Wurdan

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by Wurdan 3y ago
People have different strategies for discovering new content, I guess. It’s rare for me to watch stuff from creators I don’t know, so I’m not usually surprised by the quality of them. But if any kind of sponsorship of a video counts as “sha
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by Wurdan 3y ago
My view on that (which was from very low on the totem pole) is that the acquisition happened at a time where Skype's core business model (paid calling minutes) was under existential threat. Consumer communications preferences had start
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by Wurdan 3y ago
Source for the below: Worked at Skype before and after the MS acquisition. MSFT's control isn't as "hard" as you portray it to be. At the senior leadership level they're pretty happy to allow divisions quite a lot o
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by Wurdan 3y ago
If I’m reading the article correctly: some products such as some rodent toxins contain levels of vitamin D3 which are dangerous to humans. Under the new regulation, they will start getting warning labels to this effect. Meanwhile other gove
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by Wurdan 3y ago
I get the sentiment of people who are only interested in game reviews and recommendations. But as a gamer myself, if that’s all a site offers then I’m not paying $7 per month for it. I wouldn’t be willing to pay anything for that content t
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by Wurdan 3y ago
And how many of them have been invited to the White House to share their concerns? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... I don't see any of their names in this meeting's attendees, f
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by Wurdan 3y ago
It also says that you just build teams where everyone is amazing (good luck pulling off that piece of recruiting magic) and then says “… give them good problems to solve…” Who exactly does the author think should decide what problems the t
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by Wurdan 3y ago
I started playing around with it and came to the conclusion that it needs a bit more development before it’s ready for me. My use case: I’ve been meaning to build a simple backend for a chatbot that’s active in a community I frequent. The f
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by Wurdan 4y ago
I'm not saying it can't possibly happen, but what games have been Xbox exclusives since their studios were bought by MS?
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by Wurdan 4y ago
Exclusivity is the big sticking point. I have a first hand contact who was offered funds during game development by Microsoft to be on Xbox on day one. Not to be exclusive to Xbox, but just to avoid exclusivity deals which would preclude a
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by Wurdan 4y ago
As others have said - absolutely, yes. Responsibility has very little to do with it, it's all about wanting the best outcome for them. And that should apply to both your children and your friends.
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by Wurdan 4y ago
Let me flip that around on you - what do YOU think being a parent means which is mutually exclusive with being a friend?
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by Wurdan 4y ago
As a people manager, we are well aware of inflation and real income. At least at my company we don't have complete control over annual salary changes, though. This year we were given a mean increase of X% that we had to hit for the tea
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by Wurdan 5y ago
One thing we can say fairly certainly is Bobby Kotick's days are numbered. Everything I've read about the guy indicates to me that he won't do well in the Microsoft corporate culture.
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by Wurdan 5y ago
mRNA vaccines, for me. I'm sure most people read this fantastic write-up of how the covid vaccine works back in December: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... It really opened my ey
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by Wurdan 6y ago
I don't think this is endemic to gaming, it's difficult in all creative media to predict the commercial success of a product. The film industry does the same thing in producing blockbuster productions that are more iterative than
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by Wurdan 6y ago
That's the thing, it's not the existence of the tools that's the problem, it's how they're used. Nobody railed against the manufacturers of punch clocks for their products, but these days most employers have come to
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by Wurdan 6y ago
The gaming industry and the RIAA are in an interesting situation regarding compound works. Some games license music for their soundtrack, and the games developers want to license streamers to broadcast their games. But the streamer is not c
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by Wurdan 6y ago
The license that Amazon has doesn't even need to change for there to be undesirable customer outcomes. I didn't realise the extent of the geo-locking of content bought through Prime Video, for example. So a film I bought while liv
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by Wurdan 7y ago
Progressing the state of the game once per month sounds like more than most D&D groups are capable of doing...
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by Wurdan 7y ago
I believe the person you're replying to was attempting to help people like me, who haven't had a math lesson since leaving high school (in my case over 16 years ago) and whose level of math is roughly "You want me to multiply
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by Wurdan 7y ago
A lot depends on how the code review is done. Where I'm currently working we have to do code reviews for an external auditing process and the whole thing has become farcical. It's not at all unusual to be asked to review thousan
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by Wurdan 8y ago
>Unless the small side project is learning cluster management. I think one of the underlying assumptions that this article missed about the original is that building a side project often isn't about what the end result will be. It&#
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by Wurdan 8y ago
With regards to actually getting a job, try and reframe your thinking around your Unique Selling Points. If you're feeling uncertain about the depth of your knowledge, then view that (and present it to others) as a certainty of your wi
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by Wurdan 8y ago
Hi there, Thanks for publishing this benchmark, but I've got a question about the results. The description of the charts states that 'A lower score is better', and between the two charts you say 'when we compare WebAssem
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by Wurdan 8y ago
That's literally the point of putting an abstract at the start of an academic paper. A single paragraph containing the most important points of the study, such as (in this case) the sentence "Contrary to common belief, the volume
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by Wurdan 8y ago
Having seen a big Microsoft acquisition from the inside, I can also tell you that this dynamic occurs: Microsoft is a gigantic organisation with very good working conditions. This leads to people with very long tenures working in highly def
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by Wurdan 8y ago
I think it's because Microsoft's reason for doing this is plausible and not as anti-competitive as that comment makes it seem - locking down the boot process has serious security benefits.