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Ask HN: Career pivot to games, production coordinator in big studio – good move?
Hello =)

I'm 38 years old, been a freelancer or project/program manager for the past 20 years. Hardcore gamer before, still love this industry.

Hence why i've applied to several studios for the past few years, usually in Production. For two reasons: 1) I'm not a game designer, programmer, artist... 2) I like enabling teams, some aspects of project management, and want to be better at it and grow in leadership as well.

I've got an offer in a big studio for a Production Coordinator role. I feel the level is a bit low for my age, salary as well. But at least they give me my chance (on the contrary to all the other studios i've reached), my manager is experienced and believes in me, and it would be for a triple A game.

Questions:

- How do you feel about this?

- Ultimately, i would see myself being a Product Manager for a tech company, or a Game Director in a studio. So not only managing projects and teams, but also having a vision for the product/games. Do you feel being a Prod Cord would be a good move toward this career? Knowing that i feel i already have a good "product sense", but i may be lacking in terms of execution.

Thanks for your help =)
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Or why not surreptitiously let it go into the hands of the pirates, which may at-least ensure its distribution.
Daily Mail is sensationalist tabloid.

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/google-dragonfly-letter/
Would that work also if I had only a single big drive? Say, divide the space on the drive into 2 parts and let ZFS use those parts as RAID1 disks?
McWhoter has fascinating podcast on Slate.com (sans the #$&*() Slate ads) All a couple of great popular science books on language.
That problem has nothing to do with science, though.

If you are getting your "science" from newspaper articles, then it's not actually science. You're getting some over-worked, underpaid journalist's attempt at getting a catchy article.
I'd always (and always do) google an advert rather than trying to remember the exact website anyway. If you search 'href sep' or 'hrefs seo' or even 'aref seo' it always still comes up as the first result for me.
I believe this is far less true than it used to be, but it’s a good example of why these decisions really need to be data driven as compilers and processors change faster than most people can afford to optimize code. I don’t know that this would be the case for something that simple but I’ve seen a fair amount of heavily-tuned C/ASM code which was replaced with the now-faster “reference” code when someone noticed that the old assumptions weren’t true.
I’ve found that most antivirus software is just bloat.
It is optimal for situations where you don’t want to trust a central institution. An asset worth $70bil from zero in a decade (Bitcoin) should be considered a successful experiment even if it disappeared tomorrow. Pure computer science, math, and game theory created it, and it’s quite impressive.
It is about five miles outside the urban growth boundary of Portland, Oregon, in unincorporated Clackamas County.
Both of those, though, spell failure for the original experiment. It claimed that the predictor was delayed gratification. That is false as false as the predictor of future success being how successful you are in 10 years. :)
There is a very hard difference between stealing something from someone, which deprives them from having access to it, and copying it, which doesn't. The first one is considered morally wrong by everyone here, the second one is argued not to be.
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Why is it immoral? It is knowledge and information must be free. Copyright and patents etc are only holding mankind back.
You have to hold down 'x' to run, and if you don't you go maddeningly slowly.
The letter says Google should explore how to enter China, not to enter China on the terms already known. The opposition letter is opposed to the terms already known. The difference is in whether a person trusts management to use that exploration responsibly. Judgments differ, based on recent evidence.
The database is fast enough for a few extra trips to it, so this is definitely what we should be focusing on.

(My cup of bitterness doth overflow.)
I'd say both organic and inorganic chemistry are hard sciences since they make precise predictions about what will happen. But not biochemistry, and definitely not cell biology or molecular biology.

I also wouldn't consider math a science since it doesn't require comparing your results to data.
The other day I saw that hour long gameplay video 2077 and it was mesmerizing. I can't wait to play it, will probably even upgrade my PC just for that game, but OTOH the world looks so immersive and deep I fear that I'd need a couple of weeks off.
Anecdotal, but I find the Node std lib + the language primitives to be good enough for me. I never find myself reaching for external dependencies outside of React or an equivalent on the front end, a testing framework, etc. maybe 5 dependencies total for a moderately complex app. I’m honestly not sure why the JS ecosystem is so dependency happy. It’s not necessary, and the downsides are massive and obvious.
My impression is that the vast majority of podcast listeners skip through ads, because that's what I do. It's easy to hit the 15s forward button four times and get right back to the funny interesting stuff. It's a lot harder to skip the ad if the funny, interesting host is riffing over the entire ad read - which means that the listener is still getting the product info, even if the host is making fun of the copy the whole time. Other hosts I've seen include references to the products they're hawking in the actual show (host response to guest's story about sleeping on a mattress on the floor: "I hope that mattress was a Leesa!") and I imagine they're getting a little premium for that.
Intel exec discloses discrete GPU details and strategy
The problem is the Universe of which it speaks can not be reduced to a handful of beautiful and concise mathematical formulae. A group of humans (or even a single human) is more chaotic and complex in their behavior than a group of atoms ever could be. All Carbon-14 atoms are the same. No two humans, however, are.
Clojure 1.10 (being released very soon) has a lot of work to make the commonly cited stacktrace problems better FWIW.
I'm not posting this as an "advocate" of Alex Jones, however his model works well for a news site. There is no advertiser creep of the message, there is not much outside influence at all.

Its a shame something like the NY Times didn't pivot to that model early on (essentially a news site thats funded by in-house e-commerce).

Whats funny is that that model was the first model of media, and truthfully it may be the future.
Mozilla should enable safe browser settings by default.

For example: third party cookies are never needed on 99% of the sites you visit.
Actually most of the lobbying pressure is coming from big copyright companies inside the EU like record companies and associated groups, "Big Content" companies.

They have already "militarized" copyright enforcement in Germany with GEMA (though not in the Kim DotCom way)
A legitimately very talented developer that I worked with showed me some of his first code at the company that contained `function post_document_load_do_shit` and `var turd`
This is pretty neat. For those interested in automating CAD, Solidworks has a COM interface (great C# support) and Fusion 360 has Python, C++, and JavaScript interfaces.

https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/api-support.htm

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-C154...
Nope. Which is why I refuse to use services like theirs.
Regards of cost? You would be willing to bankrupt the company to silence opposition to a few specific projects?

Where is this "screaming like privileged babies"?
This is whataboutism. Both are horrid: Corporations in the United States that build and sell weapons with the permission of the US government, other western governments and corporations that do the same as well. Yeah, horrid.

It doesn't excuse the fact that SA and MBS are also horrible.
That sounds really interesting. Do you have a source for this?
This article focuses on Detroit, because it's a Detroit publication, but there are easily hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of businesses across America that are cash-only.

Everything from restaurant equipment supply (to hide profits) to some of the best dive eateries in the nation (because of low margins).

Off the top of my head, in the last six months, I've patronized cash-only businesses in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minnesota (cash only or checks and they give you cash back), Arizona, rural Nevada, and probably other places I can't remember.

Once you expand your horizons beyond Yelp and Google, there's a whole other world out there.
First off, I’ve been to a couple of these places in Detroit and adding “no bitcoin” to the title to make relevant for HN... is like saying ”and they also don’t have space shuttle parking!!”

Second, I wonder how many places are really avoiding cards because of a 3% fee or because of extra administration and not really because they may be creative with their tax reporting?
Parents feeling the need to install these things seems misguided at best. But IID are in use all over the world and Universal IID hasn’t got far - as you’d expect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device
Reminded me of analytic vs synthetic languages:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language
Just today I started playing it, and it's really impressive. It's like being in a Cormac McCarty novel.

I imagine the pacing, realism, and atmosphere is not for everyone, but if it is your cup of tea this is (so far) a masterpiece in single player gaming.
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Probably German media "giants" like Springer and Bertelsmann. They don't get their shit done and are losing mind share each year, so they are panicking. However their influence on politics is still strong, therefore they can pull off stuff like that.
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The deepest problem with deep learning
dang, what an absolute horrible time for this to occur as public faith in institutions is deteriorating.
5G is weeks away – and Tuesday marks its first real test
Sounds like typical marketing people to me.
What of it?

That's already how the world works (it's not limited to the Internet).

Public information is public. Someone has already saved it.
I'm forgetting the legal terms here, but this is not a direct legislation by the EU, rather, every country "should" individually draft legislation corresponding to it.
I think the main question is - do second order methods enable faster training on a single GPU? Not in terms of epochs, obviously, but wall time.
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I found it odd that he wanted to pay the host to completely lie about their experience with a product. I thought that violates FTC rules.
SSH performance [pdf]
Thank you! Remember they are, in essense, dinosaurs. Evil little dionsaurs with mad, beady eyes!
People who buy Wrangler and LL Bean might vote conservative. Hard hitting stuff right there.

I suppose as per the article we could make a guess about the people that buy green hair dye?
The story in that game was an awful pastiche of 90s era action movies. No nuance or depth to any of the characters.
The history of cryptocurrency in particular and business law in general shows that adding money to the system doesn't automatically result in trustworthiness. Even the giant corporations providing cloud computing do decide to abandon products and discontinue services, or dramatically raise prices.

As someone else suggested, maybe the way to go is to rely on foundations. Maybe individuals shouldn't be taking on the burden of maintaining software alone? Maybe JavaScript needs a more slow-moving organization like Debian to handle package integration, with all the bureaucracy that entails?
Oh you can milk anything with nipples.
> Reddit ... the websites where the content is made by users.

Except for /r/WorldNews or /r/news or /r/programming or ...

The phenomenon certainly exists where hundreds of people will debate an article without ever reading more than the title and maybe seeing a picture. Sometimes the entire article will be copied into the discussion, even. Whether this phenomenon causes harm and requires correction is unclear.
Bodies can run on ketones (byproduct of breaking down fats) or glucose. I'm not sure where you got the information that T2 is related to fat heavy diet, that is not true at all. It can be related to bring fat, for to complications with obesity. It is related to glucose spikes, which causes insulin spikes, but the T2s body is insulin resistant and so sugar and insulin stay in the blood stream and can't be utilized. High sugar in the blood is the cause of most T2 chronic issues.

Also of note, a recent study has found that ingestion of cholesterol does not correlate with how much is in your blood.
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> A large portion of the internet will never have to comply.

Most sites are out of the scope of the regulation
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I think we have a failure to communicate here. This can all go away with those memorandums of intent turning into real arms deals.
>In the light of Saudi Arabia's actions in Yemen, this statement is clearly false.

First, the CIA actions in Iraq make this almost certainly true. Yemen is a minor conflict in comparison. Even still, Saudi actions could not happen without the US. The blockade could not take place without US assistance, the bombs being dropped are from US manufacturing, and the raids dropping the bombs could not happen without US intelligence and air support.
> they just have different priorities.

> because they perceive a reward to be had (possibly one related to validating who they see themselves as).

I think you're manufacturing a disagreement here.
Part bullshit. I'd say the jury is still out.
Personally I actively avoid brands that try to force their bullshit into my house.
How does the police go about proving that it was not self defense? The police have an even higher burden, needing to meet a standard of no reasonable doubt. Instead civil cases require a balance of probabilities.

So, no the difficulty in proving intent is not the reason.
Except we also use the term in connection with almonds, coconuts, and soybeans and we don't have to act like it's hard to understand.
There is another possible reason. Germany has retained a large cash economy mainly due to privacy concerns. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-06/germany-i...
> The study also noted newer financial obstacles for millennials. Broad economic trends depict a rise in health care expenditures, as well as a rise in college tuition that has outpaced general inflation that previous generations avoided in their young adulthood.

They forgot:

- Housing cost: previous generations were often able to pay off a house in 15 years. For millennial a 15 year mortgage is either a pipe dream or will require you to have a worse house in a worse location and still be more expensive than your parents may have paid for a nice house in a nice location. And the down payments were lower percentage of income.

- Lack of retirement options: a lot of people I know (myself included) don't have an option at work for a 401k and forget a pension, unless you have a government job it doesn't exist and if it does you probably won't last long enough without getting laid off to use it.

- Child care costs: my wife and I both work and we spend $19k (as in thousands) a year to send our 2 year old to daycare so we can both work. And we're not sending our kid to a fancy place either.

My wife graduated college in 2008 with $150k in student loan and it took over a year (with an biomedical engineering degree) to find a job. During which time I was the sole source of income and at one point we had no income because I got laid off. And we're two very well educated people with a middle class upbringing and every advantage. I can't even imagine what people with less advantage and non-engineer salaries.
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Yes. There was a CIA tool leak later, by an unknown person (but they have a suspect [1]), but it appears to be unrelated to Snowden.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-id...
That is a fantastic read, thank you. It's amazing how many structures and institutions have evolved from that simple concept.
There was a Reddit thread about something like this and some bilingual people said the language they speak changes their personalities to a degree.

For example someone raised in a language - say French in France - and then learnt English and moved to the US and finding than he is being more assertive or direct when speaking English than when speaking his mother tongue.
Though worth pointing out "political" is ambiguous and that this a case of politics in the "office politics" sense not in the "use science to justify policy" sense
Learning by watching the other big companies.
Whales stranded in New Zealand: Another 50 pilot whales die
That’s a relative issue: “People are usually able to drink at least one cup of milk per sitting without developing significant symptoms, with greater amounts tolerated if drunk with a meal or throughout the day.”

This is because most people produce some lactase it’s more a question on quantity of milk consumed.
We're talking past each other here:

- You're arguing that it was meet and right for Cetus to claim ownership of anything that the Stanford fellow did, presumably ad infinitum, as long as it was a "consequence" of the training that Cetus provided to the Stanford fellow. While I think that's a pretty aggressive position, I really don't care, because it's a business decision for each party to make.

- In contrast, I am suggesting that the Stanford fellow probably didn't realize the consequences of his signing a so-called confidentiality agreement, and that the lesson is to RTFA, not to assume that the agreement is limited by what its title says.
Right- I did look at them when they first came to my attention and I do like the look. If I were more of a fan of terminal customization I would probably give them a go. But it's weird to see them in code samples online.

I remember when I first was looking at them, I realised that they aren't even all consistent. I think it was the the "<=" ligature. <= can either be glossed as a left arrow or a less-than-or-equal, and at least one font decided somewhat inexplicably that it was an arrow. These fonts have no idea what the semantics are of what you're actually coding (since they're just ligatures) so insofar <= always means less-than-or-equal then you're fine, but if you find some language where it means assignment you'll need a different font!
I thought it was interesting. What's the stance you're taking with the anger?
> Your first instinct might be: “What if I return HTTP 201 Created immediately, but defer the actual creation to some later point?“... Well, you can’t do that. If you do, you will be violating the HTTP/1.1: Semantics and Content protocol

> We know what status code to return, what about Location header? Simple. Instead of the location to the actual resource (/stars/97865), API will return location of the queued task that got created (/queue/12345)

> How to learn when resource is finally available? You need to query the queued task... Once resource is created, API should respond with 303 See Other status code on all the subsequent requests to the queued task... There are two alternative ways to deal with the temporary task resource: API client must issue DELETE request, so that server purges it. or, garbage collection can be a server’s job to do

I've always wondered about how important it is to follow REST conventions, at the cost of simplicity, when you control both the server and client software.

In the example given above, the recommendation to use a 202 instead of 201, sounds perfectly reasonable. However, creating and returning to the client a new queue resource, which returns a 303 when complete, and the client then has to delete... Is it really so bad to just return /stars/98765 immediately? And when queried, have the relevant GET API return a response indicating that construction of the resource is still in progress? If the client needs to wait for construction to complete before doing something else, can't it just poll /stars/98765 instead of /queue/12345?

More generally speaking, if you're designing an API for use by your own client, and you're facing a tradeoff between interface/implementation simplicity vs following the official REST protocol, is it really worth choosing the latter?
The issues you list don't really seem to be relevant in regard to duplicate resource creation? They're just about handling creating the resource in the first place.

As long as the uuid is persisted you can redirect all attempts to recreate that id to the right job/queue/whatever actually backs resources.
In my view, the hard sciences aren't really directly comparable. We doubtlessly have our own problems, but not necessarily the same problems as the health and behavioral sciences.

I think that the hard sciences aren't necessarily so dependent on papers derived from isolated results, or even replication of those results, because there is more of a "web" of knowledge. An idea is hopefully supported by an experiment, but possibly also by theory and multiple different kinds of experiments, sufficient to be usable by non-experts and laypeople. For instance the basic theory of electromagnetism is good enough for virtually any kind of engineering, and it would take some monumental discovery to prove it false, even if a portion of the supporting work fails upon replication.

Another thing is, perhaps because of the precision of physics, we get proven wrong every day, and it ceases to be an embarrassment. The road is littered with the wreckage of failed theories and experiments.
You're strawmanning. They were saying they have no sympathy for the ad and ad tech industry - not that they have no sympathy for people who want to advertise their businesses.
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The difference is that with fp ops, it's part of the design and understood that you should never directly compare the equality of fp numbers since they are estimates. You should check for equality of fp numbers by checking their difference according to your needs.

Whereas for int ops, equality works within the limits of the design.

In short equality means something different in fp by design. For int, it means what we think it means within its limits. When we overflow, then things get screwy.
I know Aaron. I find it highly unlikely this is an ad.
How does this differ from the Boogie Board you can buy in toy stores right now? Just the larger size?

https://www.myboogieboard.com/
The costs of protectionism are typically diffuse and difficult to pinpoint. They take the form of higher prices and reduced choice.

Here's one example. Chinese consumers use Alibaba, not Amazon. They use QQ, not Twitter. They use Baidu, not Google. In all of those cases, the foreign brands are higher quality products.