Jagerbizzle

At the big tech I work at there's a promo window every 3 months.

It's publicly posted on fb.com

Does anyone have a summary of what laws need to be abided to in EU, Canada and other countries that prevent them from rolling this out at the same time as the US?

Significantly better than the tone-deaf email Satya sent Microsoft employees, which continues to cause undue anxiety for employees who have no clue if or when they'll be laid off over the next 90 days.

Natural bodybuilding is a thing. It does require eating a ton of protein though, so whether or not it's "living healthily" depends on what you consider a normal amount of poultry and fish a person should be eating on a daily basis.

"A year of unemployment? Lonely, depressing, and not good on a resume."

A year of unemployment seems significantly less depressing than this statement. What if you were to travel (or hike/explore your local area), focus on quality time with your family, friends, or dog? This to me seems way less depressing than grinding on some meaningless side-project, and as a hiring manager at a FAANG I would absolutely look at a year on someone's CV spent on these activities as a positive rather than a negative.

The dev blog from Microsoft in a different comment covers this:

"This will be too low if the original addition contained a carry from bit 0 to bit 1, which happens if bit 0 is set in both of the terms, so we detect that case and make the necessary adjustment."

return (a / 2) + (b / 2) + (a & b & 1);

I don't intend to come across as trite, but based on my reading of this comment I'm sure you'll find another satisfactory job soon. Relax and enjoy the time to reflect.

Another great read along the same vein from Bret Devereaux's blog: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...

"people bouncing when the project got hard"

My point, in response to this specific quote from the person I was replying to, is that good people don't bounce when a project gets hard, they in fact do the opposite.

If you disagree with the statement I quoted from the person I was replying to that's fine, I have no bone to pick.

I wasn't attempting to troll here, my reply was directly to this claim from the parent comment: "they moved to a more normal corporate structure so they would actually finish projects instead of people bouncing when the project got hard"

If they actually spent as much time as they claim hiring great people, you'd think a few of them would actually stick around on a project long enough to ship it.

Agreed. It's easy to plan around and measure the potential business impact of no one. It's challenging to do the same with a low performing or otherwise inconsistent employee.

I've just read the blog post about his late dog and boy was that a tear-jerker.

Lol, it's nice to find like-minded people out there. While my initial post commented on electronic music in particular, I feel the need to re-iterate my point with respect to other genres. I'm a huge fan of Romantic-era piano (Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Säens, etc.), and would find it impossible to do basically anything other than listen should I hear these pieces.

As a massive house-head and someone who's been involved in the electronic music scene to varying degrees for two decades, I actually find it extremely difficult to listen to music while writing code, because all I actually do is listen to the music, rather than work.

As such, when I feel the need to put my headphones on to drown out external noise, I prefer listening to musique d'ameublement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music)

Brings back some memories. I remember macroing my magic resist up to 100. In the high 90s you'd have to flamestrike yourself hundreds of times for a point. It was really hard to nail the timing of the macro because on a bad die roll it could almost kill you, so if you were too aggressive the next one could wipe you out if you didn't leave enough time to heal in between casts. I remember waking up in the morning after an overnight macro setup and feeling like it was Christmas day rushing to the computer to check the outcome.

Hilarious post that's also sadly quite accurate.

Just to provide a contrarian viewpoint, myself and some of my closest friends are experiencing the exact opposite.

An otherwise heart-warming story ends with this footnote:

"Of course, Cleall reminds us, this all happened in the context of genocidal campaigns against Indigenous people. Deaf people escaping oppression in one setting became part of an imperial colonial project in another."

Thanks, I stand corrected!

Prophet 5 rather than 6, but the extremely distinctive synth in Rush's 'Tom Sawyer' still sounds awesome to this day IMO.

What type of games are we talking about here though? Removing the engineers from the loop potentially allows for a lot of rapid prototyping, but probably not a lot of shipping at perf on cross-gen console and PC architecture.

Our goldendoodle sounds very similar to this. She's great at "go see XYZ" or "go get ABC", knows all the party tricks, and will play fetch endlessly without ever wandering off no matter how far I throw the ball.

If she ever happens to see a squirrel or a chipmunk however she'll try to rip the leash off of your arm; if she's ever off-leash and sees a critter like this you can throw the hours of trained recall out the window. Fortunately this has never happened near traffic or a cliff.

I've had similar things happen to me before because I somehow managed to toggle the "avoid highways" setting without realizing it.

I've done plenty of drugs and also have hobbies like backcountry skiing and mountaineering, having climbed some of the highest peaks in North America. They really aren't the same thing, but what I can say is that the high I had after a 3 week Alaskan expedition has never been matched by substances or anything else.

Unfortunately I can't go on a 3 week expedition every weekend.

I'm trying to get some budget right now to do a in-person social event for my team now that almost everyone is fully vaccinated, and I've been extremely explicit about scheduling it during regular business hours (1pm-3pm for example), to ensure there's no competition between this event and what people actually want to do with their evenings/spare time.

I've worked in the Games industry since 1997. I got my first year-long job fresh out of high school in QA at EA in Canada, worked summers over the following years while getting my degrees, transitioned to a programming role after university, and ultimately moved to the US in 2013 for work in games at one of the big tech companies.

1997-2003 - QA @ EA, ~$9-12 an hour (CAD), 1.5x for hours 40-48, 2x > 48 hours. We worked a lot of 90 hour weeks, and I had no life outside of work, so I had a lot of spare cash.

2003-2008 - Game Dev in Eastern Canada. Started at 40k a year, ended at 62k a year (CAD).

2008-2013 - Game Dev in Western Canada, started at 80k a year, ended at 100k per year (CAD). Got promoted to "senior" in 2010 and managed a team of 6 programmers during my last year and a half prior to leaving.

2013-present - Moved to the United States at a big tech company that does games. Took a role-demotion to be a non-senior IC for a wage-promotion of 135k a year USD. Presently have a similar role to the one I left in Canada (albeit a much larger team) and make >350k USD a year.

I think what folks are implying here is that the 'somebody' who initially came up with this likely didn't do so in a 55 minute whiteboard session.

How vigorous is said exercise?

I go through this exact same pattern if I don't get enough exercise. If I do 60-90 minutes of treadmill/elliptical/rowing in the morning then I sleep like a baby for 7-8 hours and wake up feeling fresh. On the other hand if I do less than 30 minutes of cardio or skip the gym on a given morning I start regressing into the pattern you describe.

Compared to other healthier-living choices I can make (healthier eating, less drinking, etc), exercise seems to provide by far the most consistent and tangible results.

Best of luck, I hope you figure out something that works.