jordan801

Here's the problem with this game:

- Blizzards slew of beloved franchises makes it easy to entrap nostalgia addicted masses to a number of pay to win clones. Or slowly implement these types of features into existing games.

- Half of the assets are from a 10 year old prequel. This game was cheap to make and will have an insanely high profit margin. Leading to perpetuation of this model.

- Scummy mobile pay to win is already accepted as the standard for mobile. With a desktop port, Blizzard can expand that complacency to further markets.

- Pay to Win models incentivize paid content over legitimate, engaging content. I.e. story, character models and gameplay will deteriorate overtime in favor of producing content that turns profit.

This is inevitable though.

Pretty common scenario in tech engineering.

I think inevitably, the labs will make something, "close enough to meat". Then corporations will strip that down to the most cost effective model of that "meat". This will be sold to consumers as "green meat" or something that gives them the impression they're saving the world. The body will struggle with the amalgamation. Probably worse than a McNugget. Because even though a McNugget is filled with junk, there's still some meat (probably?).

Some disease will arrise in society that is obviously caused by consuming X "meat". And lobbyist will make sure that the public never knows.

Then we will have a massive diseased population. That a "health" industry will thrive on "marginally" treating the diseased.

Wait a second. This sounds like what we already have. Carry on.

Every time I see a job listing with Unlimited PTO, theres always some accompanying verbiage that makes it sound a lot like that unlimited PTO will be unavailable.

Perhaps because there is a metric ton and a US ton.

I am unfamiliar with Robin Hobb, but I thoroughly enjoyed this short read. Now I see that she has books and she may have inspired me to get back into reading books.

I usually check the rating. If its 4-5 stars, then I will proceed to reading a few 5 stars, and a few 1 stars. You can usually tell if the reviews are real and this also helps you decide if the negatives matter to you.

I bought a vaccuum recently and did this process. One of the 1 star reviews was something to the effect of, "this vacuum sucks too hard. Its a workout to use". I have 2 huskies and a sea of fur to contend with, so this 1 star was a 5 star to me.

Sure can! I contributed on this project a few months ago. Hoping to use it soon on a project.

I implemented a portion of crud with a vuejs app. It's a pretty neat setup. Just authorize with OAuth2 and then if you have permissions youre good to go!

Yeah! Front end apps can skip the server and get data from the db directly. There's OAuth2 setup and you can authorize users to have crud access to tables, or even a granular as rows.

Are startups any better? From what I have seen it's, "work for low wages in a high stress environment, and pray we go public in 5 years".

I enjoy the nihilistic morbid humor here. I too question the futility of my work as I waste away in this cold expanse.

I put 2k in at one point and was up to 40k in a month trading alt coins. Then btc started to tumble. I realized it caused a massive amount of subconcious anxiety. I ended up walking away with a very generous ROI. My buddy told me to get in again at 10k. Id could have paid off my house last week if I did.

But thats how investing goes. If you could nail every investment you'd quickly become the wealthiest individual in the world.

Sort of seems like everyone is going off. When this article doesnt really give any examples. It just says there are lots of examples.

I have around 8 gmails. Theyre all connected to various things via OAuth2 and I have never once had any of them locked.

Maybe im ignorant to some detail here, but, this sounds like a spammer retaliating because they got caught.

Full stack engineer

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but perhaps.

Technologies: JavaScript(NodeJS, VueJS, D3JS), MySQL, PHP(Laravel), AWS, Golang, Git, Nginx, Unix SysOps.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-levet-2a250164/

Email: jordanlevet801@gmail.com

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Hello and welcome to a short blurb about me, Jordan. I have 6+ years experience developing prototypes. I am proficient at building gritty alphas and concept ideas. Ideally I would like a job where I improve my ability to deploy reliable and enduring software to a reasonably sized audience. I have produced a variety of unique projects:

- IVR Phone Systems [ In production ] - Statistics Dashboards [ In production ] - Google Home/Assistant appointment scheduler [ Cancelled ] - Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance website crawlers (Detecting and preventing issues relating to ADA) [ In Development ] - And a whole lot more...

I'm open to freelance and full time opportunities.

Thanks! :D

I haven't done much open source contribution, but it seems like we should be able to write some kind of flagging/filter system to check if PR's are quality. One-liners and comment modification? Highly suspect. Although I am not sure what GitHub offers as far as PR management API.

Just from what I am seeing on this Twitter, it seems pretty clear that there are some easily identifiable patterns. i.e. "Amazing". - https://twitter.com/ryan_southgate/status/131164593596180480...

I could be just completely out of touch with opensource.

After reading a bit, I realized I have misrecalled it. Woops. Thanks for pointing it out! :)

The referrence was to the Sun being the center of the solar system, and not the Earth. Apologies. Failure on my part. Memory is a fickle thing.

Who gets to decide what is a detriment to society?

Going out on a limb here, but at one point everyone thought the world was flat. Preaching that the earth is actually round, was seen as a detriment to society. So much so that people got horrifically executed for it.

We don't know anything. So sensoring ideas because we don't like them, or they seem farfetched, is probably, a real detriment to society.

This is awesome. I have taken a number of code challenges and walking away with neither, compensation nor explanation is rough.

This is inspiring. Its amazing that he was able to bust this out for his community. Its mind blowing the amount of perserverance.

I really want to break free from my job and build something of my own. Like this. Really inspiring to see someone that had a metaphorical mountain between them and a goal, push through. I cant imagine anything I will be doing, will be nearly as problem ridden as this project.

Shows what confronting one problem at a time, and not giving up, can result in.

If death scares you, I would certainly not recommend eternal life. That, to me, is far more terrifying.

I'm what some would call a gym rat. I have my own home Gym though.

Working out has solved a ton of problems for me. Anxiety, Depression, Mood Swings, Rage. You get into a routine, and you don't want anyone or anything to mess with it. It's what makes you feel good. For me its the difference between a productive day and an unproductive one.

Changing things up, especially with improvisation, can result in injury. Or just not getting a desired result. For example, I squat 400lbs or more. Would I try to squat a 400lbs stone, not only no, but hell no.

For some that go to real gyms, it's not just the workout. It's the comradery that comes with doing hard things with friends. It's socialization.

I think it has very little to do with being a rebel or a denier, and a lot more to do with it being a way of life, for a lot of us.

The average sedentary individual is way more likely to be dehydrated. Physical exertion is going to deplete both hydration and salts, via sweat.

I am a runner and a weight lifter and a former Sergeant in the army. Dehydration is overwhelmingly more frequent than electrolyte depletion. Even when there's no physical exertion involved.

I have been fully employed for years. Though I have sought a less abusive relationship a number of times.

Obviously, should my current security evaporate, I would resolve to deal with the process.

I'm not entirely sure what you're confused about. Nor, what model you refer to.

Contract work would work similarly for engineers. Do it on your own time if you have a job.

They can ask the current team questions via chat. Get some real code into PRs and prove that they have skills.

Personally I don't even apply to jobs anymore. I am tired of 6+ hour code reviews that I don't get paid for, and no explanation when I get passed up.

I would much rather be a contract worker and get paid at least something while doing actual work, over building a search engine for star wars characters.

I'm exactly like what you describe. When I leave the office, I want to camp, rock climb, and prep for marathons. I don't want to spend more time coding. That's exactly what makes me absolutely disgusted with applying for new opportunities. Eight interviews with various people, just to get ghosted. Time I could have been improving at other passions. Instead I'm left with no time, no indication of what I can improve on, and no job.

For those wondering, I just accessed and parsed a .FIT file.

I plugged my watch's charging cable into a USB port on my Linux rig (works the same for windows). Navigated to GARMIN. And immediately saw .FIT files.

To get to your activities, navigate to GARMIN->ACTIVITY. You should be able to see when the files were created, so you can figure out which one you want to view. Each is it's own activity.

Next you need a FIT file parser. I'm a NodeJS guy, so I did an NPM search and found "fit-file-parser". I made a quick project, and wrote out the code necessary.

In all of five minutes I had a JSON object with my run.

Maybe I should engineer a simple, single page HTML app to open, parse, and render the statistics? I feel like when I get done Connect will be back online and this will be an afterthought :P.

They were referring to the output file their code produces... Not the .fit parser.

It takes it directly from the .fit file on the watch, uses some software to parse the file. You can get the .fit file on a windows machine by plugging the watch into it and accessing it like a USB.

Not sure about linux, but I've heard Mac requires some third party software.

The reality is that we're at the mercy of clients and bosses, and I don't see that changing. Every once in awhile someone will come along that realizes they have hired professionals, and trust the professionals to their job. But that's about 1 in 10, in my experience.

All you said just means you are isolated from user's feedback or live in some sort of echo chamber.

An insinuation.

I would never believe that everyone is satisfied

I've worked in this industry long enough to know no one is ever satisfied. That is background noise. I consider something to be a good implementation if I don't get consistent questions or issues about it. There will always be users that have issues with even the most basic and intuitive UI.

I like material design. I have been deploying it to apps for years, and have had zero problems/complaints with it.

I work on way too many apps to pay much attention to any of them. I use Vuetify (a material design framework for VueJS) and it works beautifully.

Personally I think Development is becoming too idealistic. Ideally everything works for everyone all the time. But that's never the case, in my experience. These principles are a godsend for those of us who have bosses that want the app, "flashy", but also functional. While also having an abysmal amount of time to work on said app.

Personally I'd love to see less, "stop using this", and more, "start using this instead, here's why". I don't have time to go in and hack my material design framework, to fix an issue, I haven't had an issue with.

Read a book, and create your own UI doesn't work for me.

P.S. WCAG principles are basically unattainable in the real world. Almost any national entity has hundreds of millions of violations. I know because I also manage an app that scans for them.