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hokapo

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About hokapo

Data scientist / product owner by day, indie gamedev at night.

Games:

placewhen.com

https://hokapo.itch.io/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49127436

    Yeah, as I said in a reply to another comment, I oversimplified there. What I should have said is that solo or almost-solo gamedev with relatively small games is a good example of …

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    Comment #49122232

    > It would be useful if people _ever_ explained the use cases. Even Anthropic when they're publishing their materials are hand wavey about this. Yes, good addition. > I couldn't di…

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    Comment #49121860

    This right here is the truth. Too often people talk in abstract ways, not disclosing what they're actually working on. And then they tell their experiences as universal facts.

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    Comment #49121829

    I think the main cause of different views is just the fact that people have very different products and codebases they're working on. Therefore, the requirements and applicability …

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    Comment #49109409

    When I was a trainee at university, there was a math professor who worked similarly, with a bare text editor, when writing algorithms for his research. He said he wanted the coding…

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    Comment #48990879

    I think they are fine, and most major apps nowadays seem to follow them (for better or worse). Of course one can misuse them, as any other so-called "law", but in the context they'…

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    Comment #48967165

    This is fun! But I feel it needs some onboarding/tutorial. Half the time I didn't understand why I can't take some money off the ground. Sometimes it said that I'm blocked because …