Much of contemporary art seeks to subvert that notion, even if you find it difficult to consider it real art (I do).
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by hemdawgz 11y ago
What I think OP was saying was that the success of /an individual/, not the work he puts out, is not objective. There are certainly objective standards of quality for the work an individual creates. I think OP's point was tha
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by hemdawgz 12y ago
I don't have a specific answer for your question, but I know this site was written specifically for game programming patterns: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

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