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The cost of making games outpaces the revenues generated by games, especially if you're not EA, Rockstar or Activision.

That is why there are monetisation options and special editions and, disgustingly: loot boxes.

Notably EA (which, gamers hate) is known inside the gaming industry as being quite competent and not as constrained on the time or financial budget, so they can throw more resources at things. But the ongoing cost of a server instance is still eternal and will eat your profits away in the future, so they focus on being p2p.

Rockstar has budget too, but they also don't have online games in their DNA yet, their development teams seem to still think of single player games. (based on a few conversations with their devs).
I still haven't found convincing data on this. There is this very weird guardian article that makes claims about large effects but contains a series of figures that seem to show very small effects:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/27/coronavi...

Am I interpreting it wrong?
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> Safe and easy to use separated continuous paths. Not just paint strips but actual physical separation.

I think this is such a critical point. A lot of people are not interested in getting on a busy road, but would definitely get on a bike only path.

I will also add that I think cities should be creative and try to develop more bike infrastructure that is independent of the roadways altogether. The lakefront trail in Chicago is a good example. Many cities could develop similar infrastructure along rivers, through parks, through repurposed streets, etc. having a separate network is not only safer but if done right can often be faster for commuters than driving or public transport.
And naturally, "memory corruption is not an issue in games!".

Well, it is when you plug them into the network.
I am not sure if you intentionally ignored it because I said the same - that women in tech is a minority - outlier. The problem with accessing whether the field is unattractive to women is asking women not in the field why they don't like the field which I haven't seen done much. This is the reason why I compared construction.

Secondly, I don't understand why it has to be CS. A product requires more roles than a CS graduate. UX/UI, design, support, marketing, management, documentation, etc.

There can be more women in any of those roles and there seems to be in some.

A team of CS graduate wouldn't pull off a global product even if they are diverse because they are CS graduates.
Sure - because some rich people think they're better than the rest of us and polluting the city we're supposed to be sharing so they can be more properly segregated from us is fine.
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Yeah, sounds like that would work. Wired definitely should do that for her.

The implementation of this google search feature also seems to be astonishingly stupid.
Same. I wished they didn't call it GraphQL. When I first looked into this, I had to explain to people that it was just a spec. A spec that can be implemented in different languages. It is not SQL.

I jumped into GraphQL form the PHP side. And after understanding what it was the next step was simplly exposing an endpoint. From there, https://webonyx.github.io/graphql-php/ took over.It went like: Route --> Controller/action --> Use `graphql-php`. For the resolvers, I was able to re-use the services the returned data.

The "entry barrier" to the existing legacy-ish framework we were using wasn't too hard. But the learning curve to solve problems in "GraphQL way" is much harder to push as most people are used to REST way of doing things.
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If people are interested in studying a combination of Raft and SQLite, you could check out this Raft-based database I created:

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

Your point about "the impression that you can just plug Raft into an existing system and suddenly have a performant and scalable distributed system" is an excellent one. One the biggest misconceptions I come across is that rqlite is distributed for performance when it's actually all about reliability. In fact performance is significantly reduced versus just writing to SQLite itself.
how is 20 to 50 % reduction "very small effects"?
lowtech magazine [1] is an amazing example at sustainablity serving a website, they use solar powered only infra and the website is only available theoretically, if there's been enough sun to power the servers that day (In Barcelona, at least we've sun much of the year)

[1] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com
> If someone is expressing political or even religious views that are so extreme that they create a hostile work environment, I don't see an issue with firing them over it.

There is a process, and step one in that process is asking them to please stop sharing their views in the workplace.

Expressing extremely wrong views can't be the standard for creating a hostile work environment because people are wrong about a bunch of stuff and the only way to figure that out is to express the view and be told why it is wrong.

Particularly in the Damore case, the standard shouldn't be how a third party feels. There is a long history of seeing how that standard plays out, it'll end up hurting minority voices. The standard needs to be how a first party responds when asked to do something.
That's not what I'm saying or implying, obviously this is something the company takes into account when producing the game.

I'm lucky to work for a company (that, yes, is still a company so wants to make profit): is more interested in continuing to make games than seeking great profits.

So for us, making a game that doesn't make money back isn't a bad thing, unless we make a game that doesn't make it's costs back and then we're risking the ability to continue making games. (cough Ghost Recon Breakpoint cough)

The truth of it is, most people don't play 3 months straight with no breaks, most people will play for a month, complete a campaign and then the player numbers will dwindle rapidly to the 20%~ mark.

But we put in monetisation strategies (skins, so forth) to carry the continued cost of the server instances forward. Hardcore players might buy some and that is enough to make them cost neutral or cost positive.
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It's an interview, so a more accurate piece of feedback would have been "you couldn't convince us you have practical experience programming."

So maybe they had a question like, how would you solve those problem, and you said, here's the solution, but they really wanted you to say, there are three potential approaches that i would use, these are the things i evaluate to decide which approach is likely best, these are the war stories that I've had that led me to refine my thinking to this point.
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I have to doubt this is a primary factor. If it were then developers would make more single players games, but everyone wants to make online games with microtransactions
Just because something is obvious doesn't make it trivial to fix. A lot like fixing a bug you know exists, but can't fix it because it's never brought in scope.

One of the more obvious problems is that software especially seems to have issues with sexual harassment. An example of that can be readily found with Susan Fowler's blogpost about Uber's rotten workplace culture.
>Or maybe I'm missing something - it's been a while since I played those type of games.

The primary reason companies do not follow the tried and true method of game design is that they can't extract money in the form of microtransactions or server rent if they provide the full game (including server).
Do they not tax cars in your country?
> Be precise, how is your community not friendly to women in ways you cannot fix in five minutes?

Techbros. Techbros everywhere. It's not what people want to hear, most people would love it if the field and the educational pipeline leading to it had more professional norms all-around. But it's a real thing. (FWIW, I don't think of Damore as part of the problem, indeed his proposals would help a lot if widely adopted.)
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's possible to disagree without going all the way to an extreme like this, and necessary in order to be in harmony with the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note this one:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
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Is sexism a political view?

Edit: burn, karma, burn
Let's continue with your cleaner analogy:

You hired the cleaner to clean. They do their job as per agreement. You are satisfied and so are they. Then one day they find out that in addition to cleaning normal office mess, they are now cleaning blood. Blood from victims of the company's activities. Should they remain ignorant of the company's real societal impact? Should they voice their opinions to fellow cleaners? Should they take advantage of the purported freedom to speak their minds their companies advertised during their hiring?

Life rarely offers us an easy black or white judgment on complex realities.
> Thanks for all the lack of cycling paths and constant tax refund to car buyers I guess?

I mean, given all of the specific taxes in the UK and its municipalities on automobile ownership and operation, I don't find it credible that "car buyers" benefit from a "constant tax refund".

Also, as an outsider, I remember people chiding and undermining Boris Johnson as mayor of London when he tried investing in cycling in London, I literally heard expats making fun of it.

> When you're unable to provide safe public transport

Nobody manufactures any mass-market HVAC system for buildings or vehicles that can do continuous air sterilization at a rate that would reliably prevent the spread of this virus. I know how I would build this, but it isn't a standard component of any vehicle as of yet.

They should demand vehicles like this now, but given that nobody has experienced this sort of thing since public transit was invented, I'm not that let down that public transport isn't safe during a pandemic.
Interesting. This might be a step in the direction of being able to store big files in repositories without hassle.

However, perhaps OS level support would be preferred. Imagine you have a type of symbolic link that is not just followed, but executed when you access it. That would be really powerful and would allow this kind of optimization. And you wouldn't even need to install or run anything.
This thread is peculiar.

Framework <-> library is a spectrum, of course, but as an obvious indicator of React’s location on that spectrum—you can feasibly use it inside, say, an Angular app to render a particular third-party widget. At its core, React is a super-efficient unopinionated render() and tools for constructing its input. On its landing page it establishes right away (IMO, correctly) that it’s a library.

The reverse, bringing a single Angular component into an otherwise React-based webapp, is basically an oxymoron. Angular will generate e2e test scaffolding for your entire project, prescribe where to query data, expect you to follow a particular file layout in your codebase, and pull in enough machinery to rule out any auxiliary uses.
I can't tell if you're trying to say that a policy from management is beyond all reproach or if "these things just happen in the real world". Either way, the former shouldn't be true and the latter should be wrong. Of course, correctness doesn't stop anyone from being terminated, but that's not the point.
Most news agencies besides Fox struggle to get Republicans to agree to appear on the show.

CNN famously lambasted Republican lawmakers for refusing to appear after the shootings in Dayton and El Paso last year.

What you have described is that liberal lawmakers are willing to face adversarial news coverage while conservatives are unwilling to do so.
Yes, Ben Johnson's (https://github.com/benbjohnson) presentation on Raft is great. He is also the creator of BoltDB (https://github.com/boltdb/bolt) which is a core component of Hashiscorp's Raft implementation (https://github.com/hashicorp/raft).
In terms of risk of death from other people, rocks and geology is likely vastly more risky due to economic incentives. Gaming gets bad publicity simply due to scale, but on average it’s extremely tame.
Motorists using touchscreens in cars are being distracted. Voice is much safer
I expect "gamer" here is used as shorthand for "Twitch's existing audience."
Yes you can and LA actually already had quite an extensive public transport called the Pacific Electric network. The last of it was dismantled around 1961-63. They were replaced with diesel buses. These are some maps. The ehra.org site has some good timeline and some cost figures as well.

https://www.transitmap.net/pacific-electric-1925/

http://www.erha.org/pesystem.htm

And here is a link to LA Times article some details about what actually happened:

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-re...
> “In situations where people are searching for something like a phone number that is not readily available online, our systems are understanding these pages (that include those exact keywords plus a phone number) to be the best matches available, even if the phone number is not the correct number for that entity,” Lara Levin, a spokesperson for Google, said in an email.

This is completely depressing. I would really like to know what thought process led to something like this being implemented. Why would anyone even think that attaching a wrong phone number and email to anyone and broadcasting that on the top of Google Search is a wise idea?
I guess that very much depends on the game, but the game I make would be very uninteresting if you hosted your own server, it doesn't lend itself to that 'pick up and go' style of play like counterstrike does.

It's more like Destiny, World of Warcraft or Diablo in that there are RPG elements, a grind for loot and the possibility to meet other players.
As I interpret it, the charts show a comparison of the change between two periods in 2020, compared to the average change over the same two periods in the previous five years. I can't see much difference between the trends this year and the five-year-average (I suppose the average difference is due to seasonality).
I think it would be much more valuable to address why it works as a scissor statement. The fact that it does is obvious in the debate, but it's unclear why/how it does that.

I wonder how much of it comes from people first seeing opinionated reporting, misleading excerpts, or edited versions (one of the key statements - that differences in populations cannot be applied to make decisions about individuals - was part of a diagram [1] that was missing in initial leaks), or not having seen it at all.

However, I believe it acts as a scissor statement even for people who started by reading the full version, which is extremely interesting, and which I'd love to understand.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideo... page 4 top
Re: Alaska, beavers are already getting there first and exasperating the climate effects upon the tundra. A fascinating read: https://alaskatrekker.com/2017/11/beavers-moving-northern-al...
Are hypervisors and containers really abstractions though? All they do is manage access to the underlying resource.
If you think it's incompetence, and you want to correct it, then you need to point to specific points that validate your opinion vs the published opinion of NASA. It's only a touchy subject if you don't have the data to back it up.
I’d imagine a safety feature on the airplane to be a battery or even capacitors to help smooth out any drops in transmission. At least the batteries could be small
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I'm not entirely certain that your anecdata about ex-Google project managers (who only lasted a year there) has much bearing on this article.
You are currently on Hacker News, which is designed to appeal to a certain demographic that includes you.
These things are super fun. I use one to track airplanes and weather in flight with the stratux project. (http://stratux.me) It pairs the USB radio receiver with a raspberry pi and broadcast the location of ADS-B equipped aircraft to your tablet with flight tracking maps. No internet for most of us in a bug smasher - the data comes in over radio waves.
You forget about moderation. HN has pretty active moderators who generally come down hard on trolls and bad faith arguments.

The troll may see it as validation when their posts are struck down, but that only matters to them, and since they're struck down and banned, it doesn't matter to anyone else.

For some cases, I agree that a well-pointed rebuttal can be effective, not to convince the troll, but rather to inform the audience. You cannot convince the troll, but you can show the audience how his arguments are flawed and false.

There is a balance, because you also risk giving his posts more attention, which is counterproductive. If possible, take the arguments to a place where the people who are already sympathetic to your arguments are in the majority. Have the discussion on your home turf, don't discuss in forums where the troll has the majority.

And obviously know when to disengage. Arguing with a pure bad faith troll is utterly pointless, they'll just keeping spinning bullshit while you try to seat down their nonsense. The takes a lot of effort on your part and absolutely none on theirs. In the process, they get to air even more of their nonsense to an audience.

Facts are precise and specific, lies are random, unlimited and don't have to have any connection to truth or reality.
The snippets feature has always seemed somewhat shady to me -- in essence, it steals pageviews from the websites that did the hard work of sourcing the information.
Is there any evidence (say, the numerous studies on this very topic) that would convince you that the pipeline of many careers has systemic discriminatory effects driving particular genders and races out of those fields?
They are likely a) harder to find b) firing Damore is more likely to satisfy the loudest group while firing the leaker is going to rile them up more.
"honoring" is a bit much. At the time the IRL content wasn't doing well so they looked at what was, it was gaming.

They're doing the exact same thing now. Surviving.

For the sake of it "How about Justin.tv? That sounds nice, doesn't it?" No, that's actually a terrible name for a livestreaming site.
I understand what you're saying about the hyperbole, but we're also at the point where there are multiple, overlapping problems of a very serious nature to a species with 7.8 billion beings sharing a planet. The hyperbole isn't useful, but the larger idea that the time to act IS NOW shouldn't be diminished.
I wouldn't mind frameworks if they actually had what they claim to offer. Nowadays so many frameworks don't even deliver, they have those nicely looking webpages and come with advertisement after advertisement of their features (even if they aren't sold!), and then when you look closely at the source code or API docs, half of those features are vaporware.

This is more than infuriating, it can actually cost you a lot of time if you're not careful about evaluating the framework.
So true! In addition to your points, so many were even watching the same news program for one person - Walter Cronkite at CBS. Additionally, the newspapers were of high quality. Of course, there were editorials with opinion pieces, but the news articles generally were reported neutrally (or at least with overt bias).
I've thought about monetization a bit. I think the move is "you only pay when you don't do your chores." Choremate's big differentiator is small and gradual punishments. The site would collect the financial punishments. As you say, charging money in a form like a subscription might be a nonstarter for the demographic.

I haven't explored SEO in choremate much but I know its a fantastic acquisition channel based on one of my other projects.

The tagline used to be "The Chore Chart for Adults" but I think it read as a practical joke for some people. The big differentiator of choremate is small and gradual punishments for not doing chores, but putting this forefront when talking to users turned them off. They don't want a picture of the sausage being made on the package.

Social proof would be great and I'll definitely leverage it when I have some. My household is the only household using it right now though lol.

Solid suggestions all around, thanks!

P.S. Checked out http://jack.works and http://jack.ventures. Very cool!
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I'm not sure about "most developed countries" but there is still very strong memory of past violence in Great Britain. Some of the tail end of it still bubbling.

On another tack, there are plenty of homeless people in the UK. Can you imagine what would happen to them if they broke into expensive uninhabited properties in London? There would be violence.

I have no idea of alternatives, I was just pointing out the origin of a lot of current land ownership.
But if you have a cheat fest server, players will leave and not buy any hats and other accessories.

Also, as part of the server software it could include the marketplace, which would sit on the game developers servers, so all transactions would go via the game developer and maybe they could give some commission to the person hosting the game.
The problem with doing that is that it sometimes can drift for several minutes and thats super annoying when you are working on something, it really slows down you productivity.
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White nationalist as in kkk or white nationalist as in conservative?
Fair point, I don't see the use of in-depth analytics for personal blogs either, maybe having the number of readers is helpful to know if your articles are read by anyone or not.
Would you hire someone who was really good at something but hated doing it?
I agree, this needs to be fixed also. But teaching isn't my industry.

One of the teachers I most learned from was male, he actually sparked my interest in computers because he ran an after school computer club for 20 pence.. which for a poor household such as mine was affordable..
> because some rich people think they're better than the rest of us

Lol let me break it down for you, but it isn't "the rich" who need cars to drive to the city center. It's the low/lower middle class workers who can't afford to live in the city center but still need to get to work to pay their modest apartment in the outskirts of the city.

And by the way, those who can afford the luxury of living so close to their job that they can just walk or cycle to work in the city center are not "the poor" either.
>"Meanwhile, a judge opined it wouldn’t be easy for two fellow plaintiffs to prevail on their “novel” theory that Google is biased against “political conservatives” -- a term the company argued was too vague to support a class-action suit."

Especially since anyone who rightfully calls themselves a "political conservative" has long since left the Republican party after it left them, and doesn't consider themselves an "alt right" Trump supporter.
Their description of what recruiters do seems like discrimination. They said that recruiters would deliberately go out of their way to find diversity candidates, instead of treating everyone equal. That matches up with a leaked email where the recruiters were told to stop processing candidates who weren't diversity hires.
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