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Specialised subs with good moderation, dedicated to topics that are positive things, are pretty much always fun experiences. Those subreddits you mention though - I think I've filtered every single one of them from my feed because they are just inherently negative

I personally wish that sites that use advertising just had ads that fit the content that you're looking at.

A few things that would help this issue 1) a mobile-first IDE - app and responsive website (that you can share links to) with a great interface for mobile that makes use of strengths like touch screen, while getting round the weaknesses of screen size and lack of physical keyboard by not relying on typing out full words and not using the convention of having entire files open in a tab. (eg a single function or code block on screen at a time). Preferably with accounts you can use to log in from whichever device suits at any given point 2) games and other apps that are made to be "modded" that link to that IDE - modding is a big way that PC gamers get into coding these days, it's the art of making add-ons to games - if this where a common thing with mobile games and apps you wouldn't just have the PC gamer crowd modding 3) If programming and development communities where easier to find from a more diverse set of social networks, more people who enjoy expressing creativity with people, would find out that they can create this way as well

That name is perfection. Kudos to whoever came up with it!

What a fabulous full title lol

That's the sign of having a good manage. Not everyone has that unfortunately

I'm enjoying the license it uses:

"This module is licensed under whatever license you want it to be as long as the license is compatible with the fact that I blatantly copied multiple lines of code from the Python standard library"

Yeah at present, people can see a film separately but still talk in depth about tiny details of it. When this tech is in place but new some conversations are going to get confusing. Once everyone is used to it it'll be a slight annoyance, and something that some people will actively avoid - perhaps putting premium prices on original copies.

Something made to be a choose your own adventure is a different experience to a film - it's a lazy video game basically.

Video assistant referee - basically extra referees who help to make decisions by watching replays - used in many major Football (soccer) tournaments. In the offside rule (used in Pro competitions) you can't pass to a teammate, who is stood nearer to the opposing teams goal than any of the opposing team, excluding the goalkeeper. Subtle, brief, hard to spot infractions of the offside rule are possible. So one use of VAR is: when the regular referees think someone may have been offside during the lead up to scoring, they can pause the game and wait for the VAR team to look through where people where when the pass in question happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee

Technology and development is an area of constant growth, pretty much by definition. A technology can't be the latest and greatest technology without pushing the boundaries. Companies who market themselves as innovators, have to, well, push innovations. Frameworks and developer tools keep appearing and being added to because they can exist to help others innovate. Individual developers who want to make sure that their skills are up to date, have to keep learning new skills as new ones appear. There are so many different bits of hardware and software out there now, and possible ways and benefits to integrating with them or supporting them; that even just working on a given project for a while with broad enough vision, might see you having to learn lots of different things

It's amazing and embarrassing how far I had to scroll through the comments to realise this was an April Fools. Tbf it's 4:43 on the 2nd of April where I am now, but still

Still uses GDPR though, so perhaps the label really refers to using EU data law save and they've not updated it to reflect this technicality.

How does it know the items for the invoice? Presumably reads them from a file in the folder you've named for the customer?

This was so much fun and so easy to have a play around with. I found it to be incredibly intuitive - as someone who isn't musically talented but is curious enough to just try stuff out

After trying out the "rock you" special beat, I quickly managed to make what I think is a common rock drum beat - what I would describe as: dum ch dadum dum ch. Then while that was going, I started playing around with that beat - different variations of it, without pausing it at all. It kinda sounded like I was jamming! I carried on playing with it while it was playing the beats and had quite a bit of fun changing the beat and making a drum solo. Unfortunately I was just changing that one pizza - would be cool if you could set it to record it as you change the pizza. I went back and made a cool beat with four pizzas so I could share it here :)

https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=3ge...

Partly for this reason, I've been considering starting an open source project to make a mobile-first Web based app/website development environment. That way, whenever I realise I'm distractedly using my phone (not just on the loo!) I can flip over to a different website and get back to figuring out whatever code has got me stumped recently :)

Some companies, that struggle to get candidates, seem to use the probation period as a way of being able to hire people without properly testing skills first.

I'd read this comment and still had that horror movie jump scare feeling!

Loving some of the puns: Helvetikhan lol

Very pretty and very expensive dice! Possibly a good present for a Tabletop RPG fan

(edit, typing into the box where the pictures happen is easy enough, it's just typing in the bottom box that is very awkward because of constantly scrolling back up to see tiny changes.) Sadly this is very difficult to play on mobile.

Ahh okay. Thanks for the extra detail

Out of interest, how did they manage to keep the determination to apply, after the 5th or 6th setback? When I was fresh out of university, I had a run of jobs where my skills where over-estimated by small local development firms who'd hadn't hired many/any grads before. After 5 setbacks in a row, I couldn't face applying to tech roles. The only way I could bring myself to carry on towards my career dream at that low point, was self-teaching - working on my own projects and focusing in on the techs I was best at. Then after a bit, doing basic Web design projects for small businesses and gradually working up from there - but still to this day (~6 years on from that run) only projects where I'm in complete control of the tech stack and coding practices. It took a tonne of effort (and some counselling) to get my self-confidence back

That's awesome

Well that's concerning!

So far I only ever hear about clubhouse on hn. Though I'm not really on social media much. I just checked the about page and it actually sounds like a neat idea - voice based chat forums, where new people have to listen for a bit and be given permission to talk from those already talking. Doesn't sound like it's about gaining likes or showing off or inanely talking about yourself. I don't know if it's any good or if the world needs yet another social media platform but it sounds more suited to genuine conversation than quite a few of the current big social media services.

Unfortunately it often takes quite a bit of experience in a skill to truly assess your own skill level. Many programming courses teach just the basics of coding in a language, without making it clear that it's not really enough to professionally start working on production code. It also requires more knowledge of a language, to work with other people's code than your own - and there really isn't enough recognition of that fact (at least in people I've come across)

I have a memory of reading that the strategy Nintendo have used from the n64 days, was always make a slight loss on each console but make big profit on games and developer licences, so that they start making profit after the third or fourth game sold per console

Edit: looked for proof but for the life of me I can't find evidence amongst all the results for articles and blog posts reminiscing about old games and consoles!

By the sounds of it they're neither virtual nor particles!

"A virtual particle is not a particle at all. It refers precisely to a disturbance in a field that is not a particle."

So from that I gather, it's a term in physics to describe things that look like particles but aren't.

From the second link: "Modern video games like Fortnite contain sophisticated economies that mix fungible tokens like V-Bucks with NFTs/virtual goods like skins"

Fortnite skins are different from NFTs - you're not supposed to sell them on. I just checked this with a quick Google search just in case the developer had changed how they work since I last played. They haven't, the way to sell skins is to sell your account details via an external market. Some games companies ban players from online matches who are caught buying or selling like that. I also found a site for buying /selling useful in game items, and the way that the item handover works is literally by making players meet up in game and the seller dropping the item on the floor.

VBucks are just tokens that can only be spent in Fortnite and make it slightly harder for spenders to know how much they are spending on each thing. You get them slowly in game, and can also buy them with real money. You can only use them to buy different appearances and gestures, and only from the developer.

I'd therefore argue Fortnite does not have a sophisticated economy, nor uses NFTs. It has a clever business model, using free download of the game as a whole but paid customisation, to help make it very shareable and very effective at gradually warming players up to the idea of making a purchase or five. It has become much like a shopping mall for modern teenagers - they willingly hang out there for hours for free, right next to places tempting then to purchase.