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justinhj

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About justinhj

Programmer currently into streaming and cloud stuff. Formerly working on video games (PC, Console and latterly backend), Fintech, Banks, Leisure and, most recently, Marketing technology. Rust, Scala, Neovim and Emacs.

Recent public activity

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    As a former game coder who worked before there were game engines the attitude depresses me. Game programming was an inventive and creative art and the models that are spewing out b…

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    Comment #49217802

    The author is right, the website is nice, but I am having trouble finding my star sign.

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    Comment #49183415

    They deferred navigation to ATC instead of using their own capabilities such as VOR.

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    Comment #49060549

    At the time Starlink was announced as was rocket reusability. Both were widely mocked and considered infeasible. Since then Starlink has succeeded, reusable rockets are a reality, …

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    Comment #49044101

    If the AI tools can easily find exploits, cannot those same tools be used to harden security? In fact the companies have an advantage over script kiddies: access to more expensive …

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    Comment #49027223

    you live in a bubble i am afraid

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    Comment #49027216

    if that's all he did sure, he makes an interesting blog nearly every day jealous or what?

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    Comment #49024046

    I wonder if fiction writing at that level is like coding. You can learn to type and navigate really fast, but unless you're working on blub software, if you're doing something inte…

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    Comment #48996140

    I find Simon's work informative and entertaining; the last thing he can be accused of is low effort. The Pelicans are just a bit of fun icing on top.

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    Comment #48929344

    it's worse really. at least there are subreddits relatively free of trump bad elon bad non stop nonsense

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    Comment #48894480

    are you sure it's non trivial? they posted a 2d image of what it looks like. a fairly simple model of the users wrist and mouse position doesn't seem crazy hard but the devil is in…

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    Comment #48873833

    There's a good book "The Pacific Alone" about a guy that did this in a kayak

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    Comment #48873800

    Unlike Uber and Airbnb that did break local laws and got away with it because people wanted their service (and also deep pockets for handling litigation and encouraging politicians…

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    Comment #48867696

    The very first paragraph about macros taking a while is wrong. They are really useful and once in your muscle memory a near instantly accessible solution to small tedious tasks. Th…

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    Comment #48863717

    Thanks for sharing that. It's relevant but also a great story about how to struggle against giant corporation bureaucracy and ship against all odds

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    Comment #48855248

    These kinds of internet dramas get so much more attention here and elsewhere than technical discussion it makes me wonder if Andrew Kelley is a marketing genius.

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    Comment #48825909

    Same for SFU students too especially the mountain top Burnaby campus.

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    Comment #48825905

    Same thing happens in Ice Cube's "Are We There Yet" where the characters are driving from Portland to Vancouver but the whole movie is filmed in Vancouver and surrounding area.

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    Comment #48776132

    Seems a problem with the site not loading

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    Comment #48727812

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48719517

    "If your company’s cutoff sits at 85, I fail 65% of the time. Same exact resume, different luck." Sounds like they have replicated the existing recruitment process

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    Comment #48585949

    The main difference in my proposal is separating git completely from asset management and replacing it with a flexible, scalable system built for that purpose

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    Comment #48575174

    I see Git as a tool aimed at experts that spend time to learn the tool. Asking non technical people to use it is a mistake. You can build guard railed apps on top of it for them, b…

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    Comment #48575126

    One of the reasons I left the game industry, or at least one the benefits of leaving was to not have to use Perforce any longer. Albeit a necessary evil, hopefully lore is better. …