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by ta_1138 2y ago
The communication is only necessary/important if people haven't set this as a convention in the first place. I'll say that prior to ever looking at my clues: "I will give you higher numbers than what I said if you miss b
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by ta_1138 2y ago
That might be true, for a while. But I bet many of us have parents that are old enough that are, in uncontroversial, non-political ways, losing their ability to view the world accurately. It's not all that easy to convince them that ye
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The miracle of US healthcare is how at every step, work is done to minimize every party's ability to either use market power to lower costs, or to make people cost-conscious about their own expenses. Insurance, in a vacuum, detached fr
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The shortest, simplest equivalent I know that has most of the same 'spice' is Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball. At first you think it's a game about building a company that tries to get to Chicago first to claim the pri
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by ta_1138 2y ago
There was a Railroad Tycoon 3, made mostly by the same team in the same office in Fenton. The changes to a more free-flowing tracks didn't necessarily make the game better, and were a headache for most of the production. I was also tol
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by ta_1138 2y ago
There's no need for a government to get into this kind of situation: in fact, we get very similar problems all over the place in companies that have limited government contacts. What you describe is ultimately just a principal-agent pr
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by ta_1138 2y ago
What gives people burnout changes per person. For me, Covid was the best thing that ever happened. My stress levels dropped like a rock. My self control went way up, and with it my ability to improve my life. I was doing the same work, but
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Making creation cheap just means that the control goes to whoever can bring in eyeballs. So it might not be a studio not making you be able to create your vision, but an algorithm deciding that they want to boost someone else and not you. S
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by ta_1138 2y ago
That's why the riskiest moment in an engineer's career is the jump up from senior: The things that get you a strong senior review and the things that get you promoted to architect/principal/staff are completely different
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The typical IT department in a large corporation is way too big to have reasonable visibility into what it manages. There's no way to build reasonable controls that work out when you have 50K programmers on staff. It's purely a ma
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Today, the hardest part is to get to said first interview, because we are all flooded with fake resumes. Incomprensible amounts. So what you have to do is not send blind resumes, but get a warm intro from someone with a connection to the co
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It depends on when and where: All real estate investment is a bet on a specific location, and properties don't maintain themselves: In general, the land appreciates, while the house on top of it loses value. If you bought a house 15 ye
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It's not a matter of age itself, but variance and experience. You can find the issue already at 5 years: Some people have grown and have used those years wisely, while others still are going to get experience raises, while they don&#x
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by ta_1138 2y ago
A non-trivial part of the issue with consulting companies is the long wait for many to turn an H-1B into a green card. If you are going to need many years of continuous employment without ever getting hit by a layoff (which risks a gap in e
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by ta_1138 2y ago
While knowing every possible word is very helpful in scrabble, the most useful, important words for the game will be very different than the words that are useful for speaking the language well. There's many words out there that are go
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by ta_1138 2y ago
OnlyFans chat operator has been a job for quite a while. It is well documented, with news exposes and everything. So if OnlyFans wants to protect themselves from a lawsuit on impersonation, the horses left the barn years ago.
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It's more than just money: A payment processor is not all that different from a crypto exchange in their relationship with the bank: It's a very special company that can bring real risk to the banks underneath, so they have to do
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by ta_1138 2y ago
No it's not. I worked at places with mandatory TDD and pair programming for years. 100% coverage or nothing, so it's not as if I have not seen what the advantages can be. But doing that kind of work also makes it trivially easy to
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by ta_1138 2y ago
I thought it was nostalgia, but I see teenagers that love pixel art games, even though the art style is twice as old as they are. The style aged way better than, say, the PS1 era, where most games just don't hold up, and most of the on
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Not if you look at safety, max performance, reliability or efficiency. Drive a 1940s car and compare. Hell, try a sports car from the early 80s.
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by ta_1138 2y ago
There are many use cases for which the price can go even higher. I look at recent interactions with people that were working at an interview mill: Multiple people in a boiler room interviewing for companies all day long, with a computer set
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by ta_1138 2y ago
But they absolutely can. Go see Friedemann Freese Copycat, which has zero unique rules: Everything is stolen from a popular game insiders know. Hell, it even has a misprint on purpose, matching a famous misprint! You can teach it in 5 minut
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Kickstarter games tend to have far more design than development, as the success of the kickstarter campaign has little to do with the game being any good, but with the material available at campaign time being attractive. So overproduced ga
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by ta_1138 2y ago
The issue with software documentation is very different than a boardgame: The boardgame is static, changes to the boardgame are ultimately changes in the documentation, and people will not pay for a game they can't understand, while pe
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by ta_1138 2y ago
In computer science, we can squint and claim that a functor is just something that has a .map function, taking a function. Option, Promise, List... all functors. The fact that functor is a concept, and follows specific laws, allows us to ha
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by ta_1138 2y ago
Remember that Curse of the Golden Idol is getting a sequel next week
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by ta_1138 2y ago
It's not that they lost all of them, but that they make far less money, while the top performers in NYC do well. It's not unlike what happened to soccer as television got cheaper and cheaper: You can go watch your town's thir
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by ta_1138 2y ago
When your company gets even a little big, the decision making process gets filtered through sufficient levels of management that it's not the company owner firing people at any time: It's an employee who doesn't necessarily h
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by ta_1138 2y ago
And don't forget that the percentages are not global, but in small buckets. This makes the worst performers extremely valuable, because not only you have someone to get rid of, but if they are bad enough, the rest of the team knows who
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by ta_1138 2y ago
This story of his would have fir just fine in a much smaller Stripe, back when you could actually know everyone, and Patrick interviewed every programmer. A time where making a difference wasn't all that hard, as everyone fit in one ca

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