TheGRS

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by TheGRS 8y ago
I just visited Costa Rica last week, but it was more of a mission trip to build a well. We were in a fairly run-down town far out of the way of typical tourists (though surprisingly we still saw a few pass through!). Got to meet many locals
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Personally I've had amazing experiences on AirBnB, to the point where I usually try to make an AirBnB work over a hotel. This of course is due to certain hosts going above and beyond the call of duty. And then I've had experiences
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I don't think so, at least the sort of regulations I'm thinking of: environmental, structural, earthquake protection, etc. I think most of that stuff comes from outside studies and not from residents. But stuff like building heigh
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by TheGRS 8y ago
What is the bigger barrier to getting things done - regulations or politics with locals? I grew up learning that regulations were the reason things would take so long, but the older I get the more I realize its just a bunch of really loud N
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Maybe some do, but I look at the past coding era as more of a mystical age where wizards and gurus made things happen out of thin air. Seems pretty impressive to me.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Its probably worth reading about Rockefeller and some of the reasons we began to enforce anti-trust laws in the first place. What we want in this country is not solely a free market, but a competitive one. Huge corporations often find thems
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I agree with the stance that, yes, they are free to do what they want, but only to a degree. The closest historical parallel would probably be the Paramount case that completely changed the cinema landscape from studios owning and operating
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Others have more specific answers, but more broadly if you have a case that's Supreme Court worthy there are numerous organizations willing to step in to represent your side. The ACLU is sort of built on this principle.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I would probably argue that it didn't show us that at all.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
This comment doesn't seem to of been made with the last 3 or so years of history in mind.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Probably because what constitutes excessive is going to be a fairly arbitrary and subjective amount at any point in time and depending on the person in the case. I don't think that's what's really the meat of the argument. Th
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Well yea you can get an FPS game made in Unity in about an hour or two. But it won't really tell you much about what is happening in the background.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I would put money on that bet as well, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't speak up about the long-term ramifications of these tariffs still.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Steel tariffs will probably have some pretty wide-ranging effects that I don't think we've totally seen yet.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Looking back though, they might have made the right choice. So many respected PC gaming shops either closed or were consumed, chewed up and spit out. To name a few off the top of my head: Westwood Studios, Black Isle Studios, Looking Glass
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Expansion of contract employees as well I'm sure. Which is pretty common in the gaming industry as far as I can tell. TBF that makes sense for a lot of gaming projects. Its tough to keep an FTE artist when all the art for a project is
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Market forces can be tough to predict. There was a dearth of software engineers in the last 8 or so years and many of us have reaped the rewards. The hacker news articles used to be about switching jobs every 1-3 years to advance your salar
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by TheGRS 8y ago
In this current market I would say there's absolutely a stagnation if you are not finding other ways to provide value. There are others coming up from behind who can arguably provide the same value of just coding without thinking much
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by TheGRS 8y ago
At that point you would probably move into consulting.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Hacker News? Twitter? Nothing? I don't know really, it seems like the best communities are also small ones. All of these sites are victims of their own success. I really enjoyed reddit when I joined many years ago, but its become a hot
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I was under the impression almost anything that is trigger-based and has some data points is automated these days. Severe weather, sports statistics, poll results, finance numbers. All of that is fairly automate-able. They were talking abou
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by TheGRS 8y ago
No joke, I do remember when Facebook came onto the scene, I liked it way better than MySpace. I absolutely hated how customized MySpace pages became. It was dreck. Sound would blast when you opened someone's page. You could barely read
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Definitely some schadenfreude in these comments.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
> We recently experienced an interruption with API It sounds like kind of an amateur deployment/test problem. The lack of explanation would have me worried too. Their platform is pretty large and widely used, so you'd think the
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I’m sorry how does this comment help us right now? They aren’t privatized. And people aren’t getting paid.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I won't argue if you thought it was a lot.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I might have to write her about this because that's so ridiculous. I would've expected that sort of hyperbole from a Vancouver Republican.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Seriously. And in Portland we exasperated the issue by limiting garbage to once every 2 weeks. So people throw trash in the recycling containers. And that makes the recycling near useless.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Its a weird industry. If you're there for appeasing people who enjoy art, story and gameplay, there's now a market for that. And those people don't mind either paying a little more for the title nor a 2-3 hour long game, as l
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Well, RDR2 for sure. So much in that game is there to make the game world realistic and beautiful (and it succeeds greatly!), but not a lot of attention to lasting gameplay.

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