phillryu

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by phillryu 1y ago
Ah ok yeah I see where you're coming from there. It's kind of like the question of did Steve Jobs need to be an asshole to be as successful as he was. And it can be tempting to think that they are intrinsically linked, but I also
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by phillryu 1y ago
You could be right, but in the hypothetical world where he's 100% right, and the current path the project or feature is taking is heading towards a dead end or is broken in some way. I feel there is a real cost that can be more easily
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by phillryu 1y ago
Trying to understand what you're saying, especially with 'let's fix that right there'. Is it basically the idea that the good we've gotten out of it (like driving down extreme poverty) has required 'social demo
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by phillryu 1y ago
I think this is a pretty common and growing sentiment that I've felt too. One thing that has grounded me is learning and reminding myself that capitalism has driven extreme poverty across the world to the lowest share in known human hi
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Ask HN: Friend learning coding for career, is it too late?
1 points by phillryu 2y ago|1 comments
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by phillryu 2y ago
For me Ted Chiang short stories are like a little trip in a story form. He's not the most rounded storyteller in atmosphere or dialogue and rich characters, but the central idea he's interested in exploring in each story often blo
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by phillryu 3y ago
Yeah but the burden is now on you to sift through the garbage to find the good stuff, especially since it's mostly mixed together in recommendations or search results etc. It feels more limited to me the other way around, like yes we h
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by phillryu 3y ago
Oh ok. It looks like as a small business we use Gusto, so that's been useful for us. But it's kind of strange to me they had such a string of big B2C successes early on and then that side evaporated entirely. The B2B stuff seems l
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by phillryu 3y ago
I have heard of that one, and I guess to be fair looking at the list again I've heard of OpenSea a few times too as an NFT marketplace. Just not the target customer I guess, I am not a developer (or into NFTs).
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by phillryu 3y ago
I'm surprised I don't recognize a single one of these companies. Isn't YC most famous for companies like AirBNB, Reddit, Twitch, Instacart, Dropbox, Doordash, etc. all things I use and that broke into pop culture? Or is that
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by phillryu 3y ago
This is more about back in its peak, but E3 used to gather all the gamer's attention to a single keynote, it was like the Super Bowl of gaming. Basically if your game was on stage/shown off well it would be covered by every single
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by phillryu 3y ago
I think the question is more like could a great team produce the next FIFA AND the next Call of Duty due to some kind of process improvement? I don't know, maybe there are hugely inefficient processes right now, but the sorcery of the
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Show HN: We made a browser built for checking the internet mindlessly(apps.apple.com)
2 points by phillryu 3y ago|0 comments
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by phillryu 3y ago
I think my main point was more that despite what you (not you personally, anyone reading) think of Elon, at least he has this track record of visionary companies and Sam does not. Personally my take on Elon is something like this – he found
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by phillryu 3y ago
When I compare the two Elon was (lucky?) to at least have a string of vision-fueled ventures that became a thing. What is Sam's history of visions? Loopt? Is Y Combinator considered in a new golden era after he took over? Did Worldcoin
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by phillryu 3y ago
Part of the article's characterization of that camera as a toy seemed to be how simple it was to operate and designed, and that's what allowed a non-photographer astronaut to make use of it, or the engineers at NASA to remix it da
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by phillryu 4y ago
For mobile gaming there might be some creators here or there scratching out a living like that but probably about 0.1% as many as you imagine, or as there seemingly should be considering how much money is in the ecosystem. The vast majority
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by phillryu 4y ago
I interpreted it more about its game design – GTA is about a giant sprawling city come to life as an interactive playground, one way you can think of it is most genres of games are represented within it. (Story game, single player, online s
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by phillryu 5y ago
I will say in this case Catan is cool and feels natural, like what people would call it if they're still playing the game a hundred years from now. So maybe it was politically sparked but the rebrand feels solid.
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by phillryu 5y ago
After 2008 Blizzard produced Hearthstone, Overwatch and Reaper of Souls which consensus 'fixed' Diablo 3 and were all pretty great. So I can't comment about the culture but I disagree with the general narrative that Blizzard&
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by phillryu 5y ago
I feel like it's relevant to mention how huge Hearthstone is, and that's a mobile first game (at its best on iPad which is rare) that I feel is totally Blizzard tier quality with expected polish and substance to it, and both satis
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by phillryu 5y ago
It seems like they're setting up for that with OW1 being compatible with OW2 multiplayer. They'll probably just make OW1 free to play shortly following launch of OW2.
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by phillryu 6y ago
FYI Another Earth is directed by Tim Cahill not Zal. From what I can tell Brit Marling is the main common thread between that movie, The OA, The Sound of Her Voice. These three I've seen personally are all good and have a lot of overla
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by phillryu 7y ago
Heads Up! party game for iPhone | iOS developer | Remote | US timezones Work on a game your friends and family love playing and have a huge impact on a tiny team (4 people) responsible for a super popular game. Heads Up! has been a top paid
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by phillryu 8y ago
Bomberman is the original Battle Royale: Lots of players starting distributed around a map, farming and gathering powerups and making their way to each other until there's one person left standing. (Even including the map constricting
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by phillryu 9y ago
One of my favorite Ted Chiang short stories also explores how much is shaped by our language: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of...
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2013 Independent Games Festival Announces Finalists(igf.com)
2 points by phillryu 14y ago|0 comments
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by phillryu 14y ago
I can feel my brain rotting with every click. This is extremely refined entertainment on the ADD, zero-commitment, fizzy side of the spectrum. And it's very addictive. Does anyone know if these gif 'samples' from movies and TV shows fall un
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by phillryu 15y ago
We debuted the app at Macworld. Our Clear coverage was in a MacRumors post that covered highlights from the show floor. Our marketing was definitely competent. Realmac Software worked with a local video producer and shot a great sizzling vi
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by phillryu 15y ago
I find this blog post ridiculous, considering HipChat includes emoticons ripped straight from iChat. Pot meet Kettle. Surprised nobody's noticed or mentioned this yet.

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