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This just reads as a random mishmash of missteps the company has taken over its 33 years of existence (remember, it's older than Amazon or Google) rather than a proper critique of …

I don't think the license change is unwarranted. At a previous employer we used Terraform but the pricing on the cloud/enterprise offerings was prohibitive enough that we instead h…

Is this a new requirement? I remember for Kubecon Seattle 2018 using an iOS app (named KubeCon+CNC) that was nothing more than a schedule viewer for the event. It didn't even use n…

For what it's worth, I hope you do end up writing more posts in the future. It's easy to overlook or forget the pains and lows of projects in hindsight, especially for particularly…

> But something happened after the success of WoW the company grew quickly and with that came some bad people and after the merger, Bobby Kotick could exert his influence. I don't …

> This is the money they could have used to have a buffer to deal with these situations or to improve their systems. Matt Levine covered this last year [1]. The basic gist of it wa…

This isn't specific to the M1. I had my MBP 2016 13" die in the same exact way about two years ago. Same failure mode where it just refused to boot no matter what I did, though it …

Your repurposed analogy isn't quite right. Google is providing a service by running around and grabbing those samples. Value is provided not only to you, the searcher, by receiving…

What's frustrating to me is that even though a lot of these frameworks and tools keep advertising themselves as making you more productive and letting you write less code in the pu…

I remember watching a GDC talk of JAM ( https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018184/Network-Serialization-... ), which was Blizzard's solution to network serialization for WoW back in 20…

It seems a lot of people are missing the true concern here because they only read the first half of the article. Going to paraphrase the article a bit here but yes, the website is …

> They're also free to circumvent the software and play the game without it [...] People shouldn't have to abstain from playing a game they bought because the game company doesn't …

You don't have to sacrifice your computing freedom and privacy. These anti-cheating modules tend to be explained to you upon game installation, so if you're not comfortable with wh…

Unfortunately this doesn't apply for warranty repairs directly through Apple, as Apple won't bother using this port. They'll just tell you you're SoL and happily remind you of thei…

One of the level designers for WoW has apparently written a book on the game's original development. The Kickstarter [1] for it failed due to an unrealistic funding goal, but if yo…

I'm not seeing how the two paragraphs are incongruous. The company is selling their brand, not the user info, when they run the promotions. If no-one signs up for the promotion, no…

Interestingly enough Warcraft 3, despite being almost 15 years old, still gets new patches. The latest one came out just a month ago [1]. [1]: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/…

This might particularly interest you: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html The gist of it is, in 1970 someone asked a director of NASA why billions of dollar…

> Those have no costs, except for limited maintenance, and the game development has paid itself years ago. So it is virtually pure profit. In the years since WoW came out Blizzard …

A friend did some research in this area, comparing FPGAs, CPUs and GPUs. He published a paper [1] in regards to performance for several common Linear Algebra computations across a …

Why would you consider these analytics scripts useless? The article mentioned several reasons they want to be tracking this timing information (monitoring of slow backends/CDNs and…

A lot of companies force you to sign an agreement that essentially hands over the rights to anything and everything you do while employed, even if you did it outside of work hours …

One of the main limitations is actually power, as increasing the frequency increases the power draw. All that power turns into heat, which has to be dissipated. Modern processors a…

Just want to point out that if you're using an encrypted filesystem, vagrant up will fail if NFS is enabled. The workaround is to use rsync to maintain the synced folders, a featur…

That was probably the case back in vanilla (pre-expansion) WoW. With the introduction of cross-realm battlegrounds in 1.12 - a month before the first expansion - followed by the ac…