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hugja | 7 years ago | on: Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'

As a teenager who would play games often into the early morning hours (I remember I'd just be going to bed as my father went off to work) feeling like complete garbage and just mentally slower for a few days because of it. I couldn't imagine this all the time...

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'

I wasn't actually trying to help per se. I was just wondering if it was something he's/she's tried is all.

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'

I'm curious have you ever tried working out in the early hours after waking up? This alone determines if I'm getting good sleep or not. I'll end up staying up way later into the night unless I worked out that morning.

hugja | 7 years ago | on: ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't South Korean have Gaming/Internet Addiction Centers for those with "Gaming Disorders"? I remember seeing something about this from a eSports documentary some time ago. Unfortunately I don't remember name of it.

Edit: found it https://youtu.be/of1k5AwiNxI?t=1150

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic

Although I didn't play Vanilla, as I said above. I've experienced this with the end of Wotlk and beginning of Cata. The introduction to group finder and the ability queue from anywhere for anything really ruined that experience. This caused the game's world to feel empty at least for me anyways.

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic

Oh most definitely! It's certainly not for everyone. I mean even back then, if I'm remembering correctly. There was a site called Thottbot for exactly that. Which I occasionally turned to when the quest was lacking in information. Even before Blizzard officially added a quest helper to the game there was a third party add-on. However, with sites like Thottbot you still had to investigate to figure out what you had to do and I think this still gives you sense of accomplishment over just being told what and where all the time.

Edit: words

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic

This was my first thought too. Although I must admit I didn't play WoW until the release of BC (Burning Crusade) and stopped when Cata finished. So I never really got to experience what was special about Vanilla. More specifically for why I'd want WOTLK is for Arena. The last season was the most balanced that I ever experienced it and some of the most fun I've ever had playing WoW or any game in general.

Jumping back to Vanilla one thing I hate about the current expansions is quest helper and honestly this rings true for other games (Destiny for example) as well. I think the lack of a quest/mission guide is a better experience for the player. I remember playing BC and had a blast trying to complete quest. You had to really pay attention and read the quest for specifics and clues to figure out what was needed or where to go. The completion of quest back then felt so rewarding. Now you just look at your map and follow the "little dotted line"[1] then rinse and repeat. This struggling with quest is what I'm most looking forward to with classic WoW.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqo

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Codemasters History: The NES’ Best Unlicensed Developer

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) - http://libsdl.org

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Apple’s MacOS Mojave Adds Dark Mode and Desktop Stacks at WWDC 2018

I thought Windows 10 dark mode was only to the metro ui (or what ever it's called now). So things like Window Explorer (Finder on macOS) are still not dark themed.

hugja | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?

My favorites:

* Every Frame a Painting[1] - film essays (No longer making videos)

* Good Blood[2] - game design and music

* Hodges U[3] - mini-docs on various subjects

* kaptainkristian[4] - "visual love letters" for comics, films, musics, animations and more

* Lessons From the Screenplay[5] - film's script/story

* Game Maker's Toolkit[6] - game design

* WAVEFORM[7] - sound design (focus on sound design in games)

* noclip[8] - video game documentaries

* Will Schoder[9] - philosophy and other things

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A

2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC55OV4HSSKJEthG4ulsKkyw

3. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcfU0Kuv8niOazZohyetZg

4. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPgdqQKpq4T4zeqmTelnFg

5. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw

6. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw

7. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoNgwHpavUi2UnC68cKgbw

8. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0fDG3byEcMtbOqPMymDNbw

9. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcRdUHUuBqU9uCsEuG39Nmg

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best way to find an apprenticeship?

Thoughtbot: https://thoughtbot.com/playbook/our-company/apprenticeship

Most of these seem web based, I wonder if there's any out there for low level / systems.

Edit: IBM: https://careers.ibm.com/ShowJob/Id/185175/Software-Engineer-...

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition[1] build two games (shooter/platformer) in 6502 Assembly Language for a Commodore 64 emulator. Some other similar books are Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C[2] and Making Games for the Atari 2600[3].

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692980652/

- [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545484759/

- [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541021304/

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects

There's a Github repo[1] with a collection of project based tutorials.

1. https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

Spot on from what I was thinking.

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books/courses for self-taught programmer

Yep, I see this question on Reddit all the time. Here's the previous HN discussion post on TYCS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13862284

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books/courses for self-taught programmer

https://teachyourselfcs.com

hugja | 8 years ago | on: JAI Language Status Update

For those that want to know more there's the unofficial Jai Primer: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How have you successfully simplified your life?

Why electronic books? Is this just about owning less physical things?

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Exercism – Level up your programming skills

They're working on Exercism v2 that includes the difficulty level on the exercises: https://v2.exercism.io/tracks/lua/exercises

hugja | 8 years ago | on: Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bitcoin

I've never understood the stock piling of gold. I feel like in doomsday life goods like guns, food, water, tools, etc. Would be of more value then gold or bitcoin. Maybe my view of doomsday life is harsher then others.