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When your job depends on it you tend to work really hard at believing that advertising is necessary and actually it's good, actually actually relevant ads are helpful! After all, i…

Only in theory, with branching factors of 32, they are not remotely equivalent unless you have a supercomputer counting atoms in a universe or something.

Useful to specify that it is log32N, not log2N since that makes an enormous different in practice. Also, if you care about that then you can use transients (if no one knows you mut…

Why didn't it work? Paizo had a big jump in sales ... for Paizo, the numbers are a rounding error for WotC. Same with the DnDBeyond boycott drive, did that actually make a dent? To…

It might be that they are out of touch but there is another very sensible reason for all this. They view D&D as extremely under-monetized (pretty reasonable, they don't make much o…

This is a segment of geek culture that has all sorts of ego/identity stuff tied up with these brands. So when they don't "act properly" it feels like it reflects on them and they t…

I honestly don't understand it completely, but there are a lot of casual players who will not even read the rules intro in the players handbook, and will play for a long time witho…

WotC owns or controls all the places those creators sell their stuff. So they definitely have the economic means to force creators to abandon the old license. They will also probba…

They are going to "revoke" that license in the way that you will no longer be able to sell content with that license in the stores they control (which are all of the ones that matt…

In practice it's much harder to avoid. Especially with the new players driving all the recent growth. The brand is so dominant that in any group most of the players will play D&D o…

Yes? The entire industry is obsessed with onboarding and first-experience ease and intuitive interfaces and making things "just work", etc, etc. This includes Linux, which still ha…

They aren't automatically more capable, it's just a well known and frequently noticed fact that Clojure tends to attract more senior developers, and the community is very senior de…

I have basically the same experience doing cljs dev that I do with clj dev, when it comes to being REPL-driven. I know that the setup for cljs is a bit more involved and things wil…

It is a very weird unexpected artifact of Clojure being so focused on backwards compatibility. People finish excellent libraries and because they don't need to constantly update th…

> I'm explaining to you why Clojure won't reach mass adoption I don't think you need to explain that, it's a conservative ecosystem for experienced devs, that was the target niche …

This is why it's a bad idea to evaluate software technologies entirely by what shows up in the social media hype cycle news. The only metric you learn from that is "what's the new …

I did learn Clojure on my own, and the first time I shipped Clojure was doing some contract work with some other clojurists I met at a meetup. As for breaking in, I'd suggest meeti…

Don't forget your phone is much more deeply tied to your identity through your cell company contract and the OS account information is more likely to be closely tied to your identi…

I've chosen to specialize in Clojure and it hasn't been difficult at all, in fact in a lot of ways it has been easier. I was already a senior dev when I started with Clojure, but h…

I love my UHK too but the trackpoint is pretty disappointing, even after you mess with the movement settings to make it slightly less janky. The thumb modules are a huge drop in bu…

It seems to come down to different views on what this means. Some people want leadership who will listen to user demands and apply pressure to the community to push them to work on…

They will absolutely study the use of sound bites/memes like this one in political discussions though. The "but that's definitely untrue", "yeah, ok, but ... you know what I mean, …

Murdoch's international scope and relatively ruthless and firm handed narrative control.

Elite overproduction does seem a much more sensible focus here. If you want to blame the internet, then the obvious path is the "shared story" angle. There was a single mainstream …