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That was my experience too. When I was a teenager and attending college, I invested hundreds of hours learning how to make video games, on top of years I'd invested during high school.

My teachers strongly discouraged me.

It took me about 6-8 years to realize that my teacher were right, and writing software for banks is a lot more satisfying than working for Electronic Arts.
This is becoming a real problem IMHO. Asking me to do 3 to 4 hours of work on a "test" just to get to a real interview is a big ask. I do it because I have to; but as my time has gotten more valuable I've started just politely refusing and thanking the recruiter for reaching out. I have a ton of stuff on github that I'd much rather talk about.
Thank you. This is the first time I heard about ROCm.

I sincerely wish that ROCm adoption takes off - been a AMD / ATI fanboy - so have been wanting to see AMD make a great dent.

Any numbers / etc to get more info on adoption of ROCm? Are there any specific usecases where ROCm well suited / performs on par / or above par cuda?
The timing is so precise this isn’t a huge issue.
I use the File Commander Android app. It has a great feature where it starts up a web server hosting a file explorer like interface of your phone, where you can download, upload, delete, move and such.

Works surprisingly well.
> Having something means you are probably healthier, less likely to be burned out and more likely to have experiences that let you better understand what solves real customer/client/user problems.

I didn't learn to write code until my late twenties. I have a fine arts degree. My early and mid twenties were focused on activities unrelated to technology. I have a reasonably large amount of life experience unrelated to programming. I haven't found that this experience gives me an edge in solving problems in my job as a programmer. Can you provide concrete examples that demonstrate this idea that people who code less outside of work are more effective problem solvers? I've seen this truism floating around quite a bit lately but have yet to see it demonstrated.
I've found non-https archive.org (!) to be blocked in India on a government ISP.

Interestingly it seems to depend on the ISP used. Same site worked fine on a mobile connection.
Not intended to be divisive. Simply pointing out the severity.
Agree and huge point to make. Having to constantly acquire new customers instead of being able to grow existing Customers is very difficult.
Years ago, I was contacted by a person who was very upset I "published" his name in connection with a domain name.

It was information I obtained from "whois".

I also wonder how many people are unaware that many counties in the US make property records available over the Internet. It is, after all, public information.
I see the point, but some of these tests can take several hours or longer to complete. I think they shoot themselvess in the foot a bit because many of the really good devs won't waste their time with that. My evidence is all purely anecdotal, however.
American corporations are destroying their workers. Most companies do not care about their employees. There are some that do, many that claim they do, and more that give it lip service. Most Americans are overworked, underpaid, and don’t get enough time off. We need to change the system so it works for us, not the other way around.
There are multiple differing definitions of "good driver" (speed vs safety vs comfort). It is not just people being overconfident.
Sheesh, I'd love this. I wanted to use Quicken, but it seems that it requires some sort of "external data access/storage".
I’d be surprised to find someone who doesn’t adjust compensation requirements based on the full context of the opportunity.

If a person starts a company and foregoes the full salary they could otherwise earn, they are making this kind of choice.

If a person is looking at two otherwise equal offers for similar work at Pornhub or Google, it is hard to imagine taking the pornhub offer without a significant risk premium. You couldn’t get me to work at such company for any amount of compensation.

Just about everyone I’ve met will discount the products and services for things they believe are a good cause. I once worked at a nonprofit focused on low income kids, and experienced professionals (lawyers, engineers, accountants, others) would contribute significant time at steeply discounted rates or for free.

The value of a compensation package is unique to the individual. There is no way to compare two people in the full context of their individual desire for straight salary, risk in the form of stock or options, scope of influence, prestige of the firm, rarity of type of work, work hours, flexibility of hours, retirement and health benefits, culture, geography, and on and on and on.
"They may gaze with envy at their colleagues in the film industry, where unions help regulate hours and ensure overtime pay."

Why gaze with envy when you could organize instead?
I don't think their point is divisive unless you're already primed to be picking a pointless fight. It's just a way to anchor the level of abuse to something are already familiar with and passionate about, without having to give a detailed description of said abuses
Every one of those icons is a human life lost to a terrorist attack. This is both a tragedy without compare to family and neighbourhood, and one of the most appalling events in our modern world (people being murdered indiscriminately to further political aims).

Trying to convey that weight is entirely the point of the infographic.
Would it also follow that the "best" drugs are the most addictive?
Ahh. The book that supposedly kicked off “Operation Sundevil”.

What if I told you that there might have been a different GURPS book that was the real cause?
> They’re working hard and deploying tremendous skill.

The same can be said to folks making furniture. Yet they don't get paid like lawyers, even though their job is highly technical and skilled as well.

Can we stop using only 2 variables to compare how much people should be paid? It's not like the reality is not a little more complex.
People don't end up in the video games industry because they're unlucky. It's not like you can lose a poker game and be condemned to a life working for EA.
>, but the efficiency of a road (or any transport method) is not, and should not, be the density of vehicles able to be contained on it.

Great! Then you will not ever point to parking space to claim that cars are inefficient, and will join me in calling out people that do?

>at the very least you first need to understand the notion of throughput rather than vehicle density

Yes! And although a road packed with buses has higher throughput than a road packed with cars, in practice our choice is between a road packed with cars and a road which sees a bus every 10-20 minutes. Since each bus has 8800 feet to itself to carry 45 passengers, each passenger can actually have 195 feet to themselves at breakeven. The bus route with realistic headways has much lower throughput than heavy private car traffic. Although I agree, it would be nice to see wall-to-wall buses with multiple buses stopping per minute.

(Obviously all of this is crude since at some point stopping and starting at red lights, and waiting for pedestrians before turning, becomes a major concern).
I have seen great performers underpaid, because they sucked at negotiation and were humble.
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Thank you for the response. I was unaware of the firewall concept. That does make what Sinclair is doing hypocritical, assuming that they claim to have a firewall (which the media should strive for).
You are assuming that most grad students aim to be a professor, you have any data to back it up? Since that has not been my experience at all.
This is like a doctor saying "It's funny the medical industry is so insistent on medical licenses. I mean - would you hire a software engineer based on their 'license'...".

Different things are different.
> The best games are also the most addictive

Pft says who? Few of my favorite games can be described as addictive. You can't simultaneously make the argument that "addictiveness" in the sense you're using it is bad, and then quickly switch word senses to claim its a requirement for very good games.
I don't know about industry wide, but I do know colleagues who went from gaming to other ("corporate programming") jobs, even non-profits, and got a boost in pay.

Game shops chew up their employees and spit them out, mainly because there is no end in sight to the number of young, naive people willing to take any kind of abuse for the prospect of having their name in the credits of a game.
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I hope we can cure treatment-resistant depression of genetic origin with this.
> The same can be said to folks making furniture

Certainly not if “skill” is defined within the context of supply and demand, i.e. scarcity. (If it isn’t, it’s identical to “hard work.”)
Sure, this is a useful distinction.

There are also multiple definitions of "good developer" (speed/output level vs maintainability vs project definition and architectural influence vs firefighting vs...).

That doesn't mean they're all what a company needs at a given time. This leads to another way you end up in hard managerial conversations: you're good at X, but the business has changed and Y is driving our bottom line much more than X now, but you have no interest in Y and are resentful that you aren't being rewarded as handsomely for X anymore. What do you do if you're a manager who knows the odds of X being that important again in the future are very low (maybe there's enough structure in place now with automated testing and such that firefighting is way less critical than it was when small), but the one-time-star starts complaining that their raises have gotten smaller as they've resisted coaching/directional changes for the past year or two?

And if you're completely transparent with salaries, you've got an extra problem: this person could be higher paid than some of the people contributing the most right now, and explicit specific knowledge of that will just make even more people unhappy, if you aren't in a position to simply raise everyone's else's pay to match.

Representative ranges (with room for overlap for e.g. someone peaking at one level vs just starting at the next) give you many of the benefits with far less of the ego bruising. Generally you-as-employee can get a feel for what these are after a couple years even without it being explicit, IME.
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This is an excellent tool. Kudos for releasing it. The speed is the killer feature.

Please, oh please, don't include videos on the page in the future. Financial sites that include videos make the pages slow and difficult to get around.
Which 350 bytes of code is the title referring to? All files are larger than that. The resulting binary code maybe?
I’m curious to know what you think needs improvement with FFG SWRPG. I have my own views on the subject, but I would like to hear others.

Thanks!
I completely agree with this blog post, but every time I hear these sorts of things from Github it always begs the same question:

If you believe in open source so much, why is Github a closed-source product?

Many businesses, particularly SaaS businesses, have managed to be hugely profitable while making their code open source, so I don't accept the argument there.

And considering that the choices of many open source projects to host there and standardize on the Github ecosystem were a big factor in enabling GH to become what they are today, at some point I would feel an obligation.

It's their business and they can run it how they see fit, but it's something that has always bothered me.
This is how it appeared to me after a few years of mods and game prototypes. SAAS jobs pay the bills with a better life balance than what many game studios are offering.
I don't know enough about this subject to say if anything is wrong, but on every politicial subject that I knew about he was extremely misleading.

See: Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
That worked at GE largely because they were getting rid of the gold watch retirement crowd. That worked in the past as companies had people who worked there all life, and most of the time late in career they would come to work, do nothing all day and go home.

Jack Welch was simply doing long pending layoffs.
There was a hope, originally, back when we started that it would become something more than this crappy commercial combat masturbation. But, apparently and ultimately, this is what the market wants.
We were going to do this for a big new hospital in Melbourne but the guy running the project was a jerk and didn't go with us.

It's a great idea for kids hospitals!
wow. so you're perfectly at peace with death if someone convincingly tells you that your family won't be able to tell the difference between the old you and your clone?

That whole mindset is utterly alien to me. I guess it all comes down to how you feel about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity
Politics, movies, game development, fashion: it's simple heartless supply and demand. If the intrinsic motivation across your labor supply is higher than average, there's going to be downward pressure on all the other facets of the job (pay, work environment, etc). The really tragic twist is that for many of these, they only need to hint at the person's dream instead of actually fulfilling it. So they get a few years to chew up starry eyed 22 year old interns and spit out jaded 26 year olds, just in time to pick up the next generation. Growing up in LA, I saw a fair few of these for Hollywood among my friends. They tend to aimlessly drift towards law and real estate in LA
If you use nameof(Cat) then the string "Cat" is included. If you use nameof(some_pet) then the array ["Cat", "Dog"] is included. It's zero cost for something you don't use and it's exactly the same cost as you would have paid by manually adding this.
They did have Inmarsat-C weather reports coming in as well.

EL FARO was equipped to receive weather information from Inmarsat Sat-C communications, NAVTEX, HF-VOBRA, weather fax, satellite TV services, satellite radio services, and Inmarsat-C on-demand weather forecasting services. During the ship’s port calls, and while transiting close to shore, the ship could use the full range of broadcast media as well as wireless or cellular access to all of the available weather forecasting technology such as the Weather Channel and Weather Underground. During EL FARO’s accident voyage the Coast Guard had aircraft on patrol over the eastern Bahamas broadcasting information about the developing tropical system and the associated watches and warnings on Ch. 16 VHF- FM. (156.8 MHZ). The Coast Guard aircraft VHF radio broadcast
was heard by watch standers on EL FARO’s bridge.
It jumped out at me too as a very unnecessary comparison. It reads like “sexual abuse is an exaggerated problem”, to be honest.
It's even worse than that, they had a chance to turn out of it just 6 hours before they sank.
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And when I said I have no side projects
to show, what they heard - what
interviewers hear - is: I am not the
best. I am not a passionate developer.
I don't spend the necessary time to
keep on top of my education and skills.
That development is "just a job."

This isn't how I interpret it at all. Gauging how you write code, structure commits, and talk about your work cannot be done solely through face to face interviews. When I talk with someone who cannot show me any code, I feel like I'm lacking a signal for determining how well they'll be able to produce. It's not a deal-breaker by any means, just a complication.
I have two mutations of USH2A, causing blindness. It’s a big gene. This kind of tech can’t come soon enough.
That's too bad. This is my favorite interview question to ask.
One step closer to either utopia or dystopia. I'm not sure which one.
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Salary and hours depend on where you work. Bioware probably does not pay much but, say IW/Treyarch, are a different story all together [1].

As for improving people lives, why do you think games don't do that? People had been remembering games they played for decades. Games have an impact. Strangers will see a t-shirt with a game studio logo and come to you talk about its games. Does it happen with the Healthcare IT too?

1. http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/358040/exhibit655.pdf
HN cracks me up sometimes. Compare the derision and skepticism hurled at would-be video game developers to the praise people working countless hours on pointless "portfolio side projects" on github or whatever get, just for a minor boost in the grueling interview process or because they're so passionate about it or whatever.

At least these people (who are certainly being exploited, often in ways that violate labor laws) are getting some real work experience while they're at it.
I too have some bad genes that make life pretty challenging at times. This type of tech gives me great hope. I wish I were more qualified to work on it and advance it.
I think this raises many questions that are somewhat similar to raising minimum wage.

Can companies survive without this "cheap" accessible labour? Are the game devs being screwed by their employers or the markets? Is it better to regulate for higher salaries, and potentially less total jobs and maybe less games per year?

I think the answers to these questions are hard to find, but ultimatly would dictate the pros and cons of the current situation.

If execs are just pocketing all the money, ya, that's a problem and maybe unions or regulation is needed.

If game development of the current scale just isn't sustainable by the markets given higher salaries, we need to explore what kind of game development scale can? Is it one which reduces the number of jobs? If so, we have the taxi vs uber dilemma... Is it better for fewer people to get good wages, or for more people to get lesser wages?

Finally, we must explore the lengthy crunches. Are they truly delivering productive value? Is management in the game industry just poorer? Would reasonable hours impact cost and profits? Maybe it wouldn't, if we believe all the science about how lack of sleep and overwork nullifies productivity.

This is all a complex problem.
'Company didn't do well' translates to some higher manager up the chain performing badly. Its always easier to shift the blame on somebody else, and have them take the fall for the big shots.
It's a lot like being a "startup founder," really. High risk high reward.

Game dev and startup founder at least can pay a lot better than actor/writer/musician even before reaching unicorn status.
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Before we are part of the cohort, we have to demo our product on Skype this Monday, 30th Oct. This is going to be my second demo, and I need inputs before I decide to invest my time on it. I sucked at my first product demo.
I think they gloss over the two big advantages of a Model S - a network of free superchargers and autopilot.

Some out-of-town trips might change

> you do not ever spend a minute at a gas station ever again

into

> you might spend hours chasing free public chargers, and with some of them you might find out they're taken, blocked by other cars, have an adapter incompatible with yours (Chademo, etc.) or just plain out of service
I’ve worked with them 10 years ago and haven’t touched them since. Do they still charge the customers for the big iron and then send recurring bills based on how much they use “their” CPs?

They had labelled general purpose CPUs as CPs while processors woth specialized microcode that lets them run Linux were called zFLs.
All the fancy security verbiage they advertise are for when you run IBM DB2 or CICS on Z/OS. Not just running your Linux applications.
These performance figures cited in the article are utterly meaningless:
12 billion transactions a day and 1000 NoSQL databases.

What does that even mean? I'm sure even modest x86 hardware can spin up 1000 MongoDB instances, and perform 12 billion transactions in a day.
My space engineering professor says for what he does (microsatellites mostly, but some science instruments for bigger satillites) they use off the shelf non-radiation hardened parts mostly, and get their reliability though software and hardware redundancy.
There are a billion people in china, I have a hard time imagining that none of them contribute to polution for their own ends.
This is incredibly shallow analysis, if it's even anything beyond poorly regurgitated sales decks. What does that "points of entry" chart even _mean_?
6S has the A9 processor, the 6 has the A8, maybe that makes enough of a difference for it to not be that bad. I will also try the complete reset though.
I was thinking this should be a flash drive.
Right, someone can point the commission to the Italian experience with Berlusconi - tv, paper and publishing baron - and his toxic effect on Italian society
I was developing and designing them, so by "good" I mean a good game design – it achieves its goal of generating endless fun.

By "bad" I mean the impact of this game design on players' lives – the game is "too fun" for some of them.
I'm interested to learn how these gaming companies are able to retain talent with conditions such as this. Perhaps they just churn through entry level Devs who move on to better jobs after gaining some exp.?
I don't think you need to make that assumption. Regardless of the number of grad students leaving academia, there is a huge and increasing backlog of postdocs waiting for professorship.
“We had our MBAs do our analysis of the latest hi-tech computer systems.”

I guess IBM knows this and tosses such ridiculous numbers for such MBAs looking for PowerPoint bytes.
What are efficient ways to do a product demo online?
Another gaming fad gone by the wayside. Thats too bad. I thought this had potential to be further developed upon.
I've found that for me, games without an end are discouraging, and most multiplayer games are just draining, like going to a party where I don't know anyone.
I use splashtop to remotely access my computers and provide support to my parents. I haven't found anything that competes when it comes to speed. I even use it to remotely work on Photoshop.
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>I don't see this working out well with that language. It's a very indiscriminate net.

I doubt they'll worry too much over the exact wording of the policy. I would expect a, you know it when you see it, test.
I'm about to buy a new vehicle and it's articles like this that make me nervous. I don't want to buy a gas car just to have it be obsolete and worthless. However electric cars are still a lot more expensive, and with my vehicular needs they aren't really there (I can't pull my RV very well with a Tesla, at least yet :fingers-crossed: )
Xinjiang is west of Shaanxi and Sichuan. Please get your facts right before playing the know-it-all.
Wait really? I assume you're talking about gamer gate obliquely: I'm not a gamergater (to be honest, I still barely even know what it means) and I had a vague sense of Kotaku that more or less aligned with "gaming tabloid". That's just based on having read a couple pretty dumb things from them, and the fact that every other Gawker property is pretty much a tabloid.
utopia for some, dystopia for others?
Ah, right, I see: the compiler only adds these things if it detects that it's necessary (i.e. there must be at least one use). Can't argue with that.
Why do you think that this could cause a utopia or a distopia?
The Hyundai Ioniq electric has a stupid grey panel (regardless of body colour) where the grill would go which makes it stand out. On the hybrid versions this is the grill but on the pure electric they could have made it body-coloured or a fake grill.