Hacker News: james33

New comment by james33 in "GitHub Git Operations Are Down"

james33 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:30:37 +0000

All checkmarks just turned green and my push went through. Snow day over.

New comment by james33 in "What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?"

james33 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:57:59 +0000

Game engines can be pretty hefty (especially the big 3D ones like Unity or Unreal), you can always find benefit from faster CPU/GPU/RAM with this type of dev work. This is the only reason I'm tempted to upgrade my M1 Max.

New comment by james33 in "OpenAI's chaos does not add up"

james33 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:15:33 +0000

The weight of the combined egos collapsed in on themselves creating the black hole that is now OpenAI.

New comment by james33 in "Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor"

james33 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 03:20:35 +0000

It seems to be pretty stable now. I've been using an iPad Pro as a 2nd monitor for a MBP while working remotely over the last year without any issues (8+ hours of daily use).

New comment by james33 in "Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives"

james33 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:07:32 +0000

Yes, but that list becomes much shorter when you're making 3D games.

New comment by james33 in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

james33 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:46:59 +0000

Not surprised, but still rather frustrated. We literally just signed a deal to bring Arctic Awakening to Stadia in the last few weeks, and I know a number of other devs had done the same. They never even gave it a chance. What did they expect, to take over the gaming market in a few short years with hardly any content?

New comment by james33 in "macOS Monterey"

james33 — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:29:03 +0000

How's it been? I'd still been holding out, but I've been thinking about finally moving up to Big Sur this week.

New comment by james33 in "Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors"

james33 — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:01:10 +0000

They did that to compare against the last comparable Intel chips in a Mac, which seems rather useful for people looking to upgrade from that line of Mac.

New comment by james33 in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"

james33 — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:43:23 +0000

From what I can tell, the charging brick is the same either way. The new MagSafe is just a different USB-C cable that has the MagSafe connector on the end.

New comment by james33 in "DigitalOcean Down?"

james33 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:09:38 +0000

Looks like a widespread outage. We have servers in multiple regions that are all down and we can't even get into the DO dashboard.

New comment by james33 in "DigitalOcean VPC"

james33 — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:49:41 +0000

This is precisely why we switched from AWS to DigitalOcean. This cut out monthly hosting costs by 80% and vastly simplified our entire setup. We also saw some solid performance gains in some areas (wrote up our benchmarks: https://goldfirestudios.com/blog/150/Benchmarking-AWS-Digita...).

New comment by james33 in "French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold"

james33 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:25:35 +0000

I don't agree with your first point. There are many great single player games that only take 1.5-2 hours to play through and don't really need to be played again as they are mostly linear experiences. Playing through the entire game, getting your enjoyment out of it and then getting a full refund isn't fair at all.

New comment by james33 in "Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?"

james33 — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:08:18 +0000

Building Distributed Systems with Node.js - James Simpson (Nordic.js 2019)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtd-zEDgjQ

Slides/Code: https://github.com/goldfire/Building-Distributed-Systems-Nod...

Where tech companies should look to expand

james33 — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/where-tech-companies-should-look-to-expand/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21558579

Points: 2

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New comment by james33 in "How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game"

james33 — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:37:34 +0000

Interesting, I thought the writing and voice acting were its strongest elements (in addition to the beautiful scenery). The world would be boring if everyone had the same opinion though :)

New comment by james33 in "Benchmarking AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Packet, and Vultr"

james33 — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:17:02 +0000

The point of this test wasn't to determine the absolute limits. It was to determine what the actual real-world performance would be on the instances/servers we would actually be using.

New comment by james33 in "Benchmarking AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Packet, and Vultr"

james33 — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:15:12 +0000

If you would read the paragraph directly after the list of instances tested you would see this was directly addressed. This test wasn't meant to mislead and was simply exploring the best options for us. This isn't the same for everyone, which is why we open-sourced the tool we made so that you can run your own tests as well.

New comment by james33 in "Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over"

james33 — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:05:51 +0000

If this was on iOS then this is explicitly in Apple's guidelines not something that CBS mandated. The guidelines say that any remaining time on a free trial must end immediately if canceled early.

New comment by james33 in "Tulsa Remote"

james33 — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:08:51 +0000

And when did you make this move? OKC has been undergoing a renascence of sorts over the last decade and barely resembles the rest of the state. The tech scene is really taking off and diversity is expanding rather rapidly. There are a lot of great people working hard to make a difference here and just because you like one place over another doesn't mean that other place has to be bad, it is fine to just be different.

New comment by james33 in "Howler.js – JavaScript audio library for the modern web"

james33 — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:49:30 +0000

It definitely works on IE11 and Edge. If your computer is blocking the Audio tag then no it won't work in IE11 as there is no Web Audio, but Edge should work unless Web Audio is getting blocked as well.