rockyj

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by rockyj 2mo ago
A very nice read and pretty much my experience. I have been here for a quarter of my life now, I do not think I can live anywhere else now. People may not like me being here because of my skin color or whatever but I do not mind. I keep to
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by rockyj 2mo ago
It is truly a great city to live in. I have only visited it a few times, I wish I could live there.
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by rockyj 2mo ago
This is a total mess IMHO. - The make around 5 billion in revenue per quarter - The problem according to them is profit margin - around 150-160 million So first of all, they are big! Secondly they are not at a loss. They just have a "t
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by rockyj 3mo ago
Looks great! Gamedev is so cool, being able to create enjoyable, playable worlds and characters must be so satisfying. If you can tell me how to build something like this I will be so grateful.
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by rockyj 3mo ago
IMHO - In an AI context an "eval" is answering the question - "Is this AI / LLM call helping me or is doing the right thing?" AI is not deterministic like regular code, so imagine you use it for "search" (
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Simple Apps with Clojure, Htmx and Pipelines(rockyj-blogs.web.app)
32 points by rockyj 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rockyj 4mo ago
That is a strange title / comparison. Docker images (even slimmed down) have an OS (most likely a Linux distribution), some libs and the runtime needed for a programming language. On it's own a "game engine + WASM binary&quot
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by rockyj 4mo ago
Last i checked, it needed JVM (parts of the library are in Java). Given there are many JS minifiers and optimizers (tree shaking etc.) avaliable in JS itself in 2026, I do not know why we need this huge overhead.
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by rockyj 4mo ago
Nice! Now also get rid of the elephant in the room - "Google Closure Compiler" and then we can really celebrate.
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by rockyj 4mo ago
My dad had a transportation contract with the local Wimco factory, we had stacks of these at home. Lots of childhood memories associated with the matches.
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by rockyj 6mo ago
I am a Clojure fan and would love to use it. But you are right, we live in a real world where money talks and most organizations want to see developers as cheap, replaceable commodities. Not to mention in a post AI world, cost of code gener
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by rockyj 6mo ago
And at the same time, gives you a dozen of footguns. This is just a list for the gotchas in the "@Transactional" annotation - https://dev.to/closeup1202/8-spring-transactional-pitfalls-t... Now read up on all
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by rockyj 6mo ago
Line goes up is also not enough anymore. The slope of line going up is most important. You made 10bn last year, but only 9 bn this year - this means time for some layoffs to please "the market". I have no way to explain this world
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Show HN: Fun Cricket 26 – 3 clicks to bowl, 3 to bat, 1000s of possibilities(cric26.fun)
1 points by rockyj 7mo ago|0 comments
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by rockyj 8mo ago
Not sure of where you are coming from. But thousands come in and go every year. A few hundred are able to land a job after graduation / post-graduation (in Germany). Zero is not theoretically possible with so many universities looking
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by rockyj 8mo ago
What plan? I do not know what reality people live in. I am an Indian myself, migrated 12 years ago. There are around currently 20000 students from India in Germany. I have talked to a dozen of them in my neighborhood, only 1 in 10 can even
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by rockyj 8mo ago
Yeah, don't get why you were down voted. What reality are people living in and how do I transfer in that timeline
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by rockyj 8mo ago
I agree with you partly. The benefits are great & fairly above international norms. But I do not agree with the "firing protection" anymore. Last year alone I saw thousands let go in Berlin in fairly large organizations like n
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by rockyj 8mo ago
Yeah, the numbers in Germany are not so rosy. If these numbers are true, we are looking at - - An "average" salary of around 65K / year - This after (an average of) 5-6 rounds of interviews - 6 months of "probation"
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by rockyj 8mo ago
Very interesting. It would be great if this works with a "higher" level library like Pixi.js or Phaser.js, that way one could build with ease in JS/TS, using a rich library/ecosystem and still distribute a "native&q
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by rockyj 8mo ago
Wow! What a coincidence. I just launched this y'day - https://cric26.fun/ I tried to go for deep cricket-ing gameplay and not graphics. People from the subcontinent should be able to enjoy it.
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by rockyj 8mo ago
https://rockyj-blogs.web.app/
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by rockyj 8mo ago
Nope, I would probably even quit at 250K of savings. Take some time off, then maybe learn pixel art / design , and spend 2 years to make a game or SaaS to get around 2k income per month for 2 years and then repeat the cycle. The initia
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by rockyj 8mo ago
My biggest question now is - since now anyone can build a SaaS, and since everything is now optimized not for "employment" but for "enterprise" (run your own business), just how many 1-2 person companies can we build? I
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by rockyj 9mo ago
Very impressive! Worth noting that HTMX also has a WebSocket extension - https://v1.htmx.org/extensions/web-sockets/ so one could potentially also do "live views" in more performant runtimes like JVM or
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by rockyj 10mo ago
Using CachyOS for all my work for around 18 months now. Super stable, fast and up-to-date always, highly recommend it.
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by rockyj 10mo ago
Its simple, just follow these 30 tips and tricks :D
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by rockyj 10mo ago
I assume you have never seen the German software recruitment process. 6+ rounds spread over 3 months (with no ghosting in the middle if you are lucky). Here is the current process - - Apply online - Initial screening with recruiter if they
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by rockyj 11mo ago
In any case for a normal investor, just remember - "The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
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by rockyj 11mo ago
Thank you, a very insightful comment :) As a side note, my latest post (on the same website) is on "reactive" Java / suspend functions in Kotlin.

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