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So did Google. Turns out promises don't matter.
What about this is ridiculous, exactly?
The blog post misunderstand that many people that do that are simply using "hello" as a "ping" to see if someone's really there for immediate synchronous communication. They want to type just 1 word first ... and then wait for a human-style-TCP-ACKnowledgement ... before typing a bunch of extra words of the real question they had in mind. For receivers, it's annoying but I tried to explain in the previous thread that many deliberately avoid indeterminant async communication if possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883095
It is! the .com asks for me to accept cookies for some strange reason.
Would there be a anti-competitive angle?
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Awesome news for gaming on Linux. As we all know Microsoft <3 Linux.
Back in the day, Starcraft was my thing. I didn't get into Diablo too much, but I thought it was cool. I remember playing the original up to the final level. A few years ago, I played and beat it on my retro PC, and it was exactly as fun as I remembered it.[0] I tried Warcraft, but I didn't get into it.

[0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/180/Diablo
>and software is not.

Linux and thus Android would like to have a word with you.
Because people can decide to go live in another place, quit their job and get another one in the new place.

One of the reason some people do not move is due to being comfortable and at travel distance to their job.

Under this light you can see what happened to several European cities with high rent due to University: as soon as Covid made students go home to their parents as classes were online, there was a huge drop in rent prices.
That is what I was going to comment. This might be ok in the US where people are more "transactional" at work and go directly to the point. In other countries the "social dance" is sometimes expected and by going directly to the point you will start getting a bad rep (as a rude/cold person). So you need to have some personal interactions ("How's your son?" "Did you have nice vacations", etc...) before asking the "serious stuff".

Of course, you can keep things faster by putting the social dance right at the first message "Hello, how are you? Great game by your team last night congrats!", but it is still expected to lose some time on that...

Another great example is the "Thank you" email after someone does something for you. I know many countries where this is frown upon (because is an unnecessary email), but there are many where the inverse is true, people expect you to acknowledge gratitude (with the risk of being known as a rude/cold person if not).

To sum it up, be aware of the culture you're working with
Dude. Antitrust please stop this.
I think north west India would be a huge Muslim country if taken as an independent country, so dismissing it as 'just 13%' is kinda a funny dodge.

Some European countries already have a plurality of births to migrant groups, I think the figure is better than 20% for Spain and France- so even if fertility euqalizes its a big demographic event considering the timescale.
The issue would lie with the site's CORS policy, no change to the CDN can work around that. And it's possible the author is not permitted to or does not wish to alter the CORS policy.
Ending encryption to protect children is a fallacy.

Further, I don’t understand how they can actually manage to do this without weakening all encryption on the internet.

Very strange moves that aren’t well thought out at all with a single focus to reduce the power of the people.
Alternatively, it's just really hard to communicate uncertainty to people prone to "this or that" binary thinking.

If they hadn't immediately started trials for boosters and then deployed them when they were shown to be worthwhile, the situation would be worse than it is.
Async communication, unless an emergency or maybe a project meeting... everything else can wait.
Kotick got a good run for the shareholders - he's now a liability having had all the sexual harassment under his watch. The sexual harassment/lack of leadership discipline has discounted the sale price of ATVI (microsoft swoops in) - he sticks with firm for a bit during transition to ensure smooth transfer and steps away afterwards. I don't see any other way - he's become a liability especially for a company like Microsoft.
> I own a number of videos on Amazon, but why can’t I take that ownership right with me to view them on Hulu, or some other service.

Do you? Terms probably state you bought a license. The incentive is for producers and platforms to silo content to maximize sales. Why would they agree to use a less centralized platform unless forced by law or coordinated market demand?
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Relevance to HN: this article is the product of an investigation into a network of organizations involved in Uyghur genocide denial, at the center of which sits Neville Roy Singham, founder of Thoughtworks.

edit: I should note that I find some of the evidence presented in this article thin, and some of the connections that it draws less direct than one might expect. But I think there's enough to the story that it merits greater scrutiny.
Chit chat shows you’re at least trying to show interest in the other person, and is thus seen as polite by many.
Often I think the hello is actually a way to bait you into revealing that you are available. Sometimes the request that is about to come is something the requester knows you are likely to either ignore or at least putting off responding until later; the hello is innocuous enough that if you reply, then it has been established that you are present and so ignoring subsequent messages becomes a bigger challenge.
It does happen, but it's pretty rare. One example that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_T-Mobile...
If you want them to break up you'd first need to get the law changed. There are larger game companies still.
Value skyrocketed, but IP was demolished. Warcraft and Starcraft are two of the most popular game franchises ever. Today, nobody cares about the story of these games anymore. Popular characters have been written into a wall or killed off in an unsatisfying way. The overall story is a tangled mess of retcons, 1000 IQ BBEG, and directionless plot lines. While Activision made record profits, they did it at the cost of player numbers. Every new character is shallow, uninspired, quickly killed off, or never used again after their initial use(Bwonsamdi, Rexar, many more). By failing to appease players with the story, and putting systems designers in charge of gameplay, they have been draining the value of their IP for the last 10 years.

For games to be successful today, they need popularity. Twitch streamers need to play it. Youtubers need to make "how-tos", and word of mouth is king. Activision drove the final nail in their coffin with the PR nightmare this year. No amount of necromancy (Warcraft Reforged, Classic WoW, Diablo 2) can save the company long term.
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Can't wait for cloud gaming.
For me it was "Git for Computer Scientists": https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
They have to an extent. `querySelector` / `querySelectorAll` is the clearest example, but many API's presented here came after jQuery and were inspired by it: https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Honestly, this is the sort of thing they have to say right now - the deal isn't closed yet, and saying they're going to dump him might lead to shareholder lawsuits, especially if the acquisition is blocked.

Realistically, there's a high chance that within a few months of the acquisition being completed he'll be expected to leave quietly.
I'm hoping it just means Diablo 3 released sooner since Microsoft has a mountain of resources.

I'm curious how game development is under the large tech companies like Microsoft. Game development is notoriously recognized as a slave driving industry for the labor force. Massive tech companies, like Microsoft, aren't exactly known as places to slack in the software world, but they also don't seem to have as toxic of a labor culture as the gaming companies who pass mountains of costs to their labor to remain competitive (Amazon perhaps being the exception here).
Nvidia/Arm comes to mind as a recent acquisition prevented.
Adoption... Bitcoin has roughly 500K transactions per day with an estimated 80% of them being trades (with an estimated 77% of those trades going through the "big three" exchanges). Visa has 1B transactions per day and virtually every single one of them is someone purchasing a good or service.

Credit cards were "invented" in 1951. By 1970 51% of US households had at least one. All happening well before the internet. Even with all of the hype an estimated 13% of American households even traded crypto last year. Want to guess how many households used it to purchase a good or service?

Globally we're more connected than ever. It's been 13 years - if bitcoin was actually superior for anything other than speculative trading people would be using it for something other than speculative trading.

Regarding the abuse here on HN - tweet something negative about blockchain and I think your perspective on the "abuse" coming from the HN community will change. By nature "cryptobros" and other people pumping these things are doing so for their own financial gain. People that are negative about crypto typically don't have any skin in the game and even if they do (somehow) their ferocity pales in comparison to the portions of the population that are expecting to retire with it.
This makes me even more glad I quit Blizzard Games long ago.
Broken record: this is too far and shouldn’t be allowed to happen. I don’t understand how Microsoft has been able to even think they can approach this.

What’s the defense here? That there are still many game studios left to make games?
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Bill Gates.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/microsoft-bi...
Certainly, the upside is larger - cannot argue. The challenge, in my mind, with respect to software is the unforeseen, not-entirely-in-your-control challenge of integration, bug-fixing, etc. I'd much rather have delivered 95% of the scoped work, tell the client essentially, "we can do X, but it could require some non-trivial expenditure on your part or, since we've done a great job setting priorities to date, maybe that feature is not mission critical." Time and materials gives both parties some agency.

Of course, if your powers of predictions are infallible, then perhaps you're better off with fixed scope! (My powers of prediction are infallible too...until they aren't!)
My understanding was that cavities should actually not be filled, since they allow water to drain out. Is that incorrect?
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Sure, and don't lock your door since a smashed window is always an option.
Microsoft is 10x the size of Disney, so more likely they buy Disney than the other way around.
The important thing to understand is that git is a blockchain
https://alpinejs.dev/ for me to replace jquery, it uses vue syntax and _much_ simpler to use, with a strong community.
I probably agree with a chunk of this, but there is a level at which blockchains, specifically smart contract platforms help enormously with interoperability - they force those using them to provide standard, transactionally interoperable APIs to their services. If someone provides a financial service on ethereum for example, then it will have an api that can be used by other services on ethereum. This is a shocking level of interoperability compared to what we had before, where even with government stepping in and making things like OpenBanking mandatory, it's still surprisingly painful for a normal developer to create services that interoperate with their own bank accounts.
> What have you done in the last week that you will remember on your death bed?

I will probably be murdered in my sleep by the person in charge of maintaining the code I'm writing right now. So, that.

But more to the point: I write code, I like writing code, and I have embraced the fact that writing code makes me happy. At the risk of sounding like the comic book guy in the Simpsons movie, I will probably look back and say "I regret nothing". I never regretted the weekend nights I spent exploring the Web with my 56k modem, and I don't think I'll start now.
Only if you lose such customizations; otherwise I actually think it's a Good Thing that I get to play without handing out an email address (or worse).
The more I think about this - the more I hope that Microsoft does another starcraft and gets it in the works. That way my young children will get to play starcraft in their teens (10 year dev cycle imho). That would be a small win for me :)
> [...] if Satya and the Board spin off gaming into an independent company at some point.

I certainly think this should happen.

The trillion dollar giants should not span multiple industries. They have absurd monopoly power and can make growing your own niche impossible.

Why does a cloud computing / operating system vendor / hardware manufacturer / business software / developer tooling company also own the third biggest gaming outfit?

Why, for that matter, are Amazon and Apple also movie studios (and soon to be game studios)?

This is ridiculous. These companies never have to compete with you. It's easy for them to funnel money into any effort and clone your product. You can struggle to grow revenue and they can simply allocate an engineering team and marketing budget.

You'll probably also have to buy your competitor's products or pay their taxes at some point.
> I did a search in a european city and likewise was unable to find 3-bedroom apartments with less than 120m². 4 was 150m² minimum.

You simply chose the wrong European city :) Try Dublin, the city of 70sqm 3 bed apartments (in fairness, these aren't allowed under current planning regs, but there are quite a lot of old ones).
Another postgresql performance gotcha:

Find all the coupons that are expired (90 day expiration):

SELECT * FROM coupon
WHERE created_at + INTERVAL '90 DAY' < now()

This will not use the index on the "created_at" column and will be slow.

You should rewrite the inequality to:

SELECT * FROM coupon
WHERE created_at < now() - INTERVAL '90 DAY'

and now the query will be much faster. There are a lot of cases in postgres where simple equivalent algebraic manipulations can completely change the query plan
Looks like he will stay (for now):

> Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard, and he and his team will maintain their focus on driving efforts to further strengthen the company’s culture and accelerate business growth.
UBI can work if and only if you can curb monopoly private taxes (real estate rents, fees, tips). Otherwise any money handed out freely to people end up immediately eaten up by monopoly private taxes for having no competition to level prices down.

Case in point: give out $1000 dollars in UBI, expect rents increase by about that amount within the next 2 years as current leases expire.

To implement UBI you must first get of private taxes one by one, then reduce the public income and consumption taxes and then with much of the costs lifted up off the middle class you realize you have a society that is freed up of (feu)dal taxes again and doesn't need any welfare nor UBI anymore.
Maybe not profitability, but I'd say it does with revenue growth. Activation's revenue has been mostly flat for a few years.
Cryptocurrency* not crypto [1] which is what the UK is going after [2].

[1] cryptography

[2] https://noplacetohide.org.uk/
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That's a lot more than they spent on e.g. Nokia, Linkedin, or Github. To name a few other notable acquisitions they did in the past.
And if you want a fast response, you write something like this "I coded XYZ in Java and Java is absolute shit because ABC is bad."
In the footer: "This campaign is funded by the UK government"
Apple doesn't have a gaming division. Why would they be interested in acquiring Blizzard?
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The people who will suffer most from continuing the way we're going are also the poorest people.

If the industry is dying out because we introduce universal basic income, then the poorest people will still be at least as well off as they are now, and in many cases much better, because they are guaranteed to continue to be able to pay their bills, no matter what happens with their employment status.
Of course nothing has changed, he’s talking about the exact same housing stock.
Both theoretically and practically, your argument about allocating resources falls short of answering the question about whether to provide fewer excellent devices or many substandard devices.

As a matter of theory, your argument goes "B is more pressing than A, so we should allocate resources to B rather than A." But you present no comparative advantage between the two versions of solution A. Either we give three $300 computers or one $900 computer. Your argument does not help to make that decision. Clean water is important. But if we are to provide computers, what is the most growth-inducing and impactful way to do so?

As a matter of practice, families in the third world tend to prioritize things in ways that make sense to them but may not make sense to an outside observer. For example, I met a family with several children for whom the father had purchased the latest smartphones, but the family home lacked an indoor toilet. Access to internet and social media is a basic social imperative and it ranks as a high priority.

If the governments of the US and Canada really wanted to, they could foster growth and advancement in the rest of the Americas. The resources are available. What's lacking is a desire to help, rooted in a sense of friendship or Pan-American kinship. That defense money could be spent on devices, sanitation, and the other things you mention. We choose to spend it on warfare and cool stuff from Raytheon and Lockheed instead. The resources are available, but we spend them on less fruitful pursuits.
This too, we're a technical consultancy (DevOps) so we get the gamut of reactions from "You're on my turf" to "Finally someone that my boss will listen to". Getting the former early on severely hurts your chances of success sadly.

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It doesn't do that either. Once a copy is out there, it's out there - there's no "scarcity" just because creating a pirated copy takes work. Only few individuals need go through the trouble.
It's pretty clear they think child safety is more important than E2E:

> We are not opposed to end-to-end encryption, as long as it is implemented in a way that does not put children at risk.

The rest is fluff.
Not sure if an image campaign is enough to convince me that they have changed. They had to embrace open source to some degree because developers were plainly fleeing their environments en masse. Today it is extremely hard to find an expert for hard technical problems. Perhaps everyone is hiding somewhere, but I haven't found them yet.
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This shows that the articles by those who uncovered the plans were right [e.g. 1] - even though this is a political campaign paid for by the UK public (via the Government), and developed and coordinated by the Government, they have big logos of community groups and charities at the bottom and minimises the Government's involvement -

> "According to the [M&C Saatchi] presentation, the push will appear to be the result of grassroots action and children’s charities, while downplaying any government role."

The whole thing is just a pile of emotional manipulation, while compeletly ignoring the far, far greater number of legitimate uses of end to end encryption, and the actual dangers to everyday people of personal information being stolen, accessed, leaked, etc. if it's banned! Extremely dirty tactics.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955893
Excellent job, MSFT M&A team.
Love the concept, not so much the execution.

The "Login after customizing everything" and "Pay to remove the watermark which renders the calendar useless" are borderline dark patterns.

But on the positive, it gave me an idea to make my own version of this calendar, sans the money grab.
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I'm expecting/hoping for Microsoft employees to protest his involvement. They have successfully steered Microsoft in the past.
I don't really understand these acquisitions made by Microsoft, first Mojang, then Bethesda and now Activision. Is Microsoft trying to revive these companies or it's just trying to leech of the market? At this moment, Activision is living out of in-game purchases, not making good games. Bethesda was almost dead when they bought it.

>Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoft’s Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud.

I wonder what this "cloud" means. Is Microsoft planing an alternative to Google Stadia?
Or how many $5/month (for all of them) Apple arcade games are $15+ on the Switch.
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What about extrasolar atmospheric spectroscopy while in transiting the host star?
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This is ignoring the fact that there are people who actually enjoy exchanging pleasantries. Make a list with 2 columns: 1) people that enjoy small talk 2) people that dislike small talk. Act accordingly.