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Well, you're right - I've never been to jail (and hopefully never will), but... what are you saying? That nobody should go to jail for any reason? That there shouldn't be jails? Or that there should be jails but guards shouldn't break up fights? Or that they should only break up fights by physically separating the fighters rather than using pepper spray (are they allowed to do that?) You seem to be saying that you didn't deserve to be tased (and, based on your description of the events, sound like you were right), but are you suggesting that it's never necessary? If they did overreact in this case, how would you recommend they be re-trained?
Most devs in the US don’t care about maximizing their career.
Yes, but I think of Roblox like a FAANG in terms of success and money. If you moved to a FAANG with that experience you would likely make a good chunk more
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— They regularly post on FB also

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The health check is paid for out of taxes though, in the end money/goods/services aren't free.

I mean sure, France's government and health care system is probably a bit more efficient than America's, but I doubt it's order of magnitude different. Maybe more importantly, but in the other direction, as a developer in France you're probably paying more for healthcare than you use (subsidizing the average person who pays less taxes). Quite arguably differences like those are things that you are purchasing with your salary by choosing to live in the US instead of France, I don't think it's either desirable or really possible to eliminate them.
I enjoyed BBS and also Get Lamp, by the same director.

I hope I'm missing something, but I don't seem to be able to find it in its entirety, and its DVD is also sold out.

http://www.getlamp.com
Yeah, one of my jobs right now involves having to implement some stuff for the playstation 4/5. You should see the dev and test kits for the ps4 and ps5... they look something like weird desktop computers from 2011 or something more than the actual deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV6kCVXssZ4

Seeing if something will work on the playstation is like, is there a port in freebsd of this software and how do we get it to run on this thing. You don't get the ports collection unfortunately but thankfully ports are kind of just like a patch diff that you can apply yourself.
Tile. Know it, love it, accidentally click it in an elevator or in a movie theater.

Edit: I dated a girl once who couldn't tell cars apart, and had a really hard time finding hers or anyone elses.
And some college athletes will eventually end up in a Tom Brady situation, that doesn’t mean I would recommend anyone bank on getting drafted as a career.
I feel this style have the same infamous reputation as Comic Sans font. It isn't a bad style, it's just overused.
The thing that confuses me about that is if you have not installed the malicious MITM's root cert in your browser isn't that going to fail?

Or are these MITM's somehow signing stuff with well known root certs? That seems like it would be a much bigger story. Or are TOR users really accepting self-signed certs when passing around their bitcoin addresses?

Maybe there are bitcoin clients that don't validate the chain when doing TLS? Given the sorry security posture of so many exchanges this is somewhat more plausible.
"If you get physically bullied just become stronger" is the opposite of society
Very close to a racist video, this :) But as a colored person, it is just a cultural difference. People just associate certain things with skin color, and depending upon geographical location it can be an advantage or a disadvantage. I was in Greenville SC and they were the warmest people I ever met, but yeah they took their own time to let me in :-)

(if you must ask it was the farmer's market)
Good for him. But that's an exception.

How much does the average roblox dev make?
Supply and demand. If there is more people accepting lower rates then rates will be lower. Nothing wrong with that. It's not like many of the skills aren't at least some level of transferable. So if money is an issue try to find employment outside gaming sector. Like everyone else does when balancing income and job.
> The market didn't gravitate to hand-curated sets of best-of-breed office software

By this time, in terms of software for Windows, the programs that came with Microsoft Office were best of breed (or else pretty close).

From In Search of Stupidity by Merril Chapman:

>The only problem with this theory was that the competition didn't have the best-of-breed products; Microsoft did. Though Quattro was always well rated by the press and usually beat Lotus 1-2-3 in head-to-head competitions, it almost invariably was an also-ran to the top-ranked product, Microsoft Excel. WordPerfect's botched release of its first Windows-based word processor had landed the one-time ruler of the category in third place. First and second places were usually fought over by Microsoft Word and Lotus's AmiPro. Microsoft PowerPoint and Lotus Freelance usually struggled for the business presentation graphics crown, but the spreadsheet and word-processing elements were the most important factors in a buyer's decision. Advantage: Microsoft.

>Both Borland and WordPerfect attempted to fight back with competing office suites assembled from each other's respective products (with SPC's faded Harvard Graphics thrown into the mix), but they were unsuccessful. Not surprisingly, the new suites lacked the integration of Microsoft Office, but more important, they were bundles of second- and third-class programs competing against top-ranked contenders. Lotus SmartSuite faced a similar problem. Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows never placed higher than second in competitive face-offs and usually came in third place (a shocking comedown for the one-time category leader). AmiPro sometimes outplaced Microsoft Word, but Lotus was, after all, the spreadsheet company. Freelance usually placed second to PowerPoint in reviews, and the suite's database, Approach, although a decent product, wasn't well known and brought little extra credibility to the package.
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Setting "app.update.auto" to false in about:config would have prevented Firefox from updating to the new release.
> but bizarrely then talks about unions, which are known to depress wages for top performers (just look at teachers unions, where pay is totally disconnected from competence and performance).

Public sector unions are an entirely different ball of wax because negotiation power and strike power are both limited. The management for public sector jobs doesn't determine budget; neither does the amount of revenue generated by the business. It's 100% a decision of a legislature, and that decision will often have absolutely nothing to do with the quality, performance, or demands of the actual faculty, staff, administration, or schools themselves.

For example, teachers are unioned and do have generally low pay[0]. However, I could point to police officers, which are also nearly ubiquitously unioned as well and they have high salaries[1] in spite of a training program that is generally less than a year[2].

The difference? Increasing police funding always looks good for both parties (or has historically). For teachers, half the political landscape has a plank that's all about de-funding public education in favor of 100% private education.

Furthermore, there's another factor: Teachers are generally women while police officers are generally men. That means the structural gender bias in salaries is going to be higher here than in careers where the genders are more equally divided.

In short, it's much more complicated than you're making it out to be.

[0]: https://www.indeed.com/career/police-officer/salaries

[1]: https://www.indeed.com/career/teacher/salaries

[2]: https://www.insider.com/some-police-academies-require-fewer-...
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There's no good formula to convert salaries from one part of the US to another part of the US. :)

Even to do that, you need to consider:

* State and local income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes

* The value of the particular benefits packages at the respective jobs

* The comparative cost of living difference (housing can be up to a 10x difference)

* Insurance rate differences (which can vary widely because most insurance regulations are per-state)
Londoners can make good money, it seems. But London isn't somewhere you want to be unless you're still in your 20s.

And in a post-Covid world, 'being in/near London' may not be able to increase your earning potential in the way it usually has done.
Wanting to be a game developer and being a good game developer are pretty different things. I'm sure that first shipped game to appear on your resume greatly increases the frequency and salary of offers.

Also game development requires a lot of disparate skill sets. Artists are pretty much always underpaid relative to the amount of time and effort they put into their craft. The money there is always going to be as a lead/manager.
You see this advice a lot, but it's never very specific. "Just negotiate better!" OK, great... how? Most of us have no leverage besides our willingness to walk away, and when the market is saturated with talent, it's usually fine for a company to just let you walk away. I bet for someone who happens to be the world's foremost expert in some niche skill the company needs, negotiating a higher comp is straightforward. For the 95+% of the rest of us, it goes kind of like this:

Candidate: I'd like $150K. Comparable companies offer people with my experience $150K.

Company: We'll offer you $100K.

Candidate: I'll walk if you give me less than $140K.

Company: Ok... Bye?

Candidate: How about a little more equity?

Company: How about no?

Candidate: OK. $130K and maybe a bigger potential bonus?

Company: We're already interviewing the next person.
I believe DFBSD uses pkgng, not pkgsrc.
Hence my inability to compare a 150k$ offer in California to a 62k€ offer in Lyon.
>it is a spectrum

Yeah, for sure, I didn't intend to make it sound like as much of a clear cut dichotomy as I ended up doing.

>who is branded a legitimate photographer instead of some weirdo with too much money?

You ask the Internet Photography Police to render a verdict, of course! But yeah, it's not a clearcut distinction in most cases.
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Would love to hear more about your analytics work in League of Legends. Is it fair to say that the "useful" numbers/stats tend to be low-hanging fruit and not particularly interesting / requiring of creativity? I imagine with a fairly dynamic meta-game, you're limited by the data available to you, which can quickly become obsolete.

I'd also imagine any data you can crunch from solo queue games is of limited use in competitive play.
I do a ton of direct response ad creative. Generally stock photos work really well if chosen with care, but brands shy away from them due to perceived cheapness. Their loss.
> You can even enforce vendors to only include EU roots when selling devices in the EU

Please don't give them ideas. Not even the Kremlin has done that, although they did something similar with geolocation devices.

Otherwise I fully agree. If the EU wants to audit, they should establish their own root server infrastructure, pay for it and audit that. If I was a root server operator providing what is essentially a free service and this was enforced on me, I'd rather shut down or block EU netblocks than be bothered by EU cyber security auditors.
I imagine Google was already using ASPEED BMCs in their x86 servers so they kept using it in OpenPOWER. There are some really specific things like PECI and VGA redirection that x86 BMCs need and AFAIK nothing besides ASPEED has those features.
Ahh yeah that does make sense. I didn't realize they actually show you what the prize would have been.
Use a VPN and don't do anything that would get you on a terrorist/cybercrime/pedo list in the first place?

There is no safe when it comes to determined state actors.
I run garyshood.com on it
Most FAANG eng in their 2nd or 3rd year are not FAANG anymore by their 15th year.
Most game dev seems to be in LA which is quite a bit cheaper than the bay. 150k is solidly upper middle class in most of LA. I think only Roblox is in the bay.
I don't doubt that, but it's pretty rare. I know several devs in lead/expert positions(not in games, in finance, in consulting companies, in DWP and NHS) and no one breaks £100k/year. It happens, but it's very rare(in my experience).
Yeah, this would have replaced a fairly expensive SaaS subscription at my old job which simply allowed business-side folks the ability to run SQL queries safely (in theory).
On this point in particular, most of the routes we've tried to use to quantify teacher worth have resulted in bizarre scenarios where teachers actively want to avoid certain classes of students. Early metrics usually punished teachers that were assigned underperformaners - while no child left behind had an expected grade growth formula that could result in a teacher needing to get a student a score above 100 to avoid being weighted towards getting a pay cut.

It's honestly a lot like development - it's hard to distinguish someone being lazy or bad from someone who's gotten stuck with difficult problems - or, more likely, problems that looked easier on the surface than they were in actuality. But, unlike development where these measures could potentially be discovered by reducing efficiency and forcing multiple devs to solve problems in parallel - that's impossible to do when every student is different at a basic level.
These modern 50mm lenses are certainly marvels of optical engineering. But the future seem to belong to simpler, cheaper and lighter lens designs with optical imperfections corrected digitally. Modern phones take stunning images (in good light) with optically inferior lenses.
Reminds me a bit of the infamous Grubhub ad that came out a few months ago[1] - similarities include the color scheme, the checklist approach to racial diversity, and the attempt to project generic inoffensive "fun". The Grubhub ad, at least, is so bad that it's entertaining.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-T3qKl6y-c
It's a recent IPO, and a social gaming platform company rather than a game studio.

Roblox's competition is TikTok and Snap rather than traditional game companies.
The difference is with print on demand you can actually control your losses. When print was a printing press, the effort to setup the press meant that nobody sane would print just one book, it cost a few thousand to setup to print, and then each book was a few pennies. Inflation has raised the latter cost, while print on demand as lowered the previous to near zero.

Today you can decide how much your editor is worth. If your grammar and spelling is good you can pay less, or if you know it is bad (like me) you can pay extra until the quality is where you want it. You might even have a friend who will do the early editing for free (a trained editor shouldn't be wasted on spell check duties, but they are probably worth it once you think the book is done for final tweaks) Whatever this investment is, you can limit the costs.
I was trying to comment on parent comment and some others but it hurts. “Going to be hit like a truck” — it involves luck for that line to remain figurative.
I think that is largely because most writers don't know how to or don't care about marketing.

I published a novel in late november, and it's sales are low but steady to slowly increasing. A key aspect is that to "survive" past the initial bump you need to invest effort into building word of mouth and getting reviews, and that is a slow process. The people I got to help with marketing even actively advised against doing much marketing before we had a base of reviews, because they apparently find it almost impossible to get positive ROI on Amazon ads until there's a reasonable number of reviews.

I intentionally started writing a series, and everything I've seen and heard suggests series rarely even start selling decently until at least the 3rd volume, because people hold off to see if it's worth investing time in.

I'd advise against considering what happens to "most" books, because most books gets no marketing, no proper cover design, no effort in writing blurbs, no effort to push the books over time.
Public discussion (in favor) of applying 2A rights against 4A violations is utterly outside the Overton Window.

As a practical matter, if one were to respond to a 4A violation with a 2A application, the 4A violators respond immediately with overwhelming force, after which you don't get to tell your story, and the violators get to write the report. Victors, history, etc.
While I don't want to dismiss OP's concerns, I vicariously enjoy the turnaround of the US having to worry about someone else's extraterritorial decisions.

In practice, though, I don't think it would matter. It's not like (1) the EU is asking to be allowed to install arbitrary programs on root servers or (2) it will start bombing non-compliant servers.

Worst case, EU residents (or at least residents using PCs sold in the EU) will only be able to access EU root servers, which will still index 100% of the internet. I'm not super worried.
My early salary history as a midwest gamedev:

17yo: unpaid intern, 1 year (2005)

18yo: $20k/yr (2006)

19yo: $35/yr (2007)

22yo: $70k/yr (2010)

I don't regret it; I learned most of my skills during those formative years. But I was also "part of the problem" in the sense that I was happy as a clam being paid $20k/yr living at my parents' house, putting every dollar into the bank. Saved up $15k and felt like I was rich; it was great.

I'm not sure there's anything to learn from my experience, since I was an outlier, but there y'go. I was also so completely dedicated to the idea of becoming a gamedev that I'm not sure anyone could have talked me out of it.
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> With innovations in drone technology, I'd imagine it'd be more ideal to engage with the enemy with an autonomous or remote controlled drone.

The enemy are likely inside the ship. So you would need to board and then go into the ship and fight. I can't imagine a drone being able to do that soon.
OP mentions that the publishing business is ripe for disruption but I believe that happened a decade and a half ago: it’s called self publishing. The problem is there’s no way to collect the data. Many self publishers have been kind enough to document their successes on this site, but many more have a reason not to do so. There is often perfectly good reason not to reveal a lucrative niche.
If you aren't in the habit of answering yes to big browser warnings about self-signed certs it seems like it shouldn't be an issue.

If the MITM operators have stolen a well known root cert then we have a much bigger problem.
> Putting together task forces to make sure it is secure therefore sounds like a very good idea.

the top comment on HN for topics like this frequently follows the format of your comment, saying something that sounds so reasonable, who could object?

But the way the internet works didn't come about magically, it was planned and modified through trial and error by experts who, working together, can be seen as nothing other than a task force. So you are looking for a new task force to interrupt and disturb a task force that already exists. This will inevitably lead to the need for yet another new task force to look into what this task force has done...
The big reason to get a ghost writer is because writing books is easy, editing them is hard. Amazon's search algorithm dings books for every little grammar, wording, and punctuation error. Unless you were an English major, you will spend 75% of your time getting every sentence perfect. Hiring someone to edit costs about the same as hiring someone to write.
Feature wise, I’m not sure what’s new here. Popular BDD style JS test runners/frameworks like Jasmine, Jest (IIRC delegates to Jasmine by default, though that’s swappable), Ava (custom built test runner), can all be configured, more or more. Some of the tools require you to bring-your-own-TypeScript, some don’t offer parallelization, but those are just general features that are not coupled to this pitch of being configurable.

With relatively straightforward “refactoring” and functional programming patterns, the aforementioned mainstream test runners/frameworks can provide the same ergonomics as Folio. Folio then is just an opinionated interface for specifying parameterized configurations on top of a test runner. Functional programming with higher order functions is powerful and not necessarily require more than a screen’s worth of custom code either. I’m not sure the ergonomic abstractions offered by Folio is worth adopting a new test runner versus defining your own abstraction on top of existing battle hardened test runners ( test frameworks are already the abstraction on top of test runners, with test runners be analogous to React just being a library. Jest sits on top of Jasmine by default, but you can swap that out ). This is like adopting a new Linux distro that decided to roll its own non-Linux kernel.

Edit: ah, I see, this is a project out of Microsoft versus some rando JS developer bloating the ecosystem to pad their resumes and spend more time wordsmithing/branding than actually building something novel. From an org perspective, I empathize a bit with the not-invented-here syndrome then, especially since Facebook leads Jest development

Edit 2: I think it would be more appealing to market this as a TypeScript-as-a-first-class-citizen test framework that has the backing of a reputable org with resources. TypeScript flavors of Ava or Jest are after-market forks with an order magnitude less support / community / maintenance, meaning you’re on your own when you run into problems, plus having to do the due diligence of auditing the source code for malicious behavior ( I was responsible for defining the JS test setup for a project last year, and defending the trustworthiness of the open source tooling to the rest of the team was the main decision rather than the ergonomics of the test framework )
what i learned as a gamedev: the saying, "do what you love for a living and you never work a day in your life", is false. it's actually, "do what you love for a living and what you love becomes a job."

what you need is a job you don't mind doing, which is the scam of higher education, because you plunk down all that money or debt or both, and years of time, and you get no guarantee that there'll be any job for you, but worse, you have no idea if you want to do that job. meanwhile, corporations have plenty of people to pick from who need to get a job in their field, either for financial reasons or psychological ones, who trained themselves at their own expense. the idea that such a large block of people are cornered into acting against their own interests and in the interests of such a small block of people almost makes one question the idea of liberal democracy.
The "real" world also consists of filth in all its myriad forms. Will you be exposing your kids to these experiences, so they can learn to interact with them as well?

These platforms have very little to teach, so it's not like there is useful tradeoff being made in any case. It's simply an often toxic form of entertainment, worse than television imho.
Sometimes being smaller and more manoeuvrable is better than being better protected but larger and less manoeuvrable.
It's the legal acrobatics equivalent to a landlord not being able to evict a tenant so instead they take their front door for "repairs"

So they can say "well, it's not our fault that happened, we followed the rules" wink wink
I recently got started with photography (A7R M2) and the tamron 28-70 f/2.8 is my first zoom. Have a 28mm 2.8, 40mm 2.8, 85mm 2.8 but the tamron is the one that is almost always mounted (or the sony 28mm). It's truly amazing.
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