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The article is explicitly stating and explaining why they were indeed better 40 years ago.

It's not "politics" when the leader of a company is fundamentally against your existence.

It's only politics when it's "other people's problems I don't care about", it seems.

The US is not the world.

They perfected and introduced a lot of concepts that are now part of the genre of competitive FPSs. As much as I thought it was just a me-too kind of game before playing it, once I did manage to play it, I had to admit they went beyond what would be expected. They tried a lot of novel things.

I do think Activision-Blizzard is a shell of what it once was, but that game was definitely a positive, not something they just phoned in.

For non-ubiquitous languages (everything other than English), part of the difficulty of learning is not just the basic learning, it's retaining what you've learned; it might be difficult to practice it unless you're on the country that speaks it. Of I'm in the middle of Tennessee, probably don't have a lot of opportunity to prescribe my Japanese. That's where Duolingo shines, in my opinion: as a learning companion.

Until you've actually developed for mobile Safari, and had to deal with absurd bugs and anti-user problems that have been around for a decade, it's difficult to understand the scale of the problem.

Even if you ignore any of the new shiny APIs and features being ignored by Apple, the general state of web support by Safari is atrocious and forces developers into many one-offs specially for that browser. This is actively anti user.

So your point is that the web sound be less capable, and Safari is the last browser trying to cap the web's knees.

That seems to me like the point of all these recent articles.

This comes to mind:

A Generation Lost in the Bazaar https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

(It's mostly a criticism of building tools, and MR is mentioned because of autoconf)

Countries have different costs of living. It's like a different scale. X in some_european_country gives you a quality of life as if you made 4X in the US. But if you move back to the US that is lost since the scale doesn't apply anymore.

The American pursuit for the highest salary possible is blinding people to what actually means living well.

You can still do porn, just not in the store. You just need a website.

Or do you prefer your desktop porn to be via a .exe as well?

The classic Adobe applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) are likely third party encumbered in such a way that a Linux build is all but impossible. I can only imagine the amount of binary crap 20 years out of support that has gone into it over the years.

I'm of a different persuasion: better to not have Adobe software on Linux. It'll give a bit more space for alternatives (as it's already doing), and Cthulhu knows we need that. It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Adobe needs to go away.

I don't know anything that's not public, but it certainly seem there's something going on at Google as of recently. At least in my bubble, I'm seeing people leaving (or generally more dissatisfied than ever) left and right. I wonder what kind of threshold was passed.

This. In a corrupt country, not destroying the seized equipment in theatrical fashion makes everybody assume cops/government just took it and used or re-sold it themselves, individually.

Similar reason why drugs are destroyed with a lot of fanfare in most Latin American countries (er, when they are). Surely it'd be easier and cleaner to bury it somewhere after soaking it or something, but no, they need to make a pyramid of drugs and have someone throw a pyre at it to create a big symbolic bonfire that is a toxic mess to clean up.

I think it's a reflection of the culture from the general area. Russian sci-fi, for example, tends to be heavily introspective (Roadside Picnic, Solaris, etc). While most other western/American sci fi is more about extraordinary world building/future scenarios.

To a lesser or different degree, you see the same approach in videogames, software development, etc.

Same! It felt like a weird premise for the game before I started and I was a bit uneasy about it. But it was a bit of a lesson on how things are not always black and white like that (the protagonists had actual motivations), and also on "hey you know what, it's just a videogame, why not be the baddie one in a while?" at the same time. Kinda ahead of its time, but very well executed.

Yes but what about when we need all hands on deck to brainstorm synergy ideas Bob? Better call a meeting with everybody.

As a Latin American (of Italian heritage!) that moved to the US, I learned this the hard way.

Many times, as an introvert, I sometimes like to be silent myself, even if I'm enjoying the moment. As the article say, this doesn't tend to be a problem in Latin America, because people are always talking over each other (and that's fine!), so anyone keeping quiet works ok.

But in the US, you're expected to talk, so keeping quiet means something is wrong. I finally got tired of people asking "what's wrong? why aren't you saying anything?" (and not understanding when I answer that nothing is wrong and that yes, I'm having a good time). So I started making a point of saying something of no value every now and then, to fill my quota. This seems to make everyone happy.

Same, and the strongest reason why I stopped using GA altogether.

People don't talk much about that, I suppose, but to me it's clear GA is completely dead as a product.

Same. I keep my Twitter feed extremely on topic of what I enjoy/want and it's a great experience as a result. Anything proud gets culled via muting specific keywords or unfollowing.

I agree with the spirit, but I'm afraid that on a twitch shooter they would fall back into inhuman advantage space, like with superior, perfect aiming.

The important thing to realize is that for Quake bots, being "good" was not always preferred. Some of the early generation bots (Reaper IIRC) were wicked good because they had perfect aim and could easily defeat a human without ever relying on strategy, which was rather poor at the time. They were ok as shooting targets if you tuned it down but terrible to practice real deathmatch.

It took a while for good boys (like Frogbot IIRC) to emerge and provide a good deathmatch experience. And still a lot of them had to rely on manually defined, strategic routes around a map.

I'd love to see bots generating navigation meshes and "juicy" routes on the fly, maybe after analyzing gameplay, but I think Quake bots never got to that point. It was a bit too early.

Ditto. I use Blender at an amateur level from time to time and I feel that every time I want to do something that i know is possible and I look it up, the official documentation mentions menus or UI items that don't exist anymore so I have to figure it out myself.

That just redirects you to an unrelated highlights page.

They'll use Amazon listed apps, so still APKs.

Companies tend to put an emphasis on avoiding false positives, and usually don't care much about the risk of false negatives. They know it's possible for someone to be great without a degree, or any other random arbitrary requirement. But they know that there's a higher likelihood that someone without the requirement does not fit what they're looking for, so they're willing to lose desirable candidates as long as it removes a certain ratio of undesirable candidates.

This is specially true of companies that get thousands of resume submissions, like Google, Facebook, etc. For them, removing the noise is a huge challenge.

There's already a dozen great competitors for Jira.

Jira has a gigantic moat. Too many people - non devs mostly - are invested on it. While this new product is not negligible since it comes from a service people are likely already using, I'm sure Atlassian isn't scared in any special way.

Different times. There was a time you needed hands on deck; you needed many many people doing hard, mechanic work.

This is a time where you need minds on deck. The "knowledge worker" as some places call it. You stretch them too thin and you get less for you money and time.

Is a 4 day week better? I don't know. But I know it's not the same context as it was too years ago.

Every time I think I should give Notion another try, I run into this and then remember why I didn't like it the first time around.

It seems that way to me too. In the US silence is basically a crime against humanity.

This. Basically half of LinkedIn posts these days. "Here's this guy who spent 16 hours a day selling watermelon at a traffic light. I came in and helped him find a job and now he's a CEO of a Fortune 500 company and can feed his 12 kids. #bekind"

With c2rust it wouldn't. It would likely be slower in some cases due to added checks for, say, buffer overruns.

But that's not the point. C2rust code is not "idiomatic". You get weird, unsafe Rust code full of potential side effects. The idea is to provide a means for you to start rewriting things in ways that make sense in Rust.

Would the final code be faster? Harder to tell. Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how well it's implemented, what kind of clever constructs are applied, what the game's bottlenecks are, etc.

And yet, I don't think that matters much either. Games shouldn't be bound by CPU as much nowadays unless they're doing massive simulations that are likely not language constrained. So it would be the wrong comparison to make IMO.