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No, I'm happier with a console that just does it's own thing. Nintendo doesn't build shitty watered down PCs. They just build a thing to play some games on.
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> Pai is proposing an ambitious program whereby the FCC could expand corporate subsidies for building networks while scaling back regulations that, he said, deter private investment All hail our corporate overlords. We give you the offer
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> Its cars are blindingly fast, but as a company, Tesla appears to be utterly indifferent to racing. because the cars aren't really that fast. They are geared to do 0-60 in insane times. That's great but it's not fast in t
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Clearly they don't need to do that if the switch is exceeding their expectations. I'd rather have their stuff than crappy pseudo-PCs.
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On Zelda. A launch title ported from another system. It's also overblown as an issue. No one gives a shit anyway. If people cared they wouldn't ever bother with consoles.
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> cite a lack of culture fit Yeah, because you come off as completely nuts. Oh, and an asshole since you chose a language the interviewer didn't know then refused to answer basic questions.
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But with scalpers you make the initial rush a much harder battle (you compete with scalpers now too) so more customers are losers at that stage, and then losers again if they have to be gouged by scalpers.
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You still have caps. The difference is you don't have H-1B workers who are trapped in jobs and have little power to move around and increase their wages. You can see this today. Look at the number of GC sponsorships by companies that t
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That's great, since everyone knows all STEM degrees are equivalent. We'll just shift those biology students into tech jobs and presto, done. On the list of reasons to hate trump the H-1B is pretty far down. Especially since the pr
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Without scalpers then a shortage means the switches are actually in the hands of gamers who got them for a reasonable price, without some shithead sticking themselves in the middle. Currently it's a bunch of people who want to play, bu
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Nintendo is an odd company. They are extremely conservative in some ways, but game design isn't one of them. At the same time, nothing in Zelda is really that innovative, it's just put together very very well. They didn't dev
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> asm.js and WebAssembly give you the same control over memory layout as C That's a bold statement right there.
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Yeah, but google says no.
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> But it's a lot harder to learn public speaking, finance, management principles, marketing, college-level reading and writing, technical writing, time-management, political science, biology, physics I took 2 of those courses. first
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> has been a collection of dismal white-collar jobs—in a call center chasing down delinquent customers for Baltimore Gas and Electric That's not a white collar job.
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> Zander Dejah, 25, pays $1,900 a month rent to live in a downtown San Francisco house with at least 40 other people, many of whom sleep in bunk beds. I'm just gonna say it, that's moronic. These articles about people choosing
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By spending time and effort on things that may not actually matter? To their credit this post talks about improving the performance, instead of just using it to complain about they can't use https because of a difference in a metric th
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> “In order to do this kind of stuff, we have to recruit from a certain demographic,” he said, referring to government surveillance. “And I don’t mean to judge them at all, but this group of millennials and related groups simply have dif
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> In our case at Hunter, users were waiting on average 270ms for the handshake to be finished. Considering requests are handled in about 60ms on average, this was clearly too much. Why? Did it hurt user engagement? Were people complainin
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But at some point sleep deprivation must cause issues. 12 hour days I could buy, not 24
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Yeah, this is a stupid excuse. If handoffs are a problem don't make doctors work more, figure out a better handoff system.
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> Yeah weird how people hold up IPO as a holy grail Because employees actually gain out of it. That's also a benefit as it gives more people financial freedom and they can go off and do their own companies. Instead these people get
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Why China instead of say, the EU?
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The US is a democracy with a flawed government in power. The system of checks and balances is still in place. The president isn't nearly as powerful as he wants to be. China is an actual authoritarian regime guilty of many human rights
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> why wouldn't more talent pick China Because China is governed by an authoritarian regime guilty of a wide variety of human rights violations.
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People say the right things but there is so much anti-immigrant sentiment right now. Immigrants have literally been getting shot and killed.
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I'm sure if you explain to all the people who are angry at their parking spot being taken they will quietly agree and move aside.
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> Do you not think that the Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio would be a qualified person to be speaking during this event? Public speaking and the ability to give a presentation well don't necessarily follow from that title
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They already put in the time. That's the whole point of vesting.
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> So... how do YOU plan on correctly predicting how popular or unpopular something is? I'd pull numbers out of thin air. Isn't this one of the major pain points for many small companies that put stuff up? Correctly gauging 1)
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