<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jhatemyjob</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jhatemyjob</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:07:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jhatemyjob" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jhatemyjob in "WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok</p>
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<p>The author's base assumption, and stated motivation for doing this project, is wrong.<p><a href="https://github.com/StephenDev0/StikDebug" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/StephenDev0/StikDebug</a><p>For an undergrad project, I suppose it's fine to conveniently forget about the existence of this solution for the sake of getting a good grade.</p>
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<p>Windows 7 was the last good one.</p>
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<p>I used to believe this for like 10 years. And I never had any custom environment. But then I was at a job where I was forced to create a custom dev environment, because theirs was awful. And then I had to transfer my scripts to another machine, and it turns out, it was actually really easy (just have a git repo you can pull from anywhere). I wasted 10 years with a subpar dev environment.<p>I'm actually at the point now where I just can do `curl <a href="https://website.com/my_environment.sh" rel="nofollow">https://website.com/my_environment.sh</a> | bash`, and it sets everything up for me. So even if I SSH into a machine for a brief period of time I'll have my environment with me there too.</p>
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<p>If I had the means, and if it was as convenient/pleasant as this, I would absolutely get an MRI every month.</p>
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<p>Ahhhh. Okay. I didn't realize you meant game studios. Wasn't familiar with that "big 3" term until now. Thanks for clearing that up.</p>
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<p>It's hardly the same thing at this point. For instance you could say Nginx is API-compatible with Apache, and yes that is correct (Maybe? Let's not split hairs here). But to go as far as saying Apache is <i>state of the art</i> and link to Apache's homepage (like  throw2ih020 did) is just like.... no.<p>I think you think I'm trying to correct/one-up reactordev. I'm not. I agree with him. He's pointing out throw2ih020 is being ridiculous, and I'm pointing out that it's even more ridiculous because it's less than 3.</p>
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<p>It's not even baked into Google anymore.</p>
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<p>Great talk. I'm glad he was wrong about this. Having js/wasm be the standard ABI would have been horrible. Obviously he could have never predicted in 2014 that Valve would pour a metric fuckton of resources into improving Wine/Proton, to the point of getting x64 binaries to run on other architectures. But here we are, past the year of the Linux desktop, well on our way to the year of the Linux handset.</p>
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<p>Same. I think I watched this 10 times when it first came out.</p>
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<p>Okay, sorry. I retract that. I responded to the original comment saying "this", which implies that I would have said that myself. So... you got me there.<p>As for the second part of your comment, well... yeah, I don't disagree with you there. That doesn't have any value either. Those people are probably not making that much money.</p>
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<p>Entertainment isn't inherently valuable.</p>
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<p>I touched a nerve huh? You wanna know another leading consumer? Recreational drug users. Lot of money in that industry.</p>
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<p>Ok so now you're lying. I never said that.</p>
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<p>I never said they are low skill. They just don't have their priorities straight.<p>Those QA teams, automation people, production, level designers, vfx artists, tech artists, character artists, 2d artists, prop artists, gameplay scripters, etc are doing all that work just to put some pretty pixels on a 14 year old's screen. There's very little value there.</p>
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<p>That is precisely my point, thank you. Yeah there's a few good ones like Undertale or (early 2010s era) Minecraft or Roblox or Garry's Mod but those are rare. Most of the games out there are the types like Pokemon which are more like a drug addiction.<p>So bringing this back to the "why don't game devs make boatloads of money like FAANG" it's because the vast majority of roles are being a scripter at Game Freak or Rockstar or whatever. I'm sure the engineers at Valve or Roblox or Epic Games are being treated very well because those companies actually provide value to people's lives.<p>Roblox to a lesser extent, but you get my point. I'd rather have my kid play Roblox where he might learn Lua scripting, than Pokemon which is just a complete dead end. Just look at what happened to Byuu and Hax. Or hell, even endrift with that weird unnecessary drama with Analogue. Many such cases. Not sure if you get those references. But the stories surrounding those people are why I stay far away from Nintendo stuff. And gaming in general.</p>
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<p>Funny you mention Pokemon. Have you been to a Pokemon regional championships recently? Take a good look at the average Pokemon player. You really think that hobby is adding value to their life?</p>
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<p>This, and also, if you just take a step back and think of the bigger picture, the work isn't valuable. There's a lot more value in pushing ads, a CRM, an email app, etc than keeping a 14 year old kid entertained.<p>I don't really buy the supply/demand argument everyone else is saying here. The end product just doesn't provide value to people's lives. The amount of effort you'd need to put in to provide value to someone's life through a video game is way higher than the effort you'd need to put into a productivity tool.<p>In fact, more often than not, video games provide negative value to people's lives. They're usually a waste of time at best. And at worst, addictive and carpal tunnel inducing.</p>
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<p>I agree with your sentiment but I think a fairer comparison would be:<p>> Who is more valuable as individual, the owner of a watch factory in Vietnam or the guy who makes one watch a month in Switzerland?<p>With that framing, I'm not sure what the answer is. I suppose it depends on your priorities</p>
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<p>True</p>
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