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You should ask your doctor! I don't have enough information to give you a confident guess, but my intuition is that theyre trying to save you money when an expensive test is unlikely to be helpful.

Many people struggle to make ends meet, so it makes sense to avoid superfluous medical costs. If you tell your healthcare provider that money is no object I'd imagine that they'd be able to weigh the financial aspect more accurately.
You're right, for the average user this is a much better workflow than just given a shop your address and the shop sending you a package.
For now I think we'll wait and see; while the big companies slowly poison the well with microtransactions and live services, ruining games to push for sales, the indie market is massive, turning single developers pottering around in their proverbial basements into millionaires and spawning franchises left and right.

I mean Minecraft started off like that. Terraria is following behind it. Among Us, a $4 game on Steam released in 2018, suddenly became a meme and huge out of nowhere. Fall Guys, made by a small studio that mainly did web, Flash, Facebook and mobile games for most of their existence, came out of left field and created the top game of last month, which (if played right) is an instant brand because of their simple yet infinitely customizable cute characters.

There is still real competition because the big publishers cannot stop the small developers.
Earlier articles in this ongoing series of “how to name things”:

- September 2016: Introducing .NET Standard (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-standa...)

- May 2019: .NET Core is the Future of .NET (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-is-the-future...)

- May 2019: Introducing .NET 5 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/)

(Yes, the last two are from the same month, even day. The second one is consistent with this article)

I may have missed a few episodes.
Why not both? So far Microsoft has been pretty "hands off" with the development process of a lot of the IPs it has acquired.
Speaking of punk and non-AAA, I'll throw in Frostpunk.
Now, speaking of winter survivals (and non-AAA), The Long Dark is also a masterpiece.
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It IS very low because anyone with a few hours can put together a shopify or woocomerece store and instantly start selling whatever their heart desires.

Competing against Amazon's scale is tough as it would be a huge challenge to be able to offer next day shipping for free anywhere in the US, but you can add value other places.
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You may enjoy Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford. It made sense of the permanent vague anxiety I've always had while working in a digital medium.
This seems like an awfully reductionist take, and is demonstrably wrong.

> to actually meet friends and not in VR space

Nintendo released the Virtual Boy in the 90s, a (somewhat unsuccessful) attempt at a semi-VR thing; they were (and are) a pretty big business, and I don't think that they were just doing it because they thought it was cool; there was demand for something like virtual reality at the time.

> People lived in 1990 and didn't feel that bad to have to call a travel agency to get a ticket

This is also wrong; anecdata, but at least one person (my dad) hated having to call up travel agencies in the 90s to book a plane ticket. I remember as a kid him yelling at the travel agent because he (having done a lot of business travel in the past) knew how much they were marking up the ticket and they wouldn't meet him halfway. Eventually he started calling the airlines directly to purchase tickets, and he complained a lot that there was not an easy way to compare prices between airlines. To stress, this was in roughly 1995.

Obviously this is just one person, but I seriously doubt that this was a unique experience.
The EU laws contribute to the Balkanization of the Internet. It seems most people on HN are happy to have governments tell people what data is allowed to be transmitted and where it has to be hosted, as long as Facebook or TikTok is at the receiving end.
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I don’t see how $10/mo is at all profitable with them adding all these AAA games to it.
The joy someone can get out of programming seems like such a subjective feeling that I find it hard to believe you're generalizing your experience to all programmers.
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Where I am from, anything fried in batter is considered poor people food and indeed I avoid it but mainly because I do not like fatty taste like that.
It looks like it's called "Rebo". Here is a reply on one of the comments on the page.

> Hi Palps, thank you for your interest and time. We generate a green credit that is fully anonymized every time a REBO bottle is drunk and they are certified by the Gold Standard, the most reputable agency in carbon emission reduction certification. Credits are monetized through private sponsors and the funds go to Plastic Bank, an organization that pays people in underprivileged communities in developing countries to pick up plastic dispersed in the environment. We hope this helped you understand better what happens "behind the scenes" to make it possible to clean the planet as you drink with REBO

Its a pretty garbage idea of trying to take peoples sympathies for plastic waste to sell a product. Just donate to recycling non profits or research if you want to support green efforts.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but was id actually involved in the 2009 Wolfenstein or in New Order? I think not. However, they did develop Doom 2016...
Only do that if you never want to see another Elder Scrolls/Fallout game release again.
To add to the parent here, Doom was made by id Software, which generally has a huge history of making very good FPS games. I'm certain they were given a lot of leeway from the producer.

Arkane's 2016 Prey was just amazing... shame so few immersive sims get made anymore.
An aside: I'd be curious to see some statistics on the number of software developers who have an interest in woodworking. I was once in a project meeting that involved two external vendors, and the topic of woodworking came up in casual conversation. It turned out that every technically oriented role in the room was not only interested, but had a wood shop in their home. Something like 8-10 people. There seem to be a number of parallels between development and woodworking, but anecdotally the number of people I've met with an interest in both is very high.
I got the impression that Bethesda was going full cash grab from here on out ... I'm hopeful this opens a window to them stepping back from that.
I think it's easy to forget that modern tooling (+AWS/GCP/Azure) let's one dev match or exceed the productivity of 15 developers and a couple of PMs in 2005.
I've never worked a development job where I get any say in avoiding buzzwords or delivering solutions I would call cool. I typically get caught up in clients bikeshedding irrelevant details and managers enabling and promoting it.

I hear so much on HN and on reddit about jobs that give programmers some level of autonomy but I just don't see it. My entire experience is very much the opposite, and I absolutely loathe this awful industry.
Ignore the downvotes. Initial votes are misleading, and if the comment is substantial, they'll stabilize to a reasonable value over the following couple hours.

> Cheaper does not eliminate the quality. They can both co-exist and indeed do.

It sometimes does, if it eliminates quality out of the market. Say a quality frame costed $500 before; then you have a new, cheaper technology that can achieve similar performance by cutting out more extreme loads / road conditions; as manufacturers jump at it to save money, suddenly the whole $100-$800 range uses just that, and the quality frame rises to $1500 due to collapsing demand. Can't say whether it's good or bad on the whole, but it annoys the hell out of me in cases where I could afford the quality product but I can't, because nobody is making it anymore.
When it works it's fine but sometimes the window store breaks and you basically have to reinstall Windows- in whole or in part- to get it running again. It also is designed to prevent modding and doesn't work with Steam Link for remote play even though normal non-steam games work with Steam Link just fine.
Two classics that helped me a lot:

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27140043-high-output-man...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware

They don't go so much into the soft skills that are required and often the toughest part of the transition. That's where Alison Green's column (Ask A Manager) is great. (She's also written some books but I have not read them. I imagine they're great too.)

I'd recommend signing up for the newsletter and then simply reading it daily as a sort of game or quiz. Imagine you're confronting the situation described. How you would deal with it? Then compare your response with hers.

You'll soon identify some common fairly obvious techniques that will resolve 90% of problems. Probably the two most common ones:

- Did you clearly state your expectations?

- Did you communicate your concerns calmly and directly to this person?

Finally, this Hacker News thread from years ago addresses exactly your situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643

See in particular jbob24's comment.

Congratulations and good luck!
Clearly, it's a cookbook for how to kill people with impossibly good food.
You can substitute surprising for stunning. In any case, I'm guilty of missing this as much as anyone. I chuckle at Charlie Munger's aphorism:

"Well, I think I’ve been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I’ve underestimated it. And never a year passes but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther."
> IMO Bethesda decided to sell to MS because their recent games cannot generate enough popularity

Truly mystifying why they'd want to create an MMO. It's as if they hadn't been following the news. The success of WoW is incredibly hard to repeat, and most studios who try fail, no matter how much money they throw at it.

The MMO space has been, WoW aside, a money bonfire for one and a half decade at this point.
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I think part of the issue there is that he doesn't _have_ a side as such. He was elected by a historically bizarre coalition, driven by the Brexit issue.
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No, not at all.

They've been pretty hands-off with their most recent acquisition, but one studio does not a trend make.
This (that Bethesda are selling, not that Microsoft are the buyer) isn’t really a surprise. It seems that everything they’ve been doing for a few years now was to align themselves with a sale.

This YouTube video predicting that’s what they were doing springs to mind: https://youtu.be/qJt_i2_vsSw
Definitely a winning move. Netflix beat Blockbuster, TiVO, AND cable's on-demand video services with a worse content library and harder UI (initially - those boxes sucked) - because it was cheap, easy, and felt free. GamePass recreates that, at least for casual gamers.

Plus, GamePass locks you in like consoles once did. That stickiness in recurring revenue is hugely valuable in itself, and because it has a network effect (this was basically the reason for the ongoing console wars).

Combine that with cloud gaming, and the lock-in and UX just gets better.

Their main barrier is good content. Thus the splashy buy.
CS GO was abandoned by valve, community picked up the scene by creating their own leagues and tournaments. Only then valve gracefully came back to support CS :(
Financial markets grossly misjudged risk and caused the 2008 financial collapse. The recession previous to that was caused by a tech bubble that saw Pets.com with a greater valuation than GE. These incidents of irrationality have huge long-term effects on the real economy. The middle and lower class never recovered from 2008.

Those were on markets and their irrationality. We are currently in giant asset bubble (enabled by the Fed, but still) in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression. It will crash, and take the economy with it.

As far as allocating capital, the markets have systematically discouraged investment and encouraged stock buybacks and other uses of money that not only don't promote the real economy, but increase risk (necessitating more bailouts). Our finance industry systematically pushes industries into rent-seeking instead of production, as well as increasing financialization.

Sure, Nikola isn't significant in things, but it is a microcosm of how the market as a whole operates.
Most of thw world, China, Russia, Uk, EU, US... I mean, do younknow of any country where it's not?
Well, the AirPods Pro come with a USB-C-to-Lightning cable. It's not perfect, but you really do only need one type of charger now. And the AirPods don't really need to be charged very often - I usually get by with a 10-day charge cycle.
That makes sense. Sweden and some of the other Nordic countries seem to crank a lot of them out.

It is a bummer that a lot of startups, regardless of geography, feel the need to move once they hit a certain level. It produces brain drain and is a missed opportunity to bring economic growth to their home regions.
Yeah, this. As a doctor, the older you get, the more valuable you become(usually) while as a SW engineer the older you get ... well you know it already.

You have no competition from abroad and no shortage for demand, like seriously, do you know any area that's lacking sick people?

Not to mention status.
How will this affect VR?
They're signaling that publishing secrets is a crime; that's an objective fact, nobody is arguing against that I think. What's at stake here is whether the crime was justifiable and that it did more good (in exposing the US' war crimes) than bad (sharing state secrets and possibly risking informants).

Disclaimer: superficial layman's take on matters.
>They are expected to bring inside knowledge and contacts to the table.

This is not always unethical, we exclusively hire former AdWords account mangers for our sem team. This primarily done for branding and reducing the recruitment cost.
Similar theme, I grabbed griftware.com when the site generated it. No idea what I’d use it for.
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In a sense entering the market is easy -- sign up to Shopify, drop ship from China, etc.

On the other hand, competing in the market is not easy.

Maybe that's what he meant?
In this case, I remembered seeing a related item. URL search failed, so I tried title word "doubt" within the past week and found ... two submissions ;-)

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It's not inherently wrong or unusual, but banks have an affirmative and well-known duty to perform due diligence, to the point where deliberately attempting to evade due diligence or your bank's compliance department is near-ironclad evidence of deliberate wrongdoing. A senior Goldman Sachs official involved in those efforts did indeed plead guilty to knowing about the money laundering. (https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/db4e57...)
This weekend I started building a plain old server-side rendered web application.

It felt really good to stop dicking around with APIs and graphql and resolvers and other bullshit and just get a working product that's fast. Lovely.

Also write a largish project in Nim, clean and simple. Lovely.

You don't _have_ to run the hamster wheel that is modern web technologies. That's what is sapping your energy. React, webpack, thunk, memos (lmao) and other churning blog-driven-developments. Don't do it!
Microsoft is making lots of performance improvements on .Net Core side. It seem to be lot faster than Java now. With .net core being open source and Cross Platform I think it is still not able to take Javas marketshare.
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Hydrogen, it might be a really safe design, but I guess many who know the explosion capacity of it will try their best to avoid flying one even the chance is slim
I've been doing this for over 20 years and feel the exact opposite. The process for getting an idea turned into working software is faster, easier and better than ever. You are looking at it from the inside. All the mechanics have changed from how you were trained and now the process is no longer bottlenecked by the kind of problems you are used to solving. From a higher-level perspective, businesses are 100x smarter about how to think about digital problems and solutions, what kind of talent they need to execute and how much it costs. Nothing will stop executives from trying to squeeze budgets and timelines, but that's human nature. But now there's a chorus of experienced people who can speak the truth, who know when to build vs buy, who know what quality looks like, who know that user experience is paramount. Software development has become commoditized which sucks for developers, but it's great for software.
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Im over here looking at states where I have family and your same dilemma. I suspect it's relative in these times, but Im thankful I ended up on this side of the pond.
I went the other way into programming from the trades.

Sometimes, especially when I read about people leaving this industry to go work in the trades it makes me nostalgic and miss working with my hands and building real things.

But I also have enough bad memories of shitty work conditions and waking up sore day after day to give me a gut check to stay put for a little longer.

> I don't think programming is the probkem. Anything you do 40 hours a week for other people will get to you just the same. Programming is a pretty sweet gig, all things considered.

Turning my hobbies in jobs killed off a lot of fun I used to have. I think it's pretty universal and why it should probably be more common to switch industries a couple times at least through your career to keep things fun and not stay in a burned out mentality forever.
Two thoughts.

For one, advances in VR have come from hardware advances, not software.

For two - cell phones are not so much useful because they're phones, but because they're miniature computers with (near) worldwide connectivity to the internet.
The point of crypto is to give people a choice.
In case anyone is inclined to go read the article, let me (potentially) save you a click with the following excerpts from it:

> the last thing many male computer scientists entering the field wanted was to make the field easier to enter or code easier to read, which might undermine their claims to professional and “scientific” expertise.

> Take the C programming language: it was created in 1972, but as one of the current COBOL programmers I interviewed pointed out, nobody makes fun of it or calls it an “old dead language”

> There’s an old joke among programmers: “If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.”

> it’s perhaps no wonder that a committee-designed language meant to be easier to learn and use

And, of course, the quote from the comment to which I'm replying:

> many people don’t even see the preference for complex languages for what it is: an attempt to protect one’s status by favoring tools that gate-keep rather than those that assist newcomers.

If any of these quotes even resembles something you _might_ think about this field, maybe you'll get something out of reading the whole article.
Personally, these quotes are so backwards to me that the author could just as well have written "Programmers can breathe under water" or "grass is the cornerstone of a well balanced diet".
It's fairly typical for the BBC to hold fire until the trial concludes and the legal restrictions around reporting are lifted.

I'm not sure I see the AP as having more "in depth" reporting, it just has a greater quantity of rolling reporting. Stories like "court case pauses for Covid alarm", "court case resumes", "Assange told to stop interrupting witnesses", "lawyer says Assange could be in prison for a long time" are not, let's be honest, adding to the total sum of understanding around the topic.
The value add is not that the machine guide is better than the human, it’s that the machine guide is available to everyone, at all times.
Are the 2x4s military grade? Basically, sourced from the cheapest seller?
6) is what is at issue here, and it's terrifying to see how this case is being conducted, and in many ways more seriously the lack of media interest.
It was cross platform before the Microsoft acquisition. I think Minecraft is sort of a special case, it's essentially its own genre.
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They should, since it concerns a matter of international politics and, indirectly / by extension, whether the US committed war crimes and if they're going to string up the whistleblower that exposed it.

And on a more local level, it's about which side the UK will pick. They can side with justice and hold onto Assange (or grant him asylum), defying their next best friend the US (after they pissed off and flounced out of Europe), or siding with international justice and hold onto him as a key witness for the (hopefully upcoming) war crimes case in the international court of justice.
This latest trend is so annoying: there is either "Accept" or: "See purpose". And the "Don't accept" stuff is hidden under "See purpose". Infuriating.
>Feels like large corporations could be seen as a national security risk

Already are, governments have outsourced many functions to corporations. Ban on Huawei is an example.
We all know this was just because Todd Howard wanted Skyrim on MORE platforms.

Next week: "Now you can play Skyrim on your Android phones via xCloud!"
As opposed to Reactionary Programming that still tries to banish unions from the C standard.

Jokes aside I think the paper is interesting. preprint is here:

http://soft.vub.ac.be/~svdvonde/papers/ecoop2020-tackling-th...

Didn't know the term awkward squad for functional programming, so I don't know if the comparison holds. The problems described sound reasonable though. Was thinking WPF (rip) while reading, don't know much about any language mentioned. I also don't know much about the internal workings, what I noticed is the tendency of side effects as a user. Some positive, some negative. I had some difficulties with actually breaking up dependencies as you might not always want to update state everywhere.

Don't know how reactive frameworks are implemented. I would guess it is mostly some implicit observer pattern for certain container types.
Application development on the web is much more pleasant than what we were doing on any pre-web platform, and possibly even now.

I've wanted one-way data flow (React, Elm) forever.

We just have rose colored glasses because we were younger, dabbling, all tech was new and non-web tech was just what was available. And we confuse that for some sort of obvious tech superiority. I'd say those were the worst times for application development, not the best. Makes me wonder how many people actually worked on a production client application back then.
The absence of civ6 is lamentable, but then we do only have so much time to find to pursue hobbies like work and careers.
Maybe people can be critical of the way Assange is being treated and/or the way the US/UK regimes are behaving, while not necessarily supporting what he did or liking the guy.

Edit: In fact prefacing with "I'm not an Assange supporter but..." sounds to me like someone trying to give their argument in support of him/against the US/UK governments more weight, ie, even people who aren't the usual suspect fans of his are disturbed by what's going on.