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Yeh I'm a girl I was into Neopets. But I never considered it a girl thing. What interested me about Neopets was that I flew to California when I was 13 (now 27) to visit my cousin (same age as me) and I followed her along to one of her routine babysitting jobs, two young Asian girls 8,10. I don't know if their parents were software developers, but they were extremely well off with a beautiful mansion in the hills of San Juan Capistrano.

Their girls were a fraction of my age but we're on Neopets opening up wen frameworks and coding and doing stuff I didn't understand at the time. I was amazed at what they could do.

I think the coolest thing about Neopets was it provided a real time economic system and allowed people to actually experiment with businesses and profit. Furthermore, it was not easy to be rich, and I traveled far and wide for rare items to resell. I would love to see a new game like Neopets come back again in a more mature fashion adults could get into, merely for an to engage in economic experimentation. I learned more about the hustle in Neopets than I did anywhere in school until I hit the real world after college.

About every three of four years I remember Neopets and check on Lara, she's on the brink of starvation but not quite dead yet, a small snack keeps her going for another few years. Really low maintenance pets on the whole.
A better comparison to John Oliver might be Sean Hannity or another relatively reality-bound pundit.
Scroll lock, break/pause and sys rq keys on keyboards come to mind. They technically still are used for stuff but typically not what they were originally for and they could easily be removed or renamed, but still most full sized keyboards have them.

Many, many things about computing apply, really, especially in operating systems and programming languages.
I wear Daily contacts, and I keep a spare pair in the pocket watch pocket of all my jeans. Super useful, especially if I crash at a friend's place over night.
I've lost track on how many consumer products Microsoft has abandoned over the years. Once they kill their Xbox and Surface lines their Enterprise transition will be complete.
We're using Apollo v1 and tried the upgrade to v2 a few weeks ago. It was hard and buggy to replicate what we had (subscriptions, batched requests, polling requests). We reverted to v1 in the end because if the bugs and the complexity.

What really hurts us in v1 is the error handling. When querying a collection of items, if 1 item has an error, only the error is returned with no payload.

Hopefully all of these will get resolved the coming months.
The best games are also the most addictive. At least many single player titles end sooner or later but online ones are endless.
Why not call it an audition?

Until we have established a name (track record) for ourselves, and/or have a number of respected people vouch for us, we are called on to demonstrate our skills, just as musicians and actors are.

In principle, I think this is reasonable, especially since there are reportedly many fakers and exaggerators applying for jobs.

In practice, it appears that there are so many shoddy auditions that we must endure when looking for a job, that it becomes almost a full-time waste of time. This is unreasonable, methinks.

The problem will become serious when nearly every company that is hiring runs a low-quality dog and pony show in which we must perform, or not be hired. We can already see an analogous issue in the ubiquitous presence of objectionable binding mandatory arbitration clauses in seemingly every contract we sign nowadays.
I've only ever heard people call them "coin pockets."
Japan is such an outlier in so many things, especially things involving care and precision, that I don't think it's reasonable to assume that things elsewhere can be similar. 6-year-olds take the subway alone in Japan, and it would be great if we could do that in the US, but most places, we can't.
> To put it another way, you wouldn't ask for the same income from, say, Pornhub, Phillip-Morris, Google, and Watsi.

Is this outlook shared by many people? I've never even considered altering my salary expectation based on the company.
Reminds me of MapSCII [1] that was posted here a few months back, which also uses braille characters for rendering.

[1] https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
I think your point is a little hard to discern. Who do you think educationally game programmers are more similar to: Manual laborers or Lawyers? Other than the regulation of the latter, I think it is clear they are more similar to lawyers. Serious game programming requires fairly extensive knowledge in multiple disciplines of computing particular graphics and rendering, AI, at least some basic algorithmic knowledge and competency with programming that is much more technical than "make yet another web app in a hipster JS framework," to just be honest it. There are many people in the game development industry with MS degrees and even some PhDs. This I think is more similar professional "status" than brick laying, I think.
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What corruption are you talking about? I abhor his policies, but I haven't heard of any bribery or other illegal practices.
The former one, maybe not. I'm sure lots of practices hire surgeons by looking at their record and not observing them actually doing a surgery. After all, it's the results that matter in the end.

The latter one, sure. Makes me wonder if we should call interviews as auditions.
Just to play devil's advocate, you could make a template for defining such wrappers. But then, it might just as well be built into the language for elimination of such boilerplate.
I recommend not playing those shitty games. There's so many good ones out there.
>we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people

That seems problematic. In isolation it reads well, but in practice, this is not good: for example, let's say you don't like what Slobodan Milosevic did (or let's say a new Slobodan or Mugabe or Basayev) can you now not hurl terrible things at them or people who would instantly carry out their crimes for them?

I don't see this working out well with that language. It's a very indiscriminate net.
It's easy to be cynical and claim that "crunch" is everywhere, but my subjective impression is that the better managed enterprise software companies have actually reduced crunch in recent years by applying agile development methodologies and continuous integration. That stuff actually works if you take it seriously and make it a core part of the organizational culture.
An anecdote, but I know of a factory that's had severely limited production for about a year due to pollution. The enforcement is ongoing. They do get away it breaking the rules a bit because the inspectors are corrupt, and there's some warning before they come but it's not a complete free-for-all.
Yeah, but this is a bit dramatic right? I mean, you can find many trivial stories on NYT or probably even more in the Washington Times; it doesn't mean these are garbage sources like the Inquirer.
> In many circles, Kotaku is largely regarded as a tabloid in video games.

In GamerGate circles, you mean?
I completely agree. My experience was exactly the same.

I also noticed that there were engineers that made a lot more than me because of seniority, but they weren't very good and didn't contribute proportionally. In some cases they were actually a drag on the system because they didn't want to stay current with tech. The transparent pay actually became a disincentive to work hard and a demotivator.

We also had some "class-warfare" type problems, especially with some of the technicians that had no prior experience and were straight out of high school. They were generally paid roughly double minimum wage, whereas engineers would get around triple to quadruple the minimum wage. They resented that, and it created conflict and discomfort in the workplace that otherwise would not have been.

Despite some of the benefits, the downsides were just too high. I like seeing "ranges" so you can get a feel for whether you're getting screwed, but not necessarily individual pay levels.
You can't design a game that is not a set of Skinner boxes stacked on each other.
Ah, a good source for snake oil and bullshit — the self-tilted...

Fuck it. You’re an idiot.

You can not like JO. Fine. But YOU are more like Fucktard Jones than JO. Because you just make shit up; at least JO does 30s worth of research before saying something.

Clearly, you don’t.

Off you fuck.
Who sold 10,000 plug-in vehicles last month? (Not Tesla, Nissan, or Chevy)
Personally, I would love to have a performance review where I received specific, actionable feedback based on quantifiable metrics. Usually it's "You need to improve in some unspecified way in this vaguely defined category of skills like 'Innovation.' Yea, do more 'Innovation' next year."
Normal person would not support monopolies. Shills do it for money or whatever other bribes they get. The whole process of monopolists controlling various branches of power is the prime example of corruption. Except in US, this corruption is legalized, under pretense that it's "free speech".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

When you get cases like this: http://stopthecap.com/2017/10/23/mich-lawmaker-seeks-ban-com...

you can observe it very clearly. Pai is even worse, because he isn't an elected official.
Money was the only thing that ever talked in government, the problem is that people have allowed the mandate to grow so outrageously that it's gotten out of hand. I love the original mission of the EPA, which was to do through regulation what was, owing to scale, not feasible in the courts: To assess tangible damage to the property of everyone downwind or downstream of you, and limit it at the source.

Every expansion of that mandate seriously perverts the whole institution, and allows them to justify basically any course of action through a vague mental framework, by means of a network of suggestible and mentally soft bureaucrats who want more than anything to keep their job, no matter how immoral the duties of their office are or have become.
Not just old people, but also less educated people... some might call them "rednecks". My brother, for example, still gets nearly all of his news from TV news and the newspaper. He has a flip-phone rather than a smart phone, and avoids the internet almost entirely (using it only for suppliers that require internet ordering).

He's relatively uneducated, having only a high school diploma (and he barely got that) but he's also quite successful, running a business doing specialized repairs to heavy construction equipment with a revenue over a million dollars/year.

And he's a die-hard republican who thinks Trump is just what this country needs.
There is a problem with the mystic rational consumer, because theories assume that core goal of every market participant is to increase value. Taking actions toward increasing property value are only rational with intention to put the property into market. Without such intentions (e.g. owner plans to spend the rest of their days there) owner's interest is in keeping the property (and the neighborhood) as it is, maybe even decreasing real value.

While increasing property value may seem rational to probably the majority, but given certain circumstances, preferences and goals the opposite can be easily argued to be rational. With modern metropolis lifestyle of changing home every some years based on workplace location, family size, etc. one is always in the market and increased real property value is quite favorable economically. For some groups changes in property value are seen as irrelevant in face of non-economic values.
I've been in an out of the games industry most my career. I was one of the OS developers for the 3DO, the original PSX, as well as lead or team for 15 years from 1990 on. Years before "EA Spouse" I tried and failed to get some type of collective effort against the rampant, illegal employee abuse. The collective game developer brainwash is thick, and their treatment is 100 times more abusive than the sexual harassment the larger public is currently outraged about.

After leaving games, I thought VFX was going to be less abusive. I spent 7 years doing that; artist, programmer & financial analyst. VFX was only better in the respect that the pay and perks were better. Were. Film VFX is mostly overseas or Canada now.

I'm in facial recognition now. It is still just exiting the "computer scientist" stage, not at that "Crappy AI College" level yet.

Until younger people get some type of collective sense of their abuse, it will continue. Everywhere.
Not sure what an "ass comparison" is. I didn't argue that there isn't a correlation (never used that word) but correlation != causation.

In case it's not clear, I really doubt that Twitter being an also ran has to do with a culture of laziness. If anything my impression was that they overengineered without making any real product changes.
> Culebra is only open one week a year from when I checked last year

In 2017, it was open for dates in June and July you could reserve in June and July. Normally, it's also opened in August, but they've closed it for wildlife reasons. But this is a different situation than what the fine article is about - Culebra Peak isn't public land blocked by private land; it's just private land itself. It's been private land before the National Forest and the Dept. of the Interior were a thing.

Access to Mt. Democrat/etc has been open since 2012. Only Bross remains closed. The closure in total is a sign saying, "summit closed". Again, different from the article where private land is blocking public access.

Many other 14ers are actually on private land, but access is not limited. Lindsey is one example - it resides almost completely in the Trinchera Ranch, which was just sold. But there is a conservation easement to Colorado Open Lands as part of the sale of the ranch - you can't develop on the land, and access to the summit is allowed from the Huerfano Valley.

Mt. Shavano's summit is also on private land as well, but the mining claim was bought recently by the CFI, and will be transferred to the NF soon.

http://www.14ers.org/mount-shavano-private-lands-acquisition...

From my experiences, easy access of public land is actually really good in Colorado. I'm sure there are issues, but they seem at least to me minimal in most of the popular areas, like 14ers.
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Sorry, but laziness and waste is rampant in the corporate world as well.
Seems pretty much like India.

Same issues. I think that will be with any country aiming for a very high rate of growth. Rapid progress is often chaotic.
> Why can't all the above be true for a child if they consent to it or if their parents consent to it?

Children are not considered in most countries to be able to make decisions regarding employment until they are 16 or more. That's why - a question of assumed maturity and ability to make judgments over longer term vs short term benefits.

> Why can I hire a adult for $3 per hour if we both consent to it?

Personally I don't see a problem with that - if for that adult that means 3 dollar additional benefit per hour versus nothing, it's really up to them. But in a proper marketplace companies compete for people and salaries tend to rise by themselves way about 3 dollars per hour. Look at Switzerland, a country that has no minimum wage Law, yet has the highest salaries in Europe, even for jobs requiring only low qualifications.
This is an dangerously simplistic analysis.

The world doesn't divide into "innovators" on one side and "copycats" on the other side. It would certainly be convenient, but it's simply not the case, especially when it comes to developing software.

How would you call a company developing a smartly enhanced version of their competitor's product? A "copinovator"?

And by the way: I don't see why anyone would want "higher prices for software" (which seems to be one of your goals).

This only looks good if you narrow your vision down to the software you're trying to sell, ignoring the incredibly larger amount of third-party software you're already paying for.
Modern humans may have been around for nearly twice as long
I think that this is sort of missing part of the comparison in that it's meant to compare similar highly demanding jobs which require a specialized education. While labor is incredibly important and I respect the hard work, it's a different skillset entirely that doesn't have the same prequisetes. I would suggest the comparison is between professions with the same demanding hours and same demanding prequisetes, not just the hours. It's not to diminish other jobs with long hours, it's just they're not the focus of the comparison.

(To further elaborate, my very first job was picking flat stone at a quarry, since it was popular for home gardens at the time and machines couldn't get the stones easily without breaking them. Long hours of hard work in the dirt and mud plus many split knuckles and crushed fingers. Still, I was able to do it as a 15 year old unsupervised and with no training. It was useful and hard work, but not really the same as the IT I do now, the majority of which is watching progress bars.)
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That's part of the will of the people. Their will is influenced by those parties you identified but it's still their will. It's like saying Christians go to church against their will because because their parents brainwashed them when they were children, and them in turn back many generations to a time when it was done for the political power of extremely wealthy people.

If Americans didn't want lobbyists or dishonest news, they would vote to ban lobbyists and not watch the dishonest news. But they choose to keep those things in a kind of self-reinforcing feedback loop.
> their treatment is 100 times more abusive than the sexual harassment the larger public is currently outraged about.

Spreading divisiveness between different groups of abused workers helps no one. They're both real, pervasive problems.
Sean Hannity is your example of a reality-bound pundit? Your standards must not be very high.
Sure. But you seem to be approaching interviews as a one way street like, "I hold this thing here which I will give it to you if I deem you worthy". That is not how things work these days in tech, especially in hot markets. If you are not willing to carve out time there are plenty others who will. Sorry dude, just the reality of the rare market situation where the power is balanced between companies and talent.
Yeah, I have been a bit surprised. There is much more skill and knowledge involved here than in churning out ReactJS interfaces. There's a lot of looking down at game developers, I think by "programmers" that tend to try to follow these crazes like "machine learning everywhere" but wouldn't even know basic linear algebra.
It looks like you're better off contributing to or modding FOSS games for free on your free time. At least you get positive direct feedback from the players when you do something people like.
> When I get home I play video games and watch tv and play with my dog. sometimes I'll screw around with a new language or something else. I don't post stuff on github and keep a blog or anything else like that.

Presumably you also don't think people should stop thinking side projects and public code is important in hiring. You've made a choice to not have these things and asking the world to change one of the few sane things in hiring because you just don't fit the mold is a whole other story than just accepting that this is something you lack that could potentially sway an employer.

As another comment said: You can't win 'em all.

By chance, I happened to have a pretty productive few years on GitHub and having no degree I still managed to land the first job I went to interview for, in part because of my GitHub profile. Am I "for" the current situation because it benefited me at the time? No, because I think it's a clearer indicator that a colleague won't be a nightmare to work with than a degree or if he can implement the correct data structure on a whiteboard.
Sad that The Witcher 3 is such a phenomenal title, yet it caused so much misery in the making. Are there examples of extremely successful games that were made in a boring 9 to 5 fashion?
ET on the Atari 2600?
It's always funny reading this stories when you remember all the land was stolen from the natives. One thief bickering with the other.
China's also been said to be an unstoppable juggernaut that will rule the world for the next century by western media.

Funny, that.
Awesome! Not requiring a browser/web client changes the game.
I rely on my mail application for quite a bunch of workflows, so it's nice to finally see this integration happen.
The author had the universe of salaries to choose from and chose ... lawyers. And not nationwide, but lawyers in literally the highest (or very close) paid market in the world. A comparison to Hollywood union rates would have been much more logical and probably still supported the writer's thesis.

So, yes, I think it fair to call it a lazy comparison and criticize the author for that point. Even if it doesn't really undermine any of the other well known issues with the field.

The other reason the comparison is so flawed is the education requirements for lawyers in that market and the enormous debt usually incurred in getting there. (These characteristics are not unique to lawyers, but are not totally shared with game devs.) Large NYC firms will only hire from a dozen or so law schools and those schools accept students from relatively small pool of mostly pricey undergrads. Without scholarships or aid, you're looking at $2-350,000 in student loans over the 7 years of school. Then you generally don't work for 6 months after graduation in order to study for the bar exam because you didn't expect $300k to teach you that stuff did you?
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> It's free and you won't loose a minute again :-)

Unless the sites password policy won’t accept it..
Okay. It sounds like, perhaps, you have something of an addictive personality and can't safely play video games at all? I'm sorry about that, and I'm glad you were able to get out of it, but that's not the universal experience.
For the first many years, I was this way (considering coding as a job and a hobby). I guess it still is in many ways, but as I've gotten older I've started to feel the burnout more. If I spend my weekend doing anything on my computer, I feel it on Monday and just want to do something different.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a bit part of it was just contrarianism to the "arrogant liberal elite". If people stopped being so forceful (even to the point of dishonesty) in their global warming demands, maybe it woudln't have become a divisive issue and people would make up their minds more independely of their political position.
It's also the reason unions formed and labor laws were passed.
enum→string I agree 100% is useful for debugging. string→enum, and enum→string for production purposes I find questionable, since they couple your implementation internals to an externally-visible protocol, of which a change in one should not necessitate a change in the other. Of course relying on an implicit mapping speeds initial development… but I'm the one who has to maintain those things ;)
And before games, software, the web, apps and "entrepreneurship", boys were sold to become rock stars or athletes and women we sold to become wives. Sounds silly, but that is actually true.