Hacker News: nshunter

New comment by nshunter in "AI Startup School with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy"

nshunter — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:49:40 +0000

In this economy?

New comment by nshunter in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

nshunter — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:52:26 +0000

Can we circle back on this in 6 months to validate our strategy with leadership?

New comment by nshunter in "All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration"

nshunter — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:59:11 +0000

Social tie ins with gaming never truly worked despite about a decade of experimentation. Lots of the features from social networks instead got included in game design rather than relying on facebook and x for engagement.

I imagine that UGC will still find easy mechanisms for sharing per title, but as a defacto option from big game makers it's done.

New comment by nshunter in "The 37signals Employee Handbook"

nshunter — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:53:50 +0000

The issue is they set the line for what's political and that line is based in leaderships own believes about identity. It telegraphs what kind of company it is based on what it classifies as political under an abstract definition based on who runs the company at the time.

New comment by nshunter in "Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?"

nshunter — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:27:18 +0000

Came here looking for this one to be mentioned

New comment by nshunter in "Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats"

nshunter — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:00:26 +0000

Gabor Mate has published quite a few works on the effects of stress on children, even starting in utero with effects from the mother.

Scattered minds and when the body says no connect to the effects of stress on the body and children in particular.

New comment by nshunter in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

nshunter — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:09:36 +0000

I was thinking about the connection between the death of digg and now the death of reddit. It's similar that they destroyed engagement by not responding to feedback. Social communities can be forgiving for missteps with acknowledgement and accountability, but Reddit seems to have just shifted its focus from being a community space into a data product.

Had an account for 14 years that I plan on 'deleting', whatever that means with the fast and loose intentions around customer data that reddit seems to have now.

New comment by nshunter in "I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar"

nshunter — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:42:49 +0000

This generation of MB hardware generally seems to have issues from trivial through severe. I purchased my fiance one of the new Macbooks for school along with one of the USB-C dongles to allow her to connect to an external monitor.

She constantly has flickering issues when it's connected without a reboot after connecting. It seems to be an unacknowledged issues with video and the macbook, which was attempted to be solved via a visit with Apple where the replaced the dongle to no effect.

The machine is fantastic in terms of weight, screen, and layout. I don't really mind the single USB-C and would love to have one, but the hardware issues have made me decided to sit this generation out and wait for what's next.

New comment by nshunter in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)"

nshunter — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 20:34:10 +0000

Electronic Arts (Vancouver, Canada and Galway, Ireland - ONSITE preferred, REMOTE possible for the right candidate, VISA and RELOCATION included)

My team (Quality Intelligence) is hiring software engineers and DevOps for a newly formed team designed to empower thousands of game developers with the ability to make meaning from the data that comes from the game development process. It's an exciting group that could absolutely lead to company wide impact from a small team fully empowered to define our product and create something amazing.

If you're interested in working in gaming, but without the hard core crunch. Playing with big data, and working on something that can improve the lives of thousands of developers, please reach out (nhunter@ea.com).

You can read more about each position below, but ideally, just ping me and we can chat more about what we're building and what the team is like.

Thanks,

Scott

Job Descriptions:

DevOps (Systems Engineer)

https://career4.successfactors.com/career?career_ns=job_list...

Software Engineer

https://career4.successfactors.com/career?career_ns=job_list...

New comment by nshunter in "Lessons from being sexually harassed at Google"

nshunter — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:17:31 +0000

Honestly, what's described in this article seems to cross into sexual assault rather than just harassment. Moving into blatant physical contact, such as kissing, is escalation beyond suggestion and inappropriate comments.

New comment by nshunter in "Orbit: EA's first open source project"

nshunter — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 06:28:42 +0000

So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized.

http://gpl.ea.com/

Additionally, EA purchased ESN which also has open source contributions that are maintained after the purchase. It might be fair to say that Orbit is the LATEST EA open source project, but not the first.

New comment by nshunter in "The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer"

nshunter — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:25:12 +0000

Good Article. I'm actively trying to move out of the industry (or into a company that has more opportunity connected with non-games) now after almost 10 years in.

I'm fortunate that my skills are way more transferable than the majority of game developers (I build and lead SaaS teams), but it can be a bit of a slog to actually shift gears.

Games are a place to be if you're really passionate about it or you feel like there's another hill to take. In general tho, there are much more meaningful things you can do with your life (like raise kids). So I'm on the hunt for a job that lets me continue to build awesome products while have the ability to see my kid on a regular basis (not just 6 months out of the year).

New comment by nshunter in "A year without food (2012)"

nshunter — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:39:18 +0000

Happens to me. Distraction is the first cure, I fall asleep all the time with the tv on. A good book or something else to take your mind off it will help.

The second is melatonin. Help yourself sleep. It'll replace that feeling of full and satiation you normally have. After a few days, you'll be used to it.