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enjoy the next 7 years, kiddo!
Compare with the film industry, which is heavily unionised; there are often dreadful hours for people working on films, but there is generally suitable overtime and so on.

None of this exists in videogames.
If I hire them to fix my roof and they leave a huge hole in it, I am expected to sue them and wait for a few years to recoup my losses (while having a huge hole in the roof).

I think I prefer the coding test.
Two problems with the current state of news coverage:

1. For better or worse, English media are considered global media, because English is the de facto lingua franca. Things which are covered in English media reach global audience, while those which are not never travel outside of the local region they were reported in. New York Times does not just cover New York news, or Washington Post Washington's. They are international publications serving an international audience.

2. Because of the lopsided news coverage, many have developed a lopsided view of the state of the world. These people then elect leaders and support policies based on these views, and these have far-reaching consequences for the entire world, not just the electorate.

For example, during the refugee crisis many in US and Canada were complaining about accepting so many refugees, saying that the numbers are ridiculous and the politicians who support it are out of touch, that the countries could not possibly afford hosting so many refugees. They complained about US and Canada taking so much of burden of the refugee crisis and questioned why the countries in the region don't do more, instead of sending people thousands of kilometres to live in a faraway country.

In reality, US and Canada were not doing that much. They each admit less than 50,000 refugees per year. Meanwhile, Lebanon, a small country of about 5 million people, have already accepted 2.5 million Syrian and Palestinian refugees. Meaning that a third of the country's population are now refugees.

People don't have a clear view of the state of the world, because the media presents a lopsided view. It is not without merit to try to present a more well-rounded view.
Maybe similar to the startups world too? Super long hours, not much pay, minimal chance of payoff, infinite supply of people who want to do it. The desired result is financial freedom, whereas perhaps in videogames the desired result is creative freedom.

Also yes, anything that seems glamorous has too much supply and not enough demand, so you end up with these skewed power dynamics. Pick a job that maybe pays ok but is super unglamorous, and I doubt you'll see the same practices
When the President himself is a known racist who barred blacks from his properties, and when people are using violence to keep symbols of black oppression, the NAACP does not have to fight to stay relevant.
> The video game industry is especially bad as it combines
> the bad aspects of the entertainment industry with the
> bad aspects of software development.

Another corner of the world where those two collide is the visual effects side of film production. What you see there mirrors the game industry to a tee: tons of overtime, high stress, low pay, studios constantly folding, and a never-ending stream of young hungry creative people waiting for their turn.
> I think we're at one of the most important points in time. USA & China, under two diametrically different systems have been able to grow extremely large economically - that means more data points to understand how to modernize other parts of the world.

It seems to me that China is following the framework that the US has set to become a superpower.

Politics: When the US was developing, only rich, educated white men could vote. In China right now, only those who are eligible to join the CCP can be involved in politics.

Slavery: While China doesn't have de facto slavery, their province/city registration system places migrants in extremely disadvantaged positions. As for the US, well, I'm sure we all know.

Protectionism & IP Theft: During the Industrial Revolution, the US was extremely active in stealing tech from Europe. And only when the US started to develop their own tech, did they start caring about intellectual property. This is also the case in Japan and South Korea, so I can see China following this path as well.

Other issues, like eminent domain, limitations on free speech, and violating the rights of individuals as long as it's in the national interest are things that a developing superpower does.

It was only after the US became a superpower, that we start to see a really big difference in the behavior of both nations.

Though I do agree that the rhetoric of both nations was vastly different from the start. The US always espoused American values, even if those privileges only applied to a subset of people. While China keeps on emphasizing a harmonious society, they really mean that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
He mentions that in the article.

I'll quote the relavant section at the end, but my when money is no object, you usually go by recommendation of friends. At that high of a premium, would you go to a team with good marketing copy, or somebody who has already moved your equally rich friend with superlative service?

FTA:

We considered our second option more seriously. High-end customers understood our value proposition, and we believe they would be willing to pay for it. But as we dug deeper, we realized turning Walnut into a premium service had too many challenges along the way.

The strategy would shrink the serviceable market, and we would also have to be excellent at finding a smaller customer base at the exact moment they’re looking for movers. Even if we solved the marketing challenges, our moving service would also have to meet new, higher expectations. Our concern was whether we could ever deliver enough value in this compulsory experience to justify the substantially higher price.
The use of read barriers are exactly the same technique that Azul does with Zing, it’s “pauseless” GC.

This allows for concurrent heap compaction, at the cost of throughput.

Azul used to sell commercial “java machines”, with hardware support for the barriers.
It's not like people who work in the video games industry do not have the skills to do something else if they wish to. What the article fails to mention completely is that most people in the VG industry actually want to be there in the first place, despite knowing and experiencing all this.
I keep my coins in there - keeps the size of my wallet down.
> They built a system that does this at scale

That is very easy to do, but

> They built a system that does this at scale and delivers good results

Still hasn't been done.
> The iconography of the floppy disk as 'save to disk' icon probably won't last much longer mind you.

What do you think will replace it? Or are you talking about the idea of an explicit ‘save’ step largely disappearing?
Really interesting. What other examples can you think of?
Note that NPR gets much of its funding from underwriting agreements (aka commercials). It's not accurate to describe NPR as "publicly funded."

Also, I think it is naive to claim that the NYT manages to achieve some holy grail of independence from its ownership. Remember that this is the organization that recently eliminated their fairly short-lived position of Public Editor.
Twitter will start labeling political ads
> The average American game developer earned $83,060 in 2013, according to a Gamasutra survey, or less than half the pay of a first-year associate at a New York law firm.

What kind of comparison is that? Most people in the world earn less than half of what a first-year associate at a NY Law Firm makes. So what? A proper comparison should be against similar professions, in the entertainment industry. Did the author do any research at all?
There are two, somewhat overlapping, problems here which apply to a lot of parts of the entertainment industry.

The first is that supply exceeds demand: "everyone wants to be" an artist. This is basically unfixable.

The second is the very skewed distribution of revenue: a few big names get hundreds of millions of people's money, everyone else doesn't come close. This doesn't have to be that way at all (remember the 2000s when everyone was talking about the "long tail"?), but it would be a huge cultural shift and it involves a long discussion about commercialism and entrenched interests.
Same with Manga artists in Japan.
Save logo will probably be phased out with a 'upload to cloud' logo
Walmart plans to deploy 100,000 Macs to save on employee PC costs
GOP definitely pushes identity politics, just the identies they claim to represent are frequently not actually oppressed or are the majority:

Some tropes:

* "Real" rural Americans vs city dwellers

* Oppressed Christians vs atheists and Muslims (despite both being a tiny minority nationally vs the majority Christians)

* blacks and Hispanics vs their majority white base

* College educated vs uneducated (somehow ignoring the party elite and backers frequently have elite educations)

* Gun owners vs everyone else

I cynically believe many people, including the GOP national leadership, realize these are much more manufactured than oppression faced by actual opressed minority groups. But stirring up culture wars provides a great smoke screen for their agenda while fracturing socially or racially what would otherwise be natural opposition to their policies among class lines.

See: GOP rallying the rural poor and elderly against ACA, despite the two groups being some of the biggest groups on Medicare/caid
I am tired of including jquery just because I use bootstrap when I have no use of jquery at all.

Is there something that can be done about this ?
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To hit on one of your issues, Apollo Client 2.0 now has decoupled cache management, meaning you can tune the cache to your specific use case.
Ah, a good source for unbiased, serious news -- the self-titled "comedian" John Oliver. Shall we find a rebuttal by Alex Jones?
Interesting that you called this a pandora problem. It seems you are suggesting you should just open pandora's box and release all the world's evils! Doesn't the fable imply the solution is keeping the box shut, not to open it as quickly as possible and just get used to the evil?
It is the failing of the free market. It happens in any industry in which the supply of people who want to work in the industry vastly outpaces the number of jobs available. If you are lucky, the industry might have a union like much of the film, TV, or professional sports industries. If you are unlucky you end up in the video game industry and have this article written about you.
I'm convinced that is partly a tactic like the milk and OK sign stuff. Partly serious and based on a real disagreement about hate speech, partly laughing at embracing something and watching everyone else decide that now they have to absolutely denounce it.

Then they do something like organize a campaign of complaints against leftist and vocal anti-alt-right Prof. Ciccariello-Maher at Drexel for his speech, get him put on leave, and laugh at the centrist and leftist rubes falling over themselves in confusion.
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oh, cellphones. When i read the title I imagined a gigantic pile of ancient dial phones made of Bakelite being burned to power the servers.
I wish companies cared about side-projects as qualifications for hiring. I send full projects and they never seem to peer into them when I query. I want them to look so we can have a discussion around them.

In the last 10 years I've built 40 web-apps and that doesn't include ~20 codebases of my own

I don't understand how you can be a programmer without having side-projects or at least contributions in open-source.

I end up contributing open source or creating my own libraries via work, so I'd still have things to show outside the scope of standard hours.

I can get not wanting to do CS algorithm puzzles in interviews since thats a specialized discipline rarely applicable to web-app development but this I can't get behind.
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Reminds me of an AvE video about DIY carbon foam.

- Making carbon foam https://youtu.be/Wex_yKfrTo4

- Bread bowl foundry https://youtu.be/L-qOIO6IQWk
Holiday hell: welcome to e-commerce.

Redesign, relaunch, rebuild, replatform, add vendors, remove vendors, deal with poorly built contracts that allow for shenanigans because no one in tech signed off on the deal you just made.

I think our whole industry is hell bent on consuming youth and self destruction. No one in tech is immune but some have it worse than others.
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> It seems that trying to be a writer, actor, game maker or a musician is incredible amounts of hard work and a small number of people do well and everyone else does badly.

I'm not sure the picture is so bleak financially for game developers. I mean, there's a ton more revenues in the video games industry and it's a growing industry with more and more gamers (mobile, console and PC alike). Then, there's the fame aspect "I worked on X game with this Mr Y superstar game designer" even if they only worked on a very tiny aspect of the said game. And there's the advantage of being IN the industry, the networks, the fact that you are the forehead of what's happening and there's literally tons of ways one can innovate even in "boring" AAA titles.
I really dislike this the west got to pollute while developing so other countries should be able to also mentality.

It's apple and oranges. People then didn't have technologies to choose like we do, didn't realise the impact of pollution, nor did things on the scale we are today.

Its cherry picking the bits the want for an economic advantage. If countries want to use the 'they polluted before' argument then they should go back to steam trains and gas lighting etc. Otherwise maybe the west will say look at what they did to get economic growth, now its our turn...

Sorry for the rant but I find this such a poor excuse. All countries should be held to better standards. We seem to forget a key component of capitalism is for the government to create a level playing field. And ability to pollute (or not) the enviroment should be a global tenant for all who engage in the open market.
It's too simplistic to bemoan the fall in quality due to Clear Channel gobbling up local radio stations.

I too miss all the unique local radio shows.

On the other hand, it was easy to buy many of them off. See these two examples:

1. LBJ and Lady Bird: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20...

2. Payola: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
I agree with this, the whole need for a portfolio for a back-office role is bizarre to me - no one who has asked for my github has asked me about them, they are much more interested in me talking through my work related projects.
I'd be interested in this for the ASX as well. I've just been using the basic tools that come with E-Trade (now ANZ Shares).

In particular, I'm most interested in dividend yields, and I would pay something to be able to backtest a dividend strategy that also took the RBA Reserve Bank Cash Rate as an input. (Probably a bad idea, but it's something I've been wanting to try out.)
I believe there's a relatively simple ssrMode flag in Apollo Client 2.0 that may help your use case here?
It's really interesting to compare Reddit and Twitter on these matters, because both were started by people who intended them to be free speech havens, even if that meant hosting some abhorrent (but legal) content.

As late as 2012 the one of Reddit's founders claimed the site was "a bastion of free speech",[1] but by 2015 the other founder modified this to "a place where open and honest discussion can happen."

It will be interesting to do some analysis and see which other subreddits the users in the banned subreddits migrate to. Often they remain active on the site but their activity becomes more coded (like how fatpeoplehate users ended up on holdmyfries).

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/reddit_cofounder_ut...
It's not. Zero based is wise for offsets (CS) and fields where you have a zero element, and a few corner cases like factorial, but by and large any time you're enumerating an order over a nonempty set you start with one in math, because, max(indices) = |set|
The 140 characters make sense — if you do textual analysis, the average sentence turns out to be around that number of characters.

The issue is that Twitter is seen as a medium of expression, but I don’t think it’s suppose to be a platform where people go in-depth with their thoughts; more for momentarily formed opinions, ideas, or announcements.

For publishment, people should be using something like Medium.
Sounds like working in Michelin starred restaurants.
welp, I'm wrong. So it goes. Better reading in the future. :-/

I'll just leave my comment above to not destroy the comment chain.
The problems extend to beyond the confines of game developers and publishers. It also doesn't help to have to contend with a deeply critical and particularly cheap audience and overly influential terrible game 'journalists'. Many of the customers, if you've ever played online, are downright abusive actually. The customers, many of whom are young and immature want everything for free. If publishers try to charge for anything at all, it's 'a rip off'. Even though game prices have remained the same for a couple of decades while games become vastly more complex (and hence more expensive to make).

Basically games are not valued. The only reason they even get made is because there's enough people who love making them without sweating about not having the best salary, and enough young people who keep coming in to replace the people who've finally decided they've had enough.
> Though electric cars don’t need cooling grilles – batteries don’t get as hot and they’re chilled in a different way – many have them anyway to avoid looking weird.

s/many/all the ass-backward archaic car companies/

Is Tesla is the only one that doesn’t have a grill?

I don’t know if my volt actually has openings but it does have the grill. Totally cool looking -_-
I’d say it’s even going backwards. Whoever made the decision to put other people’s likes in my timeline really increased the noise and showed a real lack of understanding between a like and retweet.
> It is the failing of the free market.

That's the opposite. It's exactly how a free market is supposed to work. When supply exceeds demand, you can fix any condition you want and you'll still get to fill your seats. If an industry loses attractiveness, they'll have to raise salaries, provide better working hours to retain employees.
I thought this part was interesting:

> More recently, Atlantic salmon have escaped fish farms in Washington by the thousands, apparently without gaining a finhold in the wild:

> * 1996: 107,000 fish swim free after an anchor line fails on a salmon farm

> * 1997: 369,000 fish escape while a salmon farm is towed away from a toxic algae bloom

> * 1999: 115,000 fish break loose from a net-pen during a strong tidal current
Does having to send items back bother you? I'm surprised by the popularity of these services. I always assumed people wouldn't want to go through the hassles of going to the post offices to return stuffs every time they order.
Good luck getting 10k same type instances from AWS
Reading blog posts like this this is kind of like listening to Usain Bolt talk about how to run fast. Step 1: be better than anyone else. Step 2: work crazy hard.
>>Long home coding challenge (for no pay of course)

There is a way to do this. But some people go a little too far.

Last years one start up asked me to write an entire backend application for them for free.
I never understood why people went into the gaming industry unless it was in a position where they did decision making and got credit.

Growing up in the 80/90is I remember thinking a place like Bioware or Black Isle/Troika would've been cool places to work, but as I reached adulthood and understood what went into working those places, the dream quickly faded.

Imagine having to work long hours at shit pay, to design/build some loot crate system. Especially when your skill set is in high-demand and you could've gone into something like healthcare IT, where you could be improving people's lives, at 37-45 hours a week at four times the pay.

I really don't mean to be rude, I just can't fathom the motivation you would have to work some anonymous job in the video gaming industry.
I often see the floppy disk image and think “WTF is that still doing there?”

I can’t imagine what my kids will think it is. My parents are completely confused by the power button. My mom thinks it’s a stick figure finger pushing a button.
The desired result is financial freedom, whereas perhaps in videogames the desired result is creative freedom.

Creative freedom is definitely nice and a goal of people in games. Both developers and designers go into it with the goal of making games and eventually making their games.

What you find out is, most game companies can only make a few people's games. It is the same in any creative industry.

This results in most developers, designers, artists going to work on their own games or at small to medium studios where they can have some input after 3-5+ years.

It is the same with entrepreneurs and any work/team really. You will get more shots at implementing things the way you want towards the market you want if you can control it, especially if it is your own or you control the funds.

Game studios and agencies are great to learn all the skills you need at a rapid pace and understand the amount of effort it takes, but eventually you will need to break off on your own or small teams to deliver the experience you want. Working at an agency or studio is a bit of an education or hardcore apprenticeship.

Most people that get to control creative and design decisions at large game companies had to do just that or make their own (or they put up the money) i.e. John Carmack, Tim Schafer, Tim Sweeney, nearly all mobile studios initially are small teams and either launch their own or subcontract for a label and on and on.