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brian hook

@HookTM

Analog and modular synth enthusiast. Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt.

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Joined January 2013
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You know what’s cool about Audiobook work vs Game Development? If somebody doesn’t like something about your audiobook, they knock a couple stars off the review and then... they just move on with their life. So great.
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Brian Sharp@bhsharp23 Jun 2018
Star Control 2 was a formative part of my youth and a brilliant game I still love. The creators need help fending off a frivolous lawsuit from a predatory publisher. I just donated - gf.me/u/jd53rk via @gofundme – at San Francisco, CA
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Smurdy@Smurdy425 Feb 2018
I'm looking for an experienced sound designer for my team at Oculus in Seattle!! Nuendo and wwise experience would be great to have. It's a contract position. Thanks!
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"Git is essentially a confusing movie about time travel and parallel dimensions—and then you have to put your source code in that movie."
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Wanna work on my team at Oculus? You: ✓ Coded 3D games on mobile chipsets ✓ Wield Unity or Unreal 1337 skillz ✓ Think deep abt #GameDesign
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@WIRED18 Apr 2017
Here's everything we know about Facebook Spaces, the app that promises to make VR more personal than ever bit.ly/2o02iUy #F8
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Video games are a great medium to explore moral choices, such as whether you want to do the one thing that will make the game progress,
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Dave Moore@dmmfix26 Mar 2017
Replying to @rygorous
It’s not a bad look.
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Retweet to thank @nytimes for calling a lie a lie and to encourage them to keep doing it.
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@Pinboard22 Jan 2017
For only $1,225, you can be scalded with hot water by Estonian hackers while your shower retweets Nazi propaganda: xitter.gq/businessinsider/status…
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@BusinessInsider22 Jan 2017
This app will start your shower for you in the morning

"U" by Moen app starts your shower for you

"U" by Moen is a connected shower that lets you start your shower from an app, set presets for your perfect temperature, and even set time limits on your shower.

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Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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//JNQ@JNQ_Prog25 Apr 2016
GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE
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research.swtch.com/version-s… – at Berlin, Germany
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Varun Nair@ntkeep9 Dec 2016
Audio jobs at Facebook. The sound design team is quite spectacular: intern.facebook.com/careers/… intern.facebook.com/careers/… intern.facebook.com/careers/…
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The CGA, EGA and VGA modes of Eye of the Beholder. Just Imagine being the kid that had to play in CGA while his friend had a VGA PC... D:
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Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment is Over by @ritholtz ritholtz.com/2016/12/seattle…
Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment is Over - The Big Picture

Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment is Over - The Big Picture

@TBPInvictus here: In light of a recent monthly release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), time for a quick trip to the glorious pacific northwest and the Seattle, WA area to revisit what’s...

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Chapter 1: Databases with cool-sounding names
Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues At Scale — Getting the wrong idea from that conference talk you attended

ALT Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues At Scale — Getting the wrong idea from that conference talk you attended

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Pawing through the tshirt drawer and wondering about the semiotics of covering ourselves in the carcasses of failed startups – at Brooklyn, NY
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FUN FACT: "Internet of Things" is the colloquial short form of the longer term "Internet of Things that should not be on the Internet".
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Heads, I win. Tails, this coin toss is rigged.
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