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Thanks for sharing, I never would have expected that. As a kid, I spent a ton of hours completing everything there was to do in Secret of Mana. Recently I purchased a SNES Classic and threw that game on it to play with my daughter. We are both enjoying it greatly :)

I second this. In my last largish application, state was getting really messy and I needed a place to keep it all organized. I really tried hard to get Redux to work as at the time it was the tool that everyone was talking about. I struggled and couldn't make sense of it. Eventually I stumbled upon MobX and it just clicked. So easy to work with and checks all of my boxes. Productivity and happiness soared :)

When my 1st daughter was born, I got exactly 2 days off using my own vacation days. We were a small team at a printing company and each person had a "specialization". If I wasn't there, it was a large part of the company effectively shut down until I returned (it was a lot of pressure and I am glad to not be there anymore).

At a different company (much much larger) I was able to take 2 weeks (out of 3 the company provides) of vacation when my son was born and I am two months away from my third and final child where I expect to do the same. I wish I was able to spend more time with them (and my recovering Wife from the caesarean) but as the primary income for our household we wouldn't be able to survive on things like FMLA. It is very disappointing seeing how modern the rest of the world is in terms of healthcare, maternity/paternity leave, education, etc...

You nailed it on the head. The Quest is a nearly "do it all" VR device. Do you want a mobile VR experience to enjoy with friends on the go (streaming to a TV/Phone)? Check. Do you want to experience the high quality (graphics) of a high end VR experience, you can do that too (both wired and wirelessly)! Aside from the refresh rate which I personally have no issues with, I can't see any reason to purchase a wired PCVR-only headset.

And just to comment on the Oculus Quests SDE (screen door effect), this has been greatly been improved. I honestly do not even notice this at all like I did with the Oculus Go.

I was intrigued by VR so I picked up the Oculus Go. It was interesting, but felt lacking. I wasn't disappointed but the whole experience felt pretty meh.

For Christmas I thought I'd test the upgrade and purchased an Oculus Quest. Wow, this thing blew me away. The experience is night and day different, so much so that I stuck my Go in the closet and may be selling it down the road. Having two controllers, hand tracking, Oculus Link if you have a gaming PC, overall improvements to display and battery, and of course 6 DOF. I've never been more excited about VR.

The Quest really is an incredible unit. I've so far been able to:

  - Play "native" Quest games which have been very fun

  - Play PCVR (SteamVR) games using ALVR[0] over 
    5ghz WiFi with great performance

  - Sideloaded RetroArch[1] to play N64, SNES, Gameboy 
    and GameCube games with a bluetooth controller

  - Watching full length movies in a cinema-like experience

  - Enjoying many 360 videos on YouTube

I'm contemplating doing some game development in VR again. I tried to build some applications on my Go but the single controller and weak specs really hindered my creativity.

I implore you to test out the Quest if you found the Go experience lacking as I did, it's really more than a minor upgrade.

[0] https://github.com/polygraphene/ALVR [1] https://www.retroarch.com/

Yikes, you are right. Just typed in "Jones" and it loaded up a dashboard with a bunch of data. Fortunately it appears to be someone playing around with the dashboard. If you zoom out on the map, all the GPS markers make a smiley face :)

Last year I picked up a projector to put in our bedroom for movie viewing and gaming. One thing you want to consider if gaming is important to you is the latency of the projector. I ended up going with an Optoma GT1080[0] because I wanted something that was short throw for my layout and the latency (16ms) is quite good. Modern TV's are typically around 10ms to put that in perspective.

When the room is dark it's absolutely amazing, like being at the movies. When lights are on it is quite washed out. Still usable but not as enjoyable. Since the projector sits in my bedroom it's not much of an issue to always have the lights off but in a living room I can see that being a hassle.

Once you get the projector and screen (they do make a difference) I could have gotten several (cheaper) modern TV's but the experience of the projector is what I love. One thing as a new buyer I wish I knew was how much heat projectors can generate. My bedroom is fairly small and this thing can really heat the room up to sometimes an uncomfortable level after long viewing sessions.

[0] https://www.optoma.com/us/product/gt1080darbee/#

I attempted to play it on Xbox (was a free game at one point) but controllers are not really ideal with these types of strategy/city building genres. I may attempt to play it on PC at some point as the idea of the game sounds interesting...

Not to mention the boxes. My Wife tends to purchase a fair amount from Amazon especially around the holiday time. The amount of cardboard that I have to cut down and fit into my recycling bins can be frustrating leading to a large pile of cardboard in the garage that is slowly whittled down over time. At her scale I imagine she must be dealing with a tremendous amount of cardboard - maybe she should see if she can find a 3rd party seller of cardboard balers!

While true, I wonder if this would flag her account as suspicious activity and shut the scam down.

I imagine high volume returns to Amazon paired with the deletion of reviews (or seeing all her reviews on 3rd party sellers goods have only 5 stars), one may start to unravel what is occurring.

Wonder if it would just be worth it to "eat" those costs.

That was basically my initial reaction... looks like low poly game art. Not interested.

Apologies, I meant to state that Windows WebView uses MSHTML which is IE10/11. I see in BETA right now is a Win32 API for WebView2 which uses Edge(Chromium)[0]. Not sure if you edited your comment for clarification or if I replied to the wrong post as my initial comment no longer makes sense.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...

I wonder if she suffers from hoarding as well as she seems to be a bit in denial with her expenses. The article states:

> Almost every day, Jessica’s boyfriend of eight years begrudgingly hauls Amazon packages in from the porch. “He hates it,” she told BuzzFeed News. But Jessica proudly points to all the items she's acquired for their new house: “I got our new showerhead, shower organizer, side tables, coat rack, coat hangers. … We would have had to pay for all that stuff.”

Then it later states:

> The spreadsheet helps Jessica make sure she’s on top of due dates and getting paid on time. BuzzFeed News reviewed the document, which showed 117 open orders that hadn’t been refunded yet. A column titled “Total currently out of pocket” — or what she’s still owed — amounted to $2,282.01.

So she isn't _REALLY_ getting everything for free. According to her own records she is down $2,282.01 and it's quite possible she wont see that money. If this continues, that number will either grow into serious debt or "Jessica" will move on to something else.

Sounds like an addiction.

Which on Windows is basically IE11 (not an environment I really want to develop in).

I'm not very familiar with Qt or Qt webview but from their documentation it states:

> This version of Qt WebEngine is based on Chromium version 73.0.3683, with additional security fixes from newer versions.

Assuming they both have a full Chromium embed, would there have been better performance? I assume the developers are mostly JavaScript devs so their choice to use Electron/Node makes sense.

Given Google's domination in the browser market, there really needs to be some accountability. Web browsers are an incredibly important tool for most(all?) businesses and if changes are not documented (including stealth patches) this is very concerning.

Possible bug report:

From the home page, I click the "Features" link, then press the back button on my browser. It returns a blank white page with the text: "An unexpected error has occurred." No other links seem to do this (probably has something to do with the hash url).

I'm on Windows 10 using the latest Chrome.

It is an odd thing to explain to someone. "So.. you watch other people play games? Why don't you just play them yourself?"

When you are playing games (especially horror) you are really in the moment and focused on the objective. When watching someone else you can lay back and laugh when they jump out of their chair (and sometimes spill your popcorn as well).

I personally prefer YouTube however as I find the Twitch apps to be clunky and I don't really care for the so-fast-hard-to-read chat. I tend to find people that focus on the horror genre and check in with them every so often for new content.

And if the claim is true and provable, Facebook ($55 billion revenue 2018) will probably be fined $1-4 million which will sure "teach them a lesson" to never be bad again!

Google, Facebook, and others must just have a budget set aside for these issues - costs of doing business I guess as they profit more than they are fined.

Unable to read the article currently (company network restrictions) but my Wife and I have a late night hobby of watching people play horror games on YouTube. The games we watch need to be a bit more interesting than cheap jump scares (interesting stories, etc) but its so fun.

We even installed a projector and pull down screen in our bedroom for the "movie theater experience" :)

Some games we enjoyed:

    - Outlast
    - Outlast 2 (not as good as original)
    - Resident Evil 7 (really good!)
    - Alien Isolation
    - Until Dawn

We recently had management ask for some diagrams of our applications infrastructure. Draw.io made that so easy with their pre-made components and export to PDF. Will definitely use it again.

Growing up I enjoyed playing Magic: The Gathering with my friends - simpler times. I remember having a pretty killer "Goblin Deck". Alas, that was 20+ years ago and are nothing more than feint memories.

The salary penalty is very true. I have noticed that Software Developers do tend to job-hop quite often taking better and better offers. Time to update my resume I believe!

I appreciate your kind words. I'll look around some job boards and see if anything looks interesting!

Yep, honestly it was almost like I never left.

I used a VPN so I was almost constantly connected to our company network. At the company we don't do a lot of face-to-face meetings (typically only the older management folks here prefer that). Most of us use chat or email but I also get the occasional phone call. This project was pretty straight forward where the employee made a request and actually was able to send us the online documentation of the commands and we were able to take it from there. We built a prototype of what he was looking for and we made some minor tweaks after his initial review.

We did come on-site at least once a week (sometimes more if it was needed) but they were mostly reserved for those occasional face-to-face meetings or when we were setting up a BLE Mesh Network for workorder tracking.

It's happening constantly for me but if there are no other claims I wouldn't worry about it. I am currently on our corporate network and its likely something is just getting blocked (IT are a bit overzealous with their toys...).

Ah I see what you are asking. The company I work for designs, builds and sells medical devices. The software team's role is more focused on improving the workflow of other departments or building tools that help with more general company wide needs (interactive campus maps, kiosks, corporate directory applications).

Example would be a tool I built for a team member that works with flex licenses (Autodesk, etc). He has a command line tool that lists how our licenses are used but it's a pretty verbose dump which isn't fun to read manually. I wrote a parser for this command and wrapped it up in a web app which provides a table of all users, charts on usage, data storing for historical metrics and so on. He is now able to better understand our usage and can more accurately guess as to when we need to purchase more licenses. He can also see what we are not using to reduce our company costs.

The things we've built don't go through any "system" and are developed simply between the requester and the software team (nothing really public so far, all internal tools). As a result, our increased speed is only a positive. However, I can understand in other companies when increased code/updates would cause tons of stress on the teams so your point is valid.

May be getting some sort of HN hug of death. It seems there may be a websocket server error occuring causing an infinite loop of location.reload(true)?

    project:144 WebSocket connection to 'ws://mediator.ai/ws' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 200

    project:186 WebSocket error Event {isTrusted: true, type: "error", target: WebSocket, currentTarget: WebSocket, eventPhase: 2, …}
    socket.onerror @ project:186
    error (async)
    connectWs @ project:185
    buildPage @ project:437
    onload @ project:444

I miss this greatly from when I was remote. If I am walking back from a meeting and get detoured into helping some people with a specific problem it's hard to remember everything from the meeting. Having that "hard proof" of everything said and easy to refer to is powerful.

You nailed my experience entirely. Every point. Working remote was incredible and I hope to find that again. I wish you the best of luck.