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Technologies: Game Dev, Unity/C# (uGui, Ui Toolkit, App Ui), BrainCloud (successor to GameSparks Classic), Playfab with Azure Scripting, Skillz, Epic Online Services, Xsolla Backend, Adobe + Figma

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manofspirit

Portfolio: https://dribbble.com/manofspirit

Email: manofspirit@gmail

Available for Principal Unity UI-based App/Game Development, Gaming Backends, and UI/UX Design Opportunities – One-Man Army from Concept to Launch

I’m currently available for on-site/remote roles worldwide, as well as remote opportunities in Unity UI (uGUI, UI Toolkit) based App/Game Development, including gaming backends and UI/UX design. As a one-man army, I have a proven track record of taking projects from concept to launch across desktop, mobile, and web.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve been working on over the past 5 years: www.linkedin.com/posts/manofspirit_opentowork-activity-7237722209241214977-U3ZG

As a versatile designer and developer, I’ve created UI-based 2D games and applications with multiplayer features, ranging from XR-based Metaverse app WeDream to the NASBA-accredited educational app Earmark CPE, to Scrabble-inspired UGC-based Word Game, and even Ludo and Bonza-inspired puzzle games across various platforms.

Starting with GameSparks (RIP) in 2014, I’ve since worked with BrainCloud, PlayFab with Azure Scripting, Epic Online Services, and most recently started exploring Xsolla Backend (AcceleratXR). I’ve built fully integrated BAAS games and apps that often include async multiplayer, user-generated content (UGC), social integration (friends, messaging, etc.), tournaments, achievements, leaderboards, and monetization strategies (in-app purchases, subscriptions, virtual currencies, sales, ad mediation, etc.). Additionally, I’ve developed Unity-based admin tools for seamless management of users, content, and reporting.

On the UI/UX side, I started with Adobe Photoshop 8 and CorelDraw 9 almost 20 years ago; today I design beautiful applications and 2D games while utilizing my development skills to automate design tools for bulk art generation, variations, and solving repetitive tasks. I also leverage AI tools like MidJourney to push beyond creative limits.

Even though my focus is on the design and development of backend-driven Unity-based apps/games, my diverse skill set and ability to wear multiple hats allow me to seamlessly contribute to every stage of a project—from initial concept and UX design to backend integration, multiplayer systems, and final launch. This versatility enables me to adapt to different roles and challenges, delivering comprehensive solutions that align with the project’s goals.

If you have any openings that align with these diverse skills, I’d love to connect and explore how I can contribute.
The Super Nintendo didn't need to render mixed direction scripts from different languages at 120fps. It had zero mouse support, its keyboards lacked almost every key, and its audio output was simply terrible. I don't think it supported IMEs or screen readers either. When I'm doing desktop work, I'd take a 300MB browser application over a SNES any day.

The laudable terms used in the Tauri benchmark was a tad silly (though it makes some sense, as Tauri competes with Electron, not with normal native toolkits) but modern GUIs require more processing power than those 160x120 GUIs from back in the way did. It also helps a lot that you can subscribe to modern app subscriptions for half a decade before you've paid the price of what software used to cost (software that would be outdated by next year, and you had to pay again to upgrade), and that old price didn't come with hosting of any kind either.

Programmers have always been lazy, but the modern laziness when it comes to performance isn't because nobody cares; it's because nobody is willing to pay for the kind of responsiveness of yore anymore.
If that happens, it’s because our Government failed to intervene sooner, and is a damning indictment of Western Capitalism in general.

All the more reason to let Intel (or Boeing, or whoever) fail hardcore while we have time to adapt. Intel falling isn’t going to result in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, but it would smack the hell out of politicians and consumers both that globalism, while a nice idea in times of peace, is not compatible with interests like National Security and the growth of the Middle Class.
Ah: turns out it was a postman.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/02/nx-s1-5174151/election-2024-v...

> County officials in Pennsylvania confirmed to local news outlets that the man filmed in the video was an acting postmaster, doing his job. After the video went online, he began receiving threats.
Jeff VanderMeer painted a grotesque picture of climate change
But can you buy them, not pay them, feed them for pennies, keep them alive forever, work them 24hrs/365days, and never fear they will organize and revolt?
Location: Dubai, UAE
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Technologies: Game Dev, Unity/C# (uGui, Ui Toolkit, App Ui), BrainCloud (successor to GameSparks Classic), Playfab with Azure Scripting, Skillz, Epic Online Services, Xsolla Backend, Adobe + Figma

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manofspirit

Portfolio: https://dribbble.com/manofspirit

Email: manofspirit@gmail

Available for Principal Unity UI-based App/Game Development, Gaming Backends, and UI/UX Design Opportunities – One-Man Army from Concept to Launch

I’m currently available for on-site/remote roles worldwide, as well as remote opportunities in Unity UI (uGUI, UI Toolkit) based App/Game Development, including gaming backends and UI/UX design. As a one-man army, I have a proven track record of taking projects from concept to launch across desktop, mobile, and web.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve been working on over the past 5 years: www.linkedin.com/posts/manofspirit_opentowork-activity-7237722209241214977-U3ZG

As a versatile designer and developer, I’ve created UI-based 2D games and applications with multiplayer features, ranging from XR-based Metaverse app WeDream to the NASBA-accredited educational app Earmark CPE, to Scrabble-inspired UGC-based Word Game, and even Ludo and Bonza-inspired puzzle games across various platforms.

Starting with GameSparks (RIP) in 2014, I’ve since worked with BrainCloud, PlayFab with Azure Scripting, Epic Online Services, and most recently started exploring Xsolla Backend (AcceleratXR). I’ve built fully integrated BAAS games and apps that often include async multiplayer, user-generated content (UGC), social integration (friends, messaging, etc.), tournaments, achievements, leaderboards, and monetization strategies (in-app purchases, subscriptions, virtual currencies, sales, ad mediation, etc.). Additionally, I’ve developed Unity-based admin tools for seamless management of users, content, and reporting.

On the UI/UX side, I started with Adobe Photoshop 8 and CorelDraw 9 almost 20 years ago; today I design beautiful applications and 2D games while utilizing my development skills to automate design tools for bulk art generation, variations, and solving repetitive tasks. I also leverage AI tools like MidJourney to push beyond creative limits.

Even though my focus is on the design and development of backend-driven Unity-based apps/games, my diverse skill set and ability to wear multiple hats allow me to seamlessly contribute to every stage of a project—from initial concept and UX design to backend integration, multiplayer systems, and final launch. This versatility enables me to adapt to different roles and challenges, delivering comprehensive solutions that align with the project’s goals.

If you have any openings that align with these diverse skills, I’d love to connect and explore how I can contribute.
> For a very long time people on HN claim VSCode is about as fast as Sublime

The trouble is that "fast" is an insufficient word to describe a piece of software.

As everyone has certainly realized by now, software feels "fast" when it is very responsive, e.g. the latency is low, and Sublime Text certainly felt "fast". However, Sublime Text regularly ran into problems where it had too much algorithmic complexity, e.g. when dealing with pathological cases like extremely long lines or something like that. Basic editing could become slow or you might even need to force close it. Not great.

VSCode feels reasonably responsive, at least, it certainly feels more responsive than you'd expect what is effectively a web app strapped to a browser to feel. A lot of effort was put into the feel of Monaco and keeping the text editing relatively unblocked. But maybe most importantly, careful optimization made VSCode perform well in a lot of scenarios where even native code software like Sublime and Kate struggled, with very fast Find and Replace that could gracefully handle pathological cases and a document structure that was good at loading, displaying and editing large documents (and with some limits applied to try to prevent pathological cases from blowing up the user's editor window.)

Zed is off to a good start because it takes a lot of learnings from VSCode and others. In my opinion though, it doesn't really feel dramatically better than VSCode, as the day-to-day UX is just less polished over all. It is, however, very promising, as it certainly feels better than VSCode did in the early days of it.
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The hypothetical is only interesting if we draw a distinction between easy and hard tasks. (“AI can do anything a human can do behind a keyboard” is AGI complete.) For this hypothetical I asserted that performance optimization and porting were automatable, but that doesn’t include any feature.

If you think there’s a more interesting/realistic/well-defined assumption, please suggest it!
Why SQLite? Why Julia? These seem like poor options for banks.
> That knowledge about the ideal timespan of 20 min seems to be completely irrelevant to the implemented solution.

Partially. They also mentioned that it was generally believed that you needed to vary the temperature during cooking to get fluffy rice. Fumiko's discovery is just as much about the fact that you can use a straight boil the whole time as it is about the duration.
> Some, like Apple, say they do this for ecological reasons. But more cost-conscious manufacturers do so to save money,

I had wondered if the author might be drinking a little too much apple juice, this was the line that confirmed it. No, they all do it for cost reasons, only one happens to spin marketing around it which you take at face value (if it were even remotely true, you wouldn't see the markup or immense waste that comes with the separate cables).

The problem may be that you've invested too much into an ecosystem that actively works against standards and needs to be dragged, metaphorically kicking and screaming, into it.

Outside said ecosystem, the promise of a universal cable is almost a reality, at least much closer than the one you're illustrating.
I’m not upset? It’s a factual example, that’s what ‘e.g.’ means…

It’s not some fanfiction story I made up while reading a novel…
No potatoes need to be peeled
> So my director was very suddenly fired one morning. Just gone

this is not good

to me sound pretty medioeval
They’re 3 SoC designs and a binned variant of each.

That’s different than 6 very different SoCs as your comment says. Each tier has different capabilities, ie the pro is not a binned version of the max and the base is not a binned version of the pro.
It has nothing to do with that. I could ask why he didn't choose a different homonymic ambiguity [1].

[1] https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php...
Control-backtick toggles formulas. No need for VB(A).
Poking at the rust coreutils project it seems like they all faster than the c versions. The issue is the decades of features that have accumulated that someone somewhere uses but seem safe to disregard because so few do.
I just use the included rice cup and fill to the correct line in the rice cooker pot...
Deep frying is probably a closer approximation.
I think a lot of it is that consumers don't care that much. A couple of seconds is still fairly quick regardless of how many cycles are going on in the background. With humans you don't say how can they take a couple of seconds to reply when they have 100 bn parallel neurons.

The only thing that really bugs me computer speed wise these days is connecting to wifi. Why does that take a minute while you just want to read something?
https://archive.is/vW9ZA
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1417543-tolstoy-opens-anna-...
Lisp has way more syntax, that doesn't cover any of the special forms. Knowing about application syntax doesn't help with understanding `let` syntax. Even worse, with macros, the amount of syntax is open-ended. That they all come in the form of S-expressions doesn't help a lot in learning them.
I worked for a company that went all in on Lambda as well. The knots they had to twist themselves into so that everything ran nice and smooth in Lambda environment was mindboggling. We have certain actions like orders that would pass through 8 Lambdas before completion because of execution time or just the big code base would result in 7 seconds start up time (node) so it would get broken down. If any of them failed, and it felt like failed a ton due to Amazon backend stuff, it was a nightmare to resolve.

All of it could probably been handled by larger node application in docker container somewhere but AUTO SCALING, FAILOVER, SERVERLESS!

Once I started as SRE for a new team, we built a larger monolith using Node and docker on EC2. We would get massive complements for our uptime and reliability but there were some architects extremely unhappy when I revealed in division presentation that it was just Docker + m4.xlarge running Ubuntu 18.04. When I left, more and more Lambdas were being broken down into docker running on EC2. They are probably on some container managed solution now.
Yes, this is the vast majority of my data work at Google as well. Spanner + Files on disk (Placer) + distributed query engine (F1) which can read anything and everything (even google sheets) and join it all.

It’s amazingly productive and incredibly cheap to operate.
Effective weak convergence and tightness of measures in computable Polish spaces
Using fMRI to Study Human Brain Representations of Lexical Ambiguity
i hope after the transition is done, there will be a focus on multiplatform e2e search, attachment tab improvements (it's fine for < 10 attachments in a chat, but not a 1000), optimized notification system so friends stop bug me with it, and of course custom emojis
It definitely has some sharp edges. One advantage is skipping computations (and the IO they'd need) that don't end up getting used, which let's you do some clever looking things/ ignore some details. That's hard to take advantage of in practice, I think.

The other advantage is just deferring IO. For instance in split or tee, you could decide that you need 500 output files and open all the handles together in order to pass them to another function that will consume them. I'd squint at someone who wrote `void process_fds(int fds[500]);`, but here it doesn't matter.
Ask HN: More courses like Math Academy?
I decided to learn math a few weeks ago and found this recent post about Math Academy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41534847

The site is great and clearly had a lot of thought put into it, and the founder posts here and on his blog about their design decisions. The things I've enjoyed most are:

1. It's paid, and fairly expensive. I'm the kind of person who can self-learn, but I can't follow a free course to save my life. I don't mind the cost as it incentivizes learning at a good pace and because of

2. The quality. It's excellent, and every lesson builds on the previous one in a knowledge graph. The most important for me might be

3. There's no videos, just text explanations and diagrams. I know some people prefer the Khan-academy style with a lot of videos, but I prefer just reading and jumping in.

Since I have a lot of free time right now and would like to brush up on my education, mostly in development, I'm wondering if there have been any recent courses that roughly follow this format. The only thing I can think of is the Execute Program by Gary Bernhardt. I remember enjoying working with it but it was fairly sparse on content if I recall correctly.

I'm eyeing "High Performance SQLite" but while the content looks great, it's sort of the opposite: all video and no work to submit:

https://highperformancesqlite.com/
I'll have to give this a try, thank you for the suggestion!
> Ah yes, I even used to teach this actually. Sorry for the understatement xD.

No worries! Mainly I was just pleased with myself for remembering the pumping lemma, and kind of wished that I knew how to contact my professor (from back in the mid-1990s, when an intro CS course was taught out of Sipser and involved almost no actual programming) and tell him that he did such a good job that it stuck with me some 30 years later!
The IRS is one of the most effective government agencies out there, despite continued lack of funding and political mismanagement. NASA still leads space exploration, despite Congress intervening in its agendas.

The mismanagement and waste come from a Congress more obsessed with its re-election and petty politics than it is actually running a gargantuan empire in a sustainable manner, not the agencies themselves, with one notable exception: the Department of Defense. That is a profoundly mismanaged and exploited department that drains valuable taxpayer money into fantasy boondoggles meant to get people promoted and swindle ever-more income from taxpayers in the process.

At the very least, the government should be the baseline option, with Capitalism competing against it on either efficiency or outcome, ideally both. Instead, what we have are Capitalist companies who game the system to extract more wealth for themselves and from each other, and demand the government cover their own mismanagement under the guise of “National Security.”

They cannot have it both ways. If they’re critical to the security of the country, they cannot exist as private enterprise. If they want maximum profit, then they cannot be of import to the government.
Ask HN: Could I build a radar for tracking cars and boats?
I have a street where cars travel a bit too fast sometimes, and a family cabin where boats do too.

I think it'd be fun to plot speeds and courses, just for science, so to speak.

By "build" I mean make an antenna, signal generator, signal processor, and record echos to output range and velocity for fusing, association, and tracking, possibly using an MCU to record or broadcats tracks (position and speed over time).

I'm intimately familiar with tracking math and code (EKF, Batch Filters, old Bar Shalom methods, track association, etc).

I'm mildly familiar with MCU programming and PCB layout (have 3-ish decent PCB+MCU projects done in last 15 years).

I'm not familiar with FPGA, DSP, or complex signal processing.

I'm a Ham General and can manage electronics, oscilloscopes, etc.

Presumably the hardest part is timing and signal generation, and then signal processing.

Roadside ranges are < 100m, speeds < 20m/s.

Lakeside ranges are 100-200m, speeds as high as 20m/s.

Is this even legal? I live in the USA.
I assume electric water kettles as well, which shutoff shortly after the water starts boiling.
as many AI models as i can get my hands on, to generate content for me

who knows how long the net goes down for, and if i try to just save what exists, it would run out after _some_ time (maybe not my time, but when unknown time horizons are probable, a generator > a pile, imo)
Does Matrix still sync all metadata with all connected federated instances?
Yes, it is. The first peer to visit a multiplayer URL hosts the Quake 3 server in their browser. Subsequent visitors to the same multiplayer URL send UDP traffic directly to that peer. The packets travel directly between peers, not bouncing off any third server (after connection establishment). If your clients are on the same LAN, your UDP traffic will be entirely local, not going to the Internet at all (assuming your browser's WebRTC implementation provides the right ICE candidates).

It won't work completely offline unfortunately, as the server is required for the connection establishment step in WebRTC. A peer-to-peer protocol for connection establishment on offline LANs would be awesome, but understandably low priority for browsers. The feature set of WebRTC is basically "whatever Google Meet needs" and then maybe a couple other things if you're lucky.
Considering the proliferation and popularity of the rice cooker, the answer is a resounding and obvious "yes"
It's difficult to give a blanket statement over it. Some ways are better and some are worse. I wonder if you look at specific parts of your life and compare it to the 'before' whether you'd see some things as better and some as worse?
Notion forms is such a nice addition!
I got curious and it turns out both Tauri and Electron seem to have gotten much more bloated over time.

In 2021 they claimed a RAM usage on Mac OS of 13MB vs 34MB for Electron [0]. In 2022 the numbers (on Linux) were more than 10x as high, 180MB vs 462MB as well as a startup time of 0.4s vs 0.8s [1]. In 2023 the comparison is gone from the Readme.

[0] https://archive.org/details/github.com-tauri-apps-tauri_-_20...

[1] https://archive.org/details/github.com-tauri-apps-tauri_-_20...
> I've not been able to find anything like this. Just hand-waving, assertions that "someone does something," and so on.

(Taking a bit more pointed tone than I usually would, because of the amount of misinformation around this general topic and because of annoyance at people putting less effort in than election workers, from secretaries of state down to volunteers, and casting shade from the laziness of their armchair. Thank you to all the people spending their time trying to secure elections!)

Did you try searching for "colorado voting audit"?

There's a page on their SOS site... https://coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/auditCenter.html

Which even has a YouTube video on the process... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oKgSKh4utNo
TIL about Element X. Is this app ready to use or not? The website says:

> Element X is the mobile messaging app that almost all Element users should now be using.

But the commenters here disagree.

Also, the Element app and its App Store listing doesn't indicate there is another version I should switch to, so looks like they don't want people to switch after all?

Honestly, this is infuriating. I keep my Matrix account just for that one friend who prefers using that platform, so I grit my teeth and suffer from bugs (lost media attachments, missing notifications), and now it turns out all of that could have maybe been avoided with this new app that they aren't telling us anything about? I am not going to read developer blogs for an app that I use once a month...

They could have went the Google Hangouts route. Rename existing app to Element Classic, put up new one as Element.
D2: Declarative Diagramming – A modern language that turns text to diagrams
Poetry works so well for me at the moment, I prefer to let uv cook