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If your success is connected to building upon the brands of others then don't be shocked if you have little control over how much success you can actually achieve.

I feel sorry for people who lost their jobs but at the end of the day the people who have the creative vision for: Walking Dead, Back to The Future, Jurassic Park, Borderlands, Game of Thrones, Minecraft, Batman and Guardians of The Galaxy do not sit within the 4 walls of Telltale.

If there is not someone with creative vision and ownership of your product within your company then the people calling the shots are sales and partnerships. Actual product always comes second to closing these deals and riding brands of others.

You can see this in their product lineup, when things went sour they didn't change the product, they just diversified the brands.
> I don't understand why the people who were let go didn't leave in the first place...

I feel the same way. One often hears the statistic that the games industry revenue (~36 Billion) exceeds that of the film (hollywood) industry.

It makes me wonder, given that there's probably fewer workers in games, who is making the lionshare of the money? Is it just a tiny sliver of investors? How did it get that way? One would think that talent could just walk away from toxic workplaces and be paid handsomely elsewhere.
Telltale's games tended to utilise similar mechanics across their games. They'd generally follow a linear storyline to certain points where players could make choices that changed some outcomes, along with limited scene exploration and the use of quick-time events. There was a lot of noise made about player decisions affecting the overall outcome of the story, but not everybody would agree that this was the case.
This is expressly the argument the GDPR forbids: The consent that the GDPR allows cannot be in exchange for anything (because then it is not completely free). (Also, this consent is not the only justification you can use under GDPR for tracking, it's just the easiest way to justify the intrusive tracking used by ad networks, because the other ways mean you have to actually describe why it's necessary).
exec() can remain as it is still useful, only fork needs to be deprecated as fork can be emulated by clone in common use cases.
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That seems a bit all or nothing. It could be worth considering if someone has monopolistic power (or some oligopoly) in one area such as distribution of products, any product business must be run separately via Chinese walls or just not allowed.

People seem to forget a fundamental part of capitalism is that government should intervene to maintain a level playing field. Then...what defines a level playing field..
My experience is that they push their products and require prime to buy them.

It was good when I could get a laptop bag for 11 dollars. Now they flood their pages with their products and many require prime to buy.

Amazon is turning into a club.
This has been posted several times and there are tons of comments:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146438
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138328
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145645
[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138990
[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18141328
Ive said the same thing before about not just facebook, but google/microsoft owning email, uber/lyft owning taxi, yelp/tripadvisor owning restaurant reviews.

Absolutely nobody actually seems to care about decentralized databases and networks feeding compatible clients info. Every user interface is made by the people holding the data in a walled garden.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17536381
Large enterprises are not what I'm talking about. Those already have large-scale support contracts and don't need the on-site support for each device. I'm talking about small to medium businesses and freelancers. Those often don't have the money to have a spare $2,500 laptop around just in case the manufacturer needs 2-3 weeks to repair the broken computer.
Because using a 3rd party design you have to ask or guess what each chip does, and they might not want to tell you everything for IP reasons. When you create your own board, you know what every little chip and trace does exactly, and it's a lot easier to detect a rogue chip.
Correlation doesnt imply causation though
I'd never heard any of these before, I thought they would be talking about AmazonBasics. I've been pretty happy with the quality of that so far. Are their private label brand products generally high quality or cheap knockoffs?

The only serious issue I've had with AmazonBasics so far was with a portable battery which was at risk of exploding or catching fire unexpectedly, so it was recalled.

Two things to look out for are that they no longer tend to offer the lowest prices, and you could probably receive counterfeits. A lot of companies have changed their tune after taking a beating from Amazon, but unfortunately I think many customers have grown used to going to them for everything, even when it's not the best choice. To give a few examples:

You can often find electronics for the same price at Best Buy, and they allow in-store pickup so you might get what you want even faster. Fry's takes it one step further by price matching other technology stores. I'd also trust both to not sell counterfeits.

If you're looking for cables or adapters, Monoprice has very competitive prices and they've always been reliable. I've had all sorts of issues with adapters or cables purchased through Amazon.

For home and everyday items, Target and Walmart can often be quite competitive as well. Why pay $10 for a shower liner when a $1 or $2 one works just as fine?
Agreed. I tired of the gameplay very quickly after the first game. Felt too contrived and transparent. Couldn’t even force myself to finish the free first chapters of some of their later games. Oh well, it was a nice brief ride.
If you spawn, you can set up different process descriptors. Not all properties need to be inherited in all circumstances.
I live in a 2000 sq ft house that cost less than my annual salary. Both Texas and North Carolina come to mind as areas that have pretty good opportunities for tech and very low housing costs.
Another thing that's not clear from the benchmarks is the Titan has both more tensor cores, but also much higher memory bandwidth with hbm2. I'd be curious to see how much that affected the results compared to the number of cores.

Also the 2080ti can do lower precision math (int8/4) in the tensor cores, while the Titan v cannot.
That's fair, but Amazon has only a small % of total retail sales (4% in 2017, according to a quick search). I'm not sure at what point it's commonly assumed that a company has monopoly or market power, but I'm pretty confident it's not 4% or even close to that.

edit: another quick googling says that US courts apparently almost never conclude a company has market power if they have less than 50% market share: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?r...

Amazon is still growing at a good clip but I'd be really surprised if they were able to pass even 20%, let alone 50%.
That's bullshit. If you don't promote yourself you will always wonder why others who aren't as good advance in life while you stand still and are taken advantage of.
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>>If people are uncomfortable with their CEO eating meat then they should be free to ask about it and voice their opinions.

Expecting a person A to change their way of life, for an inconsequential act, because other person B completely irrelevant to A or A action's feels 'uncomfortable', then B has way over stepped in feeling entitled to what they want from life and society.

You don't get to dictate what religion some one should practice, or what kind of clothes they should wear, or economic system they should believe or what kind of politics they like. Unless they force you to do as they like, they are free to hold whatever opinions they like. Just like you do.

This whole thing about people wanting to control other people's life. And then claiming to victims of 'offence' and 'discomfort', when the other person doesn't comply to their dictation is the root cause of political problems today. Nobody owes you anything, others are welcome to live their life as they like, just as you do.
Are the anecdotes detailing consistent 80+ hour death marches near the end of project cycles accurate?
I've found the Amazon branded non electronic generics pretty good. Generic cases for electronics and etc... although they're noticeably less cheap than they used to be. I feel like over time their price has risen to match other brands after they were established.

The actual Amazon electronics and such... are decidedly bare bones and wonky even for a generic electronics brand. I've had mice and other Amazon generics not just feel cheap, but don't work at times.
Which is also one of the reasons why GNU/Linux failed as desktop OS.

The lack of focus on UI/UX and a full stack experience for frontend developers (native/web).

Hence why Android and ChromeOS succeed at it, while hiding what kernel they run on.
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Exactly. If you don't make sure that you get credit for your own work others happily will do so and reap the benefits.
Fascinating to see how very little commentary there is here related to the cultural problems this company was known for. Guess culture was never a factor to gamers.
Ok, but the whole concept of capitalism optimising resource use is based on availability of information, so it's surely essential for a properly functioning market?

Isn't it time we grew up as society, get forthright and stop trying to trick people into buying stuff by hiding information so sellers can bait-and-switch, cut quantities, cut ingredient value, etc..

Isn't it embarrassing? You sell great batteries at a good price, but only long enough to capture the market so you can push bad value on millions of people and cause excess damage to the environment .. so you can make a personal fortune. Straight theft seems almost moral compared to this.

I bought biscuits yesterday, same box, same price, 17% less biscuits. Just now the packaging is very wasteful, but they managed to use extra plastic to disguise the reduction of food content. Oh, and apparently as the small print on the back gives the contents this is all fine. Some manager got a bonus for that I imagine.
Depends on your options.

The game industry seems pretty terrible to their workers.

Either way the employees had to know.
We spend millions of dollars on the few thousand people who have cancer when millions have no food we spend millions on them but we are killing our planet what we need to do is see the bigger picture.
This is the standard in Europe
If they start raising prices then others will be able to re-enter the market and compete.
But why should we accept that?
They all shared the same narrative focus and gameplay mechanics of titles in the "adventure" game genre (inspect environment, walk around, quick time events, make decisions in conversation or events that at least promised branches in storyline.) Typically the engine and graphics styles were roughly the same, though improved as time progressed (to the point where you often felt they were battling the old engine).

I understand the limitations to this style and the problems became pronounced as time progressed but to have a "Telltale take" on a property, I roughly knew what kind of experience I was getting and at least for a while made me cautiously optimistic for the release (though I may be a minority.)
Yes they/we are. And more over, they are unaware and/or uneducated.

So were they before when literacy and education was limited to nobility and clergy (probably not so much per design, but per means and imagination and interest). And so couldn't understand WHAT general people literacy and education could bring to society as a whole and for every one.

It's not a matter of guilt or lazyness. Things take time to enter the mind of one person, even more so the mind of societies.

An educational/technological advantage is not always but often a winning one.

And that is not an excuse.
In most states, no notice (or even a reason) is required. We call it 'at-will employment'.
Unlike solar power, land use is effectively a non-factor for the price of wind power. The NREL estimates the financing of land area to be less than a third of maintenance[1] and just 16% of operational expenses. That works out to land use being .06 cents per kWh.

Also, NB for context that .24 C is fairly small compared to the temperature anomaly as it is currently. The global anomaly is .6-.85 C higher over the year[2], and over the US it's usually around 2 C[3]. Note also that 5-20x more area, as they clarify in the journal, is not really representative; the number of turbines is about the same (unless you are in a very population-dense area like Germany), they just have to be spread much farther apart. For instance you can plop them down on farmland just fine.

Computational methods may also help reduce the impact of wind shadows by decreasing "dirty" air, but that's just a band-aid. From what the journal indicates, the limiting factor is energy re-entering from the higher atmosphere. I'm curious how this kind of thing is affected by water vapor. Does it increase or decrease the problem? Are offshore turbines affected the same way? How does farmland play into this, since plants release huge amounts of water into the air via transpiration (a plant's "heart" is effectively driven by evaporation)?

Also, I liked their little map[4] of wind(squares)/solar(stars) capacity factors. It's refreshing! One of the most irritating things about power discussions online is the ubiquitous repetition of blatantly wrong statements about capacity factors (power delivered/nameplate capacity). Here's[5][6] the data:

Coal: 53.5% capacity factor
CC natural gas: 54.8%
Nuclear: 92.2%
Hydro: 45.2%
Wind: 36.7%
PV Solar: 27%
Solar thermal: 21.8%

People are all over the place saying solar has a 10% capacity factor, wind has 20%, nuclear has 98%, coal and hydro have 90%- it's nonsense! Coal is a destabilizing influence on the grid, and wind is practically as good as hydro. When you account for how well solar tracks with daily demand, it's better than hydro.

[1]: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/70363.pdf

[2]: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

[3]: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mn...

[4]: https://cdn.iopscience.com/images/1748-9326/13/10/104008/Ful...

[5]: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

[6]: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
A successful formula? They had 1 big hit, followed by a neigh collapse of interest that only got worse every game. They then kept at this “successful” model for half a dozen games. Sounds bull headed to me.
A functional capital market provides liquidity and higher valuation to an investment. Without these two you would have less capital going into companies. Trading shares may have little immediate effect, but certainly do for the next share offering.
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This would work even better as an app. Shouldn't be too difficult to do.
Overall in the entire game industry it is unfortunately very prevalent. But EA gets treated as if it is the one and only company responsible for this. During my time at EA (3.5 years, two releases) I have seen some crunch, but definitely not on that level.
Some people are smoother than others but they still do something to make sure they get noticed.
Yes, especially in the embedded world, you can shut down portions of the system that you aren't using, or have them only wake up when some sort of event occurs.
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Explains the apparent indifference to counterfeiting, destroy trust in every brand except amazon's own?
Show HN: Math Shooting – A game to improve in Math (SUS2018)
We are one of the companies participating in Start Up School [0]

We make edutainment action games.

Our first game is a shooter that employs simple math as the main mechanic. Our objective is to make a fun, fast paced game that can be beaten only by improving your math skills.

We launched our first prototype in the Google Play Store[1] and would like to know what you think. Any thoughtful criticism is welcome. And before you say it: we picked a shooter (hence the icon on the Play Store) as an experiment, but based on the feedback we are thinking on changing the graphics or switching to a fantasy style game.

We want to know if you feel challenged by the game (even though right now it's really barebone), I sure feel like I should polish off my math skills! We have a ton of ideas for improving the gameplay, for example:

* Arcade style mode, think tetris, never ending game with increasing difficulty and highscores

* Multiplayer mode where you challenge your friends

* New skins, weapons, enemies and maps as the player levels up

* Different monetization strategies

* and others...

Please let us know what you think!

Thanks

[0] https://www.startupschool.org

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MathShooti...
All I can say is that if these chips don't _actually_ show up soon and get analyzed, Bloomberg is going to have a serious black mark on their credibility.

How many days can this go on without _SOME_ report of these things after such a ball-buster story?
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Wow thanks for the praise! The positive response here has been deeply affirming — I'm sitting at my coworking space with the real-time Google Analytics tab open and a grin on my face the width of Texas.

I've got a mailing list: https://www.lesspenguiny.com/email_subscribers/new

Both Twitter and Facebook suspended my newly created accounts for this project – I think they took offense to my entering first name "Less", surname: "Penguiny"

Funny aside: Facebook's tool to un-suspend my account asked me to submit a photo. I uploaded a photo of a penguin, since that's my profile photo, the only one they have of me in their system.

"Sorry, your photo could not be recognized".
Minimum quantity orders for these servers are typically 10,000.

Even at 1,000, I don't see how humans could reliably detect this.
>1600 years later the British recalled an ambassador from Rome under an emergency. Took him 22 days.

Comical but not a 1:1 comparison since presumably the British didn't dispatch a private jet the instant he was recalled or give him the authority to commandeer whatever resources he wanted.

If Thresa May, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin all decided right now that they wanted to go have a cook out in a swamp in the Yukon they could probably all be crushing beers and eating burgers Saturday evening (local time).
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“/../ hundreds still tumbled into unemployment with no safety net from their company.“

To be honest a company that can “barely keep its head above water” wont be in shape to provide a lot of support. That is kind of the point, if they could do that then maybe they could keep the company afloat which is a bit paradoxical.

It would be nice situations like these to have some form of safety net in form of financial aid or something. I have no idea what they do in the US but in Sweden you can get a lot of help since these things happen with companies from time to time.
Why wouldn't the US gov show one of the infected motherboards? It seems like it would be perfect proof that China is engaged in aggressive hacking. The story is in the open now. If it's true, China knows that we know. So what else is there to hide?
Battle royale games were done better decades ago? I can't even think of a battle royale game from the 90s.
I think the issue is less that the goods are of low quality (actually direct-selling private-label goods seems to partly be intended as an anti-counterfeiting measure) and more that manufacturers who sell on Amazon are crying foul because Amazon is undercutting them.
Yes I agree for startups but middle to large size companies would probably have a dedicated Apple guy. It’s why I said large entprises.

Even startups can get service at Apple stores but if there’s not one close by in can be a serious pain.
I have that book, too. I’d trust it more too. Not saying untruths couldn’t make it into the published works of yesteryear but there was a higher hurdle to publishing physical books than publishing this online article.
Yeah but in those you have some mechanics to use. Telltalle took the adventure game formula, which is mostly exploration and puzzles, and dumbed it down until you were left with linear exploration and kindergarten puzzles. I stopped looking at their titles ages ago because while I grew up with adventure games, the Telltale titles ain't that any more.

Edit: also, games made after a movie license (or a game license, Minecraft Story, wtf?) tend to be crap. Especially when they're story based so basically you're replaying the movie that you've already seen.
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I have had a few run-ins with Apple over the years. Mostly semi-positive. These have been where I've had to take my main work machine in for repair and they've quoted me 14 days, but then turned the repair around in a few days. They've also often thrown in unrelated free stuff too. Last time when I took my Macbook Pro in for the free screen replacement (due to delamination) they also replaced the battery (it was bulging slightly apparently, I'd not noticed) and top case (the trackpad click wasn't reliable), totally free and not required (years out of warranty).

The one case that really sticks in my mind though was when I took a 13" Macbook (pro I think) in to have the keyboard replaced (the trackpad stuck). It was a US model with a US keyboard that I'd bought off the company I used to work for, and I figured that while they were replacing the keyboard they may as well put a UK keyboard on. The Apple reps on the phone, then in store both said this was a reasonable request (as I also thought) and so I left it with them.

I get a call a day or so later saying that they couldn't do the repair because "they had to replace components like for like". Bear in mind this was a paid for repair, not under warranty. I was willing to pay for the parts and labour. Apple confirmed that the new UK keyboard would work, but they weren't allowed to repair the laptop with a different keyboard. Nothing I could do could change their mind, I'd hit a complete brick wall. No keyboards could magically fall through the cracks in the back room and no favours could be done. As reasonable a request that all involved continued to think this was, they wouldn't do anything.

They even called around local apple dealers and none of them would do it either because they were all constrained by Apple's back-office systems.

In the end I bought a genuine, brand-new top case (keyboard, trackpad, integrated battery) off eBay and did the work myself, it worked just fine. No idea where it came from originally.

I guess this shattered any remaining idea I had that Apple was anything other than a machine. The operations side made so efficient by Tim Cook is also incredibly inflexible and as soon as you stray outside the bounds of what it has accounted for you hit a wall. As friendly as the geniuses and store employees are, Apple is not your friend.
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