SkittlesNTwix

I see a lot of harsh and snarky responses to a well-intentioned post.

You're a survivor. I hope things are easier and more stable for you these days.

It's a beautiful and special show. As a parent, this one will always resonate with me.

I Know a Place (The Creek Song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zfr21Yumo

> "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path."

This is a modern translation of what Marcus Aurelius said in "Meditations", his private diary. This particular paraphrasing and interpretation is by Ryan Holiday, a modern stoic with many books on the topic to his name. You would enjoy them.

The original quote:

"In one respect man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I must do good to men and endure them. But so far as some men make themselves obstacles to my proper acts, man becomes to me one of the things which are indifferent, no less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road."

Meditations, 5.20 Marcus Aurelius

https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/5.20/lg

That's $140k for an administrative assistant. Look at the software engineering roles. IC1 starts at $234k and goes significantly upwards from there.

I love this. Please keep it running. I just bookmarked it in favorites.

An unmanned semi-submersible vehicle developed at Washington State University may prove that the best way to travel in water undetected and efficiently is not on top, or below, but in-between.

The roughly 1.5-foot-long semi-sub prototype, built with off-the-shelf and 3D-printed parts, showed its seaworthiness in water tests, moving quickly with low drag and a low profile. The researchers detailed the test results in a study published in the journal Unmanned Systems.

I've been out of the IRC loop for a while. Is there still a lot of value using IRC in general?

> internal developer hazing

Could you expand upon what you mean by this part?

Diagram reminds me a bit of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/8l8c9a/brian_green...

This is remarkable - I've never heard of Compiler Explorer before now. I wish we had something like this back in university! Thank you so much for making this incredible tool.

Completely misread this title first as, "Orcs can..."

I've taken a Pew Research Poll before. What struck me immediately was the inane and terrible format of the questions. I actually said to the individual giving the poll, "None of these questions really allow me to confer how I feel about the issues that I know you're asking me about. They're basically nonsense."

This is exactly how people rationalize the story of how they became "trapped." And learning politics is nothing to be proud of or to seek out.

I'm really shocked that whistle.com was available or attainable.

I personally believe that an indicator of intelligence is the capacity to change ones mind when presented with new data. I don't want to be judged on past posts or comments, if it's possible that my mind has been changed, my opinion altered, etc. by new data or more thoughtful consideration.

Many of these books are out-of-print for a reason - they're not really relevant in todays tech landscape. There's a few gems in here though.

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I believe he was successful in spite of his negative qualities, not because of them. What I mean by this is that we shouldn't worship his negative traits and spin them somehow to be positive qualities in a leader, such as some people have done. He was very much a human being. A highly-intelligent man and visionary in the right place at the right time, surrounded by the right people, making a lot of good, and a few poor, choices. Don't try to reverse-engineer his success so as to duplicate it.

I had a visceral reaction after this page loaded. Well-done on the theme.

This reads exactly like the way a high-level exec of a massive company would think - numbers focused without truly understanding the issues that people might have with the company. Unable to separate mindless complaints that should be ignored out of hand (cover choice for Madden) versus the always-on or free-to-play mechanic which represent legitimate complaints. EA is not one of the worst companies in America by a long shot. But they have very little respect for the consumer.

Today on HN I see a link to a Gamasutra article where industry people are talking about just how incredible some of the LucasArts games were (20 years ago!) and another link where one of the heads of EA is making excuses for why people hate his company. Some of his points are valid, and people can be immature and ridiculous in their reasoning (or downright horrid). But he overlooks some of the valid complaints that people have with EA. And they are valid. He's throwing out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak.

I know this doesn't ring true for most people, but I'm actively looking to distance myself from facebook. It doesn't make me "happy" for the most part. It doesn't add to my overall level of fulfillment. Most of my "friends" on fb aren't real friends and often I'm not truly interested in what they're doing. These are all common complaints - nothing new here, but they're all the reason why I'm not interested in incorporating what fb already does, more deeply into my life.

Could someone with experience in the field, please elaborate on how the unit-expectation numbers are calculated? At the risk of sounding obvious, is it possible that the models used to gauge expectations are outdated?

It's interesting to reflect on this number, when you realize that the latest AAA platform title (whatever AAA meant in that particular day/age) have always cost about $50-60 in the past $$ terms of that day, regards of when in the past 20 years we're talking about. So you paid $90 worth of value in 1990 and we pay $49.99 today. What I mean to say is that games were EXPENSIVE back then!

It wasn't enough for me to simply upvote the above comment. Please consider this a double-upvote of emphatic agreement.

How soon until Google Alerts is retired, I wonder.

I'd love to donate to Watsi + proudly wear a Hacker News shirt, but this design doesn't really do it for me.

I'm on the PA Kickstarter. Looking forward to playing the finished product!

The servers being down, I can almost forgive, but this whole affair with the DRM is very puzzling. EA has a history of angering users who buy their games. And yet, for apparently no good reason, they have incorporated into their latest offering the one element that is guaranteed to anger virtually everyone who buys their game.

It's pretty simple - I paid money for your game. Now, I own it. EA, maybe you need a tutorial on how money works. Let's not get side-tracked and start talking about whether or not I own my songs on iTunes or any of these more entrenched markets. If I buy a video game, I should be able to play it 10 years later, even if the EA Sim City Servers are long-gone and now devoted to keeping track of whatever the latest terrible incarnation of Madden does.

I didn't buy Civ V (not EA) because of DRM. I haven't bought other games because of DRM. I wanted to buy into the Sim City franchise again but I'm not buying Sim City V because of DRM. You just lost a sale and likely a future customer.