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LandoCalrissianon Railroad Tycoon

Love that game. There was a harder to find sequel by the same creator called Yoot Tower, it's pretty much the same game with a few additions.

You should also give Project Highrise a shot, very similar to Sim Tower and I have found it to be enjoyable.

LandoCalrissianon The possibility of remaking the financial system with the blockchain

Is this some crazy manifesto, or do you actually believe this?

LandoCalrissianon Nintendo Switch Teardown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqaTdflkNU

You are not wrong. I appears docked has the hiccups.

LandoCalrissianon YouTube TV

$35 is kind of steep.

LandoCalrissianon Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee

OK, let's have the conversation, tell me how this wasn't blatant sexual harassment?

LandoCalrissianon Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee

I don't think you understand what sexual harassment is then. I hope you take a closer look at this, because this is beyond acceptable workplace behavior.

LandoCalrissianon Samsung chief Lee arrested as S.Korean corruption probe deepens

I don't actually know much about South Korea. Could you provide more context here?

LandoCalrissianon Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit

It's the NDA that killed them.

LandoCalrissianon Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

Is there a reason they got rid of the MagSafe? I don't own a Mac, but I always thought that was a cool feature.

LandoCalrissianon Pull request review mistakes

The frontend complexity one rings very true. I know they are largely talking about CSS changes in the article, but I think sometimes experienced developers can just discount the frontend as a whole.

At my job my coworker and I did a major refactor on part of our frontend codebase. Probably 2,000 lines of code were changed and the only comment on the PR was for additional unit tests on one method we had touched on the backend. We brought it up multiple times in standup that this really needed to be reviewed properly and we got radio silence. The PR was just passed through.

Your entire platform really does matter, it's important to make sure all things work. Not just what you understand.

LandoCalrissianon The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing

I still purchase AMD CPUs since the price difference between Intel is so huge. I have however given up on AMD GPUs, the price and performance are usually around Nvidia, but it's just always a little crappier or buggy.

I always want them to do well, since I don't want just on company running the x86 market.

LandoCalrissianon Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience

Don't have a webcam or microphone hooked up to your computer, problem solved?

LandoCalrissianon The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory

You leave my space wizards out of this!

LandoCalrissianon A New Real-Estate War in Silicon Valley

Rent control is a terrible idea for controlling cost. This is basically universally agreed upon by all economists. You just artificially reduce the supply of housing because people in rent control places will not leave. On top of that it actually makes it more difficult for low income people to rent since you have to have a sterling rental history to get a rent control apartment.

So you actually just exacerbate the situation. Rent control is one of those things that sounds good at face value but once you think about it a little more you realize it's a terrible idea.

LandoCalrissianon CHIP Pro

I ordered mine when pre-orders were first available and got them probably about two months ago. I would say it was worth the wait and have been really happy with the build quality and software. Hopefully they can figure out their distribution problems because they do have a good product.

LandoCalrissianon There's no easy way to say this

I hope the devs found their own studio and make a competing product. I feel like they could potentially make more money and an even better game.

LandoCalrissianon Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

That's really weak.

LandoCalrissianon Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy

Oh no don't you see he is genius that can do it at any time. Sure he could be rich or do a backflip he just doesn't want to right now.

LandoCalrissianon Millennial men with different incomes

My wife and I only have one car which basically only gets used on the weekends. Having good public transit makes a great difference for all income levels. All boats rise with the tide.

LandoCalrissianon CHIP $9 Computer

I ordered mine in November, when are they actually planning on shipping?

LandoCalrissianon 21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers

How, seriously?

LandoCalrissianon The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning on Spark

Hah, that's actually pretty funny.

LandoCalrissianon Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases

Honestly that is lot of BS. I get what your saying to a point, but I have never used my depression as an excuse to dismiss any of my normal duties, and I think it's pretty bad that you would assume many would.

By all accounts I have a great life, I have friends that have been with me for over 20 years, have a wife who by all my accounts is the greatest person in the world, have an amazing job that I completely love going to every day. I'm truly blessed with what I have, and could never argue otherwise.

I am a diagnosed manic depressive and I treat it like alcoholism. You're not going to see an alcoholic stand up in an AA meeting 20 years later and say "I'm not an alcoholic anymore". I treat depression the same way, you have to confront it head on each day and admit what is happening to you mentally. 10 years from now, 20 years from now, whenever. The great irony of that is that alcoholism is recognized as a disease where this article is arguing that depression isn't the same.

You can have the best life, the best people in it and still want to top yourself. To "fight the hellish mode" is such a radical oversimplification it's comical. I seriously have some of the best and most longstanding relationships with my friends that makes it most people jealous. Most people don't understand how a group of people could still be with each other after 20+ years. Yet I'm still depressed every day. It's never going away, it will always be there no matter what I do. To characterize that as victimization or lack of effort is exactly what leads people to kill themselves, because whats the point after honestly? You are literally saying their inability to foster positive relationships is what is the problem. Having nothing but positive relationships in my life I can tell you that's bullshit.

It's not interaction that fosters the problem, it's fucking depression, the disease. Get off you high horse or were going to have more Aaron Swartz's on our hands. The stigma is a 100% real, and garbage like this just makes people with depression feel more alienated.

LandoCalrissianon Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases

This is a terrible article that completely treats depression as the fault of the individual. Pretty irresponsible frankly.

LandoCalrissianon On David Lynch's 'Dune'

I actually like Lynch's Dune. There are dozens of us, dozens!

LandoCalrissianon Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

This is why I have stayed at my current company so long. They give us unlimited PTO, free public transit, good 401k matching, good healthcare and the relative cost of living is great. Hours are reasonable and maintaining work life balance is encouraged at all times.

I could leave and probably make quite a bit more, but I don't think all the benefits would come along with it. Also the relative cost of living almost guarantees that even if I did leave, what I pocketed after all expenses would almost certainly be less.

LandoCalrissianon Is group chat making you sweat?

I wish you could get rid of the default channels, so everything has more of a point. #general basically always becomes a garbage dump.

LandoCalrissianon The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up

Not really a shock, evolve or die. I did a great deal of web design in my earlier years, but you have to keep up. I learned how to code, I learned databases, I learned system administration, learned the latest frameworks, I made sure I kept up my skill set.

I ended up in UI/UX, but since it's such a young field the variance in quality is completely crazy. You will get people that are 100% designers that have no concept of what is required to implement their ideas, on the other hand you get middling coders that know nothing about design. It's pretty interesting to see.

It was pretty clear where it was going 5-6 years ago. It's too easy to make a simple restaurant website, you have to bring far more to the table these days.

LandoCalrissianon Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself

I agree, Songza was a big win for them. I was really impressed at how quick they got their features moved into Google Music, not super typical for Google.

LandoCalrissianon “We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”

Because it wasn't in compliance with the law, they were using personal aircraft licenses for commercial purposes. The standards for those two things are vastly different.