onikolas7

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by onikolas7 3mo ago
How to actually make a billion (the YC formula): 1. Work hard to build a great product. 2. Get VC money. 3. Offer great product for free by spending ridiculous amounts of VC money. 4. Switch to a paying model once you have starved any
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by onikolas7 1y ago
As a teenager I loved Samurai Jack. Gendy Tartakovsky is a truly unique creator. I am very excited for his first R-rated feature Fixed. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8785038/
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Show HN: A tutorial for building a 2D game engine(nik-os.com)
1 points by onikolas7 2y ago|0 comments
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by onikolas7 2y ago
Totally agree! I am now writing a very simple hack'n slash game to identify missing features. I won't be writing an editor any time soon. Do you have any examples of good debugging features?
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by onikolas7 2y ago
For anyone looking to write their own engine, I wrote a tutorial! You just need the tutorial and a couple of years :) https://nik-os.com/agl/00_intro.html
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by onikolas7 3y ago
I recently joined a local game jam with the intent of showing off my 2D engine. Halfway through, I realized I didn't have a way to properly destroy game objects. I realized it after messing up my cooldown timer and accidentally spawnin
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by onikolas7 3y ago
Translating the OpenGL code to Metal/Vulkan will likely be a lot of work. Have a look at [1] which is something like tutorial 1 in the series. Its super verbose! OpenGL 4.1 was silently supported up to some version of OSX. Not sure if
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Show HN: A tutorial for building a 2D game engine with Go and OpenGL(nik-os.com)
17 points by onikolas7 3y ago|2 comments
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by onikolas7 3y ago
Funny. In the game black&white you would slap or pet your avatar to train it. The lead AI programmer on that was Demis Hassabis of deepmind fame.
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by onikolas7 4y ago
I am solo building a 2D game engine. Does it count?
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by onikolas7 4y ago
Is it a surprise that an education system targeting the mean produces results close to the mean? It's like training for the marathon by only doing 2 mile runs and then saying people's ability to run long distances shows little var
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by onikolas7 4y ago
More reasons to opt for remote-only.
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by onikolas7 4y ago
I think this is one of those issues that are presented as a hard/nuanced problem but really isn't. Single use plastic can be banned the same way lead paint is banned. That's only hard to do because of lobbying by Coke&fri
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by onikolas7 4y ago
No, I agree, it is the sensible thing to be doing, but it looks like we are at a point where radical short term fixes are needed.
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by onikolas7 4y ago
It will put very strong pressure during the transition with a few young people supporting a larger aging population (see Japan). It's also opposed by capitalists as it goes against the infinite growth mantra (see for example Musk'
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by onikolas7 4y ago
Lets set a new standard: if it doesn't run on raspberry Pi don't ship it. Not running on a Pi should be a rare, special-case exception (e.g. need to train a model on GPU).
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by onikolas7 4y ago
'Lots' and 'legacy' are compatible.
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by onikolas7 4y ago
There are more games than ever before, including DRM-free, host-your-own-server games. Don't like in-app purchases? Play something else.
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by onikolas7 4y ago
Setting up a company is a practical way to offer services, especially if you are working outside the US. There is an overhead, at least in my case (living in Europe), like paying for an accountant, but its well worth it.
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by onikolas7 5y ago
Exercise extreme self-restraint at the supermarket and then take it easy at home. Related: Never go to the supermarket hungry.
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by onikolas7 5y ago
Draining Germany of talent started even earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Restoration_of_the...
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by onikolas7 5y ago
In my mind "Think of the children" is synonymous with "ulterior motive". After reading the comments here, I am adding CSAM to the list of synonyms.
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by onikolas7 5y ago
I was going to comment on the lack of pipes and then saw the ceiling :)
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by onikolas7 5y ago
Interesting how most comments react with "I'll just pirate it" not realizing that they are just solidifying Adobe's lock-in. Few years down the line they will turn legit (guessing most are poor students who will graduate
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by onikolas7 5y ago
Sure there is, its called a package repository. See Debian or Arch for some good examples.
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by onikolas7 5y ago
So on top of the free piano, they also want a free piano delivery service, free piano tuning and maintenance, and free piano lessons? The word that comes to mind is entitled..
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by onikolas7 5y ago
The insight from Amdahl's law is what led to the creation of hybrid processors like the Cell (used in the PlayStation 3 console). They quickly became irrelevant as GPGPU became more mainstream.
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by onikolas7 6y ago
A lot of educated people make the mistake of thinking that their rational brain is the one in charge. In reality, emotions rule us and that's why a good story wins. It speaks to the inner cortex, the one in the driver's seat.
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by onikolas7 6y ago
If we plotted potential for environmental impact(Y) vs moral agency(X), beavers would be up and to the left, orangutans bottom right and humans up and to the right (beating both on both axis).
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by onikolas7 6y ago
The orangutan's ability to build a hammock does not change its responsibility towards its environment (as its ability to alter it is still very low). However, my ability to start a fire does come with significant responsibility.

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