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New comment by blymphony in "How video games inspire great UX (2019)"

blymphony — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:47:04 +0000

Refreshing take on exploring the "delight" aspect of UX with lots of nuance as well. I read too many comments on here that seem a little a too spartan in their perspective on good UX, but it feels silly to be spartan on a topic that is so, so far from being solved.

New comment by blymphony in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

blymphony — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:03:21 +0000

I'm as a big of a horror movie fan as you can find, and I'm completely dumbfounded by the jump scares marketing is allowed to show in trailers nowadays. IMO (coming from someone who is basically unaffected by jump scares), they've gotten more shocking in the past couple years.

New comment by blymphony in "How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"

blymphony — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:24:03 +0000

But it's odd that these characteristics are the same across models from different labs. I find it hard to believe that researchers across competing companies are coordinating on something like that.

New comment by blymphony in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

blymphony — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:39:56 +0000

What are other memorable tag lines from them?

New comment by blymphony in "Panic at the Job Market"

blymphony — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:20:32 +0000

Not a startup, but a winddown (wind down)

Skipping Ahead to the Problems

blymphony — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.ozwrites.com/p/skipping-ahead-to-the-problems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401501

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

King Me: A Defense of Kingmaking in Game Design (2019)

blymphony — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:17:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025683/Board-Game-Design-Day-King

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36472155

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by blymphony in "User: Junnn11"

blymphony — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:41:31 +0000

Warning that this links to illustrations of bugs. That sort of thing makes me jump out of my seat

New comment by blymphony in "Tailnet Lock"

blymphony — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:41:53 +0000

Sounds like a fancy name for a hiring freeze

New comment by blymphony in "Choose your status game wisely"

blymphony — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:03:35 +0000

I'm surprised people in this thread are so opposed to trying to gain status. It took me too long to realize, but status, like money, is just a tool at your disposal in society.

You can be too obsessed with status, just like you can be too obsessed with money, and use them for the "wrong" reasons.

But there are things money lets you do that you couldn't do otherwise, like buying a home for your family or bootstrapping a company.

For status, it's the same. Going to X school gives you an easier chance of getting into X company. Knowing X amount of people gives you more opportunities to meet other well-connected people, allowing you to gain more diversified interactions and/or spread your own influence. Having a trustworthy reputation gives people a reason to give you a minute of their time, and sometimes that first impression is all you need to start a relationship or get funding for your company.

Finally, there are things that status gives you that all the money in the world won't.

New comment by blymphony in "How to Drop Out (2004)"

blymphony — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:33:47 +0000

Definitely, agree. And before someone argues with the expected rebuttal, I think there’s a difference between chasing happiness and rationally acting upon your wants.

In the US at least, “the pursuit of happiness” is such a fundamental concept, people really aren’t challenged to question it.

New comment by blymphony in "Using const/let instead of var can make JavaScript code run 10× slower in Webkit"

blymphony — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 05:18:26 +0000

Isn't it a good habit to store the length of the array regardless of browser implementation? Technically, accessing a variable is simply faster than a property access on an object, and this wouldn't be a case of premature optimization either--just sound coding practice.

New comment by blymphony in "AMD Announces Ryzen “Zen 3” and Radeon “RDNA2” Presentations for October"

blymphony — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:34:21 +0000

It's not out of the question to save the best part of a presentation for last.

New comment by blymphony in "New 13-inch MacBook Pro"

blymphony — Mon, 04 May 2020 19:15:03 +0000

I also map my Caps Lock to Control, but don't forget that Ctrl + [ is the equivalent of Escape in vi/vim. It's a chord, but it ends up being much more convenient for me since the keys are both comfortably around the home row keys.

New comment by blymphony in "Open Food Facts"

blymphony — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:59:22 +0000

Maybe not as comprehensive, but https://cronometer.com/ goes to lengths to break down foods by amino acids (super helpful for protein tracking and weightlifting) and micronutrients

New comment by blymphony in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

blymphony — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:55:03 +0000

As an Asian American, let's not try to speak on behalf of a minority of 18+ million.

Especially to downplay a possibly valid concern of an individual of your supposed group

Writing systems direction index

blymphony — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:59:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/direction.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887359

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by blymphony in "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers"

blymphony — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:57:31 +0000

That is true, since the commenter never specified. I work for the U.S. government.

New comment by blymphony in "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers"

blymphony — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:47:59 +0000

Not even government jobs are out of reach for you. I work as a federal employee without any college degree doing web development with React/Node/AWS.

New comment by blymphony in "Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?"

blymphony — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 07:41:36 +0000

If you want more information than can be given by a comment from a friendly stranger, I’d suggest reading “How to Be an Imperfectionist” by Stephen Guise. Although I’d assume that most of the advice in this book is obvious to most people, for a “perfectionist” like me, it helped me to unravel my illogical views of success and personal expectations that I had built over the course of my life.