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New comment by softawre in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"

softawre — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:06:45 +0000

Which is true because people already have large Steam game libraries. I barely game anymore but I must have 3000 games in Steam.

Epic is gnawing at the lead, at least with me, as they give out a free game every week. I must have 300 games in Epic - I've even paid for a few.

New comment by softawre in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"

softawre — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:45:40 +0000

I'm a parent to 11/7 year olds, and just yesterday we were talking about how dangerous and addictive gambling is. If you ask them about gambling they will say "it's for stupid people". I doubt it's super common but I'm sure others are doing it if I am.

New comment by softawre in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"

softawre — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:40:09 +0000

Microsoft at the very least didn't fire these developers and didn't convince them to not work on DirectX. Someone at Microsoft gets the credit, even if it's not upper management.

New comment by softawre in "What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft"

softawre — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:10:18 +0000

Implicit bias is real and there are ways to mitigate some of it. More process driven interview frameworks, less 'he seem like me so he probably good'.

New comment by softawre in "Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”"

softawre — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:45:00 +0000

You could decide to work an office job?

New comment by softawre in "Workplace surveillance is coming for you"

softawre — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:27:30 +0000

This stuff happens all of the time.

Middle management has to educate upper management on why certain metrics are bad. I do it all the time. Most recent one was length a PR was open. Some of my better devs opened PRs earlier and left them open for feedback longer, and I didn't want them penalized, so I communicated (with data) to management that it was a bad metric and we no longer measure it.

New comment by softawre in "Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday"

softawre — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:05:49 +0000

From his profile:

> Cofounder and former MD of Bytemark, a British hosting company.

New comment by softawre in "MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason"

softawre — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:26:30 +0000

You should insure things you can't afford to self insure for. Life, Home, maybe car.

You should not pay insurance for all the tech crap we buy. You're just losing money on average. Only way to win with this type of insurance is to be unlucky.

New comment by softawre in "Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator"

softawre — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:19:20 +0000

x = 2 + 3

x * 2

New comment by softawre in "Cloudflare had a partial outage"

softawre — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:20:38 +0000

Not to state the obvious, but... if a big centralized company built a Cloudflare for IPFS to make it easy for the masses to adopt, that company could go down just as easy as Cloudflare.

New comment by softawre in "Framework Laptop Mainboard"

softawre — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:11:15 +0000

https://frame.work/products/mainboard?v=FRANFG000C

New comment by softawre in "Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64"

softawre — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:24:06 +0000

But does it really matter? If Covid is 10% likely to kill you, and the shot is 9% likely to kill you, you'd still get the shot.

New comment by softawre in "Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64"

softawre — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:23:20 +0000

Your country gets punished for trying to do the right thing.

Just like some jobs are now hiring in "any state but Colorado", since if they hire in Colorado they have to post salary on the job description.

New comment by softawre in "“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”"

softawre — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:57:00 +0000

Lots of developers (especially newer ones) seem to think code is "utter shit" when it really is written that way for a reason. At least I've seen this pattern many times, and used to do it myself decades ago.

New comment by softawre in "Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?"

softawre — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:03:39 +0000

Lots of places call these "commercial monitors".

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Flat-Panel-Displays/ci/16...

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

softawre — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:45:57 +0000

Have either of you ever used a XPS camera? They are terrrrrible.

New comment by softawre in "Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud"

softawre — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:11:00 +0000

At least it is somebody with a big title. Chief Technical Pilot.

New comment by softawre in "Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion"

softawre — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:24:00 +0000

Right, and at that point you should be using some sort of NoSQL anyway.

New comment by softawre in "Sublime Text 4"

softawre — Fri, 21 May 2021 13:45:23 +0000

Neat. I use HxD for such a purpose.

New comment by softawre in "Sublime Text 4"

softawre — Fri, 21 May 2021 13:41:15 +0000

Sublime will barf if the file gets big enough too. In that case use something like HxD