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Obviously it's not the Pokemon IP, but check out TemTem[1]. The world feels much more alive and they've implemented raids, PVP, and other MMO features.

[1] https://crema.gg/games/temtem/

To be fair, it was basically an MVP. It did everything it needed to and nothing more the entire time I worked on it. Definitely didn’t love it, but it did expose me to cool problems to work on.

There weren’t originally, but eventually there was a dev QA team mostly surmised of folks in the UP. Dunno what years you were there, but the smartscan folks were all just hourly contracts from the local college.

Expensify! I work as a remote engineer, but we have remote employees all over the world (Europe, Asia, North America, Australia) that don't have their salaries adjusted for COL.

In previous versions if you typed in the name of tab in the url bar it would offer you the option of a tab you already had open (on any of your computers using FF sync) among the search options.

I'm 25 and work in software and I have found it to be a decent (not amazing, but solid) daily driver given you're willing to put up with some annoyances.

I use the app Termius to allow me to SSH into a VPS and my home server and do development. I don't really do web development in my free time so I don't have to worry about the pains of not having a js console. I also develop almost exclusively in vim, so paired with the magic keyboard it's basically a very lightweight laptop.

It's great for Lightroom, with a dongle (everyone's favorite thing) you can connect your camera and upload RAW photos, then edit them with Lightroom and upload to your favorite site.

It's wonderful for Plex/Netflix/Hulu. Offline viewing is amazing, battery life is better than my laptop by far so it lasts long spurts where I can't charge it.

For creatives, there are some amazing digital art apps. My friend hypes up Procreate every time we talk about iPads (he's also 25/software and loves his iPad Pro).

And lastly, it's about $1k cheaper than buying a MacBook Pro (which I had previously). I was able to trade in my 2013 MBP and old iPhone and made the final cost about $300, which is much more palatable than the extra $1k or so I'd need for a machine that doesn't really need that much computing power.

Disclaimer: I do use a MacBook Pro for work (running VMs, development in vim) and it's definitely easier (has JS console, can do development without internet, can use IDEs that don't exist on iPad).

Obviously cost of home cooking vs prepared depends a lot on where you'd eat out

Given that most delivery services have a minimum, it's pretty difficult to spend less than $15-20 to get your food delivered.

In my experience, it's about $2-4/meal to cook, $12-15/meal to eat out, and $20+/meal to get delivery. Imagine that over a year. If you're cooking at $4/meal vs eating out at $12/meal, that's ~$3000 over a year!

On the other hand, you are paying for convenience and some people are willing (and able) to shoulder that cost.

All of those things and taking away the requirement to own a $1k gaming rig would make it a much better experience than what it is now. I currently own the original Vive with the TPCAST (SFFPC doesn't allow for the extra PCI slot) and it's a pain to set up and there aren't many good games with the depth of a standard "flat" game.

I actually think PSVR is the most likely to hit it off since the PS4+PSVR combo is much cheaper consumer friendly option.

Cos that would have a discrimination lawsuit written all over it. HR and/or Recruiters also never gives candid feedback for the same reason. Because if they do, someone will eventually sue the company for discrimination.

Out of curiosity, is it just one of those inevitabilities or is it really easy to get in a bind with discrimination in rejecting (or firing I'd imagine) someone?

While you're probably correct right now, one way that he could begin monetizing it is becoming a recruiting platform that's largely phone based. I think more and more people are moving towards doing most things on mobile platforms, so why not job interviews?

While I also love MagSafe and its features, wouldn't having a more standard port is much better?

And to piggyback off of this, I imagine the future will be wireless charging in this realm, so in theory you wouldn't need to worry about charger cables plugged into your laptop at all.

Blizzard's way of doing names makes tons of sense and doesn't rely on an incredibly awful search to find people. You can name your account whatever you want, but they automatically give you a unique number (when paired with your name) so people can easily add you to their friends list. So you can sign up with the name "Bob" and they will give you "Bob#1234" for people to find you.

This way you don't have any worry about people having short usernames being special or unique. The issue is that this kind of username scheme works for gamers (that aren't trying to be standout/unique necessarily and just want their username), but I don't believe would be accepted by social media influencers whose usernames are their brand names.

I went to WashU (#1 on that list) and while the dorms were nice I wouldn't say they were "nicer than your apartment" or "luxury". The benefits that you would find that you wouldn't find at most other places are personal bathrooms (sort of... you're still sharing with other students but just not a full hall of them), tempurpedic mattresses (only in the older dorms when I was there), and maybe carpeted floors. Beyond that it's not like we got anything crazy. We had a common room that was basically a table and a few chairs to study at, one in the basement that had a few couches and a TV, and one tiny kitchen for the entire building.

Just a little bit of context as far as "luxury dorms" go since I see WashU at the top of almost every list. Maybe luxury means your plumbing doesn't break when it gets cold and you don't get athlete's foot from the showers in the shared bathroom.

Ah yes I suppose it's important that I was looking at places that are in supposedly very desirable neighborhoods - North Loop, Northeast, Uptown, etc. If you go into S Minneapolis (which is also a nice place to live) you can find much cheaper apartments.

I think Minneapolis is an interesting data point on there, since I've been told (and the data here reflects) that housing in Minneapolis is on par with Chicago right now, but the salaries haven't caught up. Minneapolis ranks as one of the worst Annual Salary After Rent cities, even behind LA and Seattle, which comes as a surprise.

Also one thing I've found as I work through a move from an expensive city (SF) to a less expensive one (Minneapolis) is that the things you're getting for the prices shown here are drastically different. I've found 1500sqft 2br/2ba apartments with two parking spots in the Twin Cities for $2300, while that same thing in SF would easily cost $7000. I paid $4500 for a 2br/1ba that was a little under 1000sqft with a single parking space.

While that's true because you have a single point of failure, I think it's more likely that your passwords get leaked through site security than 1Pass security (depending how you sync/if you use their cloud version) so it's still more (not the most) secure because if they find your password in a database they still don't have your 2FA code.

In fact I'm pretty sure Visa and Mastercard forbid charging a different price if customers pay in cash.

Maybe I'm alone here, but I feel like pay per article is going to discourage readership. It now takes the one time decision (aka signing up for the subscription) and makes it into a decision that happens every time you open the site.

There's also a breakeven point with metromile (Google Fi, etc) and a standard subscription. If I recall correctly, they are targeting people who don't drive very frequently, which isn't what I'd imagine publications would want to do.

/r/neutralpolitics - It's not necessarily trying to be completely neutral, but it's trying to be factual and requires sources to be posted.

/r/christianity usually has fairly high quality comments and conversations among Christians and non-Christians.

/r/netsec has high quality posts and comments.

/r/hockeyplayers has a very helpful community but probably not of interest if you're not a hockey player.

/r/goodyearwelt has awesome reviews and information about high quality footwear

/r/malefashionadvice is one of the better run larger subreddits that has writers from major publications that post and comment

/r/askhistorians is very heavily moderated which means a lot of the most interesting questions remain unanswered for a long time, but the answers that are provided are very well thought out and sourced

/r/asksocialscience is similar to /r/askhistorians just different content

This is definitely the way to handle reddit. I mostly stick to local sports subreddits and a few general interest subreddits (i.e. not /r/funny, /r/pics, etc) and I think reddit is a great tool.

I think it's the same thing with most social apps though. Small discord servers allow you to build up groups of online friends, but if you just go into the specific game ones you're going to end up with a mix of good and bad.

Overall it's just an issue of popularity bringing out the worst in people.

Checking hours of the business works well. The integration with Yelp has that done pretty well.

I've actually been super impressed with Siri. You can have it call you an uber, get the leading scorer from your favorite hockey team, contextually ask followup questions about a person you were searching, etc. I haven't used Siri in a long time (besides timers, weather, etc) and it has come so far since I did.

The other model I found interesting is the Capital One Cafe. It's a Peet's inside, but they offer banking services and ATMs as well. They have plenty of space and outlets at every table, seemingly at the cost of your eyeballs on their materials. Obviously not every coffee shop wants to be corporate, but for workers it's pretty nice.

I think most jobs I applied to out of college had them. It is a good way to vet if someone can code before bringing them in for an interview and wasting a bunch of peoples' time. At my company we're currently struggling with not doing timed tests but not wasting too much of a candidate's time.

We hire a lot straight out of college, which I think is probably where this type of test is more common.

I'm fairly certain that given Target already has a hold of Minneapolis, there's no way they'd allow Amazon to move in on their turf.

Actually some banks (if not all, I only really know about my own case with BofA) have protections with debit as well. I left my debit card in an ATM in Peru and someone took it and tried to buy jewelry. They succeeded in two purchases before being declined in the third (I assume for invalid PIN). They alerted me that there were some weird transactions and I was able to recover all $1200 that they spent on my card.

Anecdotal evidence, but my 6s (which I had the battery replaced a year ago under the iPhone 6s battery replacement program) was shutting down just last week when I would walk outside, even if it was at or above 50%.

I'm really interested as to where this issue came from, because before I had the unexpected shutdowns with my 6s that Apple came out and admitted was the battery's fault, I had never had this problem with a previous iPhone (or even in the first 6-9 months that I owned the 6s).

I totally understand where you're coming from. I don't think I've played any games where it's made a large enough difference (in person or online).

I also love the idea that it will resolve things correctly right away instead of having to look at the rulebook every time you run into some crazy edge case or wording confusion.

The main thing I've found about playing games not in real time is you are always able to min-max every move. Since I don't necessarily play every game to win (I try to win, but if I don't it's not a big deal) I enjoy the arbitrary time constraint of playing in real time. Makes things move along and gives games more of a lighthearted feel.

Also it's only three games, but I play Food Chain Magnate a lot and you can only play it online here: http://play.boardgamecore.net/

My friend used to play games on Tabletop Simulator. It's a good way to play with friends who don't live near you, but beyond that it's definitely a worse experience than playing board games in person. I don't have any experience playing with people that aren't friends, so I can't speak to the cheating aspect of it.

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