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alex_lav

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    Comment #42368497

    > Not at the cost of harming people, What defines harm? Or more specifically, who?

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    Comment #42368479

    Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/w…

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    Comment #42312481

    > I just restarted a personal project on rails because of its batteries included mentality - it means I can limit the number of dependencies https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/mai…

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    Comment #42000951

    This post is so interesting because it highlights the people that don't know anything about the requirements or state of cheats/anticheat. What you're describing is 10 years out of…

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    Comment #41987504

    Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did. Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.

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    Comment #41937039

    Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.

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    Comment #41743017

    So 0 real examples have been provided, either by a commenter or via the link. Exactly as expected.

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    Comment #41734617

    > Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable. Again, can you provide an example? Also > Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree …

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    Comment #41733358

    1. noncompetitive game 2. mobile game 3. mobile game 4. not actually pay to win. 5. noncompetitive game 6. mobile game You see where I'm going. You can't relate "has microtransacti…

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    Comment #41733222

    > Seems like most multiplyer games have some sort of "pay to win" (or pay for an advantage) scheme in them Can you share an example of this outside of mobile games?

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    Comment #41700286

    > Twitter, before Elon's takeover, was a crypto-obsessed political echo chamber. Pretending a platform as large as twitter was/is "one thing" is silly. It may have been that for yo…

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    Comment #41672138

    You can either take the route of doing financial software, data science, ML and web dev _for a game company_, or you can start making games in your free time and then attempt a piv…

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    Comment #41561246

    A place where you don't complain every day about hating your job?

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    Comment #41559163

    > I don't believe they can actually do anything about it as this "culture" comes from the very top. The employee can do something about it by leaving.

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    Comment #41558857

    Having had lots of friends work there, the approach seems to be "Complain about working at Amazon for literal years but never really do anything about it", followed by "Get laid of…

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    Comment #41558598

    Can a more Apple-minded person help me understand if the Apple Watch SE counts as "Series 9"? I don't totally understand how "SE" relates to numerical versioning, but I am also not…

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    Comment #41514509

    I think it's two types of defensiveness. 1. Shovel salesman insisting all "real" gold miners use their shovels 2. Those that have already acquired shovels not wanting their purchas…

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    Comment #41436101

    > I don't think I have any more bias than any other programmer. I do not agree at all, but to each their own!

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    Comment #41394957

    It's worth noting that you're a Java dev, working on OpenJDK at Oracle (per your profile here). Which is to say, your bias is....pretty extreme.

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    Comment #41330813

    > Raising rates didn't lower housing prices, I have not observed this statement to be true, both in my personal experience and that of those around me.

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    Comment #41294342

    "Simply tell the cops you're leaving" is a very out of touch suggestion to make. "Simply tell the cops you're leaving because The Law" even moreso.

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    Comment #41174248

    A company being too large to be competent is maybe not the excuse you think it is.

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    Comment #41102818

    Yet another ruling that will never be enforced!

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    Comment #41048368

    While I agree, a company making a post that is a subtle advertisement for their software is probably the least trustworthy source for pretty much any take.