psahgal

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by psahgal 4y ago
Unity and Godot are the most popular choices, based on my time spent hanging out with other indie developers. If your game is a 2D RPG, RPG Maker is also a great way to get started. You can also use GameMaker if Unity and Godot seem intimid
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by psahgal 4y ago
I took 3 months off last year to get a game project finished up and released to Steam! Glad to see other indie developers here on Hacker News. I can't commit to weekly meetups, since I'm back at my job full-time, but I wish you th
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by psahgal 4y ago
I have a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and several of my courses covered how computers work in detail! - ECE 190 and ECE 290 covered basic programming, logic gates, and the basics of
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by psahgal 5y ago
I'd just like to say "thank you" to the moderators for helping make Hacker News such an interesting site. I've been reading Hacker News for years and it's really helped me keep on top of emerging trends in technolog
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by psahgal 5y ago
Should this link be replaced with the original source? Ars Technica linked to the original blog post in the first paragraph, and the rest of the article summarizes the original source. Here's the blog post in question: https:/&#x
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by psahgal 5y ago
I believe this evaluation is usually done by a stunt coordinator instead. This is an experienced stunt performer that finds the right person for each stunt, and communicates with the performers on any safety issues that come up. More info h
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by psahgal 5y ago
If you've been working at the same company for a while, ask your HR department if they have a policy around a leave of absence or a sabbatical! You can take a few months off to build a prototype of your idea, test it out with some user
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by psahgal 5y ago
I came to the same realization that Apple doesn't seem to care when I started learning how to build apps on iOS. Coming from Android, I was used to having high level conceptual guides on the core building blocks of the framework. In th
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by psahgal 5y ago
The Engineering Quad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is also named "Bardeen Quad" in John Bardeen's honor. I haven't been back to my alma mater in a while, so my memory may be fuzzy, but I remember ther
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by psahgal 5y ago
If your manager listens to the engineer who says "Kubernetes is awesome and does all the things!" and doesn't listen to the engineer who says "I think Kubernetes is a bad idea for this project because x, y, and z",
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by psahgal 5y ago
I find that the best senior engineers don't say "if you're not using Kubernetes you're a moron" and "learn how to sysadmin and you'll realize you don't need Kubernetes in the first place", but in
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by psahgal 5y ago
I found your point of view interesting, so I did some research. I found this meta analysis in favor of masks that had a lot of good sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 . A few highlights: -
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by psahgal 5y ago
Also would like to mention that someone dug up one of Fauci's interviews back in March 2020 about his recommendation on masks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26623260 The CDC post is in line with Fauci's rec
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by psahgal 5y ago
The guidance Fauci gives in this video is in line with what I read in news articles back in March 2020. I was surprised the article suggested Fauci lied to the public as a result. I wonder why this explanation got buried. Perhaps the lesson
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by psahgal 5y ago
I'm surprised that there was data suggesting that masks could be harmful, especially since the prevailing guidance for a year now has been to wear masks to reduce airborne transmission. Would you happen to have a link to the studies yo
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by psahgal 5y ago
I think the journalists heard the nuanced explanation from the experts on the mask recommendations, instead of the simplified one that is criticized in the article. Journalists have biases and a media diet too, so it's possible they he
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by psahgal 6y ago
The process isn't a silver bullet. I've worked on scrum agile projects for 5 years at a consultancy, for a variety of projects and clients, so I've seen it work and I've seen it not work. Scrum agile works when... - Peop
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by psahgal 6y ago
I have found the Cloud Shell on GCP to be much more convenient for a few reasons: - You have to install CLI components piecemeal on GCP, and sometimes need to opt into beta features. With the Cloud Shell, it's all preinstalled for you.
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by psahgal 6y ago
One of the first things I noticed when trying out GCP after working on AWS for a few months was how clean and consistent the user interface was. Your comment definitely explains the poor UX on the AWS console!
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by psahgal 6y ago
Are you talking about the button in the LightSail interface to open up an SSH session in a browser window? Cloud Shell on GCP is slightly different, in that it gives you a preloaded, preconfigured machine to perform tasks on the command lin
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by psahgal 6y ago
I didn't realize AWS didn't have this already! I've been working exclusively in GCP for the past few years, and I assumed the two platforms were at parity. Is AWS starting to lag behind in new features?
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by psahgal 6y ago
I'm surprised you find Paypal to be a user-hostile service! I've never had major issues with it. Would you like to elaborate?
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by psahgal 6y ago
The web has a wide variety of payment processors, but that doesn't seem to slow down online purchasing.
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by psahgal 6y ago
I agree with your argument that the policies on iOS app development are similar to the policies enforced by console manufacturers. I think any regulation pushed onto Apple to open up the App Store will actually affect the home console marke
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by psahgal 6y ago
I think Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google would also be considered iOS developers, since they publish apps on the App Store. So in terms of market value, Epic is definitely not the biggest player in the Apple ecosystem. Although, if w
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by psahgal 6y ago
This IGN article from 2019 has a good summary of how much each digital storefront takes in revenue cut! https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut... Nintendo also takes a 30% cut, alth
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by psahgal 6y ago
You are correct that Epic Games made 5 billion dollars in revenue in 2019, according to Venturebeat [1]. However, Apple Insider reports that Apple made 59.7 billion dollars in revenue in their third fiscal quarter (March, April, and May) of
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by psahgal 6y ago
While this is a wonderful explanation for a person already familiar with mathematical concepts such as groupoids, torsors, and directed acyclic graphs, I think that this explanation is really unfriendly for the layman/novice developer
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by psahgal 6y ago
I agree that Git is hard, but with the right explanation and a good graphical GUI like SourceTree, I've gotten non-technical team members up to speed on it! I think the hard part is explaining the distributed nature of the tool, where
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by psahgal 6y ago
I don't think Google does consulting or specialized training like this for Android. For Google Cloud Platform, they partner with other companies (like the one I work for) to help with GCP setup. This partner program was started in the

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