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She was hostile because a real estate agent's approach is to black ball any for sale by owner listing, or any for sale by Redfin / Zillow, etc. Agents around my area always blackball these listings and will NOT tell buyers about these listings unless buyers specifically ask. This is nonsense and not in favor of buyers and is an attempt to bring failure to reform. Fortunately, more and more buyers are realizing they can do the research themselves online.
Sorry but I just don't see it.

I'm used to designing systems and games that work in 100ms+ latent environments since that's what you see in production(or try mobile where it can be 2-5x that).

We were doing 250ms ping times back in '99 with games like SubSpace and the like where you had a predictive game model/design. Yes you lose the overhead of designing for latency because it just won't fundamentally work in those scenarios.
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The reason it’s different is that it (like Chromium) runs a multi-process sandbox to try to isolate your system from vulnerabilities in the JS runtime or renderer. It’s possible to handle updates while new tabs are created gracefully in that case, but far from trivial.
Language coherency without business critical libraries, tooling and support for existing use cases, doesn't help much regarding language uptake.

I like Rust, yet I would be very masochistic to drop the C++ tooling support to write native libraries to plug into Java or .NET applications, and drag our customers and team alongside, just in name of coherency.

I have seen too many coherent languages fail to survive the adoption curve, because their communities failed to focus on the essencials to actually adopt them.
I know one person that is using Google Cloud for his company. He used to work at YouTube, so it's very handy for him since it works very similarly. But otherwise I don't know anyone using it for any production workloads.
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Have you talked with your manager and/or the CEO? Usually the hierarchy is quite informal. I would schedule a 1-on-1 over coffee in a different place than the office.
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Yes, this. Good agents are the ones you come back to when you want another house. Good agents know this, and live off of referrals from happy customers.

The fees are fixed w.r.t. the price of the home, but the agent is exposed to the risk of how much work is involved in getting a buyer/seller pair matched up. Both agents can be on the hook for some time -- houses may not sell for a while, or either buyer/seller decide to stop trying to transact. That's sunk cost by the agents.

So if you're not asking very much of the agent, or giving much risk to them, it's not worth 6%. But that risk has to be accounted for somewhere, and spread across clients like any other risk.

Also, if you're doing a sale + purchase, you can usually negotiate that 6% down with your agent.
Don't know why you're downvoted; that is exactly right.

There's nothing particularly unusual about game dev jobs or companies compared to other areas of tech (especially including startups); it's just that there are a lot of people who want to work on games. It's been that way for at least a couple of decades now.
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Well, there goes the high salaries, flexible working hours, and generous RSU grants for tech employees. Have fun fighting and scraping for 2% raises, paying exorbitant union fees for questionable benefits, and dealing with the nepotism and personal politics of your union leaders. And thanks in advance for adding to the unfunded pension liability crisis.
Yeah, when people ask me what LSD is like, I tell them it's like those decals people put on large windows so that birds won't hit them. Your perception of reality is mediated by the lens of your senses and mind. The drug distorts that lens, allowing you to see it and study it.
I don't claim to be an authoritative source, but from my experience as a unionized employee at a university

Pros (mostly the employees perspective):

- Greatly increased negotiating power (We all got paid way more than I expect we would have if we weren't unionized)

- Pooling of resources to acquire shared resources (e.g. labor lawyers)

- Generally the ability to appeal decisions like "you're fired"

- Selling point when hiring (since unionized tech companies are rather rare, and everyone claims it's hard to attract talent, I'd expect this to be valuable to the company)

Cons:

- That increased negotiating power is wielded by people you often don't quite agree with.

- It's more bureaucracy, which means more inefficiency

- Generally less ability to negotiate for yourself

- While job security for yourself is obviously a feature, job security for under-performing colleagues can actually really suck. Working with, and fixing the messes made by people who just don't care is not fun.
I own over nearly 100 games on Steam, mostly bought on sales. Despite the tons of titles I bought, I miss the experience of actually owning a copy of the game, along with the box and manuals that came with it. More importantly though, I think it's scary that Valve can one day decide to totally ban a user from their purchased game because they didn't like the behavior or actions of an account holder (e.g. cheating in a Valve game or account getting hacked).
Yeah Amazon (especially AWS) is pretty decent with customer service all things considering.

I've heard of people getting hacked and having huge bills because they stared up bitcoin miners with their account. I think AWS actually refunded the charges.

Scary to think if Google would do the same as easily.
Top performers already have that choice.
I suppose it means that you wouldn't even be able to get a job at a closed shop unless you were already a member of the union.
Why? What would be better about uBlock Origin if it was integrated? Furthermore, it wasn't that long ago that we all used AdBlock Plus, and then uBlock. If we integrate the current flavor of ad blocker, what happens when we want/need to move to something else?
I think the SSD would have been $500 more, which I would have happily paid if I had realized how poorly the fusion drive would perform.
Leverage. As an individual, the response of the company is likely to be "whatever, we can hire someone worse than you who won't make these demands." If hundreds of people are saying the same thing, we're in a better negotiating position.

It is funny that you attack pro-union folks with a comparison to Soviet propaganda when you yourself are spouting better propaganda than the USSR could ever have dreamed: capitalism is miserable, there's no way your salaries can ever be high while you're happy at work, deal with life sucking, workers have only their chains.
It's going to end badly, unlike factories where a walkout would but a strain on production. A walkout necessarily doesn't put a strain on tech. Companies are going to embrace distributed teams/remote teams very fast and unionizing will just be a reason to close up shop in that location. That's what I imagine happening, predicting the future is hard tho.
Wiki article on the "no-poach" cartel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
I wonder if you could use something like the RetroArch rollback solution[1] - render multiple versions of the stream, then pick the closest one based on player input. With a fast enough Internet connection, you could let the _client_ pick, then there is no lag.

Of course, the hardware you have to throw at it to do that quickly becomes ridiculous, unless you can come up with a way of efficiently rendering the multiple versions.

[1] https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-2%E2%80%8A-...
American Idiot really was ahead of its time.
> Is there such thing as "tech" that makes unionizing easier?

e-Mail, instant messaging, etc. Any form of communication makes unionizing easier.
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This is exactly the problem. Many of the unions I mentioned above are such ones, where in many places, you must be a member if you work in an industry. They are less unions and more guilds.
Let's say you are a carpenter, a skilled trade you have likely spent a large number of years learning. It's quite hard to leave the union, because you will be forced to move to a different profession. This obviously isn't right. Unions can serve a purpose for collective bargaining; I think most agree on that. But they don't need to support political parties.

It seems that some unions have shifted from representing employees in negotiations to representing a profession in all respects. I believe that's contrary to their original purpose and dilutes both their support and their credibility as simply advocating for the worker.
That's such a gross misinterpretation of the words "use" and "purposes" in the zoning code that it's not worth replying further.
Unless I'm mistaken ChromeOS is only used in US schools on a wide scale.
not sure, lot of companies make Money with Open Source (redhat, SUSE, Gitlab) or companies like Github, which earns money with Open Source, without selling Open Source products... Maybe the problem isn't if the code is closed or not, but the product itself?
The inability to read SMS is flat-out user-hostile.

They could have a permissions UI with red/yellow/green indicators for privacy risk or similar, and let users choose. I want Lightflow and KDE Connect to have access. Why is that so hard to understand?

Oh wait, they do. They're just intentionally crippling their product.
Unions in tech companies is a very interesting idea. A lot of people never speculate this idea because lets be honest most of them get paid really well or visa workers are simply too scared to join such "abominable" unions etc etc. If any one can start materialize unions would be the workers at FAANG companies. And I am pretty sure rest will follow suit. As a tech worker, I see this as a positive change. As a CTO, this should scare me. As an honest CTO, I would see this as a balanced change for my subordinates and slightly shifting the power dynamics towards them.
> And if they do promise that maybe at best it’s their marketing PR and at worst look what communism did in Russia.

Good grief, really? We're pivoting from unions directly to Soviet communism?

The advantage of a union is collective bargaining. If I, on my own, ask my employer to alter the layout of their building so that I might have a private office they're quite likely to say no. And not unjustifiably - altering the entire floorplan of the office to accommodate one person is kind of an unreasonable request.

But if all us employees sat down and decided that we all wanted private offices - or the option of a private office - our request to the company is a lot more reasonable. And no individual employee is going to be singled out as a problematic troublemaker. Plus it's a lot more difficult for the company to say no.
"You mentioned that the letter to management listed your grievances. Some people find the idea of a tech workers union implausible, because they find it hard to believe that tech workers could have grievances in the first place. After all, software engineers are relatively well paid. What’s your perspective on that?"

"People didn’t even want that much more time off, or that much more time not on call. They just wanted to know where they stood. They didn’t want to have to engage in highly personalized bargaining all the time. It wasn’t that there were rules that favored management — there were simply no rules, and this ambiguity worked in management’s favor."

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/lanetix-tech-workers-unio...
It seems your mis-understanding what a union is, the union will talk with management, forming an agreement as to what the pay scales are, how much paid leave is given at minimum, and escalation processes like grieving an issue when management does shitty things to the workers.

The "overhead" you speak of is to pay someone to negotiate on the workers behalf, save up for a strike stipend, and provide worker training (usually Unions will run or subsidize courses to help workers skill up, get licensed, etc).
Signed up but still waiting for them to introduce Instagram importing. I have quite a few pics on there and I want to completely move over without losing the order and posting times of my Insta account.
You mean a great place to loose another 30% of your income. A great place where you are forced to implement Google play related shit. A place where you can be expelled from the service based on wrong bot decisions. A place where there is no human support. A place where only the big publishers are looked after for. A place where indie developers are treated as shit.
A place where search algorithms are dubious.
Yes that's what you can expect from a Google stream service. Just as the playstore currently is.
>What on earth does the 2016 election have to do with wealth inequality

A guy who is objectively unqualified for every conceivable post had the opportunity to become elected as president of the U.S. merely because he was born wealthy.

You might have heard the following term before: plutocracy
Isn't this a bit circular though? If the fees are high enough, it allows for an oversupply of realtors ... which only gets worse in a rising market because fees are % based and entry-to-market (for a realtor) is fairly easy. NB: easy to enter doesn't mean easy to succeed, which is borne out by the longevity statistics, I believe.
Some personal experience, some anecdotes, some assumption. Nearly every time I've read a job posting using similar language, when I've been able to actually talk to the developers there I find out that yep: it's long hours expected.

There's specific words, like "self-motivated" or "willing to learn deeply" to convey the ideas you're talking about, without meaning working extra hours. But when a job posting uses the vaguer "passion", "grit", or similar hustle-y words, it's just a red flag to me that they're being non-specific - they probably have a reason.
Non-competes are illegal in California. If your contract contains one, the non-compete clause is null and void
You can't be forced to join the union though you may be forced to pay union fees if that provision is in the collective bargaining agreement.

If you're in a right to work state neither fees or membership is required.
How would you qualify US style vs non-US style unions? The prevalence of business unionism here?
I think my concern about this wholly depends on if it completely takes over the business model. I really want to own my games. But, I don't mind if alternate streaming models exist, just if they become seriously required.
Maybe the US has a different experience with unions but in Brazil, they are simply hated. They were made mandatory by law and very rarely (never?) step in to help employees.

It's only at big factories that they show up when more than X number of people are fired and do a big show out of that. Meanwhile, all the employees not working for big factories paid their union fees and saw nothing back. It's often a platform to launch their political careers.

Luckily, they are not mandatory anymore and now employees have to opt-in which was a great change. They have to work to earn respect and those fees back... but I'm not seeing much movement in that direction. So far they have been going the legal route, trying to cancel the changes to the law (and have lost).

In theory, the concept of unions is great but in practice, at least here, it was a terrible thing, from my IT bubble perspective.
> Netflix, YouTube TV, Twitch, Sling, Amazon Prime Video -- basically all streaming services offer flat rates, not per-MB ones.

YouTube (and Google Play TV & Movies, which appears to carry the same for-sale/rent content in a different storefront) and Amazon Video also both offer purchase of individual content items as well as a common flat rate subscription to certain content.
Then they've failed their principal/agent fudicary duty and should be sued.
You think it'S a conspiracy theory to believe that days after Chemnitz, when another German was dead in that part of Germany, a coroner report that was pushed out hours after the attack, stating that although he was attacked and died on the spot, it didn't cause it - that all that is nothing but the truth? Ok yes I gladly accept that label
Pretty simple to fix actually. Charge a flat fee up front, like $1,000, to do the initial listing. Get the house independently appraised, maybe subtract 10%. Give incentive commission equal to the difference in the sale price and the discounted assessed home value * 20%. So if the agent manages to sell a $500,000 home for $700,000, they get a $41,000 commission. If the home sells for 10% below its market value, they only get the $1,000 compensation for the listing.

Of course this will never actually happen due to the racket currently going on as described in the lawsuit. Why would they agree to this structure when they can already skim 6% off the home price just buy submitting some photos to MLS and opening up doors and closets for people for a few weeks.
You have any first hand experience with the "basic CRUD wanting FANG level salary" types?
What do you do when all the best-paying companies in your industry lobby for things you don't like, leaving you few, poor, options for employment? If we must solve this problem for unions, it's surely at least as important to solve it for companies.

As for closed shop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_shop#United_States

It's illegal, so's the similar "union shop", and you can opt out such that you still pay dues but they may only go toward collective bargaining activities and services to members, which appears to solve this "I'm being forced to support the only viable political party that wants to make anything whatsoever better" problem. Maybe leaving others, sure, but this issue's... not an issue. Unlike employers. I can't sign a piece of paper banning them from using profit derived from my labor for political activity.
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What worries me is that I read about this being "Chrome-only".

Google is not just trying to win in console gaming space here - it's trying to establish itself as the browser monopolist and it seems to be doing it without much subtlety.
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Much worse. They collect dues, which ostensibly are to support what's going on where you work, and then just funnel it to politicians. So, it's your money going to political campaigns. If a company owner or corp funds a campaign, at least they're doing it with their own money.
That is an interesting detail. I don't want the future of gaming to be Google-based, but it would be awesome if this project - in the couple years before Google ditches it - leads to some real headway in Linux gaming.
My interactions with tax prep professionals and software have all been far, far worse than my interactions with the IRS. The IRS says exactly what they mean, while everyone else "interprets," does a bad job of it, and leaves you stuck with the bill plus the hassle.
In European countries where this is the model there are often several competing unions with different political affiliations.
Well, that's basically what I'm interested in. Whether this law would stand if challenged with a constitutional due process (or other appropriate) claim.
I've recently read a seminal work on LSD and how it affects human psyche: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196573.Realms_of_the_Hum.... Cannot recommend it enough. I feel it demystified a great deal of uncertainty and unknowns I had about LSD.
The book was based on roughly 2500 LSD sessions (mostly high dose, in 150-300mg range) that the author conducted in 70s with different patients, including himself. AFAIK, it is the first book to systematically approach the topic and map psychedelic LSD experiences in roughly 4 categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof#Encounter_with_....

Each patient would have series of LSD sessions in a regulated environment (usually in a room with an interior that feels secure and comfortable, a psychoanalyst guiding the session included). First sessions were used to test an individual high dose threshold. Once the high dose for a patient was established they would stick to it. According to the book, 'bad' or traumatic LSD experiences are mostly related to the 2nd (BPM II: Cosmic Engulfment and No Exit) and 3rd (BPM III: The Death-Rebirth Struggle), reliving of birth- and prenatal traumas that are suppressed. It takes usually several high dose sessions with a psychoanalytic integration work afterwards in order to 'resolve' traumas. Once they are resolved they don't resurface and the person generally can lead happier life.

Regarding 'bad trips' with lasting consequences in the aftermath: the author mentions that _in some cases_ when a trauma was not resolved or properly addressed in the course of one session the patient could suffer from various psychotic episodes after the sessions was over. As far as I could tell, simplistically speaking, this was attributed mainly to the fact that the traumatic content (normally suppressed) resurfaced and was sort of left uncovered and 'half-processed'. It was stressed in several places in the book how important is that the 'set and setting' is right for an LSD session and how it could be dangerous and counterproductive if LSD is consumed in a wrong environment or not followed up with an appropriate 'psychoanalytic' work after the session is finished.