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You seem to have jumped to the conclusion that I haven't tried the FP features. If I hadn't tried them, I wouldn't be criticizing them. If I wanted to work in FP style, I would choose an FP language; not encourage a traditional, solid language to be perverted to do something that is completely against the nature and design of that language.

As long as they stay away from the lambdas and FP trainwrecks that was 8.

> Yes you can learn things as you get older but the bar for your achievements gets lower and lower as you age.

Here's to hoping you aren't in a hiring position.

"just wandering around seeing cool stuff."

I think of journey as see, do, explore. Perhaps there's a better word than journey I could use. I'm not defending NMS, I'm defending Open World.

Consoles are lock-in death to me.

> Virtually every open world game has the same basic loop: collect, craft/buy/sell, build.

That is a massive loop though, huge, world size, not confined to a specific path. I choose my path through the world.

> After that, it's just a question of how you motivate players to go through the loop

Open World is about ... openness. The player gets to decide, specific motivation not required; the journey is the motivation.

I think all games should focus on one platform, the PC platform. Consoles drain developer's time and attention from making the actual game. And don't get me started on knuckle-dragging VR.

Open world games are great for me. I can't stand it when a game locks me into a pattern.

And even stranger that with concerns about battery life; we should now be moving back towards server side rendering.

It is frustrating how far Ubuntu has diverged from Debian. It used to be easy to set up a remote desktop, I can't even get it to work in Ubuntu 16 now, just tried the other day too.

When it comes to money, I would prefer if I could skip negotiating and probably need overall to work on my negotiating skills. I also happily work for less for remote positions so you got me down to a tee on those.

It I were starting out today, there's a good chance I'd go the college route too. Back then, it was tougher, I'd been accepted but couldn't afford it without working FT and doing college FT. In retrospect, I'd have gotten to where I wanted to be faster though it wouldn't have been the same journey. ;-)

Agree on both points. It's ironic, my pay is the same or less today than it was 5 years ago and it was lower then, than it was during the dot com boom.

It seems like a safe assumption for today but you're right, it's an assumption.

"Programming should have the same importance status as maths in school, if not more."

It amazes me that it isn't the case, I assumed most High Schools if not grade schools were teaching some programming by now.

"If you’re educated, you’re in command."

I'm not college educated, I've made a comfortable living as a coder. It took over ten years of self-teaching in my 20's while working a FT job but I knew this is what I wanted to do. So I agree with the statement but there's more than one way to become educated. Academia is just one way and possibly not the best way.

A better title would be, U.S. Employers are cheap and if they don't cut it out; unions might be on the rise in America.

> This article correctly shows that virtually none of the ideas underpinning Bitcoin are new.

The same can be said for any good or bad idea.

I like this data:

https://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Metadata.do?Portal=amd&K...

And from there:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/...

And a Wiki article discussing it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Vostok_Petit_data.sv...

Where this chart is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Vostok_Petit_data.sv...