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I used to feel just like you. Now that I've escaped from video game addiction though, I'd totally admit the reason I felt that way was either due to implicit peer pressure from fellow nerds, or from lying to myself that there was some underlying cause for why I spent so much time in front of the screen (e.g. loneliness, shyness) which could have been addressed in much healthier ways.
For anyone who wants to feel what this might have felt like (and you've yet to watch them), MIT posted videos of Abelson and Sussman presenting the course on YouTube [0]. I felt a similar sense of magic the first time I saw the derivative section.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
I'm secretly pleased that I never really took up the format and am still buying DVDs if I want a hardcopy of something.
> And let's be honest, as much as I like(d) counter-strike it's not an intellectual game by a long shot.

Oh, you'd be surprised by how much strategy goes into CS at the highest levels of play.
Yes, outside wandering has been replaced with, "here's an iPad".

But if you're talking about any sort of instruction I'd say the prices have tripled. If you're talking about something like organized hockey? Prices are astronomical.
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> Your TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for a cheap used car can't be $100/month. If you look at Kelley Blue Book or similar websites, they'll tell you that even super cheap cars like that 2005 Ford Focus will still cost you $300-400/month, all included.

My personal econobox, which I've had for a bit over five years, has so far run around 0.17 cents per km, or $155/month, with around 12,000 km/yr. Fixed costs (insurance, registration) add about $75/m.
Nice! I dig it.
There are certainly many ways to do this.
Is there a way you can donate your excess cash to fund the services improvements you want?

Would be cool if you could voluntarily fund specific services (schools/homeless) and lower the tax burden on others
Everybody knows that Bills are the Gateing factor for further GitHub adoption
I don't think she's really interested in what I or my brothers considered "games". The high-intensity/fast-reflex or long-investment kind of games we would play probably did not appeal to her. She seems to have gravitated towards the casual-gaming stuff, where the end-goal of the game is meandering and there's a great deal of instant gratification ("Congrats! You clicked a button! Have a trophy!")

With that said, I regret in hindsight that I didn't force her to try Animal Crossing back when it came to the Gamecube 15 years ago. It was very much a prototype of the casual gaming trend that's popular now. We might've found some common ground back then before our ages caused role-reversal.
I have exactly same experience. The company and people were not too stressful, but the project and the situation was. It was my first job after graduating, and I was doing most SW alone in a project that, in hindsight, could never quite work due to some technological restraints.

I tried hard to make it work and was stressed often. Not worth... I blame myself mostly for being obsessed about the project, but I wish I would not have been working alone, especially as a newcomer to the field.
A child learns first from their parents. I feel sad for kids when I see parents involved with phones while walking a baby carriage or attending a soccer game. Parents show by their actions which is more important, people or tech.
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> They never had a cash problem

They absolutely did. Tesla was a bet on production. They bet the company over the past few months.

They weren’t an Amazon “if we dial it back a bit we can be profitable” case. They were a “if we don’t make enough cars we may not pay our debts” case. They made enough cars. That doesn’t mean the concerns ex ante were unmerited.
Blu-Ray rips from Handbrake etc aren't the raw on-disc encoding, and aren't actually that big. ~2-3GB is typical with decent quality. Often the filesize is surprisingly close to that from a DVD, presumably because the DVD one is encoding a bunch of unwanted compression artifacts.
I'm worried by how the big market of mobile games with very little discernible intellectual content are influencing kids. Games are inherently forced to have some kind of intellectual engagement (though I think we've explored the edge with cookie clicker) so I'm not that alarmed just yet. But from what I've seen most of these games don't seem to engage the user in a way that encourages them to challenge themselves.
The real NIMBYists are the ones who pushed these people to ghettos, next to Berlin Wall.

I want my city to be better and i want workers to do this.
-Immigrants? Not in my backyard.

I want my city to be culturally rich and i want to be proud of the art that created in my city.
-Punks? Unemployed artists? Not in my backyard.

Because of this, these people located in Kreuzberg... many many years ago, before the Wall even came down.

Now the wall came down and the same people say:

I want to have a nice and cheap(er than my area) office next to Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg.
-Immigrants and artists next to my office? Not in my backyard.
Really not sure (I've always driven 'bangers' that are at least 11 years old) - but shocks me to see friends buying new cars.

That said a number seem to be:

* Company cars
* Bought as part of 'own company'
* Leased
* Hired
* Hire/purchase

Then a lower number:
* Bought with autofinance
* Bought with a bank loan
* Bought on a CC

Very few (if any) are bought in cash. I remember my father (who has never been a rich man) buying his car in cash, (£10,000 in 1996) with the plan that this would last him. It did for 13 years.

I was shocked when my brother bought a new van recently - but at less than £200 a month, it worked out less than buying a banger and having to fix it - he needed a van for his job, so can't afford to have a day or days without a working vehicle. I think that is what it comes down to for most people who do buy new. 'Perception' of vehicle less likely to breakdown.
Anyone care to share their Screen Time stats from IOS12?
The sure-fire solution to the problem of intrusive coyotes is a bit ironic. They're extremely difficult to cull anywhere because they normally roam very far. When they move into an urban area a cull isn't much of an option anyhow.

The solution that nature provides to coyotes, and many intrusive species, would be (ahem) to introduce wolves. Coyotes get some pretty mixed signals about whether an area is worth the risk when people try to drive them away but nevertheless keep livestock or trash nearby. The presence of wolves is unambiguous.
I'd love to see Tesla succeed, but cynical part of me thinks that old stogy BigAuto is simply watching them and taking notes. Waiting for Tesla to take all the arrows and blaze the trail, and then they'll swoop in and copy once Tesla's done all the hard work for them. They're not creative enough to do a Model 3, but once the formula looks sound, they can slap together a half-assed version and flood the market with it.
> Why do I care about what's appropriate for other orgs?

You're here discussing your org, and I'm here discussing my org. Why are you posting on a public forum if you don't care about other people's problems ;) I'm not here to make it personally relevant for you and necessarily change your mind.

> You don't find it a bit strange you're talking about how this policy would block access to a personal project, but that in so doing it somehow causes you to have to bring work home? Which is it? Is it something you work on for work or is it a personal project?

It's a JavaScript app, and I'm a Rails developer without a lot of really strong JavaScript experience. I might need more JS experience for work. If I could take a class in this stuff, my work would probably pay for the tuition, and it would be tax-free. (But instead, I'm doing an Open Source project and as far as professional development goes, it's the same.)

I don't find it strange at all, I work on personal projects all the time, and some of that happens at work. Sometimes I like to choose my personal projects so that they will benefit my performance at work. In the community of practice related to this project, if something pops up on my Slack, and it will take two minutes to deal with it, I'm not going to tell them to wait until after hours; I'm bringing my actual work home with me on a regular basis (without overtime), so it would be unfair for me to say that the inverse can never happen.

Just to make it concrete, so you can see why it shouldn't bother my manager that I sometimes look at this project during working hours, the project is "Commits.to" - it's a time management / GTD tool for helping you be sure that you set a due date when something you said you'd do is important, and for holding you to getting done the things you said you were going to get done, by the due date or ASAP after. It's a beta project and the only people who are users are also developers. It is a community of practice.

Again I don't expect you to care about this project, but if my work is overtly saying "you need to go home if you want to work on that" I'm going to start looking for a different job. But they're not doing that. They've said it obliquely instead. (And since it's a college campus, they've said it to every student too... some of whom might actually live on campus.) So as we're all very busy, and I don't need to work on this at work, I've just let it slide instead of marching into InfoSec with a list of demands.

But the net effect is, sometimes when I want to do a quick thing for this personal project I'm working on, instead of spending the 5 minutes and getting it over with, I have to write it down and remember to bring it home instead. It's a net productivity loss, and I don't think that was anyone's intentional goal, but it was an effect of the (garbage, IMHO) policy.
I'm not sure how much it varies country to country - I'm in Eastern Europe myself (lower labor costs, higher import / taxes etc) but my trusty toyota corolla was bought for about $3000 with no "friend discounts", just a general recommendation that Japanese cars are reliable and a bit of quick looking around the local car craigslist equivalents. I've been driving it for about 7 years (12 years old in total) with no major repairs whatsoever, only routine maintenance and a couple of bodywork fixes that we can contribute to "user error".

And its not that I'm an outlier or anything, most of my friends have stories in the same ballpark. To be honest I even paid a bit too much due to my inexperience, if you're smart and know the right people you could get a better car at close to half the price.
Samsung and Google Working on Developing a Special Version of Android for Phones
WebP support pushed to Firefox source
The officer who pulled the trigger was across the street and shot an unarmed man within seconds of him opening the door to see what was happening. That officer decided he was going to kill whoever opened that door before they even arrived. It's laughable to suggest the prank caller is more responsible for the victim's death. I am amazed that more people are not extremely disturbed by law enforcement being able to commit murder without consequences.
It’s relative to whatever else you want to spend your money on. I spent $90k on my recent car because I love cars, and this was a relative deal (it was worth $110k) with decent resale value.

I have friends that have spent $140k on their Tesla model X, or $190k on their Porsche 911 Turbo. That seems too high for me. Shrug. Everyone is different in their priorities. Most of these are leases where they’re paying maybe $5k a month. When you make $300-400k a year or more with current low rates it’s not terrible.
Maybe we need more educational material on them?

If they get addicted, az least it could make them smarter
Clojure Beyond the Fast Native MKL Back End
Very informative. This explains well about why Linus once said signing every single Git commit is unnecessary and it only means you have automated the signing process. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290873
how can you look at the history of Microsoft and call their playbook conspiracy theory?
I didn't truly understand what a rust bucket was until I tried buying a used car in Northern Virginia (I had just moved from California). Everything below $2000 USD was a rust covered death trap that couldn't pass a vehicle inspection. I test drove a $1500 car and cut myself on the rust as I got into the vehicle. Another $1900 car was kind of low rust, but it couldn't pass the vehicle safety check.

Snow & road salt is not nice to cars.
I would advise standing in the back of a university lecture hall so you can learn just how rare your "not everyone" is.
This is what they give me instead of any page on their site:

"OOOPS…
We’re sorry for the inconvenience,

It looks like HonestRepair accounts are currently unavailable in your country, but keep checking back!"

Way to go. Not in the countries we like? You can't even read our blog. Go away.
Challenge is not the issue. Dark Souls is bloody difficult, but that doesn't mean that I feel like I've been using my brain after playing it.

Video games are awesome, but they provide too much stimulation and instant gratification for little kids. I don't think TV is much better, but video games are way more entertaining than TV.
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Nah, there are more recent studies based upon first principles and less stretching protocols than Bates. Still not accepted best practice, though, so individual mileage may vary, my myopic eyesight improved enough to give them a pass.
It is used for even more than that. KDE, the Linux desktop environment with its huge set of applications has used Qt since its early releases in the 90s. There is also a large set of commercial desktop applications for Windows and macOS that use Qt. That Qt is used for embedded software UIs is a comparably recent development in its long history.

I think the reason for this is that Qt has extremely high quality widgets and graphical elements. They allow you to do things out of the box that would be crazy hacks with most of the competitors. And the options for styling the UIs are very good, too, which matters a lot for these embedded use cases.

Is Qt hard to get into? Yes and no. In C++, you are required to use some mechanisms like signals/slots, which are used for routing events. These features look like non-standard language extensions and rely on a special source code preprocessor to generate the glue code that is implied. The other concepts are easier to pick up. And the toolkit is very consistent in the structure of its interfaces, so once you pick up the patterns, you can get very productive.
I wish the rhetoric around "screens" was less focused on the delivery mechanism and instead more focused on the problematic thing behind those screens.

The issues raised here seem to not be related to glowing LCDs, but rather particular apps and behaviors in those apps that lead to addictive and problematic behavior.

"Screens" is even broader than saying things like "the internet is bad". The latter statement already sounds unhelpful because everyone has a better understanding of just how diverse of a platform "the internet" is.
"Why I switched sides: from bootstrapNewping to bootstrap"
What does “pulling a Skype” mean in this context? I remember when they bought Skype it was “bad.” But do people really use Skype any less now than before?
May be affirming the consequent here.
One thing I wonder, if IQ would play something in this...
It's easy to take a 100% position when you don't have to actually make any decisions. In practice you can rarely be completely sure of anything.

In complicated areas people do the best they can and we try and have systems in place to lead to the outcomes we want. That's why there's complexity around these things in law and the context is important.
> Oh, my sweet, summer child.

I remember someone replied with that to a comment of mine. I find it hard to find words for it as a non-native speaker, as I don't have to express this often, but it's rather derogatory/denigrating/belittling, as if someone is speaking complete nonsense. At the same time, it's not an obvious personal / ad hominem statement, so it's unlikely to be moderated.

Or maybe I'm completely misunderstanding the attitude here.
If you're considering it you might also want to try Brno - it'll be a little cheaper, and the city is in my opinion a bit more livable and relaxing
Just had a baby girl and my wife and I are planning on how to manage this... When we go out we see families where every kid is loaded up on an iphone, including the adult kids. Lets go out to eat and every go on the phone, very nice. I'm speaking from an odd spot, i grew up playing a shit load of computer/video games. However I also enjoyed running around outside with my neighborhood friends doing whatever , playing sports and all of that good stuff. Curious to find what the future holds and I think my own screen time will be limited as the baby gets older. OR i'll say your only screen time is dark souls, better get started young
I guess as a former addict you have to do things like categorically dislike all video games just to maintain your sobriety. Good on you for doing what you have to do to overcome your addiction, but such black and white opinions are not really healthy or smart for people who aren't struggling against a disease, IMO
Having two cars isn’t quite realistic in the US for that context. Someone buying cars like that likely lives in an apartment in a city with limited parking. I’m sure it happens, but it’s not scaleable. Granted, that applies to many things in US life.
Because they can, and because they want to. If a $50,000 car is 200X your income, that's one thing...if it/s 1/20 your income, it makes the [emotional] decision much easier to rationalize.

Further, that $50k is being more and more hidden in things like low-mileage leases, so it doesn't FEEL like that...it only feels like $400 a month and you get a new car in 3 years...but nothing to show for it after the fact.
Filmstruck shutting down
Really? Did not know that. I was expecting this to be much higher, due to the bad news that I've been reading about the state of pensions.
/r/cars |

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I actually came here to say the same thing: Civilization != Candy Crush.
> I'm still peeved so many people hate video games categorically.

I'm more annoyed that everytime video games come up, someone brings up Civilization as a strawman to argue.

99% of games aren't Civilization. We all know people are talking about that 99%. The article even calls out that the parents make exceptions for some educational games/screen time. And yet rather than legitimately engage and address peoples concerns about video games, it's always the same argument of: raise the benefits of Civilization, share nostalgia about playing it in the past and ignore the actual arguments being presented.

This thread is no exception. This is a place of more intelligent discourse - address the opposition's points, or concede they are valid.
The pace has been surprisingly Clippy for an acquisition of this size.
Those astronauts spend less than 216 days on that station, and require extensive physical therapy to recover (which they never fully do) when they get home. They’re also not a sustainable population, even with supplies and reinforcements from Earth. The longer they spend up there the more their long-term health suffers, and there’s no reason to believe that they could survive for years, never mind breed and sustain a population even with supplies.

Pointing to the ISS as an example of how close we are to self-sufficient colonies betrays a total lack of comprehension about the challenges such an endeavor faces.
I find this deeply amusing. I see how this could have worked in the DVD era, but these days with all of the options we have it's no surprise why most people don't have bluray players. It is kinda sad though because as much as streaming gives us options, the quality is always terrible.
This seems to share the same sentiment I have been hearing from a lot of places recently, the only person you should be comparing yourself to is the past version of yourself.
There's also some newer SICP videos online but the 1980s one is the best and still highly relevant to a programmer from todays era (or any era).

I'm self-taught and it's what made me fully "grasp" programming and the power of abstraction.
Tcc has supported AMD64 and ARM for ages. It produces reasonably fast code, usable as a library, and has many other nice features. Worth looking at again if you last looked when it only supported x86.
The main concern is that it hurts socialization, which is actually a really important skill. I don't think there's anything wrong with screen time, especially if it's productive time for the person using the screen (adult or kid). The issue is like anything - when that screen time is so great it chokes out other activities like socializing or fitness.
Yes, RTS train certain skills and educate in general. Yes, some other games and whole genres do that. And still all video games cause non-linear, lets say "addiction", to them. They increase tendency to procrastinate. Especially after significant play time over lifetime, when those same educational aspects are a justification to continue procrastinating playing them. I know this from experience and it is very hard and feels like increasingly harder to stop or limit it.
Depends where you are - with 11 years no claims, I paid around £500 a year in London on a Volvo v70 2.4 litre, currently paying £230 a year (out of London) for a huge people carrier that also has my wife as a named driver who has only just learnt to drive.

Though yes - insuring 2 cars could be costly - some places offer a multi car discount, some with a device that only charges you when you drive.
Clojure solves the Expression Problem (2016)
Personal opinion, not the company: I think it's very cool. I've been watching them since they launched and have been impressed with their consistent progress. I love using it as an example of financial experimentation and success: they launched at the top of the bubble and have been able to keep stability even as crypto has gone through a massive crash! Pretty amazing.
Yep, cheap cars are possible and they can work. My last car while still in the US was an old Kia, which I bought off Craigslist for $500. It was a beater but lasted me several years, during which time I might have spent another $500 to fix one thing or another.

Otherwise I had several cars when I was younger, all used, and all of them costing below $6000, without having to spend a fortune on maintenance.
I have both a MacBook Pro and a Chromebook (Samsung Pro). The Chromebook has quickly become my go-to computer, and I never feel like I'm just "getting by" on it.

I also replaced a LEAF with a Tesla. Ever since doing that, my girlfriend has been asking to go back to the LEAF, because it got the job done just fine and wasn't complicated.
My first devops experience was maintaining Red Hat 7 boxes hosting Counter-Strike servers. I believe the version of CS at the time was 1.1. Our clan leader was IT for some company in Boston and was able to have these servers out of his office on a 100 mbit connection when the average internet connection was still dial up. I think I was 15 at the time.

The experience tought me a lot about SSH, compiling, text logs, config files, etc etc etc.
> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

A more accurate way to state this is “Absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence”. Or “Absence of evidence may or may not be evidence of absence depending on the circumstance”, though it doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily.
Ah, thank you for the correction.