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> in the game industry there is no guaranteed reward at the end of the development cycle

The same is true for any product industry. There are things you can do (customer development, short iterations that involve your potential customers, etc) to increase the chances, but if you're not doing work for clients directly, then there is no guarantee.

Note that the "doing work for clients directly" exists in game development too, there are many freelance or services companies that do work for other companies, and from what I hear about the game industry, these have much more guaranteed pay, just like outside of games. Its the "build the product, when its done, hope someone buys it" type of work that has no guarantees, but that is in no way unique to game development.

The difference is, most other industries don't have such crazy crunch times...
For writing some javascript?
JetBrains, not Google
My way of getting better was always to read about things around the subject I wanted to learn or understand. In my case Design.

I always look for how things are the same compared to the subject matter I am interested in.

What has given me the most ever is learning to play music and compose music. Once you understand how music work you understand how/why rhythm works, proportion, harmony, consistency etc.

But both music and design informed my cooking. When you boil things down (no pun intended) the underlying principles are all the same it's only the execution of those principles that's different. Philosophy is also something I have found ways to incorporate into something tangible in my life.

I also have side projects some of them do really well but i try to do as many different things in my life while still being involved with design and music. You need to have some strongholds.

There are no rules.
Great point about job security being a valuable part of tenure. I read "Are you a stock or a bond" and the author (a professor, actually) recommended that folks treat their income stream (and the safety of that) in a similar manner to other investments. So if I have tenure, I can invest more in risky assets (possibly even on margin). If I am a software contractor, I should invest more in bonds because my income stream isn't stable.

Thought that was a great way to think about income stability in an actionable manner.
> Goldmans ... hired a game dev to do their click-to-trade currency UI. Seemed like the guy found an easier job for more pay.

Not necessarily easier... but definitely a different set of difficulties.
I'd say learn Vim. I also use JetBrains products for development, but can find my way around vim and can set it up to my liking. The skill has been a pretty nice timesaver for both me and my colleagues when they need to do something with it.
There is no free market. They would sell popcorn at 2x the movie ticket cost. And the movie ticket costs are absurd here in karnataka. And its all one player game.
April 22, 1976, Cogress passed an act prohibiting the FDA from doing just this and in 1996 additional legislation resulted in vitamins being classified as food, not drugs.

The FDA has wanted to do something about this for a long time. They clearly see supplements as dangerous (especially things like 6000% RDA).
This also makes no sense, no one needs so many children, except for screwing our world up of course.
Ultimately, I feel your argument boils down to "the context of my peers in my profession is not entirely identical to my own, therefore I can't use any information (such as their salary) to inform my own context". This seems obviously false, so surely I must be misunderstanding?
You can disagree but it's the basics of game design, both Tetris and GTA are made fun by tuning variable-ratio reinforcements: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131494/behavioral_gam...

Game designers dream and talk a lot about creating the "flow" which is also achieved by correct reward ratio: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/166972/cognitive_flow...

The problem with the whole subthread is me assuming that everybody is more familiar with the subject and not writing a detailed explanation from the beginning.
Looks interesting... Here's the publication that it appears to have formed from: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3025117 (VLDB 2016).
The third party may be:

- an insurance company demanding a premium because you're well paid

- competitor bidding for your labour anchoring their offer to your current salary

Those are just two cases were it could be harmful.
The idea is to make the information available and transparent while still not making it public and still protecting it.
> > Permanent jobs in academia are scarce, and someone needs to let PhD students know.

> If you are studying on a PhD level and have not figured that out already, that's kinda on you.

The problem rather is if you really are scientifically better than your peers - so from an "objective" perspective you should be really good enough to obtain such a position. But then you realize how much of a political game (it is much more about politics than scientific achievements) getting such a position is. And I know many great scientists who are bad politicians... They are often much better than the persons who got the tenured positions (the latter ones were great bootlickers and politicians).
Wait, what is the "average ERP programmer salary" in your area? I ask, because I've seen them billed out by consultancies at like $200 an hour. What slice of that makes it back to the devs?
>This has never happened in economic history.

Incorrect, CEO pay rapidly increased once the executive compensation of public companies was published.
Arguably, as Fascism was an actual political movement in Italy, Japan could no more have been considered Fascists than they could have been considere Nazis. They were Imperialists.

However both 'fascist' and 'nazi' have commonly understood meanings beyond am affiliation with their respective political parties, so while datawarrior was technically correct (making them the best kind of correct) they were also being needlessly pedantic.
Why stop there though. I think we should require a prescription. You shouldn’t be putting stuff into your body without medical supervision.

I’d even consider it for Foods heavy in certain vitamins. Pineapples have a mega load of vitamin c. Put those behind the counter as well. Why let people risk their health.
> Someone posts this glib comment every time academic careers are discussed. It's true, and yet harder than you'd think.

I asked around during my MSc (25 years ago), and got told this by everyone.

> Very few grad students get any kind of personalized career advice or discussion of their prospects.

They're adults. No one else is responsible for their life. If they refuse to take responsibility for their life, that's their choice.

They can ask. It's not difficult.
How many bitcoins can you mine out of this on max power and would it be profitable? I'm sure that Amazon has done the math on this but I'm still curious.
Not really, here are some examples of systems done with GC enabled systems programming languages.

https://github.com/ycoroneos/G.E.R.T

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxparcteCedarProgra...

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-6.pdf

http://www.projectoberon.com/

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Kernel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARX_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_(operating_system)

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Modula-3-Prentice-Innovat...
Is it really that useful to have a large secondary monitor? I have a 28" 4K and it can already show 2-3 files side by side. I just use the secondary monitor to display code.
> When you become a tenured professor, the amount of work you do is far less than the vast majority of other jobs with a similar salary.

No. False.
The article mentions that they have difficulty feeding in Pacific waters. “Stomachs full of wood chips, or empty”
Or the disruptive people quit or are fired.
As far as I understand, it is well documented that smoking correlates with B12 deficiency, and so many smokers take this vitamin as a supplement to make themselves feel better about their smoking habits.

This study then showed, not just that people got cancer, but they got lung cancer. This study was not a randomized trial that can show causation: it was a cohort study, where they ask a bunch of questions about peoples' past or ongoing behavior and then look for correlations from which you can try to guess at potential causes.

In a cohort study, there are attempts to predict confounding variables and "control" for them, but this involves essentially assuming the result and backing out the math, and assumes you trust that the participant is giving you correct data anyway.

A really fun confounding variable you get in these kinds of studies is that people who even bother to do your study correctly are also people who probably listen to their doctor and brush their teeth and wear their seatbelts and generally lead a safer life. (I am forgetting the name of this, but it is something like "compliance effect"?)

Further, if you have participants who don't just answer poorly but actively lie in ways that are correlated with the variables you care about (maybe "another way I make myself feel better about my smoking habit is to pretend I smoke half as much as I do or also smoke cigars and not count them"), you are effectively going to have no hope of "controlling" for that in the way you can with a blinded randomized controlled trial.

Given this, I read this and only think "that's an interesting hypothesis that is now worth digging into with real science to figure out what is going on", not "OK, everyone should stop taking B12 supplements if they don't want to end up randomly getting lung cancer"... that is just way too specific and too predictable of a cancer to be associated with this particular supplement.
>In a study of engineers at two major Silicon Valley companies conducted some years ago, I found that nearly 40% perceived themselves as performing within the top 5% of their peers. Ninety-two percent felt they were in the top quartile, and only one engineer felt his or her performance was below average.

This is the heart of the problem. People think they are more deserving than they actually are. When they find out that they're not getting paid as much as they think they should, relative to people who they wrongly think they perform better than, they will be upset at management and envious of their peers.
"Photo of Meeting Doctored by State Department" is not in the bbc.com headline, which says, "Photo of meeting apparently doctored." Reading the article, it appear that the Afghan government might have doctored the photo: "But in the Afghan government's photo, there is no clock or alarm, with one expert telling the Times there was 'no question' it had been manipulated."
It's funny to me that you refer to a 2 year old product as 'vintage'. You can barely call it 'old'.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is common in people who have been vegetarian for many years. (Others usually have a large reserve.) From the speculation in the article, it sounds like they'd be better off taking (normal) doses of it, since it's deficiency or excess that could cause cancer, and not the pills:

> Deficiency can also mean genes that should be inhibited are no longer inhibited, also potentially meaning cancer. Sufficiency of certain vitamins is important in cancer prevention, but avoiding excess appears to be similarly important.
If I wanted to argue that games are always harmful, I would write this explicitly. I also didn't disagree with the statement but pointed to the problems that are unique to games.
Elementary kids travel in packs, often without adults, but almost never alone. A large reason this isn't allowed in the US is because of helicopter parents who insist it's impossible to teach this skill to children and report parents who try to give teach their kids independence.
That 833% figure is for financial assets and gives the UK's figure at 1008%. It just indicates that banks are doing loan swaps and the like.

The semi communist system actually makes China quite stable. In the west if the mortgage holders can't repay the bank kind of goes bust, in China the government would just lend it more money. Well... I guess the west bails out too but more so in China I think.
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"Regular" people doesn't need in any way of to these B12 supplements, as there is plenty of it in animal products, which have already been taking B12 supplements all their lives.
However, vegans need to take these supplements if they want their B12 intake, without animals as the intermediary.

As a side note: B12 is created by micro-organisms in the soil, making our vegetables and fruits completely covered of it. With our modern lifestyle, the soil is terribly poor of these micro-organisms and having cleaned-as-hell vegetables reduces even more the B12 we can find in these vegs.
There are a lot of things being conflated in this post.
Side projects
Geography
Running a side business

1) I agree side projects do not define a good developer (frankly, I don’t have any outside toy ones). But given 2 equally good choices, I can’t blame an employer who chooses a Dev with side projects as opposed to one without (since they can see their code). That being said, a better interview process would involve real coding which would eliminate this situation altogether.

2) I’m not sure where the rant about geography fits in. If you are limiting yourself to Austin you’re limiting yourself to an even smaller pool of developers than the Bay Area, NYC is Seattle. And there are many families with dogs living in all these areas.

3) Is suspect the fact that the author is running a side business may be a bigger concern. The author’s specific business may not, but as an employer, I’d imagine there is no way my job could compete with your side business since you actually have money invested in. I wouldn’t be surprised if this would, more than the lack of side projects, affect someone’s employment opportunities.

Just the way the author has setup the discussion it seems they basically left the company with no code to see at all.

I can’t show you the coding I have done, because it’s at work.
I can’t show you any other coding I have done because I have not done anything outside work.
But I did start an art project once.

I think a far more useful tack (which I have used in the past) is to ask the company to provide you with a task, and give you a week to solve it. This allows them to actually see that I can code and solve a problem.
> If the answer is that contributions to scientific papers can be very fuzzy, e.g. it is hard to determine which contribution is more important than others, then I agree alphabetical order makes sense. But is it really so in most of the papers?

I'm probably biased from being in industry, but even when people contribute unequal code to a module or writing in a report, we just list the authors alphabetically because it's obnoxious to do anything with the list otherwise and it stops a huge amount of politicking when the first three out of ten authors contribute equal amounts. At the end of the day, stable collaborations will outpace individual contributors -- so we should focus on what allows us to openly collaborate and tears down barriers to doing that.

But from my point of view, we have a lot of the same incentives between industry and academia:

1. If you want to get promoted, you need projects associated with you and to get noticed.

2. There needs to be some method to decide who gets what amount of bonuses.

3. Funding allocation is tied to past successes.

...and probably some more I'm forgetting.

So I think my experience isn't totally irrelevant -- you get enough signal out of the distribution of the person's name that the loss of whatever from not getting "first" information is eclipsed by the gains from less politics (and if you have a lot of documents, easier parsing).

Again, perhaps it's the industry talking, but I'd rather hire an author that contributed the third most to a large number of papers than someone who contributed first most to a few. One of them seems to be a "force multiplier" in that they're keeping several other ICs moving (and contributing on all those efforts), while one guy just seems a specialist in a particular work.

I don't think removing the "first" signal harms my ability to find those "force multipliers", because they'll still have the same markers (as they weren't showing up first under the other system anyway).

So perhaps I simply have different uses for the rankings than people who feel differently?
Somewhat related but I believe there is some discussion that non observable parts of the universe (i.e. Really far away) may behave differently. Unfortunately these outer/early edges are going faster than the speed of light (I think) so we will probably never know.
> To be fair to the people whose merges failed, I believe this is a shortcoming of git (the tool) and not the people using it.

I disagree. Like everyone, I've experienced a failed merge that turns into a diff nightmare. However, when it has happened I've figured out how to solve it myself instead of wasting someone else's time with it, and it hasn't happened in years now leading me to believe it is directly correlated with git skill-level.
I would suggest you consider the emergent properties of these systems of attribution, rather than just the primary affect. Could there be a reason why theoretical fields have small numbers of authors given alphabetically, and experimental fields sometimes have ten or more authors, given in order of "contribution"?
That is literally what the concept of base boxes is for.

Build your own base box with whatever prerequisites you have baked in. It's still a 10 minute puppet run if that's how long your provisioning takes, but that happens once, and then you distribute the box. While you can just use a base distro box, for large/complex setups it's not always the best approach.
It shows who did the most work in an unambiguous way. If you have never collaborated on a paper, you'll probably think this is not important, but in reality it is.

Interestingly, some fields where alphabetical order is used have started adding a note that explicitly shows who did how much work.
I submit that there was a time and place for these landowners to consider the public access issue on their land - when they bought the land! I would assume they would have done their research and such factors would have played into the price they paid. To change this now is disingenuous.
Or EB5. If you have $500k you can buy in. Apparently about 99% of the 10k issued each year go to Chinese.
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You said it. And Gerrymandering is the only way one certain party is electable these days. This is nothing more than a lobbying sop to certain people from a certain party. Lets not pretend people are trying to balance things. Contemptible.
I don't really believe this postmortem. Moving does suck, it's difficult to know who to trust, and there is no modern trusted brand in the space. There is a need for a product like this.

Case study is Casper, which is not much else other than a beautifully branded old school product. There is definitely potential for a company in this space. But like most companies based largely on branding, they would need to drop a good chunk of change on advertising to get a running start, may be difficult to convince a VC to invest in that.

There is definitely a potential a company in this space, we'll wait for the next one.
I would like to see some information on compression ratios. Compression can often significantly improve performance (less data to load/save, more in memory or cache) and esp dense arrays should compress easily. They mention that compression is supported but I'm not sure if that's done internally or just applied to the files they create.
> There was no apparent risk among women—which is not to say it doesn’t exist, only that it wasn’t apparent.

Or it doesn't exist, or it even lowers the risk of cancer in women, or ...

I hate when something "not found" in some study is streched to fit some specific tone that the article wants.
The Oregon Badlands Wilderness you have pointed out seems very much wild to me. As a counterpoint, much of the WMNF in NH/ME was formerly logged, and there are remnant logging tracks (as opposed to jeep roads) scattered throughout, including in the wilderness areas. Eventually those jeep tracks will be just as unrecognizable as our logging tracks.

There are so many other places to ride and build trail, maybe we should just leave the wilderness areas alone.

The whole point of the wilderness areas is to halt further development in them. Those jeep roads were probably there before the area was "designated wilderness", as was the custom of horseback riding and hunting. Mountain biking wasn't a thing yet.

Oregon Badlands brochure for those interested:

https://www.blm.gov/or/districts/prineville/recreation/files...

Honestly most of that place seems really sandy, which isn't conducive to mountain biking in my mind.

One more thing. Many of these policies of no MTB were put in place before the advent of more sustainable trailbuilding practices were developed. Get out there and advocate for hardened, twisty, flowy, long-lasting singletrack!