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Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:06PM (#43104473)
Which is true because people already have large Steam game libraries. I barely game anymore but I must have 3000 games in Steam.

Epic is gnawing at the lead, at least with me, as they give out a free game every week. I must have 300 games in Epic - I've even paid for a few.

Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:45AM (#43104206)
I'm a parent to 11/7 year olds, and just yesterday we were talking about how dangerous and addictive gambling is. If you ask them about gambling they will say "it's for stupid people". I doubt it's super common but I'm sure others are doing it if I am.
Re:Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:40AM (#43104133)
Microsoft at the very least didn't fire these developers and didn't convince them to not work on DirectX. Someone at Microsoft gets the credit, even if it's not upper management.
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:10PM (#33179080)
Implicit bias is real and there are ways to mitigate some of it. More process driven interview frameworks, less 'he seem like me so he probably good'.
Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?” on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:45AM (#33008570)
You could decide to work an office job?
Re:Workplace surveillance is coming for you on Monday August 22, 2022 @04:27PM (#32556766)
This stuff happens all of the time.

Middle management has to educate upper management on why certain metrics are bad. I do it all the time. Most recent one was length a PR was open. Some of my better devs opened PRs earlier and left them open for feedback longer, and I didn't want them penalized, so I communicated (with data) to management that it was a bad metric and we no longer measure it.

From his profile:

> Cofounder and former MD of Bytemark, a British hosting company.

Re:MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:26PM (#32498412)
You should insure things you can't afford to self insure for. Life, Home, maybe car.

You should not pay insurance for all the tech crap we buy. You're just losing money on average. Only way to win with this type of insurance is to be unlucky.

x = 2 + 3

x * 2

Re:Cloudflare had a partial outage on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:20AM (#31823600)
Not to state the obvious, but... if a big centralized company built a Cloudflare for IPFS to make it easy for the masses to adopt, that company could go down just as easy as Cloudflare.
But does it really matter? If Covid is 10% likely to kill you, and the shot is 9% likely to kill you, you'd still get the shot.
Your country gets punished for trying to do the right thing.

Just like some jobs are now hiring in "any state but Colorado", since if they hire in Colorado they have to post salary on the job description.

Lots of developers (especially newer ones) seem to think code is "utter shit" when it really is written that way for a reason. At least I've seen this pattern many times, and used to do it myself decades ago.
Re:Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions? on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:03AM (#29393592)
Lots of places call these "commercial monitors".

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Flat-Panel-Displays/ci/16...

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:45PM (#28935311)
Have either of you ever used a XPS camera? They are terrrrrible.
At least it is somebody with a big title. Chief Technical Pilot.
Re:Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:24PM (#28788461)
Right, and at that point you should be using some sort of NoSQL anyway.
Re:Sublime Text 4 on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:45AM (#27233925)
Neat. I use HxD for such a purpose.
Re:Sublime Text 4 on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:41AM (#27233872)
Sublime will barf if the file gets big enough too. In that case use something like HxD
Re:The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:29AM (#27184568)
This guy spoke at my software company a few months ago and everybody was so inspired. Jeesh.
You buy bitcoin and don't care at all about how much it is valued at? I call malarkey.
Cool product.

How do you expect you will be able to compete with the likes of the more advanced CX vendors out there? For example:

https://www.genesys.com/genesys-cloud

Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @10:13AM (#26412022)
Just FYI, those 3 heroes didn't die right away like it hinted in the show. They lived normalish lives.
Re:LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:29PM (#26317810)
Compare it to 1Password with it's 0 trackers.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.agilebi...

Re:Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:01PM (#26305801)
Doesn't seem to work with iTerm
Re:I heat my home by mining crypto currencies on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:00AM (#26237277)
Here's a Finland example that was posted earlier. It makes it seem like it's already working.

https://helsinkismart.fi/case/waste-not-want-not-data-center...

Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:27AM (#26167365)
Appreciate your wisdom on this.
Wow that is incredible.
Re:ImHex – A Hex Editor on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:12AM (#25360140)
This is one of the few apps that can open/edit gigabyte files on MacOS without choking.

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