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Former Flash game developer here. A big part of it was artists and coders could use the same tool. An artist could create some flash animations and then I as a coder would go in and hook up all the code to make it functional without having to spend any extra effort to make the graphics or animation work (in other platforms you'd have to pack sprite sheets, color encoding, sometimes fight memory (at least I did on iPhone 4 back in the day), and then you'd have to set up all the animations manually and get each one working.

With Flash I was just sent an FLA, browsed through all the animations, went "awesome", and started setting up hitboxes and dropping them into the game.

Like I've wanted to port some of my Flash games to HTML5, but the intense frame by frame animation would be a bear to export and hook up in other formats.

And non-frame-by-frame animation was easy enough that I could help fill in the gaps when needed, no big deal. I even made a few simple animations just for the hell of it back then since it was so easy to work with.

I eventually migrated to console dev with XNA, then mobile dev with iOS, then some 3D development with Unity, and I've dabbled with Monogame, Phaser, Java, Pico-8, PlayDate, Unreal Engine, and currently working on a game in Unity again, since it's pretty much your only choice right now besides Unreal if you want good VR support. But yeah, nothing I've worked with has felt quite as nice as Flash as far as synergy between art and code, especially 2D art.

Examples:

I teamed up with an artist to make a 7 character head to head fighting game: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/187047

I teamed up with another artist to make a richly animated (espcially the boss) short platformer.: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/116067
This is a lot to remember, and a typo could mess things up badly.
People frequently demand equal pay for equal performance when it comes to receiving the cheque themselves, while taking advantage of unequal pay for equal performance when it comes to giving the cheque to others. The only two options I see are 1) you accept that markets are different across the globe, and sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, or 2) you want equal treatment regardless of location, but then you also have to live up to your own standards.

And just to make that clear: I don’t know or assume how the author goes about that, I’m just pointing that out as a general pattern.
thank you for sharing. I'm glad you're here today. What do you feel is the purpose of a life review like this?

I don't know that I believe in an afterlife per se, but oblivion also seems unlikely. Something about being an aspect of the infinite universe that continues. stories like yours are very compelling!
The chickens we raised 40 years ago were usually a good 12-15 pounds, bigger than anything you buy in a store. And much more flavorful.

But that's because it took us 5 months to raise them rather than the 40 days that a modern bird takes.
It's not due to the memory model; it's due to the lack of a runtime. In Go/Java, virtual threads are provided by a runtime. Rust tries to stay close to the metal, and so has no runtime. It does not have virtual threads that could be suspended.

Rust used to have virtual threads pre-1.0, but they were removed since the overhead was deemed unacceptable.
I'm really torn on this issue. On the hand, it seems to make sense to pay people based on the value they deliver for the company, not where they live while delivering it. On the other hand, the reality is that some regions have higher costs of living than others. Somehow, the salary needs to take that into account.

Imagine if all tech companies went fully remote and kept paying about the same salary level as they do now. Employees moving to lower income regions would no doubt upheaval the local economy (e.g., housing).

But then again, this would probably regulate itself in the longer run.

Finally, why would only remote companies be upheld to this standard?
Judging by the massive amount of unfixed bug reports linked in this email, doesn't it seem like documentation has been an afterthought for them for a long time?

Does anyone have a comparison for OpenBSD or NetBSD's documentation having outdated or incorrect info?
It's an involuntary recall of every (or so it seems) memory sequentially at very high speed in very specific circumstances. It's incomparable to just thinking about your childhood.
Ok, what do those numbers actually mean?

Twitter has 200M "monetizable" DAUs. The poster suggests that spending $1B would move those users and those users traffic over. That implies that $5 in some shitcoin would be enough to make people switch to this app. That does not seem plausible at all. If acquiring and retaining users was that easy and cheap, there would be a lot more major social networks around.

Twitter in 2014 had 500M tweets per day. How long a time period will the $1B be distributed over? The poster doesn't say, but let's assume a year. That'd be about 5 cents per tweet. No real users would care about that. If anything they'd be insulted. But botnets posting spam would have a field day with it. It would of course be botnets that the company would have no way to fight, since with this distributed scraping idea they'd struggle to collect any kind of abuse signals related to the actual tweets/likes/other monetizable events.

This would never work.
> People will come for the free coins and nowhere to spend them, or will it cost coins to post or something?

That's where the 1B in buy-orders backing the coin is meant to come in, allowing people to exchange those coins for real currency.
The increase of the taxable value of residential properties is capped at 5% (or inflation if it is lower). When a property is sold, it resets to the assessed value.

The 2x factor increases the taxes paid by people who own properties with a taxable value less than the assessed value.
When I studied French in high school, we started by choosing a French name. It's not necessarily a fictional persona, but it had the same effect on me - I was able to act like (what I imagined to be) a French person, without worrying about how it reflects on my "real" self.
The discovery of the causes of scurvy is an interesting one. The issue was not as simple as smart scientists Vs dumb military brass. Actually science was pretty terrible at this due to what appears to be an in built bias towards wanting diseases to be caused by infectious pathogens. At the time they knew about bacteria and wanted to explain everything this way. Scurvy looks superficially like it might be caused by bacteria: there are localized outbreaks that start with one person and it rapidly "spreads" to others. The true cause was repeatedly discovered and then forgotten or dismissed by physicians invested in the bacterial hypothesis. It took several independent rediscoveries before the navy saw through the confusion.

Where does this bias come from, probably, it feels much better to be battling an external enemy than to "blame the victim" as we'd say these days.
> “does the company optimize for focus time/flow time during the workday”

I like this rephrase too.
I've recently joined a new team, and having several synced meetings helped me onboard quickly.

I hate if we need to have meetings or synced work often in the future.
I don't want to be interrupted when I focus, so I like communication should be asynchronous by default.

Still, depending on the situation of team members and the project phase, synchronous communication is sometimes much more productive than completely asynchronous work.
Functional teams should be able to choose better communication each time. (I know some people like synced communication too much, and it's often more problem, though...)
I did not know that C++ is new in 2007 ...
Blockchain feels like an SV where all the devs are junior.
Ask HN: How do people follow blogs/personal websites nowadays?
I'm currently working on my own personal website/blog, and wanted to get a feel for where everyone's eyes are nowadays.

How do you follow blogs & personal websites? Via RSS? Twitter? Newsletters? Bookmarks? What if someone doesn't use RSS/Twitter/Newsletters?

How often do you visit the sites themselves and poke around (ie to discover things that aren't shared on social media or don't show up on RSS)?
On the face of it, if they're doing the same work, it seems like there's another problem there - either the 12-year has been coasting for 9+ years or the company doesn't offer interesting opportunities for advancement to senior employees.

Of course, it's hard to generalise about situations where specifics are key.
This thread has got some wild traction around Monsanto and glyphosate, which is just funny doublethink and another level of control.

The EPA regulations concerning various industrial chemicals are useless in general and have been from the very beginning: the chemical lobby managed to grandfather in close to a hundred thousand different chemicals that are ”Generally Regarded As Safe” just because nobody has cared enough to study most of their effects on humans.

Regardless of glyphosate, if you live, breathe, drink and eat on U.S. soil, you are already fucked and it is only a matter of when the timer goes off.
I learned most of it in libraries and later the Internet. Car repairs (to work in an auto service), audio technology (for building custom speakers and amps), computer hardware (for myself), programming (still shit at it), marketing (was fun), psychology (was kinda useless), English (very useful), lots of stuff. So kids these days have it easy :D

I probably could've specialized better if I had done that in school, but who knows. My attention was trash and still getting worse.

Of course you're learning about others' crown achievements, there's no need to reinvent the wheel. And things got way more complicated, there's so much to know that it's hard to remember. Especially if you use social media, always some shit there that you'll shove in your memory instead of useful things heh.

Most new things are a spin on the old, it might've been easier to discover/stumble upon something genuinely new 100+ years ago.
The quality of the content I’m seeing recently on HN is definitely dropping.
How much of the profit do you get from your company? Pennies I’m sure, you are just okay with it because it’s more pennies than other penny makers, but you are not taking home close to the value add on your labor.
I like this. I'm diving into the zettlekasten thing after reading How to Take Smart Notes, and stopping to think about how I write so that it's as simple and clear as possible, while still being informative enough for my future self is what flexes my head muscle the most. This complements it nicely.
Those appear to be nice points. Anything similar for speaking?
The CD that came with the original World of Warcraft collectors edition mislabeled the ironforge theme as stormwind. Is annoying.
In case you miss it that much, you can now get non-flash Motherload on Steam (Super Motherload includes both the sequel and a full clone of the original game):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/269110/Super_Motherload/
Interesting! Do you have by any chance a link the documentation about it, because so far all I could find are links to information about `podman generate systemd`.
So, if I understand this correctly it's strong in pretty much any practical way. Then I still don't understand why they only talk about coating, given they also keep saying it's easy to produce.
> sets high goals

The problem is that in the initial releases the "high goals" were listed as "features" of the language, not as planed improvements of the initial implementation. So even now when I read a list like in the article, I'm not sure which are already implemented and which are just wishes, but after the initial bad impression I'm not bother to check.
> I just came back after months

I am sure this works if you don't upgrade your OS and have more stability in your browser. Running Fedora, we tend to upgrade every ~6 months and due to somewhat bizarre security policy have all browser data wiped every week.
Let's assume just for a second that copyright violation isn't a problem, that 1B is enough to motivate enough people, that it's not overrun by bots, etc..

What kind of blockchain would actually be able to deal with the expected transaction count? According to [1] Ethereum peaks out at 15 transactions per second, but [2] claims around 6.000 tweets per second on average.

A difference of 2–3 orders of magnitude is not something a team of 5 engineers can simply solve in 6 months.

[1]: https://blog.coinbase.com/scaling-ethereum-crypto-for-a-bill...

[2]: https://www.internetlivestats.com/twitter-statistics/
Certainly. “Buy local” is a decision weight, not a categorical principle.
Hmm.

I think the main reason Trek could be set on an Earth is the exact reason it shouldn’t be: at it’s best, it is an allegory for our world, with just enough latex to pretend that the Klingons aren’t the Russians (Rura Penthe being Siberia, Praxis being Chernobyl); that the Romulans aren’t the Chinese; that the Cardassians aren’t the Old World imperial powers retreating from their colonies, and so on.

Put it back on Earth, and it will all be too on-the-nose.

That said, I do share Stross’ annoyance with the use of tech as a magic wand, though in my case my problem is with the inconsistency. For example, in Voyager in particular, in the pilot episode they say the ship has a maximum cruising speed of warp 9.975, not only do they never ever go that fast in the show, if you look up how fast that’s supposed to be, it would get them home in 7 years without any shortcuts or shenanigans, not the 70 years they say at the end of the episode.

Plus, they have time travel and stasis and Voyager could therefore get home in zero subjective time.

And every episode involving time travel in all seasons of all series, they always use the same mechanism for going backwards and forwards in time, sometimes even using the difficulties of this as a challenge to be overcome in the plot even though the show has had the go-fast-around-a-star method on record since TOS.
What, like a virus? Or a Trojan?
Majority of companies are looking for contractors. Which is pretty much the same as a freelancer. FTEs are still a thing in a lot of companies because the company enjoys maximum control over them, fluffing it up with a bunch of fake benefits that contractors supposedly don't get. It's psychological manipulation to make the lowest paid micromanaged people think they are getting the good deal.
Ahh.. like "App Uninstaller" in raycast. Makes totally 0 sense
Not sure if related but when i was an ESL student in Canada it was really common to see Asian students using English names as their natives ones are difficult to pronounce, maybe changing your name could play part of it.
This common way of thinking is flawed in several ways.

1) The baseline is extremely low, and getting lower by the year

I will take math as an example. High school, at the best possible setting, leaves you knowing single variable calculus.

Is this enough? no, it's nearly zero. To be able to understand anything about math in the modern age, you have to know :

- Formal logic

- Linear Algebra and Differential Equations at 4x courses or more level

- Probability and statistics, 2 or 3 courses.

So all in all, in order to even think intelligently about a field like math, in order to have any chance at all of even comprehending the slightest inkling of what all those scientists and engineers and ML practitioners who impact your life massively even do, you have to know easily 10x of what high school, in the best possible scenario, teaches you.

Then one year passes, science, math and engineering get more complex, and high school curriculum and budgets get lower and lower, and the race to the bottom continues.

You can repeat this exercise for any subject : Ask a specialist what's the bare, absolute minimum for anyone to think or reason effectively about their subject, compare their answer to the K12 curricula for that subject, and laugh at the sheer mismatch of the two.

2) The baseline is redundant and wasteful

The sheer waste is mind boggling, all of my K12 education could be easily compressed in 6 years of study. Lessons are repeated over and over again each year, irrelevant subjects like the agricultural policy of Brazil and Nigeria are stuffed in overweight geography curriculums for no apparent reason (my country is neither of those 2), the English language's way of annotating verbs with tenses is rehashed for the 7th time this year.

There is no concept of opportunity cost, there is no awareness of a notion of "What could I teach this kid this year instead of yet another rehashing of the names of the world's most popular rivers and mountains?".

3) The baseline is low quality, low relevance and low impact

Programming is memorizing visual basic's or php's basic syntax, math is learning a formula and repeatedly applying it over and over again to questions with parameters varied, biology is memorizing the reasons of why various phenomena happen.

It's not only that what gets teached is a pathetically small subset of what needs to be teached, and not only that it's teached in 2x the time needed with metric tons of mindless repetition and rehashing. It's that even this small subset that is teached and re-teached, is teached in the most boring, unmemorable, uninspiring, useless and actively harmful way possible.

It's not a good baseline, people leave it not knowing a single worthwhile thing about anything or - even worse - actively thinking those subjects are useless pontifications and navel-gazing. It does an awful lot of harm and virtually 0 good, when you divide by the time and resources it consume .
Hum... Fully, total remote, hiring included is a bit utopia IMO, it can be done practically of course but demand a society that's not there and is in contrast with "being together"...

IMVHO remote work, where possible (around 30% of jobs in the western world probably), should still be inside country borders in the same way multi-national company subdivide themselves by country because local laws can be too incompatible to manage a unique entity. Similarly for salary: in theory we must get paid for what we do so regardless of where we are in, but in practice cost of living must be taken into account because the same amount of money in math terms have not the same value everywhere and taking cost of living into account is simply too complex to be solved. The world is not a global world where anywhere we are things are equal, there are of course similarities, in the end humans are similar, but definitely not enough.

"local" remote work is perfectly doable with little travel and common profit, world-scale remote work is potentially doable but not in the present world, also fully remote work is hardly possible IMO/IME...

My honest opinion is that there is no "test" possible anyway, just negotiation not really different than any "non remote" job.
If you think disliking Trek, BSG and B5 automatically translates to "hating sci-fi in general", you might want to consider the possibility that you have a slightly narrow view of the genre.
You could bypass this kind of verification by routing your spam through Twitter. Send spam to twitter, scrape spam from Twitter for twitcoin.
Yes.

> For example, searching for “site:thepiratebay.org” is supposed to return all results DuckDuckGo has indexed for The Pirate Bay’s main domain name. In this case, there are none.

> This whole-site removal isn’t limited to The Pirate Bay either. When we do similar searches for ["site:1337x.to", "site:NYAA.se", "site:Fmovies.to", site:"Lookmovie.io"], and ["site:123moviesfree.net"], no results appear.

https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and...
"There is no proof of any supernatural thing ever."

? Except you live, breath, walk and act in this universe as though you are literally an incarnation of something 'supernatural' aka 'more than a random bag of rocks'

Scientific Materialism has helped us push aside a lot of Magical Thinking about a lot of things (it was the wind, not a ghost, and there are no Elves in the forest with Gold) ... paradoxically we are not any closer to understanding the nature of ourselves i.e. 'life'

The concept 'life' doesn't have much meaning if it's just some bit of complex mechanics and I suggest even those positing just that don't even contemplate the implications.

We posit that the universe is made up of matter and energy, and everything behaves in accordance with a set of 'rules' because mostly that's what we observe, and beyond that, a lot of people are just thinking magically.

By definition, we may have ruled out the possibility for 'life' by our own, reductive and narrow metaphysical definition.

We've made a 'ruler' to measure the Universe that is just incapable of measuring many things, even those things happening right before our eyes, we trust the 'ruler' as 'truth' and that's that.

It'd be nice if we had some developments in metaphysical thought these days, we've been ignoring it for a while.
When you handle 10 million searches a day it's easy for even large groups of users to get lost in the crowd.
Einstein wasn’t that special, he wasn’t superhuman, if you transported the same person in time significantly he would have likely been entirely unremarkable. He had many contemporaries just as capable with complements equally as impressive.

He got famous which was a result of a few of his accomplishments being of topics and characters which got the attention of popular culture.

He was also simply primed with being a person of the right kind of potential being in the right place in the right time.

In short, it was very much luck that enabled him. He also worked hard, he was also quite capable, but the hero exceptional human narrative was overdone.
That’s a pretty extreme case and an exception to the general principle of preferring to buy local. Some local shops are owned by assholes, it’s true, but usually you can just shop somewhere else locally. Almost all big corporations exploit their workers, the environment, or society to a certain degree. Unfortunately there are some things you cannot avoid using big companies for, because they hold a monopoly or technological advantage on the product or service.
These low paying shitty jobs in developed countries sound quite pleasant compared to what people in third world countries are forced to do. These jobs are what came to my mind as an Indian when I read the title:

https://dw.com/en/india-manual-scavengers-continue-to-remove...

https://thewire.in/labour/manual-scavenging-sanitation-worke...
MY cynical comment is your point of contention? In response to the absurdly cynical article we're discussing in the first place? The one literally called 'Fuck Your Miracle Year'?

You have nothing to discuss which is why there isn't a discussion to be had here. You attacked me with an incredibly weird reaction to joking about Einstein being an alien, then doubled down and demanded I explain humor to you.

Both articles are devoid of any actual substance, I'm sorry to have brought this to your attention.