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Adamantcheese

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Adamantcheese··on Everything You Need to Know About SVG
At this point it's probably just worth waiting for SVG 2.0 to come out.
Adamantcheese··on Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
The internet isn't fun and weird because you don't actively seek it out. You're content with what you're given and what everyone else uses and put no effort into getting what you want because you can't bring yourself to care enough for it.
Adamantcheese··on Show HN: Serve Static GitHub Pages Locally
My website is a static Github page that's been built without any site generator, but I've set all the paths to be relative so your main issue of "all of my absolute paths break" doesn't really apply and the website still works fine. I then don't need another program besides Brackets to do all my editing and testing in. And as far as other people's comments, it looks like Jekyll can spit out relative paths so it doesn't exactly do much.
Adamantcheese··on Ten minutes a day
Writing for 10 minutes a day is great and all, but if you're not the type of person that can easily switch tasks and be immediately ready to perform then it's not going to work out for you. Similarly, if you get stuck on a task and just want to keep going until you're done, you're going to have a hard time stopping. When I was doing NaNoWriMo I generally tried to go for the estimate of ~1337 words a day, but some days I had good ideas and kept going. Other days I didn't and spent a lot of time thinking about where to take the story and didn't write a lot. I don't believe at any time I spent less than 30 minutes working. And even then, it was always on my mind. Different people have different abilities, I don't believe that this is generally applicable and different people may have different minima/maxima for how much time they take to start up a task.
Adamantcheese··on Infinite Repeating Dashed Lines in SVG
The background on my website is an SVG, I wonder what other sorts of interesting animations can be applied using this method.
Adamantcheese··on When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
On the subject of recruiter emails, I just recently got one for a job at my former employer, a clear indication that the recruiter didn't read my resume at all. Also I've gotten an offer for a 3 week contract senior developer position on the other side of the continent. I swear that recruiter must have been mental or desperate.

From my perspective as a job seeker, it's pretty obvious that recruiters really just don't care. And the weird mental games being played on applicants with increasingly stupid and inflated requirements only means you're going to have fewer applicants.

Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?
Not really a board game, but Once Upon a Time is really fun. You tell a fairy-tale-esque story with your friends using a deck of places, things, events, etc. If your friends are creative, it's a whole ball of laughs and you might even make some nice in-jokes to tell each other.
Adamantcheese··on What software will you trust when you get senile?
I want my toaster to burn the weather onto my toast.
Adamantcheese··on How to reduce the file size of large background images by over 93%
Another method that I've personally used I explained over a year ago; you can see my explanation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704879
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)
Location: California Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes, but not to the Bay Area Technologies: C++, C, Java, In-House Tooling Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0k3yyu4z27h0ck/resume_current.doc... Email: See Résumé
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: What is your best passive income 2019?
Someone bought like 40 copies of a book I "wrote" back when I posted on HN about it in April. Otherwise bank interest has been the best.
Adamantcheese··on Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)
A wizard then should have a spellbook, one filled with all sorts of spells written out for immediate use. Maintainable hacks if you will. Those are probably just scripts though I suppose?
Adamantcheese··on The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project
Likely none. The product in question is a translation and upgrade of a Chinese tool anyways.
Adamantcheese··on Is front-end development having an identity crisis?
I think it's less of front-end having an identity crisis and more that every major programming language is trying to do the job of every other one, as opposed to languages being specialized for certain tasks, Javascript and it's variants especially. But everyone's now got their preferred language and they won't budge. So it's another thing you have to learn in order to do the job, even if you don't actively use it.
Adamantcheese··on The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project
ASS stands for Advanced Sub-Station (Alpha). It's a newer version of the Sub-Station Alpha format. Acronyms aren't always made to be funny, sometimes they just turn out that way.
Adamantcheese··on The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project
I did attempt to contact the owner of the site. Nothing happened for 2 months. All other alternatives were expensive or not maintained, so that was the best I could find.
Adamantcheese··on The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project
I actually tested out PunkGraphicsStream as a subtitle renderer, but it had issues with some fade effects which is why I had to go with easySup instead.
Adamantcheese··on The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project
Hey there, author here. I mainly wanted to have physical discs so I could have them stored in the collector's edition boxes that can with the original Japanese discs. If I just wanted the video out, then I would've been done in a week!
Adamantcheese··on Hire by Google: Applicant tracking system and recruiting software (2017)
Ah yes, yet another applicant tracking system that will likely not solve any of the problems the other ones have had. Especially since I presume this has been an internal tool for some time.
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: Which roleplaying games do you play apart from Dungeons and Dragons?
Paranoia is a great game that's a lot more freeform. And you get to kill off your players as well!
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: How do you focus at work?
By work being more interesting than being bored out of my mind. If the work's boring though, an album or two from my collection; C418's One is pretty great.
Adamantcheese··on Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
Another option, if your images are simple enough, is to use https://github.com/fogleman/primitive to convert it to SVG. Might not be worth the effort though as the space savings could be too insignificant to matter for the artifacts produced. Neat effect though for small amounts of shapes.
Adamantcheese··on We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air
A basic modular system with all the basic oscillators and filters you'd find in a standard VST plugin set will cost roughly 5 thousand if not more. It's a bit expensive really, but I suppose that's the cost of analog in a digital world. It might just be me and my reluctance to spend money but it seems like prices would be dropping for equipment if it was making as big of a comeback as it is, but prices seem to be relatively stable, sometimes more expensive as new small scale manufacturers come out with modules.
Adamantcheese··on 3 Reasons Why Replacing Microsoft Excel Is Worth Money to a Boss
Those would be great solutions but we're stuck on Excel 2007 and can't install any newer versions or basically any software because of IT reasons.
Adamantcheese··on We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air
I'm somewhat sad that modular synthesizers are so expensive, even semimodular standalone units. They're really fun pieces of equipment to play with.
Adamantcheese··on 3 Reasons Why Replacing Microsoft Excel Is Worth Money to a Boss
At my current workplace we have a few workbooks that need to be updated any time that our customer provides us with an update to them. Unfortunately they never tell us what changed so we have to go through and redo all the changes that we did previously and apply them to the new workbook. Then we have to test if we didn't mess something up in the migration and whatnot; all in all it takes upwards of a month between managerial overhead and the time it takes to actually figure out where something got messed up. And there's no good diff tool for excel documents which makes it incredibly frustrating to try and find what one cell might be wrong between a working document and an incorrect document. And then VBA for macros is basically impossible to understand because any googling for it returns results for every other version of VB with slight differences that don't work in Excel.
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?
Delete as many things as possible without breaking anything. Lots of crap tends to build up and nobody wants to keep lugging around several hundred megabytes of useless auto generated build garbage.
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you've used in the last week?
IBM's Rational Team Concert. I haven't used a worse version control system in my entire life.
Adamantcheese··on BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and Tron
Who uses BitTorrent anymore? There's a swath of other torrent clients out there that are superior to it.
Adamantcheese··on Ask HN: Tabletop RPGs for 7-8 Year-Olds
It's fairly straight forward at early levels and you don't have too many abilities to complicate calculations beyond the base game rules, which you should be able to lead them through if they have any problems. 5th Edition is far simplified from 4e or 3.5e that most people remember playing.
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