One can technically scrape a list of actual advice or quotes off the internet, randomly feed them to a coding agent, and ask it to interpret what they mean in the grand scheme of things and implement away on it. Once the agent is done, it randomly responds with either "yes, this is exactly what I meant" or "no".
In turn mimicking the average game industry executive giving vague directions that feel just right to them this month, or some other unspecified time period, and in turn achieving something closer to the real AAA game development lifecycle.
For me the biggest issue is to connect with people.
Having a some form of opt-in automatic email chain or private chat for people located in the same city to discuss and connect would be great.
> For me the biggest issue is to connect with people
Could you elaborate? what is painful to you?
> automatic email chain or private chat
Any more ideas about that? I think it's similar to the suggestion I made in the post about creating Telegram channels for each location, but I'm not sure.
Also, someone already said they wouldn't join a Telegram channel and would prefer Signal. That really illustrates the kind of challenges I'm facing in trying to bring the HN community together.
People put one or many links to their accounts.
Unless there is a email or an actual social media, it is very hard to pick one of these as a way of connecting people.
For example I saw a lot of accounts with just github (same goes with some of the social medias), I am not sure what to do outside of following it. I would assume there is also a understandable inertia to put your own social account or email directly here.
> Any more ideas about that?
Email-chain would be the easiest. I wouldn't rely on a third party service like Telegram or Signal directly as that would mean losing a lot of people because as you realised it is hard to convince everyone to agree on Apples to Oranges.
One thing that could also work is creating a some form of very simple forum board like interface on the website directly for people to post/comment their invitation/willingness to meet up or how they wish to be contacted about meeting up (maybe with a bit information about what they expect or what you can expect).
It could function like a Facebook Group in a way which served a similar purpose in past.
There could also be a Country/Nation board that will also share same posts as your city so more people can see them.
If you would like to discuss in more detail, you can send me a email.
Possibly unpopular here but how about a Discord server with a channel for every city? When you join Discord, a bot could ask which cities you want to join (allowing people who travel to join multiple cities, but maybe limit it to some sane number to prevent bots from trawling everything).
Haha and here I was going to suggest a discord channel for each location. I checked out the two cities I've worked in and was pleasantly surprised by the number of brave people who added their LinkedIn accounts, and doubly so when seeing some old colleagues as mutuals. Not sure I'd want to add meet.hn to my main, maybe make a "real me alt" specifically for that. I wonder if others have done the same since it's a lot of users with old accounts and no comment histories.
I made hn-pm.me exactly for that. You can sign up with your hn username only, no email required. You have to put a random key into your profile during signup, but you can remove it later.
You can glitch out Safari on IOS -by quickly pressing the play button for the video in the now playing interface after switching off from the Safari app- to play the audio of Youtube videos on the background.
I mainly use this to play membership only videos that don't play in the background even if you have a Youtube Premium.
Every IOS version I pray that they don't patch this "glitch".
> "This is censorship, pure and simple," Altun, the communications director of the Turkish presidency, said on X, adding that Instagram had not cited any policy violations for its action.
It's interesting that they say the quiet part out loud.
Also weird that while Instagram is "censored", the Facebook and WhatsApp which are also under Meta Platforms Inc remain unblocked.
Great jab at the Motzilla foundation that focuses on "Pocket", "Mozilla VPN", millions of dollars in CEO compensations, AI investments, political deplatforming and other things (maybe Firefox).
Also, it is easy to make bold claims early on, and at some point reality shows its ugly face. Remember that they already moved from "we re-implement everything" to "let's re-use the same libraries that other web runtimes use (and sometimes maintain)".
They switched their approach when they decided to turn the browser into an independent project, because that was the only way to get it done. Of course it's ok to change, but you can also consider that as a precedent and take anything they say now with a grain of salt.
It was a hobby recovery project which grew into something more. I feel like people sometimes want to be overly negative or overly critical and contrarian. Should Linus Torvald be viewed with suspicion because of the bad precedent he set when he stated,
> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Of course not. And if one set their goals ambitiously from the outset, they would be accused of being non-humble. There is no path one can follow which escapes baseless and inane criticisms.
> Of course it's ok to change, but you can also consider that as a precedent and take anything they say now with a grain of salt.
One can also criticize failure to change and adapt, and failure to seize and follow opportunities.
On the contrary, Andreas realized the conflict and isntead of changing the focus of the SerenityOS projects decided to split the browser into a new one so that SerenityOS could remain what it is and not be drowned out by the interest in the browser.
> And another tangential issue is how search in Google Play is a ridiculous mess lately. It would show you WhatsApp and some other popular apps for literally any search query, while not finding the app you're actually looking for, even if you enter its exact name.
I think this applies to any Google product's search these days. As a company that started with a business in search, it is quite ironic.
In turn mimicking the average game industry executive giving vague directions that feel just right to them this month, or some other unspecified time period, and in turn achieving something closer to the real AAA game development lifecycle.
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