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This is partly a story about getting older & wiser, and partly a story about consuming entertainment vs creating it. Games do get less fun as you grow older, and it happens a little faster if you're in the industry and start to see the big picture clearly. And consuming things is always less fun and engaging that making things. It's the same difference between buying software and writing your own.

This article resonates with me because I have nearly the same story. I used to play a lot of games, and I worked in console game development for a decade on some reasonably big titles. The game design patterns are somewhat derivative, I witnessed the echo chamber myself. But FWIW, it's very hard to push the boundaries and end up with something people want to buy. The market likes familiar (derivative), with incremental changes.

These days, I have enough other things to do that games aren't a priority and I can't get involved in most games. It even stresses me out to think about trying to finish a game. Enough of my goals and the people in my life want my time that adding a game to the list takes away from something else I care more about.
I would recommend a Samsung Ativ Book (940X), which is excellent with Fedora, were it not for an infuriating issue where the trackpad stops working reliably. Closing it a reopening generally solves the issue, but if you use an external mouse, it will probably be fine.
Same here in Norway. 3 p.m. is klokke femten.
On the contrary, the theories of Freud, Jung, etc. may strive to place the study of human psychology into a larger context, but it is evolutionary psychology that actually accomplishes this task.

Right now, the field of psychology is replacing phrenology and faith healing with biochemistry. And, you know what, good riddance!
There's also some privacy and UX concerns with client certs. See http://www.browserauth.net/tls-client-authentication

Personally I'd love to see UAF or SQRL take off. Lots of potential there.
5 years ago 16GB was fine, 16GB is still fine now.

My prediction: In 5 years 16GB will be fine.

Why? Because RAM requirements passed from "We need more, it'll speed things up" to "We've got enough" a while back, and there just isn't much you can do with the extra. Once you're no longer space constrained it just ceases to move the needle.

I'm not defending Apple here, but generally it's hard to think of something that would require 32GB of ram that doesn't better belong on a server. Once you get to that kind of size you'll probably want ECC or stable uptime or other features you'll get on an actual server rather than a machine you turn on and off several times a day.
This is idiotic; it would actually have the same problem but worse: translating time to where the sun is relative to Earth. It's called false simplification; it looks easier on the surface but is actually more difficult for the person, just for some blog writer's own convenience.
I think you might mean SWIFT (wordlwide) or SEPA (euro area + other EU).

Forex typically means buying or selling currencies, not transferring money between parties.
I'm inclined to agree. The OP should have talked more with their friends to find out what kinds of experiences they wanted, before just blindly recommending their own favorite games.

Of course, the piece also reads as an advertisement for their new gaming studio the OP is building, so I think that figured into the narrative as well.
I've been procrastinating (for obvious reasons) sharing this for quite some time... but this seems like as good of a kick in the pants as any.

I wrote a bit of a short story about my shyness/social anxiety. Hope helps people understand what goes on in the brain when anxiety strikes: https://stories.wegnerdesign.com/how-i-party
Your objection would bear more credibility if you also raised equal objection to even stronger language used in anti-Perl posts on this thread.
> I can't do this on multiplayer campaigns. Those kids are way better than me, so much better than I can't get fun

This is failed design. I eventually gave up on Call of Duty because while the control and bite-sized (multiplayer) games were great, there were such fundamental flaws in skill matching and team-work that it was un-enjoyable once the novelty was gone.

I compare this to Overwatch and hope games will continue in this direction. Matchmaking is much more balanced and team-work is far more important. It still has a long way to go, especially in rooting out toxic players and making it easier to spontaneously group with players you like -- but its an improvement and hopefully a trend that will continue.
Just wait another 3 years, by then we'll all be talking about having 64gb as the default when debuts 16gb as the standard.
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Right, this is what I meant with local vs global, but you are correct, it even is better for some part of the locals and worse for the other.
Also a perl 5 refugee. We use python at work, and ended up using virtual environments all over place. (Basically, python scripts can download and install a chroot with a whole python package tree in it on first run). Perl 6 supports this sort of thing instead:

use Package=1.2.3;

So you have some hope of using the system perl without dll hell.
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Yep, I checked out at: "...rise of deep learning since 2013, more or less when Google’s X Lab developed a machine learning algorithm able to autonomously browse YouTube to identify the videos that contained cats".

First, this started in 2012. Second, it wasn't Google - it was when Krizhevsky et al published their seminal work. Realistically, Google was slow to adopt to GPUs at the time, which I understand even contributed to Prof Ng's departure. It was Baidu who launched the first large scale deep-learning based image search, well ahead of Google.

Google has certainly caught up, but nobody can say they started it (and be taken seriously).
I think the biggest problem Perl6 faces now is the perception that it is unfinished. This is mostly a problem of their own making. The language was in development for 15 years! In that time people got it drilled into their head that it wasn't done yet and likely would never be.

While this perception did hurt Perl5 it seems to have also hurt itself since reading this thread and seeing the number of people saying that it is "still in progress" or "still changing". This brings me to my second point, and the one that frustrates me more.

In fact Perl6 was released as stable 1.0 on Christmas of 2015. You could be excused for not noticing it. There were a few articles in a few technical journals in the months leading up tot he release but mostly the release day went by completely unnoticed and barely remarked upon.

Perl6 is a spectacular achievement! A language designed over the course of 15 years with the extreme flexibility and malleability to last 100 years more. This could have been a news story, a big release party, lots of hype, press releases. A language in the works for 15 years, it must be great right!?

Instead, to keep with an in-joke about "released by Christmas" it was released on Christmas day by developers who had family plans to a community that was busy with their own. I doubt many people know it happened. Indeed this thread seems proof of that.

Its not everyday that a 15 year project is completed. What an opportunity for exultation, and good press, wasted.
This feature was bound to go freemium: first make it free to build an infrastructure and have cars that need the charging stations then slowly ratchet up the pricing to make it another revenue center
Yep, that's the idea. Do you happen to know what price we'd need to stay under to price out 2/3rds of assets? $40? $30?

A carbon tax would really help here to start driving down demand more to try and drive down the price more.
5) You can't change the password (I guess they could include a counter, but then you need to remember or sync that.)
Those figures are right, the best batteries today are still like one percent as good as gasoline at storing energy. Although, you can only get about 20 percent of the energy out of gas while you can get about 90 percent out of a battery.
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If you could fit on one box, would you be better off using a sql database (assuming you knew you didn't need to scale beyond one box), or is a single node spark box faster?

Or does it depend on the scenario?
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Except the most successful economies in the last 40 years (Asian tigers) didn't do that - they chose to develop comparative advantage in industries such as shipping, electronics and pharmaceuticals.

Other countries that started off from a similar starting point (e.g Thailand) and "let the market handle it" ended up way behind.
Skyrim might be a poor choice for people of those interests, but what about games like the Sims? Is it true that the video game industry has not catered to audiences like the author's friends, or has it actually catered to them all along--but the the author didn't notice because she was too busy being involved in her own demographic (which, to be fair, has more than enough material to keep any person busy in such a way).

I really appreciated the tone and themes of growth she expressed in the article. But she seems to currently have a state of mind of "if I can't think of an example, it must not exist", and not one of "if I can't think of an example, I must not have encountered one yet". In terms of understanding and perspective, you can tell she came a long way; but she still has a ways to go, too.
16GB is not fine in many cases. Just a VM (Say cloudera) and chrome with several tabs is enough to slow things.
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Nice polemic piece. Only goes to show that people don't know what huge variety of game experiences there are out there.

And also, we need to move away from the idea that some games or genres are objectively better or more interesting than others. It's all relative to the audience - some people have a stronger reaction to some experiences than to others, and will seek out different things.

Nick Yee has been doing excellent, data driven research on the interaction between player preferences, game types, and personality types - there's some intro material from his gdc talk on their web site: http://quanticfoundry.com/gdc/
One of the benefits of being a developer is being able to develop from anywhere. If you're unable to take advantage of this, you're seriously missing out on one of the best perks IMHO.
But the Kaby Lake processors that Apple wants to use (with a good integrated GPU) are not shipping yet. Also, there will not be a version of this processor with support for 32G ram until Coffee Lake apparently. Apple has decided to use this one line of processors and Intel failed to deliver a suitable one in time. Of course since this is the only new machine people naturally think that this is their only option. Hopefully Apple will release new desktop computers soon.
> Of course, it's stationary

You answered your own question. I need a machine that is portable that I can hook up to multiple monitors at home and at work, and that I can use on the go for meetings, customer visits, etc.

How the hell will an iMac help me there?
Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but try playing The Walking Dead.

Not very demanding on time, and it's not about killing zombies.

Very story oriented, and you get attached to the characters in the game.

I myself abandoned games over a decade ago - they just required too much from me. Only recently I decided to check some games out from the library. Not sure why I picked this one to play and was very pleasantly surprised.
It was just visual pollution for the people not using the computer. A public disservice. Would you like it, if i walked around and shine a flashlight randomly into your face?

It however also was a good way to separate polite people from the more mindless ones, depending on wether or not they put a sticker or other obstruction on it.
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It's statements like this that have kept me from ever learning _anything_ in Javascript...
Ah, yes. I remember how that was a major problem under literally every leftist regime ever tried, and has never been a problem under even one capitalist regime.

I'm certainly enjoying the glorious capitalist utopia we live in today, where perfect market competition has eliminated all the old woes of human life! Why, if I can afford the loan payments, I won't even have to die of old age! /s
Are you implying that gaming was not an industry in the times of Amiga? The whole point of insane difficulty of many 8bit coin-op games, which was mindlessly translated to home consoles, was precisely to get as many nickels out of the player as possible. Back then, pay to win was the main monetization scheme, and everybody's having nostalgia for those games now.
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As an owner of a mid-2014 Macbook Pro who is tired of the trackpad clicker clicking itself when the case is warped even a quarter of a millimeter (such as on my... lap... it's a laptop, after all), I appreciate the new solid-state trackpad taken from the Macbook.
3% minus inflation of 0.6% that would be 2.4% of £3000, which is £72 a year, which gives £6 a month. Is it worth the hassle?
Yes. You can open a bank account in Estonia online, without ever going to that country.

https://1office.co/estonia/blog/opening-estonian-bank-accoun...
Sure. I'll give those a try tonight. I assume if it works in `ffplay` directly, there's no need to submit it?
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And hopefully trackpad that is just as good.
Really? In western countries, rape, molestation and catcalling is generally frowned upon.

You have a term for it - "eve teasing".

Also, you guys tend to have a big slant towards victim shaming - no decent woman will get raped. This is generally in the countryside.

In the big cities, many countries have issued travel advisories because of rape to avoid India for female travelers.

So yes, there is a qualitative difference between Indian rape and western rape. Don't muddy the waters with other matters of sexual misconduct. We're talking about India here.
That's what apple wants you to do, buy a macbook and iMac. Apple had the competitive laptop edge for a long time but now they've lost it to dell, samsung, and hp.
I use two old computers at home, one has 3GB of RAM and I have recently upgraded the other to 8 (from 4). Both are running fine. I use both for development.

Unless some radical shift happens then I think 16GB will be completely fine in 5 years.
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How so? If the entire directory structure is also encrypted then no program can easily know which sites or services I have passwords for.
You should look at Jonathan Goldsmith's appearance on Charlie Rose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmOkaKh3-s

Free Trade is not always good, and he correctly predicts that the global movement of capital will disrupt the current agreement between capital and labor that served the West so well. Donald Trump is wrong on many issues, but this is not one of them as far as I can tell. There a religiosity to the argument that free trade is "always good", even though high performing Asian economies are somewhat protective.

Economics at its current understanding is almost like a religion of capitalism. It has little to do with actual economic behaviour and has very little predictive power. That's why we keep having crises. Look into the work of anthropologists and behavioural economists to see the reality of how humans actually behave and what that means for "classical economics". Basically, most of it is bunk, all the way down to Adam Smith.

One of the best references I've read on this so far is

"Debt the first 5000 years"

"How Asia Works"

On behavioural economics, there's studies coming out all the time. The evidence is piling up that little of what economists have said makes sense. They've deducted general guidelines that sort of work at the macro scale, but their fundamentals are mostly wrong.
> 16 GB of ram as the bare minimum for web development

Pretty sure you need that much just to resolve the npm dependency tree for many projects these days.
This is a sincere question: what do people need with 32 GB of RAM on a dev laptop?

I work on an MBA 11" with 8GB and I'm using Parallels to run Visual Studio 2015 for a work related project (100k+ C#/C++ codebase). Other than that work I do some Haskell and C++ work locally. It chugs along just fine and I don't feel like I'm hurting with it compared to compiling on my dev box at work.

Are people just spinning up a lot of VMs? I've got a beefy box at work for when I need to do heavy lifting because I value battery life on the laptop over doing it locally. Additionally, I like the static context - work on code at work ok beefy workstation then go home and remote in if I still have more to do.

TL;DR: what are people's use cases for 32gb on a laptop if you're a developer? Why not remote into big box?
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It will kill it by exploding to its face ? j/k
"Who would ever need more than 16KB/MB/GB...."

It's not a question of whether 16GB is sufficient. It's a question of whether 16GB is an reasonable maximum for a "Pro" machine.

OK, forget about expansion and maybe adding 16GB RAM and a few more TB of flash in a couple years. Clearly that ship has sailed.

But 16GB RAM is the absolute minimum I would buy with a new machine today. For that to be the Pro's maximum is wrong.
OK while I am a big fan of multiple bank accounts (I have three, all for different purposes) this advice is total overkill and inappropriate for anyone who isn't financially stable, which unfortunately, is half of Americans. Two different countries? No thanks, I'm not screwing with that nightmare. I'd like to keep my money in the form of US dollars, I have no need for foreign currency and I don't want to waste money converting to and from different currencies. Most people that I know lack the discipline to manage multiple accounts at multiple institutions.

Credit cards are great for some but inappropriate for others who lack discipline or funds. Keep in mind you spend more when using plastic over cash as well. [1]

No advice is one sized fits all.

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/credit-cards-ma...
"Sure you'll find exceptions, but they're nowhere near the mainstream,"

It's important to be clear whether one is describing gaming as a whole, or "mainstream" gaming. Many criticisms of mainstream gaming don't apply to "gaming" as a whole, which includes things like a visual novel community, hidden object games, and the "walking simulators" that have almost no presence in the mainstream but definitely exist. They have almost no discoverability, being buried under games with advertising budgets an order of magnitude larger than what those games will make in revenue (let alone profit), but they exist.

So when you say something like "we need to step out of what we consider games and try to think of a different audience who wants a new kind of experience with attributes, such as depth or relatability", it's easy for those who already have to perceive that as a bit of an insult. "We" may not be as encompassing as you or the original author think it is, and some people may resent being categorized into that "we".
There is no magsafe to usb-c adapter which makes the power adapter coming from my Apple Thunderbolt display unusable.

- have to buy a new power adapter so I don't have to carry one to work and I am still left with an unused wire appendix from the display

- have to buy a Thunderbolt to USB-C adapter for the display

- have to buy a new cable to connect iphone or USB stick, HDD, etc. to the laptop

- have to pay the premium for the touch bar although most of the time I use the machine it is closed and connected to my display and keyboard

- I can not connect the headphones from iphone 7 because of the missing lightning connector

Hopefully they will realize how broken this is now for existing users and fix some of this nonsense next year.
Android Studio becomes unbearable once it starts garbage collecting, which invariably happens while typing code and code completion kicks in, yanking you out of the flow. It is the one piece of software I would give 64 GB to last a day without a GC pause. JetBrains should sell hardware that is fast enough to run their software. I've also run into similar pauses on Xcode unfortunately.
It's actually not baffling.

Cities want more offices and less housing because housing requires costly services that aren't covered by property taxes, especially if it's high-density rental housing which rarely changes owners. Remember, parcel taxes are assessed per parcel, not per unit. A 1000 unit for-sale condo complex generates 1000 parcel taxes. A 1000 unit rental complex on the same parcel generates 1 parcel tax. And the apartment owner lobby (CAA) fights successfully to keep this system in place.

Cities like retail because of the sales tax revenue, but developers don't like it because retail is less profitable than commercial office or rental housing.

Anytime something seems obvious, there is probably a good reason why there's more to it than meets the eye.

Solving these issues is so hard because the developers have the money to lobby legislators to avoid any solution that would impact them financially.
Wow the landing rate is similar to ValueJet too

"The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Atlanta field office sent a memo on February 14, 1996, to Washington, D.C., stating that 'consideration should be given to an immediate FAR 121 re-certification of this airline' - in other words, the FAA wanted ValuJet grounded.
ValuJet airplanes made 15 emergency landings in 1994, 57 in 1995, and 57 from January through May 1996."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Airlines
It's worth calling out - the author is at least partially using this piece to highlight the value of their own new game development studio. This colors a lot of the piece in a very different light.

> At my studio we are making games with people who don't like video games because we want to break out of established paradigms.

There are a lot of games out there, more than enough to fill any niche you could possibly want to fill. The trick is that they aren't all made by Bethesda, Activision, or EA. If you really want to get your friends interested in videogames, listen to their interests (something that the OP didn't seem to do, for all that they're starting their own studio) and point them at games that cater to their interests, not your own.
Surface (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-book...):

128GB/Intel® Core™ i5-8GB- $1,499

With tax the price comes to 1650. (I do realize its touch screen) Is M$FT trying the Apple's path?
That's not important, the batteries also explode if you take them over about 4.2v, you can stack them up to get the desired system voltage.
I will just point out for the benefit of those who run Emacs and haven't yet discovered it, that in calendar mode, "p f" will tell you, for example, that November 7, 2016 is 17 Brumaire, year 225 of the revolution.
What's wrong with something like Lastpass?
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