reggieband

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by reggieband 4y ago
I don't care about the formatting, I care about the available data types. JSON is just easy to use since it includes arrays/hash-tables and it is already supported by a large number of tools. If you look at the Attr type definitio
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by reggieband 4y ago
I see some asking for stack support in the logs, and that is something I would be looking for. Often when an error happens on a server it might be inside some generic utility. At least with a stack, you might realize that all of the calls t
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by reggieband 4y ago
I am reminded of the story of the fat cat that I recently read in a Brothers Grimm collection. In case it is not familiar to you: A cat and a mouse decide to team up and store up some surplus food for hard times. They agree during abundant
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by reggieband 4y ago
Originally when I started out in the gaming industry in the early 2000s. There were close to zero code tests written by developers at that time at the studios I worked for. However, there were large departments of QA, probably in the ratio
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by reggieband 4y ago
I could write an entire blog post on my opinions on this topic. I continue to be extremely skeptical of TDD. It is sort of infamous but there is the incident where a TDD proponent tries and fails to develop a sudoku solver and keeps failing
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by reggieband 4y ago
It's such a tiny thing, but my pet peeve is exclamation marks in error messages. "Something went wrong!" is something I see a lot of engineers do. I don't usually call it out but it bugs me whenever I see it.
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by reggieband 4y ago
TikTok scares me in the same way that DALL-E scare me. DALL-E is very, very good, but still obviously flawed. But behind the flaws I know it will get better. Like the original iPhone vs. the crazy powerful phones we have now. Or the origina
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by reggieband 4y ago
This makes me wonder if a future job description will be the equivalent of an AI whisperer. Someone who learns how to prompt AI so well that it becomes their job.
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by reggieband 4y ago
I once interviewed with a crypto exchange and after getting the offer I noticed it was for contract and not full-time as had initially been offered. I went back to them and said I had a similar compensation offer for full-time from another
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by reggieband 4y ago
I love this idea and I could see myself using it in 1:1 meetings with my direct reports. One of the advantages of getting older is the experience one gains. It is often the case that I can relate a current situation to one that has occurred
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by reggieband 4y ago
I don't know if it is the same word but it reminds me of a joke a Brazilian friend told me when we were discussing how it can be hard to translate jokes. He mentioned that someone who shits a lot is a common insult in Brazil. The joke
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by reggieband 4y ago
I know this is a crazy thought and not inline with a lot of the blizzard hate - but why don't games like this allow more gifting style mechanics? I consider the Twitch gift sub market. And I consider that weird crypto game Axie Infinit
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by reggieband 4y ago
I have fear that the cathartic pessimism we sometimes enjoy ironically is turning into a chronic fatalism. It's like a habit that has become an addiction. I think the author was in a discussion that started as a fun catharsis for all i
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by reggieband 4y ago
I've been thinking about a life-sim type game with a rogue legacy type spin. Basically you get N actions per day (3, 5, 7, whatever works) that depend on your characters age. You might start as a baby in some random family archetype (p
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by reggieband 4y ago
This is a fair criticism of how I chose to tell the story. The line you quoted was supposed to refer to the character introduced in the second paragraph and not to a generic stereotype of aged man. I can see how my choice of wording created
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by reggieband 4y ago
When I first started programming I was pretty lucky to get a job at a games company. My first lead was a veteran who had shipped a lot of AAA titles and he loved his war stories. He was personally interested in performance and he would ofte
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by reggieband 4y ago
The amount of money a reseller is willing to pay for his goods to appear in a curated list is likely to always be higher than the amount of money a consumer is willing to pay for access to a curated list. That suggests that a platform that
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by reggieband 4y ago
I watch a lot of YouTube and a fair amount of Twitch. Sooner or later every creator talks a bit about their anxiety working in that content creator grind. On Twitch, taking a day off may mean losing hundreds of subscribers. Streamers are ca
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by reggieband 4y ago
I think this is partially due to meditation being strongly associated in Western culture with New Thought [1] type movements. This diverse movement is the inspiration for most of the modern self-help ideology. As the quotes from William Jam
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by reggieband 4y ago
I wanted to keep my post short so I didn't list all of the ways I feel we express this tendency. Others mentioned podcasts and talk radio but Youtube and Twitch are great examples. There is no denying that people who watch creators lik
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by reggieband 4y ago
People often say they will keep old TV shows like Friends, How I Met Your Mother or The Office on in the background. I think it simulates the feeling of having familiar social connections in ones life. In Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist&#x2
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by reggieband 4y ago
I argue that patterns learned on individual tests would apply to new tests. There are a set of patterns which have already been called out here. Translation, rotations, exclusions, logical and/xor on line segments and dots, etc. IME, m
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by reggieband 4y ago
I used to do well at these pattern matching tests with consistent scores in the range 125 - 135. This one I hit 118 but I ran out of time around question 32. I got stun locked on a couple of the earlier easier questions. I wonder if this is
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by reggieband 4y ago
> When code running in a virtual thread calls a blocking I/O operation in the java.* API, the runtime performs a non-blocking OS call and automatically suspends the virtual thread until it can be resumed later. How does it know that
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by reggieband 4y ago
I've been thinking about how asmr relates to music quite a lot lately. Some people think it is just a weird thing, but asmr videos of people brushing onto mics are getting millions of views. I think it should rightly challenge our assu
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by reggieband 4y ago
I recall a Twilight Zone movie "Cat's Eye" and a sketch from that including James Woods called "Dying For a Smoke". The premise is a man wants to quit smoking so he goes to a firm called Quitters Inc. where he signs
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by reggieband 4y ago
I wonder what it is about music that makes people accept these simplifications. I imagine an alternate universe where an article on the optics of color is posted. Someone mentions that all light are frequencies, the color red is such-and-su
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by reggieband 4y ago
I'm reminded of an interview I saw with Ayn Rand a long time ago. I can't find the exact interview anymore but I did find an interview where she describes the general idea [1]. It is a central tenant of Objectivism that we should
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by reggieband 4y ago
My dream is a high-speed train from Vancouver to Kelowna and Calgary, with an optional leg to Edmonton. Like a Rocky Mountain Express. I believe this would be a massive driver of economic growth for the West Coast of Canada. What hurts my s
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by reggieband 4y ago
For my personal interest (probably no where near the majority) I am interested in these libraries primarily for use outside of a DAW. I mean, I already have a wealth of plugins for most conceivable purposes to use in one of the several DAWs

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