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Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by sva_ »

addaon wrote: post #29
sva_ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Had multiple submissions get exactly zero interest I was certain would be bangers. A lot of stuff simply gets lost on 'new'. I mean how many people even go there? I rarely do so myself. The cases in which I upvote a submission with very few points are usually when I want to submit something I found elsewhere and enter the link in the search before posting.

I believe if you submit a link that’s already on “New” it will merge them and automatically upvote the existing submission.

I think only if it got a certain amount of points or so. See i.e.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40616660 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620056

Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by anakaine »

Havoc wrote: post #32

It’s hit and miss. Links to academic papers I usually don’t even try to read. For borderline stuff reading the comments often helps highlight the significance

I often pick up the academic papers that are relevant to me here. To each their own!

Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by Animats »

wackget wrote: post #22
TillE wrote: post #15

I haven't done web development since the late 90s, so quite a lot of what people talk about (from frontend frameworks to Kubernetes) is total gibberish to me. That's fine, it's not something I'm interested in even as a hobby.

I have done web development since the 90s and I can tell you authoritatively that most of what people talk about, like those frontend frameworks, are gibberish. Or at least, they're not worth the hype they're given. The wheel is constantly turning, and the hot new framework of today is just a re-hash of something already done years ago with a pretty facade. You probably learned the actual fundamentals of the web, whi…

Yes, web development has become extremely complicated and has constant churn. This despite the fact that most of it isn't doing all that much. It's embarrassing.

Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by anakaine »

wackget wrote: post #22
TillE wrote: post #15

I haven't done web development since the late 90s, so quite a lot of what people talk about (from frontend frameworks to Kubernetes) is total gibberish to me. That's fine, it's not something I'm interested in even as a hobby.

I have done web development since the 90s and I can tell you authoritatively that most of what people talk about, like those frontend frameworks, are gibberish. Or at least, they're not worth the hype they're given. The wheel is constantly turning, and the hot new framework of today is just a re-hash of something already done years ago with a pretty facade. You probably learned the actual fundamentals of the web, whi…

I last successfully did front end dev in the late 90s ans veryearly 00s. I'm very back end these days. Front end work feels incredibly frustrating, between things like UI/UX design, responsive layouts, async, handling data into whatever thing it is you're trying to populate, etc. The whole lot is a massive nightmare to even try getting back in to. It's frustrating to the point t where I look at back and end know that I can handle with authority some pretty fun and fascinating use cases that require deep expertise across many fields - and make it performant + cost efficient et , but I can barely get a front end together and even then it looks and works like crap.

Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by xgkickt »

Games are quite simple really (read input, move, draw, beep, repeat). Too many get caught up on The Right Way to do things, but realistically all that matters is what the user sees and hears, how you get there is inconsequential. Making _something_ is an achievement in itself.

Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by ancientlurker »

Look at what passes for peer reviewed scientific papers these days.

Those are dumb dumbs pretending to be smart. That is much worse on many levels.

Funny that many of the scientific concepts I encountered over the years that seemed to not make sense turned out to be actual nonsense and pseudoscience.

It's like they had a smell but I didn't know what was causing the smell until much later.

Virology is a good example of this. Total nonsense. They don't even have one sample of even one virus -- anywhere. In the world. It's a boogeyman.

Re: Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing?

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Post by card_zero »

snapdaddy wrote: post #14

As others have commented, most people have specialised knowledge. For example, I've been programming professionally for about 30 years; let me share my knowledge of game programming: Most people use Unity these days. I'm pretty sure it's in C#, and there was something about the licence recently that they probably backed down from. You can still write in c with OpenGL, but you will probably have to create your own gam…

Nice guide, pretty comprehensive. I think it's Godot or something else these days. You don't have to care about milliseconds if you write a turn-based game, and anyway movie frames last for 42 milliseconds so I think going faster than that is overhyped. Sound is awkward to do because of communication between threads or something, don't know, will investigate one day.
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