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I've heard of places where HR requires you to write a (probably) glowing Glassdoor review during onboarding. Or severance which is conditioned on not writing a negative review. Goo…

Oh yeah I also don't agree with OP. Separation of concerns is good. JSX isn't perfect either. This yearly js poll always brings out the fanboys. The amount of "heard of it but woul…

Ember uses MVVM

As someone who used to make async multiplayer games I think Stadia is a good fit currently for that style of game. Using it for latency-sensitive AAA games seems like a decade or t…

I would happily pay per show or movie I watch if I knew the people involved got the cash. As long as there's money men in the middle, wringing their hands over how to extract their…

I made games in flash for over a decade and miss the ease of dropping an experimental game idea onto the web where everyone could enjoy it. If you had a free weekend, you could rel…

I've heard the RTS genre described as three sliders. 1. Amount of control over units 2. Amount of control over a hero 3. Amount of control over building infrastructure By that defi…

Do Happy Meals constitute gambling then, because they contain one of eight great toys?

Not sure how they are going to solve the pixel density issue without going to interactive displays, which would be a mistake. Malls trialed interactive maps sometime in the last de…

This is how I feel about AGI too, and I also include self-driving cars. I don't think those are just around the corner either. In general I don't think our current approach to AI i…

This reminds me of oil companies sharing footage of their employees scrubbing oil off ducks.

I've experimented with this theory by opting myself out of these vanity metrics using a browser plugin I wrote to hide them. I can say that hiding them has reduced my engagement, w…

GitHub supports noreply emails from git cli. Configure it so you don't pwn yourself! https://github.blog/2017-04-11-private-emails-now-more-priva...

Game engines live or die based on how they adapt to the constantly changing landscape. Unity made sense of the mobile landscape first and that led to their ascendancy. With mobile …

Cable subscriptions are a single subscription that gives you access to everyone's content. Netflix's digital innovation is that they did it at a tenth the price. Now that all the c…

Is this reset mechanism conceptually flawed? Even with one attempt before invalidating the code, you have a 1:999,999 shot of stealing someone's account by lotto. Not bad odds for …

I recommend cancelling prime for a small window of time and reevaluating, if you can manage. Partly to see how thirsty Amazon is for you to sign back up for prime. You could fill a…

Is this what makes clear plastic card sleeves stick together? I always figured it was static electricity but maybe it's this?

I wrote a browser extension to collapse HN comments past the first depth and ended up just attaching their css classes and setting the sub-comment count myself. It was the fastest …

It must be doing something right otherwise why spend the time writing a thousand words about how bad it is? If it were truly bad it would just fade into obscurity

Often viewers are incentivized to watch the tournament, by being offered exclusive cosmetic items in game or some premium currency for the game. This makes the view counts artifici…

Most of the blogs and content aggregation sites shrivel up and die. A bunch of pay walls go up around the good content ppl would actually pay for. There's less crap on the internet…

Why hasn't anyone, or pi-hole themselves, made a public DNS that does this? Pass everything not on the blocklist thru to 1.1.1.1. The fact that this requires special hardware, bash…

This will sell to indie gamedev scenesters and they have the perfect designer roster to hit that audience. From a commercial success standpoint, I'm bearish. Common pitfall in come…