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tedkalaw
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- Nice explainer: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/03/the-cartoon-guide-to-perps
Perps are extremely fun, and not great for your financial health in general. Very addictive PvP game though.
- If you haven’t heard of the Kia boys over here in the states, it’s definitely something. This vid is…a bit controversial but the Kia boys are definitely a thing in Milwaukee:
- I was thinking of getting one but considering the price point, there are far too many stories of broken devices and slow/non-existent support:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OP1users/comments/bpxuyl/second_op_... https://www.reddit.com/r/OP1users/comments/bokuo5/te/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OP1users/comments/bnkcro/keybed_rep...
If they treat people paying 1300 USD for a device like that, can’t imagine how they’ll handle OP-Z owners.
I love the all-in-one idea and getting away from the DAW but it feels too risky to me.
- historically, LEO have been fairly aggressive on the road to Burning Man...i think i've had a "close call" the past several years.
for example, last year when i was driving from Reno to Black Rock City, i went through a well-known zone on tribal land where the speed limit goes 55->45->35->25 and then back up. it was about 1am and pitch black...so i was particularly freaked out by the unmarked, unlit police SUV aggressively tailgating me. it followed me for about a mile and then turned around when i didn't budge.
BIA is a new character, though. there's chatter that they had a DUI checkpoint setup on Monday (the event starts this upcoming sunday). the tactics are roughly the same but the infractions seem more minor than in the past. local police were pretty happy to collect speeding tickets.
- 36 points
- was at a startup where the split was 72.5/10/10 (eng)/7.5 (me) when we got into an incubator; investors tried to convince the ceo that we should do an even split iirc, but he felt the business was built up enough that the equity split was fair. we were all dumb kids (oldest was 21), and didn't know what we were doing. when the 16 hour days with no pay were too much for me, the lack of equity made it very easy for me to walk away.
i would never do a split like that again, and would not recommend it. i still can't watch Silicon Valley because it reminds me of those times haha.
- when i was working at fb, i specifically got a s7 as a work phone to use with gear vr to dogfood and i found the phone-insertion experience to be rather annoying. it was so annoying, in fact, that i would just leave my s7 in the gear vr and continued to use my personal phone, an iphone, for everything. the only reason i took it out was to charge it when it died after an hour of use.
i used to be deeply skeptical of the idea of these standalone vr units, but it's good to see oculus exploring it.
- why didn't you buy last week? the price is never too high to buy, and never too low to sell.
if you really believe it will go up, why not buy when you think the chart looks good and move your stops up as it increases? your position sizing algorithm and exit strategy should allow you to capture some of that profit and protect yourself from a large correction
- at UIUC, there's a project in the systems class (CS241) that is exactly this. there's a leaderboard with projects and how it compares to the system malloc for a variety of metrics
this is definitely one of the best projects i ever did in school and a great coming of age project. worst case, there's always an implementation at the back of K&R ;)
- sometime in the future, Apple will begin releasing swift-only APIs. it's unclear that one should "drop everything", but swift usage will only increase in the future. in addition, as a company, it will become difficult to hire new people if you don't try to move to swift at some point.
ymmv, of course. i'm new to iOS land and i write objective-c exclusively during my day job. that being said, the difficulty in iOS development (in my experience) is not in the language, but the APIs, abstractions, and patterns - and they are the same regardless of whether you're using swift or objective-c
- There's actually a UIUC alum center in SF - http://www.sfbayillini.org/. The last estimate I heard was that there are somewhere around 40,000-50,000 UIUC graduates in the Bay Area.
I grew up in Chicago, graduated from UIUC, and I live in SF and work in Silicon Valley. When I moved here, I didn't need to make any new friends if I didn't want to - when I got here, my entire friend group and extended UIUC social network was already here. Shit, my girlfriend (also from UIUC) works at a startup in FiDi where both founders are from UIUC and there are many alums.
It's just too damn easy to move here for us.
- Here's a nice tutorial that runs through of some of Macaw's features:
- There's a live call right about this right now:
http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build3/stage/stage...
- I still find the pressure to work on side projects in your free time difficult to come to terms with. There's often discussion about how if you don't like what you're doing, then you should find a new job - and easily, if you're in the bay area. I know a lot of really talented devs that don't work on side projects because they are completely consumed by, and love, their work and can't imagine doing anything else. What if your passion is your day job?
Having a github full of side projects is helpful when pursuing a job, but I find it difficult to go hard at work and put 100% in and then come home and work on side projects. Usually, I'd rather spend time with friends and family.
This seems to disqualify me from a lot of job postings.
- It's a reference to Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons, a character who was simultaneously the perfect boss and an evil genius.
- This sounds very similar to something that Hideo Kojima mentioned wanting to do for a PC game:
"So maybe when you put it [the game] in your disk drive and you're playing for about fifteen minutes, the heat from the disk drive interacts with that chemical and creates a certain smell. It smells like blood or something like that," he said through a translator. "And when you pull it out you see like a dying message on the disk. That was actually an idea I had for the original Snatcher but unfortunately I got yelled at for it and they didn't let me do it."
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/16/hideo-kojima-recalls-snatc...
- Regarding returning things without a receipt:
Once upon a time, it used to be possible to get Bing points by playing a bunch of stupid games on Club Bing - you could accumulate at most 1000 per day, unless there was some sort of modifier (like "double ticket day") site-wide. The prizes available for these points were usually older Microsoft products like old games (9.99USD), kitchen appliances, hammocks, cheap headphones, etc. The biggest prizes were Zunes, Vista, Microsoft Office, and the XBox360 Arcade Edition. As I recall, the XBox required some crazy amount of points and thus wasn't worth it...and Vista and Office are hardly sexy items. You could win at most one of each prize per physical mailing address.
The games that you played to win points were flash games, so a bunch of bot writers automated this. They'd register multiple accounts and try to max out the number of points they could get per day. Since users had multiple accounts, people would maintain different amounts of points to save for the big ticket items. I believe that Office and Vista were in the 50,000 to 100,000 point range. (Side note: Microsoft was slow, but they DID actually deliver - I got a 360 controller for free!) There are forums dedicated to "opportunities" like these.
So, what do you do with a free copy of Vista Ultimate? Well, one day a user who had exhausted all of the other prizes tried going to Best Buy with his copy. He went to customer service, in-store, and said "Hey, my grandmother got me this for my birthday. I already have it. Is there any way you could possibly help me out?"
Can you guess what they did? They gave him $450 in Best Buy credit.
For awhile, the overarching Club Bing metagame was to simply farm Vista Ultimate, go to a different Best Buy, and "return" your copy. And, on top of that, someone discovered that Microsoft's shipping treated "123 N. Fake Street Apartment A" and "123 N. Fake Street Apartment Z" (and, for that matter, "123 N. Fake Street Apartment AAAA") as unique addresses - so it became possible to have multiple copies of Vista Ultimate shipped to your house. At one point there were so many Club Bing copies of Vista Ultimate floating around that you could go on forums and purchase it directly for $100 because botters had exhausted their local return options.
- What communities are best for discussing mathematics when learning? As Jeremy describes in another post (http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-...), it's really difficult to learn math without talking to other people. StackExchange seems alright, but are there other good places to ask questions? Maybe an IRC channel?
- 3 points
- It sucks. A lot. I planned on dropping out two years in and ended up having to go back to school because my parents couldn't afford the loan payments at the time - and they wouldn't have to pay while I was in school (which they wanted me to do anyway). Went back and did client work to keep the lights on.
- I planned on dropping out and found myself back at school - we had on path to profitability and California costs a lot more than Illinois. When my parents started getting collection letters from my university and we were running out of money (strange how $20,000 doesn't get you that far), I knew it was time to go back. Of course, my family couldn't afford to send me to school without loans, so ymmv.
I found that the time I spent in the trenches actually made me appreciate school MORE. When I got back, my desire to learn was back. I don't think I would have appreciated school as much if I hadn't just gotten out there.
I've decided to count my time in the valley as "studying abroad" ;)
There was also ComponentKit, which was used heavily in fbobjc: https://github.com/facebook/componentkit