justindz

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by justindz 5mo ago
Thanks, this is another great idea and I'll consider it as an addition or alternative. Do you think this works in an open-world, non-linear type game?
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by justindz 5mo ago
What a great lunch read! I've been weekend-warrioring a terminal-based CRPG for a bit myself. I was recently exploring ways to use agents to help with balance testing, which is a real scale problem for solo indie dev. So far, all I&#x2
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by justindz 6mo ago
I think it would be fantastic to have a reference site for significant, complex projects either developed or substantially extended primarily via agent(s). Every time I look at someone's incredible example of a workflow for handling bi
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by justindz 11y ago
I ride the metro for about 1:30 a day (part of which is walking to and fro), which I prefer to my prior driving commute of 25-30 minutes. I have had to increase my fantasy and sci-fi novel budget, however.
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by justindz 11y ago
One can perhaps take comfort in the fact that a civilization advanced enough to be aware of us would likely be aware of the fact that we were more advanced than what they could see at any given moment (or they had found a way to narrow the
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by justindz 11y ago
I was in the Azure TAP program many years ago and they talked about this extensively to the participants. I would echo the consistency of direction on this. I had a vague sense that it was an attempt to quell enterprise fears about the clou
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by justindz 11y ago
I am the same way. I found it surprising. I get so much positive feedback from the editing process that I have actually developed a routine of editing as I draft. Although it improves the quality of my draft, it takes ages. For poetry, it w
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by justindz 11y ago
I'm not sure I quite expected to see this on HN, though I'm glad it was posted since I happen to be trying to learn novel writing. I thought the before and after example of the basketball article was a concise and clear way to exp
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by justindz 12y ago
I was at a product management event once and met a guy who managed a product in this space. A group of us went out for drinks after the event and he ended up explaining what he did. At some point he mentioned "Chinese hackers." An
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by justindz 12y ago
I read it the way you apparently intended to write it. In college, getting to where I could write and get published poems that weren't a personal embarrassment took more or less the same amount of study and practice as getting my CS de
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by justindz 12y ago
My experience has also been that managers at the "average company" these days are pretty much expected to both manage and be a fully productive individual contributor. Realistically, this means that they spend about 80% of their t
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by justindz 12y ago
Looks like they got the cert deployed, although the process isn't directed to https yet. I hand-added https to the URL for the payment collection page and had no issues.
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by justindz 12y ago
Agreed. In its current state, I will not participate.
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by justindz 12y ago
Lawrence and crew just responded to my tweet on this. They use Stripe, which is encrypted. The SSL certs for the page that is unencrypted will be up later today. https://twitter.com/Boyko4TX/status/4619023531053178
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by justindz 13y ago
I've spent a lot of time in technology product management (PM) and I still frequently encounter "Product Managers" who are doing entirely project management (PMO). And there's business analysts and other technical produc
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by justindz 13y ago
Re: #16, my experience with and in management positions is that we no longer think of managers as people who specialize in management and whose function is to help a pool of natural talent stay coordinated, focused, challenged and rewarded.
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by justindz 13y ago
I think journalists or other hobbyists/professionals with work they need to protect should start thinking about keeping an air-gapped computer around. I've seen this phrase used recently to describe a computer which has never been
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by justindz 13y ago
I would love a good citation if you have one. I'll look around on my own, too. Curious about this because I am 1) very pale and 2) enjoy hiking.
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by justindz 13y ago
Ah, the mighty SX processor series. These look like very similar specs, even though I'm sure it wasn't a Toshiba.
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by justindz 13y ago
I don't think so. I'm wracking my brain now to remember the manufacturer. I might have to ask my dad. Ah, childhood comes rushing back.
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by justindz 13y ago
Born, raised and educated entirely in West Virginia. Currently a Director of Product Management at a DC tech company. My dad, who worked for the National Park Service for 35 years (retiring last month) brought home a 25Mhz "shades of g
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by justindz 13y ago
This has been my basic frustration with what I call "YouTube logic," which seems to take this form: 1) Determine what you would prefer to be true. 2) Spend your time absorbing and referencing supporting evidence, at the expense of
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by justindz 13y ago
This is a fairly common model. One of the best examples I've encountered lately is League of Legends. The game is a MOBA (coined: Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) for team fights on a map that is similar to Defense of the Ancients from Warc
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by justindz 13y ago
Hijacking for personal benefit. I'm a long time cold cereal breakfast addict. I eat the store brand equivalent of Life cereal (has actual sugar!) mostly, along with other things like apple cinnamon cheerios. I don't eat anything with a stra
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by justindz 13y ago
The "Yea, but so what?" is relevant for policy-making. Legislation that would protect a specific luxury/entertainment industry from privacy may be re-distributing wealth to those players from other less protected players. Not an argument ag
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by justindz 13y ago
I was at the SXSW gaming expo last month and they had a booth about this merit badge at the event.
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by justindz 14y ago
"In its first three weeks on sale, the game sold 2 million copies, according to Electronic Arts." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game) Unfortunately, the citation link is dead on the article. I don't know if this answers y
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by justindz 14y ago
Your last line is interesting and seems like a useful line of discussion to come out of this otherwise PR-laden exercise. Is there somewhere that you could elaborate on the evidence and suggest alternatives? You'd have at least one reader.
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by justindz 14y ago
Do either you or the poster have advice regarding single parenting + full time job + nights/weekends-style startup? Possible? Was unclear if you were saying that spouse + support = okay, or just if spouse, then support = okay. Do you rely o
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by justindz 15y ago
If only they'd let you sign up for these things for only the immediate purpose and not be sent other "important campaign" emails. I would be cool with someone reading and trying to pronounce my name (incidentally, failing miserably) as part

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