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by msg 2y ago
I really like Hadean Lands https://store.steampowered.com/app/376240/Hadean_Lands/ You are an alchemist whose spacecraft crashed at a nexus between worlds. You need to discover and perform alchemical rituals
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by msg 2y ago
Because Anna Karenina is already listed, I'll plug Scandal by Shusaku Endo. It is by a Japanese Catholic novelist and was written near the end of his career (lifetime achievement award timeframe). It is about a Japanese Catholic noveli
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by msg 2y ago
If it requires a migration for its existing customers, it's fair to call it killed. And if there is no such pathway, it's also killed. We could argue about whether it was murder or euthanasia, but dead is dead.
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by msg 2y ago
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection has a Sudoku generator called Solo. On web, desktop, and mobile for free. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/solo...
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by msg 5y ago
Amazon warehouses are shelters for things. Either someone pays the fee and adopts the thing, or it goes to the farm upstate. There are lots of thing mills breeding special things that wind up in the shelter. It's a cold and cruel busin
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by msg 5y ago
Definitely, although the quality of life goes way up with a computer doing admin. There was a weekly column at Rock Paper Shotgun that covered them (and adjacent stuff like simulation), and lately the writer has taken up residence at a new
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by msg 5y ago
You mostly play the vanilla game of Minecraft without programming. The survival loop is to mine resources in order to craft better tools that allow you to explore, build, and defeat enemies. You can get a lot of mileage out of it this way a
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by msg 5y ago
Good on you. Certainly the player can just be one more player in the economy against/among the AI. This is basically the premise of Rise of Industry. And more actively, less realistically, Offworld Trading Company. Running one business
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by msg 6y ago
I'm intrigued by the idea that users will be able to solve this problem on the client side. Perhaps not on the underlying data directly, but running an adversarial browser agent clicking its way purposefully through the internet, in a
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by msg 6y ago
I interviewed people for Amazon as well before moving to another FAANG. All I would amplify here is that entry level is entry level, especially in software. None of the college hires have professional experience (maybe internships, but they
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by msg 6y ago
I try not to hype up albums I love too much anymore. I think of Radiohead as our late stage Beatles. Experimental and exciting, even if there's a jagged edge now and then. In Rainbows was very accessible and holds up in my view. OK Com
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by msg 6y ago
Factorio has a veneer of RTS but its challenge and interest comes from factory design and managing queues of supply and demand (if you want to think about it like that). It layers complexity on complexity. Rimworld is all about character ma
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by msg 8y ago
"But temperance also can be created by coercion. Taxing is a good coercive device. To keep downtown shoppers temperate in their use of parking space we introduce parking meters for short periods, and traffic fines for longer ones. We n
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by msg 9y ago
I would ask about how long people have worked on that team, how many have come on and left in the last year, and how many headcount they are getting in OP1. This will tell you a lot about whether this team is growing and successful, stagnan
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by msg 9y ago
The example he gave was about consensus, and when you want to stop fighting. No one else can actually force you to stop fighting and move on to commit. You don't have to win or draw out every argument, and you don't have to be con
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by msg 10y ago
That's funny because B+G, C+G to me says G major: a major third, then a fourth. Is the ear guided to keys by inversion, some inversions more natural or root-y than others? I've been composing pop music for a long time without know
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by msg 10y ago
Amazon engineer here. Before I worked here, I read Steve Yegge's posts on interviews at Amazon and Google. You cannot get information more straight from the horse's mouth. I also agree with the general point that you are better of
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by msg 10y ago
I had a year like that, 2014. I had four specific goals: write an album of music, create a video game, write a novel, and continue my chronological reread of Stephen King. By the end of the year, I had written 60 pages and read one of the S
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by msg 10y ago
I started in 2000. I have a basic competence and can accompany myself and compose pop songs, but I somewhat regret not having put in the time up front in lessons and deliberate practice. I could have had 15 years of compound interest. That
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by msg 11y ago
I started counting calories on my mobile, to lose weight. I eat whatever I want but I record everything. Over time certain aspects of eating like frequent snacking and eating in ignorance get annoying. So you stop doing them. Somewhere in t
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by msg 11y ago
Not for every reader but Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) is something between historical fiction and science fiction. Worth a try in your case. Also, it's hard to go wrong with the
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by msg 11y ago
Anna Karenina . It's probably my favorite book, and this is probably read #7 or so. It's a very observant novel about love and marriage and adultery and divorce in most every permutation, life and death and meaning. It's dif
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by msg 12y ago
This and parent form a pretty backhanded compliment to 15 minute songwriting! Depending on your feelings about the songs, of course. Diamonds makes me cringe.
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by msg 12y ago
https://www.eff.org/issues/international Asked and answered. They are for everyone.
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by msg 12y ago
Amazon is a service oriented organization. In the technical teams at least, there is a strong pressure to evolve to fit your niche, and grow independently behind the safety of a well defined interface. So a lot depends on the niche. Big awe
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by msg 12y ago
IMHO skirting the rules is legal. If you care about Amazon's behavior because of the law you should have no problem here. If you care about local presence for some other reason you should be talking about that instead. You can't b
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by msg 12y ago
Also, and this is weird, you can get vi bindings in emacs through editing modes like viper-mode or evil. So if you want, in emacs you can have both. In contrast, you will never see emacs inside of vim.
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by msg 12y ago
I said an undergraduate level education. By which I mean knowing the things a CS undergraduate knows, not that you go to a brick and mortar university. They are not useless abstractions for people to write mathematical papers about. These i
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by msg 12y ago
The dirty secret of software is scalability. Scalability to big O, big O to algorithms, algorithms to computer science. How do you like me now. You don't want to use the right software language or framework with the wrong approach. You
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by msg 13y ago
People will be cagey about this game because they don't want to spoil it, but it's a game where you play a scientist team that provides unique services to the elderly. Its gameplay lacks depth and has some annoying sections even,

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