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My first exposure to anything that could be related to professional day-to-day work was when my dad taught toddler-me how to use DOS in Windows 3.1

Unfortunately for me, I didn't do anything else remotely related to programming until my 20s. But I think this early exposure to a command line made it much easier to go through tutorials, since everything that I used to learn early on involved a unix terminal.

Anyways, command lines/terminals make me feel good. I don't think it's nostalgia. I'm not exactly sure what to call it.

It's the same feeling I get when I occasionally have to write Objective-C code. It's not the first language I learned, it's not my main daily language, and I'm not particularly good at it. But it's the first programming language that I was paid an actual salary to use. It helped me start my career, and it makes me happy. It just feels warm and comforting.

i personally feel that there's a good chance that the choices for people with 30+ years until retirement age are either retiring early, or not retiring at all. i want to have retirement money, but also keep working. i want to be in a position where i would be able to retire if i was no longer able to continue working. if im not in that position, i might lose my current income trajectory, and never recover it, and then im stuck working for the rest of my life

This is a fair point. It seems like standard policy at lots of places is to not budge significantly on comp unless a Valued Employee is prepared to leave. You then end up with one of the three scenarios:

- the employee leaves anyways, since it's too late to change their mind

- the employee stays, but there's a loss of trust and loyalty

- the employee never planned to leave in the first place, and exploited your broken system

Valued Employees should be rewarded preemptively.

There are still too many managers who don't understand one of their primary responsibilities in a market that favors employees: making sure that their best engineers don't leave. The job market won't always be like this, but you'd think that they would have figured it out by now during the current run. It's been nearly a decade at this point, and the pandemic has tipped things even further in the favor of the people who make the sausage.

This quote from a Wikipedia article about a Heinlein book is apt for this. It makes me think that what has happened here is not only inevitable for any disruptive tech company that grows large enough, but also any other sort of human collective in general:

"This theme is echoed elsewhere in Heinlein's works – that real liberty is to be found among the pioneer societies out along the advancing frontier, but the regimentation and legalism that follow bring restraints that chafe true individualists."

You'll have to get past the entities that profit off whatever problem(s) you are proposing solutions for first.

There's pre-cliff bleszinski Fortnite, and post-cliff bleszinski fortnite. It would have not become as huge as it is now if he had not been ousted.

I think 50 years is way too long to plan ahead for. A ~9-12 year approach makes more sense. Look at these intervals:

1942 - First mass-produced fully-electric analog computer

1951 - First mass-produced commercial computer (using vacuum tubes)

1963 - First mass-produced integrated circuit mainframe computer

1974 - First mass-produced personal computer

1984 - First GUI operating system with widespread adoption

1995 - AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy bring the internet to the masses

2007 - First smartphone with widespread adoption

~2017 - I'm actually having trouble coming up with something. Maybe cryptocurrency (specifically Ethereum) gaining widespread adoption, but it's too early to judge its significance. Same with VR.

The job market and what it meant to be a programmer changed so much between these intervals.

You might not even be in tech anymore in 11 years. Maybe you'll be retired after a lucky windfall. Or dead.

This seems like a great thread to ask for game recommendations.

These are my favorite turn-based games of all time:

HOMM 1, 2 & 3

Advance Wars series (including DS and DOR)

Uniwar (a surprisingly excellent mobile game inspired by Advance Wars and Starcraft 1)

Civilization 5 + Vox Populi / Community Patch (my favorite overall, but I'm getting bored of it because end game takes too long, even on quick. at least it's still actively developed, which is nice when I get the urge)

Into the Breach (least amount of playtime on my list, but it's still very solid. Playing it actually makes me feel kind of sad, because it seems like the skeleton for a great successor to Advance Wars, but there's no Steam Workshop for it, and no built-in versus mode or multiplayer)

Battle of Polytopia (second-least played amount, but also very solid. Imagine if someone made a game out of the first ~30 turns of a Quick-paced Civ5 game)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (when I imagine my perfect turn-based game that I would design if I had the money to hire a full team of people, it's a mix of HOMM, Advance Wars, Civ5, and DCSS. It's the only roguelike I've enjoyed enough to play more than once, and I've played it a LOT)

Games that I already tried and didn't like enough to continue playing

Total War series

Rest of the HOMM series (HOMM 4+), including mods

Civ 6

Wargroove

Endless Legend

Humankind (sad to not have liked this one, I was so hyped for it)

King's Bounty series

Age of Wonders series (including Planetfall)

Warhammer 40k: Gladius (it's almost worth playing, but falls short)

Do you have a source for this? I'm only seeing that the radar permanently stops working if you opt in to FSD, with no way to reactivate it. But this only happens if you enable FSD.

Does anyone know how big of a deal it is to not have radar on newer Tesla 3s and Ys? I don't know which month was the last one to have radar, but it was some time in 2021.

I'm done with reddit once old.reddit.com is gone. Guessing it won't be around much longer after the IPO.

How were Prodigy and CompuServe making money off your posts?

Is there an industry term for users who are responsible for contributing valuable content in exchange for nothing that could be legally classified as actual compensation? Or for a business whose revenue and valuation depends on said type of user?

Something Awful is the first example of such a business that comes to mind, and Reddit is the biggest modern-day equivalent. Give your moderators power (however feeble that power may be), and give your users some sort of recognition (shoutouts, internet points, etc), and they'll produce and curate valuable, eye-drawing content for you for free.

>At the end of the day a large portion of the population is not going to simply accept that they need to shoulder the losses for a bubble they didn’t make and had no perceived choice but to participate in.

They (you?) don't have to accept it. That's not a factor at all. Your acceptance is not required.

Did you still have the same problem when you offered the latter enough money to dissuade them from pursuing something else?

>At the very least you are screwing the owners of the mortgage who will have to write off lots of loans as Bobs everywhere walk away from the underwater mortgages

Yes, that's the point...

>But also it significantly limits Bob’s options in life. They can no longer refinance to repair the roof, they can’t move to a different city for a better job, etc.

Bob knew the risks.

I'd like to see a similar study with adderall thrown into the mix. I've been rotating between coffee, tea, and adderall for the past eight years.

Someone on SA supposedly has access to the court documents (dozens and dozens of pages) and shared them, if you want to track that down and provide actual proof that isn't just hearsay. I haven't been on SA for nearly a decade now, and I intend to keep it that way.

I remember hearing that image macros originated on TribalWar (a forum for Starsiege: Tribes), but they were definitely popularized by SA

>I would be very surprised if you say literally this and get results. No self-respecting company or manager is going to invest in talking to you if you describe yourself so overtly mercenary.

that depends entirely on how badly they need you

>Housing is an investment only if you own more than one.

Every California rental I've lived in for the past five years had the owner residing in it as their primary residence, renting out the spare rooms, while doing one of two things: not declaring any of the rental income while still getting primary residence tax breaks, or declaring it as a full rental (and using another address as their primary address, despite not living there), and writing off the exorbitant Bay Area HOA fees.

Great writeup, I didn't know Carmack was involved to this extant.

My opinion on this, completely irrespective of the actual terms and laws:

Zenimax doesn't deserve anything.

But anyone who funded the original Kickstarter does (I was not one of those people). Anyone who put $200+ into that Kickstarter deserved some sort of payout. I feel like, at the very least, they should get free Oculus headsets for life.

It's hard to put a number on the total value created by that initial Kickstarter funding if it had been treated as an actual investment, but I'd be willing to bet that it's already in the billions, and will only grow.

The exact same thing happened with Ethereum (and crypto in general) in 2017. But look how much it's rebounded after that crash. I still don't think it's a good long term investment, but it's been an amazing way for some people to make life-changing money. Sadly, I'm not one of them.

What do you think usually causes ICs to begin looking for new jobs in the first place

What's not adult and professional about increasing your tc by 30-40% every time you jump ship

In the current employees' market, I feel that a manager's primary responsibility is preventing their engineers from quitting.

I'm sure there's good reasons for this. but I'd be curious for details.

I wonder if Reddit would be what it is today without imgur. I started using Reddit shortly before imgur launched, and I can still remember the day that it went live. It was by far the best image uploading experience I'd ever had, and I'd used most (maybe every) major uploader that came before them, between 1995 and 2009.

Not sure if AsianHustleNetwork (AHN) really falls into what's being described in this article, but it's one of the more insidious FB communities I've run across, in terms of members being milked for affiliate revenue.

The content is overall wholesome and useful, but I'm assuming most members (both contributers and passive viewers/clickers) don't realize that they're lining the owners' pockets with their clickthroughs, along with whatever personal data is being collected through Facebook.