pnloyd | 6 years ago | on: Developers don’t want to show gameplay at E3 anymore
Fortnite and Minecraft are huge ip though.
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pnloyd | 6 years ago | on: Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman
I don't think of the style as dated. If you think of Portal 2 as a continuation of the style on a tangent, it's just heading in it's own unique direction. Portal 2 still feels far ahead of today's AAA games in various aspects.
Comparing the HH style directly to other FPS just doesn't seem right.
pnloyd | 6 years ago | on: Why Google's $400 Pixel 3a convinced me to never again buy a $1000 smartphone
I have the MI A2 (~$230). It's spec'd very similarly to the Pixel 3a and has stock Android. It's been available for almost a year now.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Impostor syndrome or a real impostor in my career? How to fix?
Do you have a portfolio site? I had a 5 year hiatus from dev work and got a high paying software job within a year of trying.
1. Read numerous hacker news comments for advice.
2. Did freelance work for cheap but targeted jobs that I could learn highly desired skills (React, webpack, etc..)
3. Built a portfolio site with freelance work examples.
4. Applied to tons of jobs and got one.
I also had to try extremely hard and live in Seattle which helps too. To be honest by the sound of your post your mind set is in a not so great place which is understandable.
Perseverance
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
I don't have experience with Dragon or Siri, but Google Assistant has been improving at a noticable pace and for me seems seems to recognize at least 90% correct.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: DeepMind readies first commercial product
I'd assume (hope) they mean to infer data and not invent it.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe
Was on pololee's team as well. We were all crushed because the team was only a few months old and were we just all getting to know each other well.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
Wouldn't the loss of close integration between Google's ads business and services decrease their respective values though?
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
This couldn't be farther from the truth. More speed means more page views means more ads seen means more revenue. Walmart Amazon plus others have done studies showing faster load times translates directly into increased revenue in there retail.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
Ya this kinda sumarizes the Crux of the problem pretty well. I'm getting a bit worn with seeing anti JavaScript what nots on HN. It's here to stay guys for better or worse (and will proceed to consume UI development _everywhere_)
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
That last tip is so clever! I'll have to remember that if I ever want to undergo such a project.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend
XFCE is a true productivity DE. Gives you a few simple basic apps, and does a damn good job of managing windows.
I so wish I could use it at work..
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend
Huge amounts of fragmentation in the dev community for one.. there were several major forks.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend
I appreciated the novelty as well, fast forward many years later and I'm doing a bunch of Googling figuring out how to disable the fancy animations on the work issued osx laptop.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Valve creates new revenue sharing tiers to give big sellers a break
Don't companies like stripe aim to make packaged solutions to problems like these?
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Perhaps not but that point of view is a dramatic over simplification of the situation. I used nicotine as a cruch while dealing with mental health issues. Part of the time I was smoking I really did _need_ it. Taking it away from me then would have been cruel.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
The building I work in downtown always has half a dozen smokers on the sidewalk. Wish they would reserve a balcony or something for them because as an ex smoker smelling it is especially painful to me.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
This is completely true. I started smoking at 17 with menthols because they tasted good to me and were easier to inhale. Switched to regular after I got used to them.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Hesitant to reply because your comment seems borderline trolling to me. But as someone who quit smoking after a many years habbit Ive personally never done anything harder.
pnloyd | 7 years ago | on: Protect the last of the wild
We're assuming that evolution has a higher chance of creating biotech that will solve problems than biotech we will be able to produce in the future using computational methods? I doubt it.
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