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by TheGRS 8y ago
This is the current problem with the game market. There was a race to the bottom in game prices over the course of the last 8 years that's caused many titles to barely break even. Throw in an over-saturation of developers who are willi
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I really can't agree with that. A small minority of games are like this yes, Battlefront 2 being the shining example of bad monetary practices. But something like RDR2 or just about any RPG is packed with content.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
We pay so little for games these days. Even the big titles still sell at $60. They inflate the price through DLC and other add-ons, but it does seem like something like a RDR2 should cost at least $80-100 these days. The unfortunate side-ef
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I live in Portland, there's certainly not anyone drowning in bottles. There are long lines at the redemption centers because cans and bottles need to be put into the machines one at a time and we have a fairly large homeless population
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I think the odd thing about this thread is that ticketing systems really only provide me a value-add for stuff that isn't being worked on actively. Oh its time to pick up this ticket, its marked as high priority, here's a conversa
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by TheGRS 8y ago
That's kind of funny to think about. I'm pretty sure most of JIRA's configuration faults are from over-zealously fulfilling every wish their customers in the early-to-mid level stages had. I'm always confused by the &quo
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by TheGRS 8y ago
The issue here is that you make (just continuing your hypothetical here) $10k per year for 2 guys doing 7 days per week to maintain their viewership. Not enough to sustain their business, so their content starts moving toward least common d
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by TheGRS 8y ago
As a long-time Steam user, all I can say is an anecdotal response that the algorithmic recommendations on Steam are not why users stay there. They stay because they have huge libraries of games already built, so there's a bit of a lock
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Some very dismissive comments on here. For context, Grey Alien is responsible for one of this year's best GDC talks about how to survive in the indie world for 10 years without a hit. He's been doing this for a long time and so I
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by TheGRS 8y ago
That's addressed in the article, its still not as big of a revenue source.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Interestingly that stuff doesn't bubble to the top for me. I see mostly indie recommendations I've never heard of and maybe a scattering of AAA or bigger indie titles. It feels very random to me these days.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Japan seems to be the exception actually, in the US houses certainly are appreciating assets, market crashes and such notwithstanding.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
The larger issue of rural dilapidated housing seems way less of a structural or engineering issue and just more of a desirability issue. Not for the house itself, but for whatever the area is. If you have enough people in that area that wan
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I probably worded that poorly, I meant I can't personally imagine living in the same house for 10 years. I can see why others would want to.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
That feels like the wrong way of looking at it. The houses are very rural and dilapidated and cheap because no one wants them. Encouraging just about anyone to get out there and make it a home, highly-paid software engineers included, would
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I get what the distinction is, but effectively it feels like the same thing to me.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Yea, this is pretty much what they do in Japan, hence the article.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Its just thinking of your house as a depreciating asset instead of an appreciating one. Much like a car. I actually can't imagine wanting to live in the same house for more than 10 years.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
IIRC this is why living in Tokyo is actually affordable compared to, say, New York City.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Not talking about the search or search results, talking about the Active Sprint board and Backlog.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
My main gripe about JIRA, other than how abysmal it gets when you add a slew of custom fields and workflows all over the place, is that I can't sort on the boards based on all of these fields I've setup. I set priority and severit
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Also it comes across a little naive. Oh they told us it was just an employee and would never happen again, OK!
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I don't typically need one myself, but I'm a software dev who lives close enough to downtown bike into work or take a 20 minute bus ride. But this is a huge exception to what the rest of my life was like. If I lived in the burbs i
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I get that sentiment, but man would that be an easy thing to abuse systemically. Having a car is very essential to life for most Americans.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Same for me, other than tidbits I got from my parents occasionally. Like many of the important things I learned in life, I had to teach myself.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Big 6 wouldn't be a bad name for this group, most people would probably know who you're talking about. Unless people are going for some sort of double-entendre with the name FANG.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I think this vision of the future is a little too despondent for my first cup of coffee.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Its also hard to deny that a well-fitted suit just looks good though.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I grew up in Hawaii and my Dad was a federal agent, he previously worked in DC and Philly before we moved there, he still wore aloha shirts to work because it was just the normal thing to do there. Can't help but agree with it either,
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I guess I've never really thought about it from an unbiased perspective before. How bad are landfills if they are done in some sort of long-term strategy? You can cover over the landfill and make new land with it (many parks are basica

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