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by jmd42 2y ago
I recall a study which suggested that we don't really calculate the trajectory as such, but use some kind of simple visual heuristic to continually align ourselves with where the ball is going to land. They showed that people running t
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by jmd42 2y ago
It's a lawsuit because Schrems only needs enough of a basis to force the courts to consider certain issues, and to make statements about how GDPR should apply in principle in certain situations, in order to effectively restrict big
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by jmd42 2y ago
I don't think he even needed to prove that. Rather it's that, in the course of evaluating this case, the court has been forced to make statements clarifying how certain rules and principles in GDPR are to be interpreted. And this
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by jmd42 2y ago
Schrems has launched several strategic court cases like this to push back on privacy issues, and even runs a non-profit focused on doing so. I think "activist" is just giving him well-deserved credit for the amount of legwork he p
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by jmd42 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companies with more intricate and involved development tasks. C
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by jmd42 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companies with more intricate and involved development tasks. I
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by jmd42 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companies with more intricate and involved development tasks. I
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by jmd42 2y ago
I think the "compression-oriented" term was coined by Casey Muratori. There's an article expanding on it here: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015 > Like a good compressor, I don’t reuse anything until I h
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How to Not Make Things Worse(devbeat.co.uk)
3 points by jmd42 2y ago|2 comments
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by jmd42 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | London | Remote (US/EU timezones) I run a boutique software development studio, where I focus on helping startups get their MVP off the ground, or assisting companies with more intricate and involved development tasks. I
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by jmd42 2y ago
Right - I think it's fair to expect somebody to come up with some kind of approach to solving this, even if they've never encountered the problem or drilled Leetcode before. At least to be able to conceptualize the problem and mak
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by jmd42 3y ago
Google only needs to make money on average. It's not at all unreasonable to think a company might offer a service where they make a profit on the average customer, but make a loss in some edge-cases. It's not such an uncommon mode
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by jmd42 3y ago
Reddit did make some concessions about continuing to support free API access for accessibility-related tools, which was one of the major complaints about the pricing announcement: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7&
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by jmd42 3y ago
I agree with this. You'll often see responses like "but many people don't need to write sorting algorithms from scratch in their day to day work, so they're out of practice". But to me this attitude itself is indica
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by jmd42 4y ago
I think it's more that the "inversion" interview story became a bit of a hot topic, and so is something people tend to reference in these discussions. Not that it's a specific problem people think is great to ask in inte
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by jmd42 4y ago
> Why not ask the much more interesting and potentially useful question of balancing a binary tree? Honestly? Because that's harder. The swapping question is basically a softball / FizzBuzz-style question to test the most basic
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by jmd42 4y ago
I'm on the same page. Sure, your day-to-day work may not involve manipulating binary trees. But presumably it does involve working with variables, objects, references, manipulating data of some kind... And if you're comfortable wi
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by jmd42 4y ago
Essentially the value is in not having to set up your own SSH server. Or for providing you with 'throwaway' domains for any developer who wants to temporarily expose some locally running service. One use-case I had was connectin
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by jmd42 5y ago
AFAIK it is possible we'll see some images released during the calibration process.
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by jmd42 5y ago
This rocks, and congrats!
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by jmd42 5y ago
The person who submitted that particular PR is trolling (clear from their comments in the original #2690 thread) - this was satire.
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by jmd42 5y ago
Yes, it's a joke. Or at least the person who submitted that (hmdne) is clearly trolling (you can tell from their comments in the original thread). But the PR was still accepted in any case, so it looks like it went over the heads of th
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by jmd42 5y ago
Getting visibility within Steam itself is still probably the most effective way of increasing sales numbers - generally being featured/recommended within the platform is profoundly more effective than more organic marketing efforts (un
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by jmd42 5y ago
Drive day 1 sales, increasing your chance of getting featured as a "hot new release", increasing visibility and trying to ride the recommendation algorithm.
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by jmd42 5y ago
Frontend: Vue (typescript) Backend: Go or Java (simple and minimalistic REST-ish API, not a lot of framework stuff), via Docker. AWS Lambda for some things. DB: Postgres (usually managed with AWS RDS)
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by jmd42 5y ago
Twine exports to HTML, while Ink plugs in to other game engines/code as a kind of backend engine for handling narrative and text