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> How many managers do you know who studied to be managers of people?

> I mean more than a couple of one-day courses; I mean someone who studied to be a manager the way someone studied to be a software engineer or doctor.

> I personally don’t know anyone, and while those degrees definitely exist, it’s got me wondering: of the total managers in the world, how many of them have those qualifications? Is it even 1%?

...

> This series will provide my personal guidance on both how to be a manager and how to do the job of managing people.

> You do not need to read this entire thing A-Z like a tome, but instead I encourage you to casually work through the core articles (they will be highlighted) and then jump around to any others that catch your interest.

This is incredibly frustrating. I have read countless peoples' opinions on management, with perspectives ranging from analytical measurement to pop-psy, but none of them has offered me, in the end, more credibility as a manager.

According to the opening statement here, none of that even counts as "study", and the solution it offers is ... reading this blog. Casually.

It's self-selecting for an audience of people who have already read lots of blogs about management, telling them that reading blogs doesn't count, and then offering another blog to read.
> Why aren't you using Unreal?

C++. Sure, we can talk about Verse or even Skookum, but C# is much easier. Still, if any big game engine would have something like JS it would be even better for indie or small studios.
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Nope! I just prefer working in-office with other people in an office.
That is why I suggested the post office. It is highly regulated but separate enough from "the government" (at least in the US).

I expect that many people would still use 3rd party providers for personal email and less important things. But it is certainly nice to be able to have bank statements, tax documents, or any business with government services conducted through a verified email.
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Earlier discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37476823
> Microsoft isn't making Windows 12 or maybe even Windows Cloud 2035 with WINE compatibility in mind.

WINE started out targeting Windows 3.x, survived MS in its most blatantly anti-competitive form, and has not merely survived but vastly improved over the ensuing 30 years. Maybe Windows compat is a time-bomb, but eventually you gotta live your life.
A good share of the comments both here and in the Reddit thread reveal the biggest reason. C# is an absolutely fantastic language but there is so much FUD, misinformation, and general baggage around it that picking a “safer” language like Java (HA!) is a better bet. C#’s prevalence in enterprise environments also creates a bit of a feedback loop where it’s seen as only appropriate for engineering teams in that context which means it’s mostly used only in enterprise environments.
Could this potentially open up the possibility of implementing a user-level desktop session serialization and restoration feature? Similar to how Emacs handles per-directory sessions.
[dupe] anyways

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37476823
There is severe hindsight bias in play here. How many tables weren't problematic despite all those joins and just chugged along scaling fine? How many startups were bogged down by unnecessary complexity or trying to keep a semblance of consistency instead of shipping features and just didn't reach the scale when performance becomes a problem?

Joins are good, actually, and normalisation should be the default. It's much easier to keep things consistent by default rather than trying to make them somewhat consistent afterwards. When something becomes a problem there is a bunch of tools (from denormalisation or materialised views to specialised datastores) to deal with that, but before that it's just premature optimisation.
Yes, but the developer has to have made $200k over the last 12 months and had 200k installs. So if you hit both minimums and have made $1/install, they'd like 20% of that. Unless you're in an emerging market, in which case it's 2%.

Is that insane? I'm not a game developer, but it seems like it's in the ballpark of what the app stores are charging, and with a structure that's actually enforceable at reasonable cost from Unity's perspective.
Are consumers confident about battery longevity, when most of them have had multiple experiences with phone and laptop batteries being significantly degraded after 2-5 years?

And will that claimed longevity be achieved in all conditions (weather/temperature and usage patterns)? - or only in optimum conditions?

Some internal combustion vehicles are kept running for several decades, with many replacement parts remaining available. But with non-standard battery packs and software locks it seems that EVs may have planned obsolescence built in, which goes entirely against the 'saving the planet' narrative.
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The removal of flash ruined the entire online games catalogue, not just theirs.
Admittedly I couldn’t make it through the whole article, but what I did read came across as “don’t other people KNOW that the components are TIGHTLY COUPLED?! There is MAGIC happening and it’s bad don’t you SEE!!”

That’s the point of Rails. That’s the point of any framework really— predetermined opinionated implementations of common functionality, so that you don’t have to build it. You’re going to have a bad time with any framework if you need control of the predetermined opinionated implementations.
My understanding from talking to some former Brex developers was that the switch was entirely because Kotlin is the CTO's favorite language and everything else was just a post-facto justification. So take it with a grain of salt.
These events happen faster than you could react to the situation, plus in most cases, will involve small changes that you wouldn't even notice to your most energy intensive devices. This isn't about turning off your TV while you're watching it (though, in the alternative which may be a blackout, that IS what would happen).

Consider a freezer where you have the thermostat set to -18c. Your freezer will have some tolerance on that, so maybe it kicks on the compressor at -16c and turns it off at -20c. In the event that we've had a sudden loss of generation capacity, the freezer responds to the signal by temporarily setting the the range to -15c / -18c, or to delay the next compressor run for an hour, or some other minor change that you likely won't notice or care about.

On the other hand, if you get an SMS asking you to change your freezer's thermostat for the next hour, are you going to go home and do that?

Edit: Also doesn't clause 236 part 6 permit us to modify our own devices as we see fit: "Energy smart regulations may not provide for a prohibition to be contravened by an end-user of an appliance (in their capacity as such) or for such a person
to be enforced against as described in section 237 or 238."? If it's so important, I'm sure one can figure out how to block the signals.
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It's only once per install. I agree that it's worded very badly though.

> What is the Unity Runtime Fee?

> (...) Creators only pay once per download.

https://unity.com/pricing-updates
Gooseberries don't taste anything like blackcurrant to me (thankfully so, since I love gooseberries and don't like blackcurrants)
Perhaps the truck hit something else and stopped very abruptly. You can be part of a multi-car accident; happens all the time.

Regardless of fault there's the issue of programming are response, which was the point here.
The big deal breaker with Godot was that any console (XBox/PS) release was out of question.
Not C-Level. I just prefer being in an office and working at a company that values that as well. I do prefer smaller companies (15 or fewer people is ideal) so the "my team" thing doesn't apply as much. If you're not willing/able to find 5-15 people who will sit in a room together and work, I'm not particularly interested.
on iOS the most innovative browsers are just shells over safari. Every browser is safari

At least the other OS's allow you to run your own rendering engine
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> [0] Even the fact we consider wind/solar "renewable" is evidence of how slick the marketing campaigns are for these companies. Solar panels and wind turbines have limited life spans, require rare earth metals that have to be mined. Solar and wind energy are renewable but how we harvest that energy is decidedly NOT renewable.

"renewable" is clearly an approximation here, as there is no truly renewable energy source in the sense that it doesn't need any equipment or infrastructure that could degrade over time. Just like "rechargeable" batteries aren't infinitely rechargeable.

But there are studies that look at the whole-lifecycle impact of wind and solar and find them better than most alternatives. Certainly better than oil, coal and natural gas.
It's a shame Unity seems so intent on making itself unattractive to developers. I prefer writing c# to c++, and I think Unity's onboarding experience is much better than Unreal. But when it comes to a non-solo-development effort, when you need to start thinking about businesses and numbers and all the things that aren't making the game, Epic has made Unreal attractive, and partnerships with the Epic Games Store can boost that value even further.

Unity's recent moves to me speak to a fear that they've more-or-less hit their market saturation point, and now they're looking to extract more from the developers who live in their slice of the pie. I fear this will make that slice shrink, which will create more fear, and then the problem spirals.
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The issue for me is that Firefox is funded by Google. If you're trying to avoid Google your alternative is.. Google.

Some might opt for Apple software but Apple hardware(and OS) is a non-starter for me.
Finally, save states for Minesweeper.

(This is genuinely interesting, I'm not sure how practical it is, but still very cool.)
At least in the US it seems to be the exclusive purview of high-end ovens, but there are ovens with proofing modes, which would be even lower temperature than that. Warming modes of around 150F are somewhat more common.
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More productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient better driver
A safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
Sleeping well (no bad dreams)
No paranoia
Careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
Keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
Will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
Favours for favours
Fond but not in love
Charity standing orders
On sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
Car wash (also on sundays)
No longer afraid of the dark
Or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned (but powerless)
An empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
A good memory
Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat
Tied to a stick
That's driven into
Frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
Calm
Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
Nobody wants to tell the CTO that their code is shit

It's a pattern because it's a factual inevitability. Whether you're an individual lead engineer or a CTO/Founder, eventually you always look back and conclude things could have been done better and watch in pleasure/horror as you reap the benefits/drawbacks of how you laid down patterns and processes that the team dutifully followed.
I'm a Google Pixel user that's been using USB C to charge my phone, laptops and other devices/accessories for years now and I've never run into this issue before. It just works.
Rails 6 was a nightmare with javascript. Continuing down the path of handling javascript and css dependencies with ruby gems was a mistake.

Rails 7 finally came up with better solutions out of the box. My latest application uses esbuild and the javascript version of sass. All javascript and css libraries are handled by node packages. Way less pain.
Not really. They all serve very different purposes, especially when you get outside of the Abrahamic religions. Even then, a traditional mosque serves a very different purpose from a church and is organized in quite different ways.
China in general seems to really like the concept of superapps, so it coming out into the physical domain seems like the next logical step.
> Does this stack really put everything under the sun to shame?

I feel like protobufs are an improvement to Erlang serialization for talking to possibly older versions of things.
The EBA (the European banking regulator in charge of specifying the technical details of the PSD2 regulation, which covers secure cardholder authentication, among other things) also stated a while ago that only SMS-OTP is a "true" factor; Email-OTP isn't.

Ironically, my email account is so much better protected than my mobile phone number.

I'm trying very hard to believe that the SMS lobby (i.e. mobile phone operators, which earn multiple cents per inbound SMS in Europe, as well as our friendly SMS verification providers adding their markup on that) didn't exert some pressure on the regulators here...
https://unity.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/NewFeeTable.pn...

Why does it say "monthly rate" if it's not a monthly rate?
Yeah I have a small backpackable external screen as well. But if it could do touch then my phone can act as tablet. My use case would be reading ebooks.
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The legislation gets amended. Simple.

Ideally, the legislation gets amended to that there can be a review process every X amount of years.
I'm curious how the logistics around shipping will play out for them.

IIRC, Amazon shipping was bottlenecked by UPS/USPS/FedEx. So, Amazon got more ambitious, developed a delivery fleet themselves, and started handling the last mile themselves.

Is this what TikTok is planning to do, too? If not, what are their other options? If so, I don't feel that TikTok having a successful shopping experience outside of the US is indicative of success within. They can probably handle a lot of the shopping experience, but it seems insane to me that they could just casually pop-up and handle the last mile overnight.
Charging a monthly fee on game installs is absolutely wild, considering that most games on Steam are one-time purchases. The personal fee (for first world countries) is $0.20 / month. If you charged $10 for the game, you'd be losing money after only 50 months (around 4 years).
From the FAQ: “Creators only pay once per download.”
I began my first management role a few years ago (through the "successor" path outlined in the article). My manager left for another company, and since I'd been with the team for 4 years at that point, I was asked if I wanted to take over.

I agreed, not realizing how much of a shift it was. It's an entirely different profession, and it's made me wonder how realistic the notion of an Engineering Manager is. It's sort of like the "full stack" engineer - yes you may have baseline competency across disciplines, but you're not going to excel at all of them.

Sometimes I wonder if engineering teams would best be served by someone who actually went to business school for management. Likely there would be tension as this person is very unlikely to have anything beyond conversational technical knowledge, but I'm not sure what we're doing right now is any better.
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not a bad idea! i have been enjoying pour overs way more than normal lattes anyway recently
Yes, I did read your comment before answering. Note: I commented on points you brought up IN your edit.

Let me break it down for you:

>> I would need someone to help me verify that sound works.

> You could use a microphone to record the output and plot it using Audacity.

>> but why? I don't hear so why?

> What if unknowingly you do have working audio, cranked up to 11, while browsing PornHub?
I think you need to read the table again. If you have that volume you shouldn’t be on the most expensive per install plan. And if you’re on a higher plan you wouldn’t qualify for the per install pricing at all.
Yet lawyers are stratospherically known for arguing anything that will win their case. Being reasonable is not any defense, not for a computer.

And, this argument doesn't address at all what to do about this well-understood traffic situation and the programming we will accept.
My understanding is that the high refresh rates are useful for reducing discomfort for users of stereoscopic displays.

And one of the potential benefits of 8K is to remove all need for antialiasing.

Think of it like ray tracing. A dramatically simplified rendering pipeline because it more accurately represents reality without tricks. If you got the raw hardware power to support such things.
Understood that you are not native english speaker and use AI to enhance the content.
I would advise to ask AI to share some ways to make the content more concise and incorporate learnings from those suggestions rather than copying them directly. That would keep the human element still around.

These days, I personally find articles with minor grammatical errors more interesting than AI assisted/enhanced/corrected content, because AI generated content often comes off bland and loses the rawness of author's intentions. Just personal opinion of course. :)
Why would they do this if they can sell you a more expensive iMac instead? Plus the iCloud subscription to sync all your data between the two?
I work at a big company. A few times a year I meet an EPM or engineer and think “wow they are really good”. Usually, within a year, they get promoted. I still get to work with them and they are great IC’s, but they’ll have 2-4 people under them (that usually aren’t as good, but sometimes they will also be really good), and will try and help the other IC’s be good too.

I’m always interested in becoming a better manager and was hoping I could pass this on to managers on my team, but it did not at all ring true to my experiences. I see people get promoted up as their competence improved, even at the VP Engineering level. Classic Peter Principle I guess but they haven’t yet hit the incompetence layer.
I'm not the right person to ask. I'm guessing the EM environment is too noisy, but who knows.
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And the "this is free for 24h" is just a red herring, to make it legitimate for people to speculate?

Still crazy that such a semi-anonymous scam got 700k, sounds like there's still a lot of money in crypto ready to gamble.
Ok, then why waste a /64 on that? A /96 should be enough, or even a /112.
Ooh, good question. Does Unity phone home when a game is launched? If I were in Unity's shoes and trying to enforce this cheaply, I'd either have it phone home so I could keep track of how many active users a game has, or I'd just scrape data from the app stores to see who's worth having a salesperson call up.
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They want 20% of that, PER MONTH.
I think they are saying that Firefox would be in a better position to increase market share.

I am not sure that I agree. Specifically, I doubt that mozilla would be able to realize any revenue even if every OEM made Firefox the default browser.
What about Microsoft? It seems like they're in a way worse position for from an antitrust perspective.
It's just a way for tech bros to dodge responsibility. The people who program AI should be liable for injury.
I think you're misunderstanding....

If Android OEM's aren't locked into Chrome, they'll probably request payment from Edge, Brave and other startup browsers to be the default. Whoever pays most will get the spot. And that browser will end up being ad-ridden to help pay for that.

I could totally imagine browsers having ad-blockers that don't block ads, but merely replace "bad" website-provided ads with browser-provided "good" ads.
I get the sense that Dr. Asimov was too little of a "people person" to usefully discuss the all-too-common human urge to tell others that you are right, and they are wrong. Or positive ways to handle that urge.

OTOH, he may have been quite aware that "read more Asimov, and be more smug about being right more often" was a major motive for people buying his non-fiction writing.
Rapid ecosystem churn is my gripe with Javascript. I've generally found Rails and popular Ruby gems to be very durable over time.
I also experimented a bit. I was able to reset my own password only with phone access when 2FA was not enabled: in the reset password flow, I started with my phone number, was then asked for my username and email, and then I was presented with an option to send the reset code either to my email or to my phone number.

But, I then enabled 2FA (with an authentication app), and now when I try the flow again, I get to the screen for sending the reset code and I only have the email option left (but the screen still shows up as an extra step).

So, it's possible that when you have 2FA enabled you can no longer do it. Or, it's possible I've triggered some internal rules by resetting my password twice in a short span of time (and enabling 2FA as well) and they've bumped me to some kind of "extra verification" flow that disabled phone-based password reset.
It's not a real vacation if you don't get locked out of at least one bank account or credit card for the crime of accessing your balance from a foreign IP, with no way to recover :)
> it seems like it's in the ballpark of what the app stores are charging

But now that's on top of the app store fee. So, using your example and the "standard (aka 30%)" app store fee, after that 200k cliff, the game makes $0.50 for every $1 sale. That is going to drive people away from using Unity on mobile games imo. Who cares about a $0.20 fee for a $70 (rip $60) game, but for a $1 game where 30% of your rev is already gone... it changes the dynamics.

Maybe that's what they want though? Maybe they are trying to use this to angle as Unity is a "serious" engine now?
Why so much hate, [name redacted]? Scott is an unconventional character, but his community has actually been very intellectually rewarding to be a part of and very profitable. It seems like you two had a falling out and now you are bitter for some reason. Peace and love.
LiveView Native is exactly that and being worked on by DockYard. https://native.live
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