masayune
Re:Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
on Friday July 05, 2024 @05:36PM (#40886243)
I'm glad my peeing into the wind is helping the circle of life
Re:Ask HN: Besides TikTok, what other innovations have come out of Chi...
on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:23PM (#38165554)
Here’s there site for specific rankings!
Re:Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will nev...
on Friday July 09, 2021 @02:00PM (#27786541)
how do you find these good, low budget movies? would love to know your discovery process
Re:Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:32PM (#24052394)
Yeah you can't do this w/o risk of getting fired. Blizz had an internal affairs division that would track this kind of stuff down.
Re:Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:45AM (#24047343)
Quite a few people I worked with dumped it into Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm loot boxes.
Oh, and Hearthstone packs
[edit: forgot Hearthstone]
Re:Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:03AM (#24046803)
Back when I worked there, they had something called "Blizzard Bucks" to "supplement" your salary. Basically "Blizzard Bucks" was Monopoly money we could use to buy their microtransactions and WoW game-time. In reality, you made approx. $30-40k sans OT, but they would always calculate your "salary" at $50-60k because of all the "Blizzard Bucks" and claim your salary was industry best.
The best part was, and they would emphasize this at every meeting, "that the company would pay the taxes for us" as if it were a big deal. People never believe me when I tell them this is how the non-devs got treated.
Re:Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (2009)
on Monday April 20, 2020 @10:00PM (#22931126)
Maybe I’m a bit too pessimistic, but are there any examples where “good money drives out the bad”? I can’t think of a single industry... maybe cars?
Re:English speakers should learn math instead of a second language
on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:39PM (#20388587)
So is there a better way to learn math now? I haven’t taken a course in over a decade and would love to understand proofs. I admittedly memorized a lot to get through math during K-12 and most of Uni.
Re:Learning Golang – From Zero to Hero
on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:25PM (#20377971)
I have to second this as well. What’s even better is if you require more detail on a subject, there’s often a link to another well-written, detailed Go article.
Re:Facebook building crypto payment system
on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:40AM (#19819380)
Instead of Zuckbucks?
Re:The most genuine museum in the world: Sweden’s Museum of Failure
on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:32AM (#19522530)
I clicked on the original link and loved the giant “Korean Island Dedicated to Sex” title on my work monitor. Hooray.
Re:Lyft prices IPO at top of range
on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:19PM (#19517195)
Disagree. Smart money is probably already out. There’s no guarantee you can accurately define when the top is. Fortunes are lost when people think they can.
Re:The Washington State Measles Outbreak
on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:49PM (#19102539)
The greatest irony is that if an outbreak occurs, the government and public health organizations will somehow be culpable.
“You’re making my kids autistic” will quickly morph into “why did you let my child die?”
Re:The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation?
on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:28AM (#18806321)
I’m from an LA suburb. I’m able to get to Santa Monica/Culver City, LAX, and J-Town just with light rail and a free transfer depending on where I need to go. In terms of time efficiency, it’s comparable to driving (faster than driving/parking in rush hour but not as fast during off hours).
LA metro is dropping track like crazy and way more usable than it used to be. And it’s cheap. $1.75 each way or monthly pass.
Tl;dr it’s awesome now and getting better!
Re:My Stepdad's Huge Dataset
on Sunday December 23, 2018 @02:10PM (#18747736)
I’d love to sit in a meeting at one of these companies. It has to be surreal discussing trending data in regards to sex, kinks, and quirks objectively in a business setting. The setup is almost something out of a Monty Python skit.
Re:Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:04PM (#18741679)
The A student wants the highest grade possible and will maneuver in a way where the C student will do actual work without affecting quality. In the event the C student is beyond useless, the A student decides between doing all the work or throwing the C student under the bus.
The C student will take any grade C and up and strives to do as little as possible whilst not pissing off the A student to go ballistic and report you to the professor.
Re:Ask HN: Introvert freelancers, how do you find the willpower to net...
on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:46PM (#18436709)
Does it change based on the scale of an event? E.g. a meetup vs a convention?
What events were the most useful in finding leads?
Re:Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014)
on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:37PM (#17499690)
I'll check it for sure. Thanks!
Re:Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014)
on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:37PM (#17499686)
Woah! Thank you for the suggestion!
Re:Learn C and Build Your Own Lisp (2014)
on Saturday July 07, 2018 @03:43PM (#17480161)
Is this a good resource to beat the fear of recursion out of me? I get recursion, but it’s still really uncomfortable to think about.