Hacker News: omar12

New comment by omar12 in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

omar12 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:36:51 +0000

Growing up, the music from PS1 games and getting my first computer with internet access sparked my interest in Drum and Bass, Jungle, and eventually other electronic music. In high school, I would spend hours every night searching for music and connecting with people who shared similar interests, discovering what they enjoyed. I also remembered going to Borders and spend hours browsing their library. It was a great time. I still have my drum and bass CDs from back then. Roni Size - New Forms was a game changer for me.

New comment by omar12 in "Response to DHH"

omar12 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:50:00 +0000

Genuine question, is Matt ok? I hope nothing bad is happening in his personal life.

New comment by omar12 in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

omar12 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:24:57 +0000

I am excited for the features announced. My current phone is the iPhone XS, which in September will be 6 years since its release.

Mind you, I try not to get excited for other releases when I made the decision to not yet upgrade my phone.

New comment by omar12 in "GPT-4o"

omar12 — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:16:36 +0000

TARS, set humor to 75 percent.

New comment by omar12 in "Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims"

omar12 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:28:48 +0000

I second the recommendation. We got rid of a Samsung washer for a Speed Queen. It does a better job cleaning the clothes for less of the time.

New comment by omar12 in "Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss"

omar12 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:28:03 +0000

As an middle-aged man that loves to go to concerts, ear plugs are great and do not affect negatively the concert-going experience. Speakers are loud enough that you can feel the music and personally I get energized when people around me are enjoying the concert with me. Plus, your ears will thank you later :).

New comment by omar12 in "Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office"

omar12 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:54:55 +0000

What others have likely mentioned, the biggest perk that I get from WFH is flexibility to do home duties during business hours. Working from home has given me the flexibility to manage my day to deal with personal errands along with your work responsibilities.

When coming to the office, all the home tasks are left for later, where my cognitive level is below ideal or where businesses are closed.

There is also child care, where when working from home, you can pick up your kids, where you are present for them.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

omar12 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 07:12:10 +0000

I used to write more, I have not for a while now. https://omartinez.co

New comment by omar12 in "Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases"

omar12 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:45:50 +0000

> Communities used to be on specialised forums and blogs.

Now these communities are on Discord, which is not the friendliest to look for archived knowledge. If Discord can solve the UX for knowledge share, I can see it as the product with the better chance of replacing Reddit.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?"

omar12 — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:26:08 +0000

> There's something about "shared misery" that brings people together and builds a comrade.

It's been scientifically proven that this is the way to create strong bonds with people. It's why we are easier to get close with former classmates and co-workers.

My fitness group is the rec basketball league that I participate.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?"

omar12 — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:17:32 +0000

I would like to say first is that: we are all humans.

When you are passionate in the work you do, invest time and effort to completing work for someone to find flaws, it's hard to not be offended and take things personally.

But as humans, we are able to learn. You made a big step in being aware that you are taking criticism personally. From here, you need to learn to disassociate that what you contribute is not a byproduct of you as a person. It is a byproduct of the ask, a byproduct of your knowledge at that moment of when did your work.

To shift your perspective from immediately seeing feedback as a personal attack, practice gratitude. Be grateful that someone else took time from their busy day to look closely at your contribution and provide feedback. Sure, its their responsibility, but they invested their time to review the contribution and provide feedback that you did on your time. Sure, if the feedback is snarky, ask nicely to reword it for next time.

Third, take advantage of every opportunity as a learning opportunity. Maybe you will learn something, maybe you will be more aware of a specific type of feedback next time you are contributing, that you will try not to repeat the same error.

New comment by omar12 in "Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians"

omar12 — Tue, 09 May 2023 06:42:07 +0000

Unfortunately, it's what makes Pop Music, POPular. As long as it sells, it won't change. I remember Lady Gaga getting a lot of criticism early on in her career, then later, she showed how talented she is musically.

On a sidenote, we see it on the web, you can argue that most marketing websites look the same, it follows a formula that sells.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: What games are you having fun with?"

omar12 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:51:52 +0000

Deathloop: I was expecting another FPS, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the story and the characters.

Death Stranding: I've beaten the game, now I'm just trying to collect everything and do all the deliveries. Although stressful, I'm engaging BTs more. The story and the world Hideo Kojima built it's really fascinating.

New comment by omar12 in "Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about"

omar12 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:16:35 +0000

If there is a feature I want to see on Spotify is a easier way to see my friends playlists.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: Resources to learn generative art programming?"

omar12 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:42:17 +0000

1. I would start here: https://www.notion.so/That-Creative-Code-Page-c5550ef2f75741...

2. Joshua Davis is a great instructor and you can buy some of this lessons: https://joshuadavis.gumroad.com/

3. The kitchen sink, awesome-creative-coding: https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding

New comment by omar12 in "Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent"

omar12 — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:21:42 +0000

If filming is done in public for the intent to be published, should there be a release form signed by any people that were filmed?

Anecdotally, many years ago I was at an outdoor park and they were filming a fitness reality show. The fitness coach was making the participant do random workouts throughout the park. In one of those random workouts, I was in the background of the filming. Immediately as I was out of frame, a production assistant provided a release form to authorize the use of my likeness in a broadcast.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?"

omar12 — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:08:10 +0000

I agree 100% with your statement. I see a job interviews as dating. It has to work both ways, you will be spending most of your day with them, you need to determine what you expect from them and what negative behaviors you are willing to compromise based on your needs.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

omar12 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:13:46 +0000

I have ruminated about the same questions that OP has the past few weeks as I reflect on this year. What I realized and simplified, as a software developer is that I get paid to deliver a positive result when it's expected.

Like I mentioned, it's overly simplified, but looking at any responsibility that you may have, it ends on delivering. Delivering a feature, functionality, a product, a result. Then it's up to you to take it further.

New comment by omar12 in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

omar12 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:03:51 +0000

> Lazy developers don't really bother me, if you do a couple hours of high-quality work a week I'd have no complaint.

This has been my philosophy, as long as a developer is not making me do more work, I won't mind.

New comment by omar12 in "“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”"

omar12 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:57:53 +0000

This raises the question: "has there been state-sponsored efforts to overwhelm open source maintainers with the intent of sneaking in vulnerabilities to software applications?"