Hacker News: alex_lav

New comment by alex_lav in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

alex_lav — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:53:18 +0000

> Not at the cost of harming people,

What defines harm? Or more specifically, who?

New comment by alex_lav in "UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers"

alex_lav — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:52:14 +0000

Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/what others can say.

New comment by alex_lav in "Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ"

alex_lav — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:46:23 +0000

> I just restarted a personal project on rails because of its batteries included mentality - it means I can limit the number of dependencies

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/main/Gemfile.lock

Just a playful comment - not challenging your experience

New comment by alex_lav in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

alex_lav — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:03:45 +0000

This post is so interesting because it highlights the people that don't know anything about the requirements or state of cheats/anticheat. What you're describing is 10 years out of date. Every modern cheat has a toggle, and (almost) every modern cheater masks augmented behavior with misses/native behavior.

New comment by alex_lav in "Rider is now free for non-commercial use"

alex_lav — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:00:14 +0000

Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did.

Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.

New comment by alex_lav in "Rider is now free for non-commercial use"

alex_lav — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:25:26 +0000

Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.

New comment by alex_lav in "Most gamers prefer single-player games"

alex_lav — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:28:54 +0000

So 0 real examples have been provided, either by a commenter or via the link.

Exactly as expected.

New comment by alex_lav in "Google says it won't follow Amazon's lead with a return-to-office mandate"

alex_lav — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:47:04 +0000

_yet_

New comment by alex_lav in "Most gamers prefer single-player games"

alex_lav — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:27:13 +0000

> Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable.

Again, can you provide an example? Also

> Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree

Is just blatantly incorrect, unless you just mean "One player is further in the game than the other", in which case literally all games are "competitive", including single player.

New comment by alex_lav in "Most gamers prefer single-player games"

alex_lav — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:20:30 +0000

1. noncompetitive game

2. mobile game

3. mobile game

4. not actually pay to win.

5. noncompetitive game

6. mobile game

You see where I'm going. You can't relate "has microtransactions" with "is pay to win". They're different.

New comment by alex_lav in "Most gamers prefer single-player games"

alex_lav — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:08:20 +0000

> Seems like most multiplyer games have some sort of "pay to win" (or pay for an advantage) scheme in them

Can you share an example of this outside of mobile games?

New comment by alex_lav in "Musk's $44B Twitter now valued at just $9.4B as X"

alex_lav — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:19:17 +0000

> Twitter, before Elon's takeover, was a crypto-obsessed political echo chamber.

Pretending a platform as large as twitter was/is "one thing" is silly. It may have been that for you, it was not that for many.

> Platforms like Mastodon are great, as long as you don't rely on likes and reposts for dopamine.

As long as you're willing to post to no one, sure.

New comment by alex_lav in "Ask HN: How do I get into game dev?"

alex_lav — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:58:05 +0000

You can either take the route of doing financial software, data science, ML and web dev _for a game company_, or you can start making games in your free time and then attempt a pivot.

I think the first path is probably easier and more lucrative, but will have a much longer time difference in terms of getting you where you want to go.

New comment by alex_lav in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

alex_lav — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:39:39 +0000

A place where you don't complain every day about hating your job?

New comment by alex_lav in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

alex_lav — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:42:36 +0000

> I don't believe they can actually do anything about it as this "culture" comes from the very top.

The employee can do something about it by leaving.

New comment by alex_lav in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

alex_lav — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:13:41 +0000

Having had lots of friends work there, the approach seems to be "Complain about working at Amazon for literal years but never really do anything about it", followed by "Get laid off"

New comment by alex_lav in "Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval"

alex_lav — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:47:41 +0000

Can a more Apple-minded person help me understand if the Apple Watch SE counts as "Series 9"? I don't totally understand how "SE" relates to numerical versioning, but I am also not an Apple person.

Apologies in advance if this question is somehow obvious to others.

New comment by alex_lav in "Reclaim the Stack"

alex_lav — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:21:43 +0000

I think it's two types of defensiveness.

1. Shovel salesman insisting all "real" gold miners use their shovels

2. Those that have already acquired shovels not wanting their purchase to be mocked/have been made in vain.

Neither are grounded in reality. Why people believe their tiny applications require the same tech that Google invented to help manage their (massive) scale is beyond me.

New comment by alex_lav in "A Java language cumulative feature rollup"

alex_lav — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:47:41 +0000

> I don't think I have any more bias than any other programmer.

I do not agree at all, but to each their own!

New comment by alex_lav in "A Java language cumulative feature rollup"

alex_lav — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:30:15 +0000

It's worth noting that you're a Java dev, working on OpenJDK at Oracle (per your profile here). Which is to say, your bias is....pretty extreme.