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worked so well for HD DVD

where's the study of every technology the porn industry adopted that still failed

actually, don't do that study, I get all my investors by saying "historically porn has been a leading indicator of tech adoption, and look they're using it!"

Forget the Firefox Tor browser, use Whonix

Two Virtual Machines, the one you actually use for browsing and stuff only connects through the gateway virtual machine.

If an exploit breaks out the firefox skin, it is just in the host VM, if it somehow breaks out of the host VM it is in the gateway VM.

We could keep going down possibilities, but we are far removed from attack vectors that actually exist.

Do you guys ever get tired of Twitter stories?

Do you guys ever get tired of me pointing out that it will still be a Unicorn when it trades at 1/10th of the price and has a sustainable business model? We call those success stories, but lets be honest, its the share price you are worried about.

A standard SV job .... in CALIFORNIA .... must restrict those agreements to things done on company time, on company equipment or suffer the whole employment agreement being invalid, severance clause or not!

Use that paid time off, or "flex" hours.

And regarding the paper trail, payments under $600 need not be reported to the IRS. 1099's only get filed after you have been paid over $600. Ask for cash.

Pretty good but rule #4 is totally totally opinion without any consideration about why someone would be defensive.

So given that Amir of June is the only person doing this quirky interview style (where you actually pay them for their time), the interviewer still has absolutely no idea of this psychological gimmick Amir has baked into his process. Right at the very end!

Amir Yasin admits that he is elevating them into a contracting gig status, and contractors ARE THE EXPERTS! They have to be the expert! They have to make up stuff on the fly to defend their implementation, "its a feature".

But for Amir's warped interview process, of which the candidate is being bussed around on a literal auction block at other companies before having the luxury of getting his groundbreaking interview style, he still has this one random assessment.

Look, Amir is the one that elevated his tiny sample size of engineers into gospel. There likely was a literal 2 people that formed his and his company's entire opinion about Rule #4.

So I think it is worthwhile to point that out.

I'm implying, and directly said, that the tropes aren't relatable or interesting despite trying so hard to be LIKE EVERY OTHER GAME AND THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE AND THREAD

You think your rebuttals are original but they are just rehashing the same arguments from the past 30 years and completely unproductive. Assume I already know the counterpoints, you went for the lowest hanging fruit of them all.

Firewatch is an interesting one to call out, much like Journey as the author imagined, because those games try to be more interesting. They were created by artists and gamers tired of AAA titles and tropes. But they continue to fail to interest this other broad audience that is repulsed by the idea of games, but as the author realized, are actually entertained by immersive experiences.

I understand that, and this understanding has been pervasive for 30 years, which is why this exact article was written, and is still being circulated on HN.

Dare.

Firewatch is a really big step in the right direction.

But try playing it as a child or a woman marginally interested in a gaming experience and you get unnecessary swearing and tropes from a man's perspective.

Oh well. I wish there was possibility for a mode. Not one you are forced to select, but one based on a profile, more akin to the predictive one advertisers already have on you.

I try to do this on PS4. Many indie titles are released on all platforms fairly simultaneously these days.

Sony's user experience in the store just really is horrible. It has gotten better, but its been how many years now?

Most titles don't have any screenshots or trailers or previews of any kind.

Most payment methods simply don't work.

A paypal account where you want to choose a payment source? TOUGH LUCK

A mobile payment from your telephone? NOT ON YOUR PROVIDER

Okay, fine don't take my money. I got a credit card to work once though, I saved that one.

And this is how you become a contributor to high-profile projects like Docker, Akka, Spark etc, and now free to boast about it in your CV!

And get the same pay as everyone else that doesn't play any of these reindeer games, because recruiters already know how to find us and setup the interviews!

What exactly are you concerned about here, ruin? Insanity?

It is written like a generic rail against capitalism but seems to be more concerned about assets trading at a tenth of today's prices

It'll be alright

There are also physiological changes that affect this and perception of anything (and our other senses affect taste).

So really, you can just reduce it down to your age.

and we soon learned that there was very little correlation between what we liked and what the wine critics and the market liked

What the market "likes" isn't correlated to taste, it is correlated to scarcity.

Certain climates and variations in climate that one year, coupled with name, garner the premiums.

It isn't age or "complex nuance". Although these are one form of magic the industry relies on being perpetuated by consumers, the other is the idea that climates cannot be replicated.

Yes if you sold 90% of your company its not your company anymore

It perplexes me why such obvious realities are hard to grasp amongst budding entrepreneurs

Where does that misplaced pride come from?

Form the asset, sell the asset. Don't get married to it!