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by vtange 5y ago
3rd possibility is that they are using a lazy implementation of a paywall/way to force you to register to read.
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by vtange 6y ago
Yes it's true it's larger than books and movies, but games in the end just compete with other forms of media for customers' entertainment dollars. Unless we can come up with a use case for VR beyond gaming and fulfilling esca
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by vtange 6y ago
Autofocus can be for anything - Phone cameras, Surveillance cameras, Drone missile targeting systems, etc.
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by vtange 7y ago
This sounds like it will fall into the same "echo-chamber" problem platforms like Youtube fell into. Note that with the social-credit system, you are docked points if you are friends with the "wrong" people. Thus, you na
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by vtange 7y ago
Would you have made the switch if it wasn't closer to family?
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by vtange 7y ago
A lot can be learned working with average engineers. You shut yourself out of a lot of jobs by avoiding average and will be probably screwed if the "above-average" places consider you an average candidate.
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by vtange 7y ago
"Any tech company" was probably an overstatement, companies like Apple and Google are much more grounded in valuation compared to companies like Amazon, which had a PE ratio of 85.99 in 2018 [0]. [0] https://www.nasdaq.
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by vtange 7y ago
There are many ways to rationalize a war though, sure you can't take over others' resources without outright destroying them, but if your goal was to simply wipe a competitor out and monopolize a scarce resource, the picture chang
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by vtange 7y ago
Learning a new language doesn't necessarily deepen the vertical bar if the language cannot really be used to improve productivity/innovation on top of an engineer's current toolset. Learning TypeScript on top of Javascript ca
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by vtange 7y ago
This is a good point, though for most people, valuable skills are often "dry" and undesirable like plumbing, so someone who was really passionate might've persevered on his own anyways. Even if academia has the merit of makin
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by vtange 7y ago
But you could arguably get the same result working for a larger company, getting paid market rate for a 9-to-5, and putting in a few more hours at home working on open source or managing a solo side project from scratch. You might even end
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by vtange 7y ago
Does their data remain though? If it does then your data would still be in danger of hackers if said business got attacked, etc. Aren't businesses supposed to treat customer data as liabilities now? Some consumers would want complete r
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by vtange 7y ago
Wouldn't a breakup/decentralization of Google, or any American multinational for that matter, just hand Chinese tech giants a massive advantage since the Internet as it is now heavily favors large, centralized organizations? I don
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by vtange 8y ago
But not all customers need the new benefits and prefer Patreon for being quick, cheap and simple. It would actually be damaging to Patreon if they didn't grandfather and changed to a point they lost that audience.
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by vtange 8y ago
Highly depends on the team. I've seen teams where most members are remote but most teams I've been on shun working-from-home regularly. That and most companies pay based off "cost of living" and you cannot expect Bay Are
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by vtange 8y ago
It's insane how many really, really, good people we lose to tragedies like this... 9/11 took away one of the founders of Akamai(the CDN company). Even the recent 737 crash took away some really accomplished people from humanity.
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by vtange 8y ago
It's a different framing but this frame hides a lot of crucial information like the fact this venture used venture capital (and probably VC connections too) and hired many employees. You can't really compare this to the solo-garag
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by vtange 8y ago
This argument runs counter to all the articles saying China is ahead of the U.S. in cashless transactions and that we should catch up or be left behind.
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by vtange 8y ago
You can also often find unnatural hairs/wrinkles/pigmentation around the forehead/neck if you look closely.
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by vtange 8y ago
There was this one guy who lost a valuable Twitter handle due to him using his custom domain email (via GoDaddy) as a login email.[0] I'd like to think imagine Google is better than GoDaddy when it comes to security and fighting social
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by vtange 8y ago
This might be a poor PR move for Unity in relation to game developers. Many will read it as a cash grab with more monetization shenanigans lurking on the horizon and decide to switch to engines like Godot Engine. Unity might've actuall
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by vtange 8y ago
Top dogs will always try to stay top dog for as long as possible and they are willing. It is what people would naturally do even if the stage was a video game, or if they were fighting for civil rights. Some people tend not to just "kn
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by vtange 8y ago
Not to mention it sorta insulates us from the political shenanigans of that region. Especially true if you believe Iraq was "all about the oil."
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by vtange 8y ago
Odds are everyone's nukes are poorly secured, not just the U.S.. So even if we manage to improve security, it only takes another side to lose their nukes to a not-so-cool-headed actor..
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by vtange 8y ago
That line is taken out of context a lot - the Declaration of Independence does not try to assert that all humans are equal in ability, its main focus was to state that all humans have equal rights to their life, liberty and freedom to pursu
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by vtange 8y ago
I'm a software engineer that went through architecture school and I think you're glorifying architects a bit here. The only reason why architects have a more gradual path as you describe is because there is a LOT of gatekeeping an
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by vtange 8y ago
4 can also be sorta solved by a lot of 1-3. Outside things you can learn from a CS class there is a lot of stuff out there that is poorly documented where the only good way to do 4 is to run many small experiments to know what constitutes a
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by vtange 8y ago
What happens if you lose your Bay Area job or decide to switch out? Sounds like you'd need to move back to the Bay to repeat the process.
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by vtange 8y ago
If the skin is that similar to the original silver color and texture of original Macbooks you might also see a market for giving non-Macbook laptops that Macbook color look.
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by vtange 8y ago
I'm not advocating a wholesale increase in defense budget. There definitely is corruption and waste in there. The point is that NATO members agreed in 2006 to spending 2% of their GDP equally and then didn't meet it. They agreed a

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