Hacker News: DDR0

New comment by DDR0 in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

DDR0 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:48:35 +0000

Would highly recommend. Worked with Vult for years, on Wesnoth and on Frogatto, a sister project from some of the same folk who did Wesnoth.

So, uh, I'm now one of the leads of Frogatto and boy howdy could I use a job too after a recent mass staff reduction at my day job.

edit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-roberts-b9410654/

New comment by DDR0 in "Google broke my heart"

DDR0 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:29:31 +0000

Odd, I couldn't report it as a false positive the first time either, but then I tried again with dev tools open and it worked.

New comment by DDR0 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

DDR0 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:58:48 +0000

Location: Vancouver, BC

Remote: Yes. Or within about 15-20 minutes of Silver Valley.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Rust, Javascript/HTML5, C++, Python, whole bunch of others. Embedded software (ravelights.ca) / game developer (frogatto.com, ea.com, etc.)

Résumé/CV: https://ddr0.ca/files/personal/resume.pdf - interactive gallery at https://ddr0.ca/gallery

Email: d@ddr0.ca

Friendly, competent chap. Self-driven. Works well in teams or alone. Has founded startups and worked for large companies. Major focus on inclusivity and documentation.

New comment by DDR0 in "Wild Ball"

DDR0 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 04:21:37 +0000

Nice, I only was able to get 1.12.

New comment by DDR0 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)"

DDR0 — Thu, 02 May 2024 18:21:20 +0000

Location: Vancouver, BC Remote: Yes|Hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Web (database, server, api, html, design), Embedded UI/UX, C++, bit of C#, Python, many other languages. Résumé/CV: https://ddr0.ca/files/personal/resume.pdf Email: d@ddr0.ca

Friendly, people-focused developer looking for a new opportunity with interesting people. Self-driven, detail focused. High tolerance for weirdness and non-standard environments. Writes documentation.

Previous experience includes firmware and API for high speed cameras; indie games; triple-a game development; and some web stuff.

New comment by DDR0 in "Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?"

DDR0 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 21:55:07 +0000

Yikes - we were rocking $23 in electricity for a 5-room flat here in Canada a few years ago.

New comment by DDR0 in "Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV"

DDR0 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:13:26 +0000

This is why we've started integrating SIM chips into TVs. :3

New comment by DDR0 in "Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV"

DDR0 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:11:06 +0000

> Bay Area engineer salaries

New comment by DDR0 in "Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV"

DDR0 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:09:55 +0000

So, let's say you didn't want to buy my cheap TV. Market's full of TVs. Hardly a trouble to pick another brand, eh? I just give the consumer what they want, and what they want is a cheap TV. We show ads, that's why the TV's cheap. Best way we've found to cheapen a TV. Don't want ads? Don't buy the cheap TV. And yet, people buy the cheap TV and complain about the ads. We're not responsible for your choice, we just gave you what you voted for with your wallet.

New comment by DDR0 in "Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair"

DDR0 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:40:24 +0000

Mm, over the years, I've known some people who were legitimately kinda dumb. One learned, at the tender age of 27, that flamingos weren't mythical a la dragons. On the other hand, I've known some people who were absolutely brilliant.

You might as well argue everyone can run the same speed for the same amount of time. If you haven't observed this yourself, I would think you've probably just travelled through life in very homogeneous social circles.

New comment by DDR0 in "Why I built my own static site generator"

DDR0 — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 04:33:12 +0000

I've made my own (in a few incarnations) for my own website. I should do a writeup some day, I made my own Make and everything. I figure I'm at about 2 posts per technological revision, but given that's sort of why it's there I'm fine with it.

New comment by DDR0 in "Classes often aren't the simplest tool for the job"

DDR0 — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 03:27:40 +0000

I agree with that.

My class-based solutions are more prone to failure than other solutions I've used before. It always gets more complex than it should.

New comment by DDR0 in "Ask HN: How Do You Learn?"

DDR0 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 20:27:23 +0000

Same here! I'd have done very well with an apprenticeship vs schooling, I feel, but it was never really an option for me. Although… I guess all that open-source software I helped with kind of was an apprenticeship in the end. Hm.

New comment by DDR0 in "File Descriptor Limits"

DDR0 — Thu, 20 May 2021 04:13:27 +0000

The article mentions a few near the end, I think.

New comment by DDR0 in "Saving Lebanon’s streets: the engineer with a sustainable fix"

DDR0 — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:13:46 +0000

Conversely, what problem would it solve?

New comment by DDR0 in "Red and blue functions are a good thing"

DDR0 — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:23:21 +0000

What about web workers, service workers, web assembly threads..?

New comment by DDR0 in "Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?"

DDR0 — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:14:15 +0000

I added a little test for this to my blog, based on Facebook's function. https://ddr0.ca/blog-posts/11.Graphics_Card_Test.html

So far, the only things which haven't reported my graphics card to me are the Tor browser (good), KHTML (good, but probably because it doesn't support WebGL), and Lynx (of course, no js). Firefox reported much less info than Chrome did.

New comment by DDR0 in "std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs"

DDR0 — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 04:01:38 +0000

Actually it's cheaper this way, because you can sell the NFT to fund the operation. Before, you had to pay for everything it ran on!

New comment by DDR0 in "The Art of the Cover Letter"

DDR0 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:14:21 +0000

I've been looking for work recently, and I've found I've been getting a very good callback rate compared to some of my peers. I assume it's because I write a good, customized cover letter for each application, sometimes going over the posting point-by-point. But I never know when people read them, I only get feedback about 1-2% of the time. I think that is why many may start with "I know no one will read this"...

New comment by DDR0 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)"

DDR0 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:09:49 +0000

Location: Vancouver, BC Remote: Yes (Preferred) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: (from front to back end) HTML5 (ECMAScript/Javascript/Typescript/JSX, CSS/SASS/LESS, HTML/XML), PyQt5, Python, Sh/Zsh/Bash, Make, Node (née NodeJS), MySQL, a bit of Rust and C++; and sundry automation and testing tools. Résumé/CV: https://ddr0.ca/files/personal/resume.pdf Email: d@ddr0.ca

The last project I worked on was the UI for a loop of high-speed cameras, the Chronos Ring! Check it out on Beyond the Press. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beyond+the+pres...

I am a skilled human-oriented developer.