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> Did it ever occur to the critics that Jeff's customers may not actually value the quality of artwork in his games all that much? At least not as much as the storytelling.

> His repeated success does.

Nobody is questioning that at all. What we were questioning was his last post.

He was trying to justify not making better art using wrong reasons. The only reason he actually had was "I don't want to invest time into finding someone good with art and the market I want to target doesn't care for it either", but didn't want to say that.

This new post isn't better, he push even further, pushing with even bolder claims, $150000-180000 for an artist? Sure... At least he confirm how he works and that explains why the art is so bad.

This guy is clearly a genius in game design and development, it's sad that it's spend alone like that micromanaging the art, but at the end of the day, what matters is that he does what he likes and that's fine.

What's not fine is him that art isn't worth it, that it would means everything will go down, etc... while it's just that he don't care about it and neither does his market.
How many times is this person going to repeat that his games look bad because he can’t afford to make them look good? We know! We know!!
Digital emulations of a spring reverb are definitely a thing too.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FRV1--boss-frv-1-63-...

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/HolyGrailN--electro-...

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SpringReverb--softub...
Not what i said. Straw-man much?
Uber doesn't have a yearly 10k yet. But their 10Q (quarterly) data for first-half (aka: 1H) 2019 is as follows:

$6.2 Billion in revenue, $(6.2) Billion in net loss.

So Uber roughly, has to increase prices by 100% to break even. http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001543151/bb9ba252...

I wish I were kidding. But that's what the data says. Page 5 of the above link, Revenue: $6,265 and Net (6,262) if you want to ctrl-F things.

Uber spent $6 Billion more this half-year on Cost-of-Sales, R&D, and Administrative costs (compared to the 1H 2018).

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Operational income / Operational Margins are negative as well. Sooo... yeah... somewhere around 100% price increases across the board for Uber to break even.

Realistically, Uber will only become profitable if they cut back on marketing (aka: giving incentives to drivers), raise rates, and cut back on their R&D spending (all this self-driving car nonsense... Uber isn't rich enough to fund such a project).
Market price of buildable land?
This looks like a good start: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html
I've been a full-time indie developer for four years now, and it is tough. I don't know if it's that much tougher than most other small businesses, I have friends who are dairy farmers, structural engineering contractors, graphics designers, an itinerant preacher or two... they've all got tough aspects to their respective professions, in some ways they're easier than mine, and in others way, way harder (I don't have to maintain the health of three to four hundred cows, for example.)

What I appreciate about Jeff's blogging over the years is his focus on sticking to a secret sauce, his is clearly an ability to put together classical RPG's with lovely writing. The reason I've been able to be a full-time indie is that I do both all the programming and all the art (painting/animating/modelling/etc) (As an example, I'm currently working on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke...). The fact that I need to sell half the copies than a team or two is, it turns out, a massive advantage. That, and the specific voice I bring to the writing/design of the games, helps keep me going, and selling copies in a competitive environment that's shifted a lot since I started in 2015.

Finding that secret sauce, that niche, I think that's pretty important.
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I've been waking up early (6AM) to learn Golang and Clojure. I't has been refreshing and I even fell more productive at work. (I work with Python most of the time).
If I don't see it in my inbox but I do see it in my calendar, does that rule out "came via email"? Or do I need to check spam folder too?
I won’t. I was this close to buying a Model3 but I got scared off because I need my car to get to work.

I had been driving BMWs for the last 10 years and while it hasn’t always been trouble free, they’ve treated me very well and either given me loaners or paid for a not cheap Uber to work.
> the compiler need to track the origin of all pointer values

If the size and the buffer pointer are both private, wouldn't it be enough to analyze all the member functions to ensure that there is no aliasing between them? Users might try to muck around in the internal representation using memcpy or whatever, but that would presumably be undefined behavior.
Honest question: I have personal page on S3 which I deliver using CloudFront. Should I think that this is an unwanted behaviour for my (certainly few) visitors?

I am asking in full honestly, not trying to create an argument here.
I like Physics Frontiers - they just cover a couple of papers on a modern physics topic (Loop Quantum Gravity, or Octonions).

It's a physicist and sculptor who taught himself serious modern physics, so it's an interesting dynamic.
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This sounds great. I’m wondering if this technology will ever be available for cunsumer use, similar to CDs or DVDs. The article didn’t mention current costs of this technology.
I assume they have a secondary role as caltrops for home defence or civil unrest scenarios.
if Kotlin get to point where it can compile to both AOT and native, Flutter will adapt it.
(or 1 tablespoon, once cooked) ;)
CBP were checking social media accounts under Obama for sure. Not sure if they did it for Visa applications under Obama or not but Trump made it a requirement.
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I dont consider the X-37 experimental anymore, how long has in been flying? It's kinda old news already, cool though.
I remember when I was young, being told not to say or do anything online I didn't want others to know (private messaging being the exception). When did we collectively forget this lesson?
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That's not a programming language. Different namespace.
Alternatively, assuming the current automation trend holds on, our technology may survive the collapse of humanity...
Given the climate of our world, we have a certain amount of arctic tundra etc. The best way to extract nourishment from that is foraging by e.g. reindeer. That holds irrespective of the population density.

Also, reindeer is one of the most ethical ways of modern husbandry. Animals live out in the wild, supported by humans e.g. adding feed when there is little to eat, protecting them from carnivores etc, and then they are slaughtered in a sustainable way after living close to how they do in their natural state.
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In the past I did this: http://eudyptula-challenge.org/

Not sure if they are accepting new applicants, but you can try. Also, you can try to find the assignments online.
Sure, but maybe we can start there. I would certainly buy a car that could drive itself a significant percentage of the time
That's not how it works. You have to invent in order to get a patent. The first ro file rule happens when two people independently invent the same thing.
Did you really think that the fundamental way your mind works must be different or just what you think and/or how you approach a topic?

If it's the first, yeah, that's a pretty entitled snowflake perception of yourself.
How are they not sending an email but putting stuff in my calendar?

When a friend sends me an invite on Google from their Gmail to my Gmail, I get an email.

I didn't think there was another mechanism.
Maybe more of those actually do tracking than you think. Maybe Stripe tracks people’s browsing because they find it useful to do so.

I’m writing “maybe”, but, you know.
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It's less than optimal from a privacy perspective, and it's worth being cognizant of that, but it wouldn't be enough to stop me from looking at the website.

Just don't serve stuff out of CloudFront and then cry foul when people point out that you're helping Amazon track your users around the Internet. :)
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We wouldn't know, since most of the incidents would never see the light. From the incidents that did come to light (e.g. Google spying on you through its assistant), we do know that they can and will bend the letter of the law to suit their purpose. So I think that it's your opinion that sounds hopelessly naive rather than OP's.
It is convenient if it's not getting spammed. I use it to passively keep track of things my SO or parents have planned like coming up to visit or other random events. With calendar injection they just show up and I don't have to constantly wade through my over cluttered gmail (side effect of having it for almost 15 years now).
> Developers are on tight schedules because games are extremely hard to program and bugs are very common.

I've not done any gamedev, but experience from all the jobs I've held says that this relationship is the wrong way around. Every time management pushes for delivery-at-all-costs, engineering practices decay to the point where delivery becomes slower.
> About 4.5 million of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, or 42 percent of the total undocumented population, overstayed visas, according to the report. [1]

You're right, they are just people trying to work, and there needs to be better handling of the entire situation. However almost half of them made an agreement with the government and then reneged. People should abide by the agreements they make.

[1] https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/border-illegal-immigr...
Yes. point about the charges would be a thing, something that should be debated...

would "use at your own risk" vindicate the company behind autonomous vehicle? or owner is responsible for his vehicle's actions? i guess never in the history, we had so much advance automations in direct hands of consumer...

As for the failure, I have reasons to disagree... if autonomous cars are working under "unsupervised learnings", my assumptions is, it most likely will makes different decisions for same scenarios based on data on hand.... so thousand's of failure events... though it may look similar may or may not end in same results... similar to how we would react when faced to some unknown situation on road... your scenario might more likely to play out for bad batch of hardware devices/sensors/lidar/camera etc in autonomous system...
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Would you really trust them to not track you even if you pay? Do they even have the technical ability to not serve the tracking shit based on whether you're a paying subscriber or not?

I don't want to volunteer personal & payment details (which is more info than their tracking can get, considering I block it all) to find out.
In every conversation I've seen, this accurate fact has been the primary counterpoint to the idea that a plant-based diet is more sustainable, but what percent of the world population lives a nomadic lifestyle in the arctic steppes? I don't see even the most hardcore vegans running social media campaigns aimed at coverting remote nomadic cultures to vegetarianism. They tend to focus on middle class white people who have more options available to them. Also, reduced meat and fish consumption by rich people would leave more healthy ecosystems to sustain those who depend on them.
The only reason anyone pays any attention to that throwaway line in Cicero is because the Antikythera mechanism exists. Can you find a single modern reference to that Cicero passage - pre-Antikythera mechanism - which interprets it, in full generality, as proving the Greco-Romans had analogue computing developed to such a high extent?
Aha, understood. Thanks for the explanation.
The article kinda beats itself with his examples.
E.g. he includes javascript from adobe for a font. Like why is that?

I don't know if Adobe uses that for tracking, but they very well could and that's hard to deny. They could control everything his page, because he uses a font from them. Sometimes there are tradeoffs, but there's no possibly legit reason for this. A font is a static file that changes never. You don't need Javascript to load a font and you certainly don't need to include something from a thirdparty host.
This requires going into my google calendar, i suppose. I have my iphone calendar synced where there is no such option.

Impossible? No. Inconvenient and a pain in the ass? Yes.
If there has been widespread mixing why is there no sickle cell anaemia in South East Asia or Papua New Guinea, even though there is Malaria?

If an allele had made it there, wouldn't it have been selected for?
The End of PHP?
It's a convenience thing. Without spam invites it's super nice to have events from friends and family pop up without having to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Yes, definitely. Not as consistently as I'd like to, but I definitely do. I mostly work on the JVM platform, and use Maven or Maven compatible build tools, so I tend to split shared code out into independent projects at some point, and push them to a private Artifactory instance, and then depend on them just like any other 3rd party dependency.

To the extent that I do any work in other languages (Javascript, etc.) I do less of this because I'm less familiar with the tooling that is analogous to Maven/Artifactory.
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The cheapest platforms in the UK are £5-10 per trade - $10 doesn't sound expensive.
I kept refreshing 'cause I thought HN was out of date, but it kept saying '2 hours ago'...
But public transport is simply not as good for now; ramming it down people's throats is not a solution. It is crowded, unclean, slow, and noisy. I have to listen to some one else blaring his music, or some fat guy taking two seats. Or some smelly guy who can't be bothered to shower. I suddenly have to plan my schedule around my transportation, rather than my transportation around my schedule. Maybe we should focus on making it a better option.

Also, why would you block existing roads? That's a ridiculous proposition. There's a difference between building something better and just forcing every one onto something worse. The market is stronger and smarter than any government, and will try as hard as it can to circumvent any thing you pass. Why not have the invisible hand do your work for you? Make it a better option, and people will use it.
There's virtually (heh) no way to host a web page that doesn't involve another company's infrastructure (AWS, your ISP, etc), even any number of nodes logging that some packets were forwarded from A to C.

If it's important to you then the best that can be done is find a company you can trust doesn't have profit motive to use this data and use always use HTTPS.

AWS is big enough that there's probably very little profit in analysing CloudFront logs but then again I don't know that.
Yes, it will be our loss in the long run. However, I don't give the benefit of the doubt in this case. This is what we know and we are discussing it. Holding off the conversation until all the information becomes available might be too late. If any other new information proves otherwise we'll change our conclusion.
Eh, I’m sure there’s quite a bit of waste in government spending, but I’ve become so disillusioned with the way that argument has been presented in our political discourse for a variety of reasons.

A) the US military has dragged its feet to become audit-compliant many years after it was mandated to do so, and there’s been a lot of reporting on corruption among military leaders and defense contractors. It seems like one side only cares about government spending when it applies to social programs like Medicare. Just look at the deficit increase in the current administration. They don’t actually care about balancing the budget. It’s just a political hit when the dems are in office.

B) the government never gets credit for projects that are completed early and under budget, which does happen. Michael Lewis of Moneyball game wrote a whole book about this titled The Fifth Risk. How are we ever going to be happy with how the government uses our taxes if we don’t recognize the wins they do accomplish? All we hear about are the screwups, and we don’t hold private industry to that standard because they have a clear goal: to make profit. Turns out that trying to keep a society functioning is expensive and not sexy work. Big surprise.

C) government takes on projects essential to society that private industry is unwilling to take on, which often come with price tags that the public loves to balk at. Take the Hanford nuclear site (also featured in the Fifth Risk). The US nuclear program failed to properly dispose of nuclear waste after WWII, and it was discovered to be leaking a few years back. This waste zone threatens the water supply for millions of Americans and is costing many billions to clean up. If there’s no competition to perform this work, how do we expect it to cost any less than it does?

Government waste is constantly berated as this existential issue in our society, but government waste didn’t cause the Great Recession, nor is it driving what’s looking more like another recession here in 2019.

Sure, I have no doubt there are ways to improve the efficiency and reduce wasteful spending, and I’d love to see better financial reporting around government spending like USAfacts.org. I think technology will play a major role in informing citizens on how tax dollars are spent, but I can’t just jump on the “government is wasteful” train because I’ve been deeply unimpressed with most of the alternatives provided those people.
Moving from car centered sprawl, to dense transit oriented city isn't something that can be done in one step. It's immensely complex, and changing the direction of cities/governments is difficult even when everyone involved wants to change.

I'm reminded of whiteboard discussions where someone says we are 'here X' and we want to be 'there Y' and simply draws an arrow between the two and says 'get started'. Assuming that all the important decisions have been made. Not realizing that the all complexity is in the arrow.

That arrow going from car focused to transit focused cities needs to be broken down into individual steps and those steps is where we need the brainpower going.
Hope you don't call yourself engineer then
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As long as Epstein didn't gain materially in the exchange, who cares where the money came from?
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In case anyone else is interested, I did some quick googling and found this article: http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/the-messy-history-o...

Apparently picking up your dog's poop (at least in New York City) was not a well known concept until the 1970's.
I do agree with you but at least those problems only take hours to fix and not days.

It is ironic that one of the best ways to send money to someone with a US bank account or even just access to a US bank is a check. Sure, the bank is a platform, but is a very robust and secure one compared to say, Paypal, Venmo, Zelle, etc.

All you need to do is mail someone a check with their name on it. They can then take a photo of it and deposit it into their bank. Everything is properly there for taxation and reporting so that you can be an aboveboard citizen, and you never have to worry about processing credit cards or chargebacks or disputes. A check is basically trackable cash.
He already claims to hire freelancers from places where the USD is more expensive, so I don't see why he hasn't considered just allocating his art budget into hiring one person from these places? Personally I can tell you that there are many places where 40k is more than enough to live very comfortably for way over 20 months.

I'm guessing the logistics of hiring someone internationally make that unfeasible? Maybe some sort of partnership could work? I'm not familiar enough with the legal caveats there
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I'd never received one of these until this morning, at about the same time I read this article. Now I just received the same one as you :P
Are you claiming that vegetarians have no access to the global logistics services or storage of food? This is ridiculous.
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That is quite the claim.
The burning of witches has little to do with Medieval times: they had the printing press in Bamberg around 1457... One of the very first places to have one.
What makes any one think that taking away parking will increase poor people housing? That seems to be the biggest shortage. Why would I turn my parking into housing I run at a low profit or even a loss, rather than up-scale luxury housing? I can make more money off that. And forcing a certain number of units of poor housing will only decrease supply further. I have yet to see evidence to the contrary.

Secondly, there are cities where aught but driving is not practical. See Houston; when I lived there, I had to drive often one-hundred-fifty miles per day to different places. There is also no one center; I may have one client in the woodlands, one in Bellaire, one in Sugarland, one in the Ship Channel. How do you propose to fix this? it is too big and too dense for the traditional "hub-and-spoke" model to work, too hot for scooters or bicycles (it regularly hits one-hundred-five degrees this time of year).
I can't help but notice this blog entry renders fine with all JavaScript disabled: https://0x0.st/z4bi.png

Despite this, the site wants to load 15 or more first party scripts and more still from third parties. Considering these scripts are evidently not necessary for the reader's benefit, what purpose am I to assume they serve that isn't contrary to my interests?
A book on software and algorithms would be useless without hardware to experiment on. There's only so much you can do with cogs and rods, so software only really starts to make sense with electronics of some kind - and only becomes useful when you have enough speed and memory to do real work.

Which in turn assumes that you have real work to do. One of the earliest civilian computing systems was a payroll calculator - which is only useful if payroll is a problem you need to have solved, which in turn is only necessary if your economy is complex enough to need payroll calculations at significant scale, and human "calculators" aren't available.

The point is that the Greeks and the Romans had the IQ to invent modern technology. The Greeks especially also had the philosophical background.

But neither had the politics or the economics.

Modern computing is a political phenomenon, not just a scientific one. It exists because it solves certain economic and political problems, and there's no reason to assume that a different culture would have identical problems - even if it could understand the theory.
> If those emissions standards are so rigorous why is climate change still happening?

Mostly because of the Chinese industry. Also coal and gas electricity generation. Nuclear power is the solution.

> Now divide by the number of passengers and try again.

Doesn't work like that. You can't divide noise. There's a threshold level.
To me, the strongest case for "Just enough piracy" has less to do with competition, and more to do with preserving dead media. There is so much media out there which is out of print and not available to stream, and would be completely inaccessible if not for piracy.
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