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This.

10k games were released on Steam in 2020. In 2021 Q1 there are 316k games available on iOS. When creating a game is what you like, it might be rewarding, but the coding work is usually not very rewarding when it comes to the details. Especially because game ideas are usually not as original as most people think...

When you are not a code monkey, coding is always highly creative be it games, missile control systems, high frequency trading, insurance policy management etc. It might be easier to imagine fun in the idea of coding for a leisure activity, but in reality it can also feel very shallow.
People just regurgitate their sides last night narrative presented to them on their favourite news network. the commitment to truth has been lost. Its all about framing now.
- DataScience. Just started a masters

- PC Modding, Who would say that soldering and re arranging power supplies would be fun!

- Gardering. Gives me mental peace.
Look at how well that's worked out for Perl and Raku.
China ascend to Power is hardly fiat accompli, and on top of it their food insecurity and disputes with 17 neighbors is only going to compel them to focus inward.

Yes, all those Africa and BRI adventures are already turning bitter for host nations.

US and USSR won the WW2 - you get power by winning wars and winning decisively. If China wrests Taiwan, we can then seriously talk about their contention until then its just talk.
> They had no version control.

In my mind this gives me some relief that the company was a small outlier, which is not to say I don't think there's a problem here, which is that morally objecting to work assignments doesn't seem to be a thing in the corporate world.
Is it?
There is more to this story. Was someone in there at the time?

Edit: The list as a whole is horrific. Bullying, racism, sexism, corruption and incidents that resulted in death.
Those are a lot of things to be learning at once, I'm impressed you're keeping up with all that. Do you mind if I ask what your time management looks like? I'm curious how many hours you spend a week on this stuff, and how much of you free time it takes up. I also like to learn a lot of different things on the side but I struggle to find time for everything that I want to cover.
The focus on the IR and encodability is quite interesting. If I'm understanding this FAQ item correctly

> Why does the language not allow user-defined objects?

it has a Lua-ish arrangement where "modules" and "objects" overlap.

Seems neat. Added to my weekend reading to look more closely at the implementation.
As an american company, customers should absolutely be distrustful of any claims of security. There is very little in the way of the feds giving you a gag order and ordering you to provide a backdoor.

Amazon has zero recourse in this situation, neither would they risk their gov contracts fighting it.
ROS2 - currently following some youtube channels and their wiki. Trying to make my own robot to change the world, or rather clean it up
I didn't know open source programmers were subjected to those kinds of performance reviews. It sounds to me like the pandas have come and visited the penguins and there's a whole lot of shock and horror as the penguins get eaten because you'd think the pandas only want bamboo.
Most people don't know how the police operate. Growing up, my stepfather was a police officer, and I have no idea how they operate. Other than the big stories of officers getting off with essentially murdering people, I don't think people are too dialed in to law enforcement.
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Right - they're saying that if the work of a point is worth $769 to a company, then that's the amount they should get paid as a developer.

Even if Amazon took a $269 cut from each point, I'd expect to get paid $50k for doing 100 points. But instead you yet a $12 t-shirt.
Overuse law. If you overuse a law too much it stops being meaningful.

Organizations have hard time improving without measuring their performance and communicating incentives.

There isn't magical solution you can scribe on a paper and tell everybody -- this is exactly what you need to do to achieve success.

The best what you can do is compromise, it is unavoidable.

So we know setting targets can make wrong incentives. It is also not a reason to not be setting targets. It is a reason to make sure you damn set those incentives right and take close look that you are getting what you have intended.
As someone who is literally studying to be a teacher, I don't think teachers were being entirely reasonable throughout the pandemic. Particularly a little later on when we didn't have vaccines yet, but knew more about how the virus spread and were somewhat better at treating it.

Yes, teachers didn't sign up for this. Neither did grocery store workers or—in many cases—even nurses and other hospital staff. Everyone did what they had to to stop the world from collapsing.
Small scale and NYPD aren’t in the same league. IIRC if the NYPD was a military organization it would be the fifth largest military in the world. Which itself may or may not be a problem.
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Small studio MMORPGs focused on PvE don't exist because they can't compete with WoW and FFXIV on content generation, small studios don't have hundreds of artists, quest designers, and programmers needed to churn out enough content to compete in that field.
Americans are literally drinking bleach https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/08/24/some...

Because trump did this: “At an April news conference, Trump wrongly suggested injecting disinfectant as a potential treatment, leading the makers of Lysol to release a statement saying "under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body”

My statement is supported. Please do not accuse me of “pushing blatant falsehoods” when even a cursory google provides concrete evidence that my claim is true.
Ah, perfect, that's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for, thank you!
You are clearly confusing treatment with diagnosis/screening and should consider walking away from the conversation until you get a better understanding of the ideas being discussed here. Right now you're adding a lot of unnecessary noise with bad arguments.
Fitt's Law is resolution-independent.
At my polling place (an elementary school gymnasium) the officer was in the entrance/hallway on his phone the entire time. Probably some easy OT for a day of more or less basically being a hall monitor.
Does this pass for an argument now? Plenty of teachers are also severely at risk, and there is good reason to think that many would have died painful, preventable deaths had they taught in person.
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this. Alot of people forget that progress for progress sake does indeed beget more progress.

Anecdotal, rather whimsical example; As soon as i transitioned my factorio to electricity, i found it much easier to just build a solar panel factory and batterys to power everything because i stop getting attacked by the mobs.

Also, one future problem that i find funny. Electric is better. If everyone had access to cheap, renewable energy it only makes sense to transition to that renewable energy. Also with the rise of carbon removal, I see global warming in the future becoming an entirely different problem to solve. It shows in our models that the PPM of carbon in the atmosphere has different effects throughout the world. So once we 'solve' the climate crisis, what entity says where the happy medium is? If it makes one region arid and another eden, who gets to be the deciding factor.

I see a future where carbon sequestration and maybe even addition is a matter of national security.
Science is the arbiters of truth, it's a process not a destination. FB needs to stop giving people a loudspeaker, they can say it, but it doesn't get amplified.I'd love to see FB ban all conversations around politics.

We shouldn't be so afraid of some mistakes while the entire world burns down around us. Make mistakes, but due it in the pursuit of a better society.
Not to mention, as the cherry on the turd sandwich, performance of early 3.x versions was substantially worse than 2.7.
Yeah one reply says so. The name is Qu Wenruo (definitely a Chinese name) and his github repo is at: https://github.com/adam900710

From the email it looks like he works/worked in SUSE.
I love these non-sequitur literally-mostly-correct-but-conceptually-totally-wrong translations of aphorisms and titles.

One of my faves: in a Spanish-speaking country, an Ernest Hemingway book published (legal status unknown) in English, titled "Goodbye to the Weapons".

Another: from a customer service rep in Southeast Asia: "If I am in your shoe..."
Seeing the >$300mil donation bar for that site always makes my jaw drop. It's incredible that people wasted so much money on a scam / vaporware that repeatedly over promised and changed the rules to weasel out of releasing or giving refunds. Seriously, give it a read on wikipedia sometime.

It's incredible this wasn't labeled a scam and shut down. Warm fuzzy intangibles like "community" and "the idea of a game" aside, imagine what good in the world that $$$ could've done otherwise.
The pictures are one thing and bad enough. Including location and links to profiles could make you a party to stalking or worse, and that is quite unethical.
Yup, tried it. Was delicious. I've tried nearly everything. It's the caffeine. Some dark chocolate after noon messes up my bedtime by several hours. F-n sucks.

:-/
> small hipster raised bed farming in back yard

As a small hipster raised bed farmer (or rather, gardener), I actually looked into this at one point - the $1500 price tag put me off of it really quick. There's no way that kind of investment makes sense unless you're planning to sell the vegetables to recoup your investment - and it's doubtful that the machine will realistically last more than five years or so, so you'll have to replace it at some point in the fairly near future.
"It's more-or-less a proved revenue model;"

Excatly, and it will exactly produce the games we currently have.
Oh wow, my first boss after college is the cofounder of Wickr. Congrats to him and his team!
Once all the kids are vaccinated (and BTW even the WHO is taking a cautious approach on this given that it's unclear whether young children are at more risk from Covid or the shots), what's the plan for preventing variants from developing in the developed world? In animal reservoirs? In the large numbers of vaccinated people who still wind up hosting (usually minor and asymptomatic) infections?

If vaccine escape happens because the UK had its schools open then I find it very difficult to believe "we vaccinate everyone at once and the virus just goes away" was ever a realistic prospect in the first place.
End 2 end cryptography, to what end does Ring need e2ee? To Amazon? Who is on the other end?

Also, metadata.
Using realistic scenarios forces you to use realistic assets everywhere. If this tool only does backgrounds, it would raise costs for indie developers. Hence my previous comment.
Not since covid, no.

Some of us have been stuck in single rooms with no family or social contact for over a year.

Exercise groups - Illegal
meeting up with other people - Illegal
dating - Illegal
going outside without a valid reason - Illegal

Former friends with established families and large properties with gardens berate you for complaining, as its selfish, "people are dying!", but they travel for holidays,
take their kids to stay with their parents so they can have a weekend getting drunk in their garden, etc that sort of thing.
Not friends anymore.

Also most people who I considered friends before, it turns out are just acquaintances. People I've known for 10-15 years who it turns out don't care about my wellbeing, just see me as a guy they did activity X with, went to events with, etc. A whole lot of that.
Also lots of people do not like the fact that I questioned the rationale for the lockdown measures, questioned the data ( as in wanted to know what the actual data was), etc. They did not like it AT ALL.

Now restrictions might be lifting in the future, I am faced with the situation of being without a social circle. A social life of nothing. The only people I speak to are my colleagues, and that's how it's been for quite some time. Again I emphasize that it has been illegal to even try to change that, and socially taboo enough to question this and say that this is making me miserable as fuck that any existing friends have abandoned me, lots of blocked contacts on whatsapp (there's this impression amongst many that questioning the lockdowns, asking for data, saying this is not good you personally makes me a republican conspiracy theorist nutcase, etc).

How do I rebuild a new life when my ability to trust other people is lower than I ever thought it could be?

I have no family to lean on for support.

As far as I am concerned I might as well be a secret Jew in 1944 Berlin for the level of trust I have for other people now.
I think the better way to view it amongst policymakers on both sides are: do you make your policy decisions to create an antagonistic relationship like US vs. USSR? Or a cooperative one like US-UK or US-Japan? For whatever reasons (and tbh a lot of it is perhaps a massive CCP inferiority complex and short sightedness, vs. US short sightedness), current policymakers have chosen to undergo an antagonistic side.

But one can argue the US-China relationship initiated between Nixon/Deng was one of the most mutually beneficial relationships, economically speaking, over the past 3-4 decades, far outpacing US-UK...until the Xi-faction and the Trumpers killed it off...
To make your analogy historically correct, it would have to be preceded by the United States having loaned San Diego to Mexico for decades of military use and the vast majority of San Diegans being ethnically "Mexican". Then notorious anti-Mexican racist Donald Trump is installed as the governor of California by NATO via coup d'etat.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2011/S00116/how-the-wester...
that's what I said, the backblaze design is:

> things that were designed with vertical hard drives dropped down from a top-opening lid to achieve even higher density.

the backblaze storage pod system and some 3rd party derived designs have the SATA/power ports on PCBs facing upwards, mounted at bottom interior of rack chassis, and 3.5" HDDs mounted vertically down into the system.
You were downvoted because of how the current generation of adults judges your comment; but how will the next generation see things?

I haven't heard any discussion about this question, at all, and frankly, it disturbs me, today's children are tomorrow's adults.

Somehow, I don't think, "think of the teachers," or "we didn't think it through" will be good enough for them.
If modern smart meters are anything like classic mechanical meters, they have a counter of the total amount of power consumed so far, and the power company bills the difference between the current reading and the previous month's reading. Which means that, once the meter can be read again, you will be billed for all the power consumed in the meantime.
Thanks for the correction, that was what my doctor told me. But maybe I also misunderstood him.
"Don't even get me started on Generics" no I'm just kidding, but I've read this debate plenty of times before :D

Thanks for the perspective. That makes sense, I wrote how they don't really like Ruby even though it is very stable like they said they wanted, and rarely makes breaking changes (and takes great care to ensure they are well documented and easy to follow when they happen) ...

Then I thought about Rails, and decided not to say anything about Rails, (because it might undermine my whole argument, as that's where arguing from this position breaks down a bit.) Rails isn't really that bad with breaking changes, but it is where most of the breaking changes probably come from, and therefore probably worst thing to use as an example... like you say with Kubernetes in Go!
LLVM has quite a number of people who have "review after commit" privilege. These are people who are trusted to know the difference between changes needing review and those that don't. As a result, people can fix typos, fix formatting, etc. without burdening reviewers. Those sorts of changes don't go through the usual review process, but on occasion may be reverted, by either the committer or someone else who has commit privilege.
We're not talking about deprecating language constructs though. This issue is only talking about deprecating a sub command in favour of another sub command from literally the same binary. This should take all of 10 seconds for the developer to adjust to. I'm all for pragmatism but lets not exaggerate the significance of this proposal.

And it might well be that the deprecation notice will run for two versions. At the moment no official decision has been made as it is still an active issue.
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So instead of me choosing when to take a paid vacation the department would choose for me? Sounds like a great way to get Xmas or the 4th of July off if I can’t request it: commit a minor infraction a few days before my desired vacation timeframe knowing the punishment and the time it takes to administer it.
Ruby made a similar change in character encoding starting at roughly the same time; it's (barely) remembered now as a non-event because they didn't take the "opportunity" to bundle in a bunch of other breaking changes which collectively required much more pervasive dinks to pre-existing code than the encoding issues.
Related question, is there a law which requires you to send the used electrons back to them, after you're done using them?
Nope.

Check out yaantc's comment. tl;dr it's a completely separate network with no internet access. Basically a VLAN inside the cell network.
Sure. But then you end up with adults who are incapable of socialization outside of school. Maybe having children develop making friends outside of school is a good idea.
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it seems like you need to study ideological boilerplate and then constrain your opinions to what is acceptable here at hn.

I wonder if dang could point us to a reference of ideological boilerplate to be avoided, or if its just supposed to be something "we should know."
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A friend does coding work for Briar and he's of a similar mind as myself. If he trusts Briar, I trust Briar.
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But the bailing out hasn’t really changed anyone’s mind about capitalism. The fun part of capitalism in America is that people think individually they are owed stuff from the government but collectively should have no intervention.
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> A manager sits behind a table and decides he’s going to fire a woman because he doesn’t like her skin. If he fires her because her skin is brown, we call that racism and there is legal recourse. If he fires her because her skin is female, we call that sexism and there is legal recourse. If he fires her because her skin is pockmarked and he finds her unattractive, well, we don’t talk about that much and, in most places in America, there is no legal recourse.

This is such a straw man argument. Who is this person that fires people arbitrarily? Does he not have a business to run? Does it not cost him thousands of dollars and probably a few dozen hours of his company's time hiring someone?

The only reason I could see him firing someone because of appearance is where it matters. For instance, if you let yourself go and you're in a high visibility role where it could be argued that it affects your job performance (e.g. actress, cocktail waitress)

Why do we keep discussing these arbitrary scenarios?
[Citation needed]

>NSA has implemented backdoors in software through bug fixes that appear to be just benign typo or spelling fixes but actually allow an exploit in combination with some other exploit etc.
ooh! I'm doing exactly the same! I purchased a Casio and started taking lessons. So happy to learn!
That's an important question. I attend a church that I disagree with on some issues. What I love about it is that it's OK for me to tell our ministers that I disagree and we have a conversation. I mentioned that I didn't know how I felt about the topic of a recent sermon and I've been invited to work on a Bible study on the topic so the congregation can learn more.
Traditional schooling is childhood slavery. It’s a shame that such a special time in life is spent in a desk memorizing facts.
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Alternatively if a civilian broke down a door in a company party likely the only thing would be that they got a bill for fixing the door, which is way less than 45 days of pay.
I really don't think that shutting down departments is an opinion held beyond a very small but vocal group. Defund doesn't mean unfund.
I haven't.. though if you have visual studio installed, you should be able to check out commit 7b30199cbef49dbdb6f7b10f0fecea3c008e76ec from 2019 which is the last commit before I changed things over to 64-bit.

Note that also requires compiling wxWidgets according to the README.md in that commit, which is incompatible with my current install, otherwise I would have done it for you.
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> I'm sure Wickr will continue to be autonomous but maybe with access to more resources from the rest of Amazon

To be fair, this is the fairy-tale that's told on every acquisition. I'm pretty certain this same narrative was spun even when facebook acquired occulus.

Not saying this will be similar, but just hearing those words is not assuring by itself.
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I've been seeing this sentiment shared recently and what I always suggest is to

1) Look at your hobbies
2) Find people who share those hobbies

Plenty of opportunities exist whether through meetup, BumbleBFF, local postings in cafes/on lamp posts, etc. (this is true of cities, remote destinations may be more difficult but thats the tradeoff of living around less people I suppose)

If you can't find groups for your hobbies, try starting them! Doesn't have to be a permanent leadership role, but if you get the ball rolling others will likely come and BOOM you've found potential friends.

If you don't have hobbies, look into volunteer groups. Rewarding and often extremely kind people who will value what you bring to the table.

Hope this helps!
They had to adapt the changes they had made to CryEngine to Lumberyard which were different versions of CryEngine if I recall correctly.
Could you imagine doing that at your job and not being fired immediately?
I mean, I like my coworkers well enough, but I'm a redneck at heart. I'm never going to actually fit in with the yuppies.
why build your own? just use element and matrix.
Yeah, feels we're screwed at the moment.

I subscribe to both DNC and RNC mailing lists and it's typical to see things like "Trump Rally BACKFIRES" and "The Radical Left is trying to destroy America". I try to laugh it off thinking people can't be dumb enough to buy into this, but then I'm gripped by the terrifying reality that actually yes, they are.

Dunking on opponents really wouldn't be all that bad if there was some actual debate progressing, where ideas could be tested and improved, but that seems to have stagnated to a large degree.