Hacker News: johnvega

New comment by johnvega in "YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos"

johnvega — Tue, 24 May 2022 21:15:21 +0000

My family had Atari 400 with a tape drive. I remembered buying a tape with a game. We also use it for basic programming language and the Astroids game using a cartridge.

New comment by johnvega in "Why do you waste so much time on the internet?"

johnvega — Fri, 06 May 2022 21:09:18 +0000

Attention hijacking becomes micro-habbits that become a rourtine. After just a few days, it becomes very difficult to undo, even if being aware of what's going on. This is what I understood from Tristan Harris several years ago and it's still happening today.

New comment by johnvega in "Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux"

johnvega — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 16:08:34 +0000

"For most cases, you do all the actual rendering work in GL or GLES contexts, which you create with WGL, CGL, GLX, or EGL, depending on your platform.

GL and GLES do the actual rendering. EGL and friends are basically just the glue layer to get things to the screen. (Well, to the window manager)"

https://www.reddit.com/r/opengl/comments/11q0oz/what_is_the_...

New comment by johnvega in "Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – Less Than 2 Seconds"

johnvega — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:50:39 +0000

"bootcode.bin: This is the 2nd Stage Bootloader, which is run by the 1st Stage Bootloader which is embedded into the RPI by the manufacturer. Runs on the GPU. Activates the RAM. Its purpose is to run start.elf (3rd Stage Bootloader)."

New comment by johnvega in "iOS 15"

johnvega — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 20:02:06 +0000

Last time I checked several weeks ago, 2016 SE looks like it wasn't going to get it. This is great.

New comment by johnvega in "My Room in 3D"

johnvega — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 01:13:08 +0000

Not as elaborate also created in three.js

https://3d.delavega.us

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

johnvega — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 03:02:29 +0000

Location: San Jose, CA | San Francisco Bay Area

  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Possible
  Technologies: C/C++, Go/GoLang, CAD, AutoCAD, Computer Graphics, Cloud Computing & IoT 
  Résumé/CV: Upon request 
  Email: john.dlvg at gmail

Looking for a short term contract (few weeks) with option to permanent hire. I think this is a great way for companies to hire a great fit with minimum risk.

Over 5 years C++ Programming Experience in CAD software. In production release for over 10 years.

New comment by johnvega in "An old hacker's tips on staying employed"

johnvega — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:24:59 +0000

How would you compare your job search experience with "traditional employee job" versus "contract job" ?

New comment by johnvega in "Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux"

johnvega — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:39:30 +0000

On my 2nd chromebook computer but likely moving back to mostly to Windows because of WSL2.

Just 1 of many benefits: build native Windows GoLang app from WSL2: (Caddy server)

env GOOS=windows go build -o caddy.exe

No need to setup gcc in native Windows. Not sure if this works on all GoLang apps, but at least works for a reasonably complex Caddy server

New comment by johnvega in "Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources"

johnvega — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:44:39 +0000

An iPhone with 4 wheels

New comment by johnvega in "Amazon EC2 Mac Instances"

johnvega — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:55:59 +0000

Maybe good option to test out a small iOS dev side project. Average 10 hours per week will cost around $500 per year.

New comment by johnvega in "Facebook News"

johnvega — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:42:19 +0000

New comment by johnvega in "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)"

johnvega — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:26:34 +0000

The success depends on how much both value marriage itself

New comment by johnvega in "Apple for the first time makes a top-of-the-line iPhone model in India"

johnvega — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:31:35 +0000

May have been cut off if it was at the end. Perhaps change to "in India" from "near Chennai"

New comment by johnvega in "Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?"

johnvega — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:47:38 +0000

Attention hijacking, turns into subtle micro-habits, then turns into routines, backed by the most powerful computers in the world and most likely AI.

Internet + Smartphones + Apps

New comment by johnvega in "Doordash and Thousands of Other Companies Passively Send Your Data to Facebook"

johnvega — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:57:41 +0000

Coincidentally Sleep Cycle iOS app crashed once (can't remember ever crashing before from over 5 years of using it almost every day/night) within the approximate 3 hour time frame with other major apps crashing caused by Facebook SDK.

New comment by johnvega in "App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m"

johnvega — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:31:11 +0000

Seems like FB way of forcing devs to use the latest SDK, unless FB shares technical details on what happened.

This is what FB for dev says:

"To make your app compatible with the latest iOS, be sure to use the latest Facebook SDKs for iOS."

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios

New comment by johnvega in "Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores"

johnvega — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:30:14 +0000

Bought this computer I'm using right now from a Microsoft retail store. Great place to try out new computers. Disappointed.

New comment by johnvega in "Biohacking Lite"

johnvega — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:15:01 +0000

Has anyone tried or looked into Carnivore Diet?

https://carnivoremd.com/the-carnivore-diet-start-here/

https://www.carnivorecast.com/podcast

New comment by johnvega in "Most tech content is bullshit"

johnvega — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:02:43 +0000

The word "most" is mostly used between 60% and 90%, or more precisely greater than 50% and less than 100%