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New comment by xtracerx in "Blender 2.80"

xtracerx — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:51:35 +0000

Used Maya and cinema 4d for years.. just started switching to Blender because I heard the buzz around it.. and it is legitimately the biggest win for consumer open source software by a huge margin. Absolutely great product, I think I can get workflows as good or better than Maya out of this.. and Maya costs thousands of dollars a year.

New comment by xtracerx in "Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists"

xtracerx — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:45:52 +0000

So if I open a new small business and want to advertise it on AdWords or elsewhere on the internet I have no recourse? Word of mouth is random and unreliable even if you have a good product. Advertising is a healthy and essential signalling mechanism to broadcast the availability of a new service and there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with it in its self. The non-benneficial side-effects like extensive user tracking and practices that drastically harm user experience however are bad and a seperate issue to be dealt with.

New comment by xtracerx in "You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes"

xtracerx — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:59:18 +0000

Ah yes, the power-mad dark wizard. You should avoid that guy and hang out with the laid back hippy zen wizards.

New comment by xtracerx in "How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained"

xtracerx — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:54:56 +0000

Spare me the snark and negativity.

New comment by xtracerx in "The Mathematical Hacker (2012)"

xtracerx — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:26:34 +0000

That analogy would only make sense if you built the universe inside the telescope.

New comment by xtracerx in "Write HTML Like It's 1999"

xtracerx — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:44:03 +0000

This is not how people wrote html in 1999

New comment by xtracerx in "Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses"

xtracerx — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:41:27 +0000

Everywhere I have ever worked has relied on advertising for its existence, especially the ones that aren't household names. I understand how annoying some ads can be but, in general, the concept of advertising is essential to all of us having jobs.

New comment by xtracerx in "Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman"

xtracerx — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 22:26:03 +0000

You should check this thread out. https://www.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_...

New comment by xtracerx in "Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology"

xtracerx — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:44:14 +0000

just make sure you lock the screen rotation before your demo then.

New comment by xtracerx in "Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone"

xtracerx — Wed, 29 May 2019 20:45:56 +0000

It also says a 5kt explosion would have "levelled" Minsk and Kiev. They are 200 and 60 miles away, so that's just made up.

New comment by xtracerx in "Coldfusion is “Unpopular” – I don’t care"

xtracerx — Thu, 23 May 2019 16:34:48 +0000

Aggressive defensiveness of this calibre is not a good look and probably reinforces any stereotype people have of developers who would consider themselves ColdFusion devs. I don't think anyone would have a problem with someone who is a dev, that does cold fusion. but to act like that's all you are going to know and define your self that way is pretty lame.

New comment by xtracerx in "Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix"

xtracerx — Thu, 02 May 2019 00:05:55 +0000

Epic Games seem to be making a gambit that if they can become a marketplace that has significant market share compared to steam all the bad will will be worth it and people will forget. Since they know this Fortnite thing is kind of a limited windfall. So they are going HARD.

New comment by xtracerx in "Facebook is redesigning its core app"

xtracerx — Wed, 01 May 2019 01:31:51 +0000

oh boy, I'm sure everyone is going to have a totally rational response and not freak out at all when it launches.

New comment by xtracerx in "I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)"

xtracerx — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 02:21:50 +0000

Maybe I was a jaded student, but I always thought of these questions as a game of answering what I know they want me to answer. These types of questions are obviously dumb, and they shouldn't be included in multiple-choice tests.

New comment by xtracerx in "Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki"

xtracerx — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:17:02 +0000

This is a great project. I've been attempting to achieve a similar goal but just by writing articles on topics I'm interested in. Even if its a synthesis of other things I'm reading or studying. Essentially trying to boil a subject down and re-explain it in a compelling way to help cement the knowledge.

New comment by xtracerx in "The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders"

xtracerx — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:21:21 +0000

I hear this from older developers a lot, that the problems we are solving today have been solved already. That may be true to some extent, but I think that is dangerous, the ways the problems are solved again have different characteristics and advantages and generally push the ball forward. I think of it like forest fires clearing out old grown for new, and I think it's best to just have a zen-like mindset of being a constant beginner.

New comment by xtracerx in "I Lost Faith in the Industry, Burned Out, but the Cult of the Tool Saved Me"

xtracerx — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:51:01 +0000

I'm getting burned out on all the narcissists writing articles about how they thought everyone else was an imbecile, and rudely raged at everyone most of their career, and how great they are because they got slightly less cancerous. Life is too short for that, if you love something, or have a technical opinion, be a kind hearted teacher and discusser not a rage monster.

New comment by xtracerx in "Amazon’s website sucks"

xtracerx — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:59:26 +0000

Ok. Make a better one.

New comment by xtracerx in "Five Black Fridays at the mall food court"

xtracerx — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:56:18 +0000

yeah, this was very clear.. I mean there were even pictures.

New comment by xtracerx in "Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture"

xtracerx — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:28:55 +0000

Not all views deserve respect. Depending on what specific views they are talking about a lot of the ones circulating should not be tolerated.