mingmecca

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by mingmecca 7y ago
Another VIC-20 alum here. At the age of 10, I remember trying to write a version of Donkey Kong in BASIC and was flabbergasted when I ran out of memory before I could even get barrels rolling! Ah, the good ol' days!
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by mingmecca 7y ago
Speaking as someone who cut my teeth in the 80s and early 90s: I miss the elitism and exclusivity of it. Nowadays the internet has made it so any question can be answered within seconds, but back then you had to scrupulously acquire your i
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by mingmecca 8y ago
I learned that the startup dream of being acquired is bittersweet. Sweet that I got rich, bitter that my baby is now being eviscerated by the acquiring company to make it less bleeding edge and more mainstream. There are worse things in l
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by mingmecca 8y ago
I believe this to be true (embodiment as a precursor to cognition). So much of our early years learning is exploring how our various actions lead to a corresponding result. Touching a hot stove vs petting a soft cat, for example. And ins
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by mingmecca 9y ago
True. Except! The bone chilling winters and lake effect snow that accumulates into multiple feet. I remember one winter years ago where, when visiting my girlfriend, the wind-chill temp was 45 below zero and our cars were encased in ice an
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by mingmecca 10y ago
Not directly, but in acquisitions the price of the stock does help in all stock/part stock deals.
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by mingmecca 11y ago
I'm just wading into the HA waters with Postgres. I somewhat understand the tradeoffs between simplicity and robustness, but what would be your recommendation on how to proceed for someone who is a newbie?
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by mingmecca 11y ago
I wouldn't fret about it too much. There are a lot of interviewer egos out there and kids being put in the position of Ultimate Power(tm) can really do a lot of damage to the self-worth of qualified candidates. Just keep coding, studyi
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by mingmecca 11y ago
I disagree. What Snowden did was hugely important not just domestically but internationally. Without him we wouldn't have the current push to reform the surveillance state, so it would have grown unfettered into a cancer that really
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by mingmecca 11y ago
I gave Soylent a try when it first came out. The initial formulation gave me incredible gastro-intestinal distress, and it was so painful that I could barely sleep at night. Apparently they heard this sort of feedback from a bunch of peop
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by mingmecca 12y ago
I lose about 20 points of IQ in a technical interview. It's nerve racking (I wear black shirts to hide the sweat) and it cost me a job working for a well known VR company. I passed the 'practical', which was a 2 hour coding
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by mingmecca 12y ago
Upgrading to the latest and greatest Macbook is absurdly cheap since you can sell your old model for close to the original price Oh how I wish that were true. I have a 2012 15" Macbook Retina (8gb/256gb) that I bought for $2200
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by mingmecca 12y ago
I've done what you're attempting to do, and your instincts are right: there are much more interesting and worthwhile things outside of the game industry, including kids. It might be arrogant to say, but game developers are ninjas
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by mingmecca 12y ago
July 15th to be exact.
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by mingmecca 12y ago
I'm curious as to the social angle on this. Do you get lonely out there, are friends primarily on line, is your partner (if applicable) happy with this situation, etc? I ask because I've always dreamed of a life of simplicity sim
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by mingmecca 12y ago
You can't create art that way. (Well, you can, but it will be bad art.) I'm curious as to why you think that? There are a lot of really great projects on Kickstarter that would fall under the umbrella of "good art" (g
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by mingmecca 12y ago
Hey! I grew up in the Downriver area as well (Lincoln Park specifically, about which the less said the better). Growing up, I only ever went into Detroit for concerts and the semi-annual "Greektown" pilgrimage. Outside of that,
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by mingmecca 12y ago
I read that story yesterday, and I somewhat brushed it off as one judge's view. Thankfully that guy doesn't not sit on the Supreme Court, which is where all of this is headed. I'm actually heartened by the unanimous decision
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by mingmecca 12y ago
Throughout our history many dubious actions have been "legal" but not necessarily right or just. Stateside, hopefully the Supreme Court will side with privacy rights once those cases wind their way through the courts.
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by mingmecca 12y ago
I can relate to this. A few years ago I was a 30 year old guy who felt like a feeble 70 year old. I was tired, depressed, and just didn't feel well at all. I had a blood test and the doc was flabbergasted at how low my Vitamin D lev
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by mingmecca 12y ago
This is some truly frightening stuff. There are large groups of people who relish the idea of a surveillance state in order to eliminate uncertainty in all things. And if privacy has to be sacrificed then so be it. I've said it befor
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by mingmecca 12y ago
Even though Notch writes that he wants to utilize VR for games and not 'social', I'm open to all the experiences that VR can provide, gaming or otherwise. But I think the bigger issue here is I just don't want Facebook i
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by mingmecca 13y ago
Values matter. Ethics matter. If you're considering someone as a co-founder that believes the end justifies the means, or it is better to ask forgiveness than permission, then pass on that person and keep looking. Personal anecdote:
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by mingmecca 13y ago
Grey skies for 7 months will do that.
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by mingmecca 13y ago
This is exactly right. There is so much give in the system, and there has to be, because enforcing all laws as written would be a truly dystopian scenario. We don't want to live in the a world where it is impossible to get away with a
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by mingmecca 13y ago
To answer the question in the title: I'd rather be dead than live my life in a fishbowl and watched most of the time. I'd rather live with the reality of a dangerous world instead of suspecting that some CPU or agent is analyzing
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by mingmecca 13y ago
Well then, you should probably incentivize them with generous equity in the company, right? Without it, why should they work so hard just to make you richer? And here is a truism: Even people who are 'invested' in their jobs are
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by mingmecca 13y ago
Well, based on my experience you definitely want to 'work', but work on things that fulfill you in some way. Hopefully your startup sale allows you to never again be dependent on the The Man, so if you're tasked with somethi
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by mingmecca 13y ago
It seems like end to end encryption is the only way to go. It makes the UX not as convenient, but convenience is the carrot that has led us to this dismal point.
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by mingmecca 13y ago
40 here, still going strong. 18-22 times a month according to my wife's daily tracker. Exercise, exercise, exercise.

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