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That was a fantastic read. My best friend back in school had this game and I played it several times during school holiday. As described in the article, it felt like an actual episode of the X-Files. Had an interesting packaging as well because of the 7 CD's it included.

If I remember correctly, it did have a showstopper in, not sure if intentional or not. At the very beginning, when the reporter asked you for information, and you don't give any ... later in the game (in the ship) when you need her help, the game just can't go forward. And you have no idea why, because nobody tells you.

This is so stuck in my head as a very bad design choice, if it was intentional.

I use a Sony a1, my videos are 4k 100fps. But on the last project I also had an Insta 360 x4 shooting B-Roll. So on some days that adds up a lot.

Exactly that. I'm not even shooting in ProRes or similar "raw" video. But one video project easily takes 3TB. And I'm not even a professional.

Both is possible. I do sometimes make vacations unplanned with no return flight ticket and just enjoy the time there as long as I feel to.

But then there are specialized holidays, where you need people to be with you. One example is my hobby being a diver. Going on a private diving safari needs planning and documents. Depending where you go are the documents, but you still need a boat, a crew and a dive guide and/or trainer.

It's still very enjoyable for me, as I love diving, but it also needs planning.

It is actually both. 6th if it comes to urban zone or larger urban zone, but first by population. In the EU, not whole Europe.

Did I live in another city than the author? I constantly see people doing selfies since it came in fashion. I lived there for decades (born there) and I travel around a lot. Still don't see any difference. Just go to the Brandenburger Tor, and you will see a massive amount of people doing selfies. Or is it actually about the people, Berlin people or germans in general? But who then is actually Berlin person, a city where less than 50% are actually born there (probably the same in many big cities).

I'm kinda confused and was even surprised after reading the title.

The issue I see here is more going in the direction, that everyone thinks they have to do something world changing.

My parents had "basic" jobs, my mum was a nurse, definitely something she can be proud of. My father - being a locksmith - could teach me a lot about craftmanship. But what they can be really proud of and what I love them for: They was great parents, that's what I as their kid wanted.

Other friends parents back in the past might had crazy jobs you could maybe showoff, but some of them was awful parents. I was very happy, not having their parents.

I would say no.

It has nothing to do with trust, if I make code reviews a must have. Everybody makes mistake, no matter how good they are.

Trust is build, that even I'm the CTO and one of the founders, I also cannot push stuff, just because I like. I have to go through the same process as all others. Code Review and QA. No shortcuts.

This gives my people the idea, that I do trust them to check even the "big boss" of the company and yes I have to fix my shit, if they find something.

Because it goes back to my first point: Everybody makes mistakes and there is nothing bad about it.

I had the exact same thoughts, that this might be centric to the US. I also never seen a popcorn button and popcorn for the microwave exists and is fairly easy. Not as good as from a popcorn machine, but still ok.

I also don't know anyone using an Instant Pot.

And so far I also don't know anyone whose microwave broke after just one year, no matter if cheap or expensive.

As a founder with an unicorn exit (with 2 more co-founders!), I'm always open to talk.

But there is a big catch: Yes there is a lot of luck involved. And just following a path of someone else not gonna work. As example: I never studied, instead worked hard since I was 15. But on the other side I also grew up in a country with very good social support and education. I had mostly great teachers in school and also lucky to find during my career a bunch of good people I can always rely on.

Yes of course there are things, that are not based on luck, but still only worked because of how my life went and cannot be used as general advices. I think if you would try to follow my (or any other successful founders) path, it's very likely not gonna work. Survivorship Bias is a big thing here.

But again open to talk anyhow.

I agree, but as someone who is from top management it also happened several times, that middle management does push the responsibility on upper management, because people tend to believe so. And so the manager doesn't have to deal with bad feelings towards themselves. As higher you go on the ladder, as more likely people think everything is your mistake (that is partially true, but not everything).

As someone who was going through the entire ladder in my career (junior, middle management, top management - CTO & Founder), I can very agree on this.

But it is actually more behind this than "just" about friendships. There are two types of managers that are toxic for their surroundings.

The too friendly one, who can't make tough decisions and the other type is the one who doesn't care at all. Both types will end with a team of juniors (who are only there to gain experience) and toxic people. Not a team you wanna be in (hopefully).

You don't have to be friends with your colleagues to be empathetic. And you don't have to be a psychopath to make tough decisions.

My advice is, be as transparent as possible (you can't tell everything). If you make a decision, tell exactly why you do so. If you cannot be fully transparent, explain why. The people you manage expect that you make decisions, when it's needed, otherwise they will not respect you.

There is something I tell to everyone who is new at managing people. The ultimate bad decision you can make is to fire someone (but it will happen). You should feel terrible, but you should still do it. Do it as quick as possible, don't push it away from you, just do it. If you need a drink in the evening afterwards, that's totally fine ;).

I remained friendships throughout the career, even with people I personally had to bring over bad messages (and made that decision by myself). And even worse, as I was in top management, more or less every bad decision will be pushed on you anyways.

Sorry for the long text ;).

Not the author, but I use the very common (for storage) Seagate Ironwolf series.

Why learning anything, if we have GPT-4? Why even commenting here, GPT-4 could do that, too ;).

Just to see it from another angle. I'm german and moved to italy 1.5 years ago. And the bureaucracy was refreshing for me. Everything was so easy compared to germany. I only visited an office ones, the rest was all with digital signature (including permissions for building a house). And it was also much quicker.

Also getting permissions for building a house was fast (59 days, germany sometimes months).

But yes there is one hard thing: As Non-Schengen-Member you have to speak the language. That is a big barrier for many people. Germany doesn't care and even pays for language courses. As a founder in germany myself, that makes things so much easier. Hiring new people from all over the world, was no issue at all (beside that the foreigner office often does not speak english).

There is another thing, maybe some italians here know that: I'm in north italy, is there maybe a big difference to south italy?

Definitely one of my all time favorites, but long time ago I played it. But I had countless playing nighty with my undead army.

If they want to add telemetry without asking the user, then they have to fix an entire industry including Google itself. They trained the people to hard disagree with such approaches, because in the past there was way too many incidents where data was unnecessary collected and misused.

Just trying to add this telemetry with opt-out in the first place shown one thing: They don't know their audience. Because if they would, if someone would have come up with that idea, everybody in the team should have screamed: "No, hell no!". You don't have the trust of your users.

I get it, getting trust back is much more effort than collecting more data (even if it's with good intent). But hey, the industry put itself into this.

Does it say, that then everybody has to live 15 minutes away from everything. It targets big polluted cities to make them a better living. Nobody says, you are disallowed to have more space for you if you want to and living in suburbs. That's exactly part of conspiracy theories.

I grew up and lived very long in Berlin. I rarely needed a car, never owned one there and I know many people who moved to Berlin and then got rid of their cars, as they didn't use it anymore. Berlin is not an example of a 15-minute-city but much better in a way of everything is close by, instead of having one center, it has several.

You can apply same for Zurich. Zurich is small in comparison to other european capitals (or capitals around the world in general). So in around 30 minutes walking you can be everywhere. Still a lot of cars there, but it is just so much more convenient, that you don't need it. But if you wanna use it, sure go ahead. And according to many rankings it is one of the best cities to live in (and I would agree with that).

I am a self taught developer (never visited a course nor going to university in my life), though that is over 25 years ago. But I basically went through the full career ladder: from junior dev to CTO.

So it is definitely possible, I know others like me. But it is for sure not for everyone. It needs a ton of self discipline.

Unfortunately as it is so long ago (I had no internet at the time I was learning privately) I don't have tips for specific courses, just wanted to drop: Yes you can do it, but it's a shit ton of work. And if you get a job in the country you live in is another question. For me being a european it was fairly easy.