lackbeard

Is it possibly because you're a nerd, and the internet is no longer for nerds? It's now a platform for mass consumerism, and what interests the masses, and is thus good for advertisers probably shares little overlap with your interests?

Maybe they'd call it "gridder".

There seems to be a spike in negative press about Steam lately. I wonder if this is some kind of coordinated PR hit. I can imagine a few large companies who would be happy to see such a successful independent distribution platform fall on hard times...

> I would never allow my kid browse that kind of shit

This is exactly the right attitude, you should be paying attention to what your children are consuming--it's not Steam's job to parent them for you.

> Why are people defending this. How can this be good for you psyche?

Because as with things like smoking and alcohol, some people enjoy them, and in a free society we let people make their own choices even if it harms them. (And it's not even clear that porn and video games are bad for you.)

I'm pretty sure crime is far lower in Seattle than other large US cities, especially violent crime.

Step number zero should be to let housing get cheaper by relaxing zoning laws in the city.

I was excited about Kotlin at a first glance but came to feel this way as well, after looking into it a bit more.

Code shows how it is being done. Comments should explain what is being done.

For an alternate perspective you might find persuasive, I recommend you read through the following slide deck: http://www.sqlite.org/talks/wroclaw-20090310.pdf. (Relevant part starts on slide 80, but I recommend you start from the beginning for full context.)

I avoid Safeway and Trader Joe's because the lines are so damn long...

Isn't that what Fargate is, basically?

The article isn't pushing for women to lower their standards. It's just describing the present situation and offering an explanation for how it came to be.

> But for accomplished women who successfully traverse the waters of a mating pool unfairly stacked against them, mating triumph at the individual level typically takes precedence over loftier goals of reducing societal-level inequality when the two come into conflict.

It's wrong to characterize the pool as "unfairly" stacked against them; they could choose to date men with lower incomes or less education.

If you're going to use a database that does not support these features then you should come up with a data model that does not rely on them.

For example, instead of applying a bank account transfer as a database transaction that debits one account record and credits another, you create a new transaction record (account transaction, not database transaction.) Then account balances are a sum over these transaction records.

Yes, but that's Seattle's fault, not Amazon's.

Yes, its much better than nothing, but it's also too little and too late.

Correct. It's wrong to be angry towards their fellow residents who just want a place to live and work, like them. They should be angry at themselves and the representatives they elected for the governance that has gotten the city into its current mess.

> joining forces with the poor people against the landlords

The poor in Seattle are actually mostly allied with the landlords politically in maintaining the zoning status-quo. This is what has led to the increasing housing prices.

Yes, he means what you are calling sharding.

Back in 2004 or 2005 when I first learned about "sharding" it was introduced to me as partitioning.

> sneakers have more intrinsic value to people than either MtG cards or Beanie Babies do

I'm pretty sure MtG cards have a lot of intrinsic value to the people who play with them. Much more than collectable sneakers.

Also, I don't think regular playing cards are comparable goods to MtG cards. You can't play MtG with them!

I think Japan is actually a counterpoint to your argument. Post WW2 was not when it became a first-world economy. I'm pretty sure that when it first industrialized in the late 19th century, it did so under free-trade. (Its government wanted protectionist economic policies but the British forced free-trade on them!)

Masters Of Doom - The value of an unbalanced life and focused hard work. Also, how to start a startup. A really fun read, to boot.

Fooled By Randomness - a) Survivorship bias. b) If you look at revealed preferences, people choose regular small gains with a rare huge loss over regular small losses and a rare huge gain even though that choice is -ev. c) Much more!

Hackers and Painters - One of the most insightful, subversive, and surprising texts out there.

C Interfaces and Implementations - Great examples of good API design and how to build clean modular code.

The Paleo Manifesto - Explains how the origin of religion was probably as a set of models for coping with the transition from hunting/gathering to civilized agriculture. The part of the book where he points out that the story of the fall of man in the Bible is probably the story of this transition is super interesting.

The Game - Made me realize that the narrative told by boomer and gen-x parents about how to attract a woman is probably doing young men (and women) more harm than good. I would not try to treat this as a how-to manual, though. A fun yarn.

Starting Strength - After years of fumbling around in the gym this cut through a lot of bad ideas about fitness, exercise, strength, and health. It lead to the first real (and lasting) progress I've ever made physically.

Understanding Comics - Understanding art and visual communication.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Up there with Hackers & Painters in its rate of insight & surprise per page.

Fail Safe Investing - Thought provoking ideas about why we invest and how best to go about doing that. (The ideas stand up, IMO, but some of the concrete advice on how to implement those ideas is very dated.)

Good Calories, Bad Calories - It turns out that even scientists can be dishonest and corrupted by politics.

Go, Erlang, Elixer, Haskell, Clojure, Scala.

Your claim is that Node was popular because people were excited about writing servers using 100% non-blocking I/O? I guess I agree that's a part of it but we should note that in 99.5% of those cases the servers would've performed better written in Java using blocking threads.

I think the other parts of it are: 1) many people wanted to write server-side Javascript, 2) people did not want to use Java, and the concurrency stories for PHP, Ruby, and Python were (and still are) really crummy.

Everything sucks becauase tech is no longer a niche market for nerds. You're no longer in the target audience... I feel your pain.

> is there a way for me to introduce solutions to problems that may require more technical expertise, to better not only myself but the company as well?

Please do not think this way. You're there to solve business problems. Not to build solutions to scalability problems that don't exist. I've had to inherit the code of people who think like this and it's horrible.

Think about all the problems you could be solving for the company and what those problems _actually are_ and what the actual constraints are. If you can't find any satisfactory career growth in solving those problems then you probably should find a job that does have the kinds of problems you think working on would provide the career growth you want.

That's a perfectly valid way to make a game and doesn't detract from how good or bad it is.

Choosing what parts to keep and what parts to remove and then executing is not obvious or easy.

You could say the exact same thing about League of Legends and a lot of other games.

MOBA is a bad genre label used to distinguish games like Dota and League of Legends from RTSs like Starcraft. It's a concept that is completely orthogonal from providing a matchmaking service with your game.

Not sure how you can say Relic has no track record... Homeworld, Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes were all very successful games.

So he's appeasing the if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us bullies? That's sad, if true...