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by psyc 5y ago
You must mean interactive porn on the official store? Because there are several players on the official store, plus the browser, that play porn fine.
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by psyc 5y ago
I wonder if you realize how bigoted and insulting your generalization is.
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by psyc 5y ago
For whatever it’s worth, working on something (usually computer game development) is the only thing that has ever pulled me out of a depression. I think feeling like something is your purpose, vs. needing that thing to succeed publicly are
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by psyc 5y ago
All of these phrasings have the exact same connotation for me, too. None paint any different picture or make me feel any differently. Seems people have a need for there to be preferred language for anything sensitive.
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by psyc 5y ago
I’ve come to the conclusion that there is probably no universally compelling answer to that. I think you either hold individual liberty sacred as a sort of deontological pillar, or you try to get clever about minmaxing this nebulous “societ
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by psyc 5y ago
I guessed. I still don't understand why it is necessary to differentiate a category with 1.7 million members from a category with 17 members. Nobody here is ever, ever, ever (almost) discussing government corporations. I don't und
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by psyc 5y ago
How would my being mildly politically active on HN contradict my belief that it is rational for me to encourage the distribution of legal speech, without regard for agreement with the content? I feel like you’re trying to chide me by remind
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by psyc 5y ago
My point is 0.0000006% of companies are governmental. In the context of the discussion, nobody is even thinking of those. So, “private” as a qualifier is hot air. It sounds ignorant to me.
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by psyc 5y ago
Private equity groups are private. My uncle’s construction company is private. Google isn’t private in any sense that isn’t confusing. Why not just say that the 1st amendment doesn’t apply to corporations? That seems clear to me. And as an
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by psyc 5y ago
I think you are equivocating. I don’t oppose the distribution of any other opinion. I don’t like those opinions, but I’m not trying to make it harder for anyone to say them. And trying to change someone’s mind about it is not at all the sam
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by psyc 5y ago
I feel like your sense of it might be right. But even then, you can count the number of public sector "companies" (like Fannie and Freddie) on one hand, so it just strikes me as such a bizarre distinction.
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by psyc 5y ago
Is it rational, though? Maybe for a certain type of politically active person. But I believe in free expression (the principle kind, in addition to the 1st amendment kind), so it seems to me it is not rational for me to oppose the distribut
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by psyc 5y ago
I'm really sorry for the off-topic, but I've been waiting for a chance to ask because I see it here very, very often. What are people intending to denote with the "private" in "private company", especially wher
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by psyc 5y ago
I moved to a state where it’s illegal, can’t be arsed to find a dealer, and I tend to abuse it to the point of mental health issues. That said, I still think it’s a wondrous substance and will always rabidly support its legalization.
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by psyc 5y ago
Is random claw machines a recent scam? About 30 years ago, my siblings and I went through a claw machine mania phase. We sampled every machine in a 30 mile radius, and found that the ones that slipped, always slipped. And the ones that grip
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by psyc 5y ago
In my 20s, I was very much like this. When I was struggling with burnout, an older colleague told me that when he leaves the building, he shuts work off entirely and enjoys unrelated things. At the time, hearing this frustrated me because I
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by psyc 5y ago
I'm guessing because recurring one-liners don't do as well here as they did on SlashDot.
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by psyc 5y ago
Mid 40s. I get about 3 per week. A few years ago it was a lot more. But I can’t blame my photo, since I haven’t changed it since 2008. Out of ambivalence, not cunning. Perhaps it’s because I’m specific about the somewhat niche area I work i
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by psyc 5y ago
I do judge GTA. I judge it to be the greatest AAA series of all time.
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by psyc 5y ago
I once worked at a company that paid $1K to employees who got patents. Most employees (that I knew) never bothered, or only when they actually invented something. But this one manager and one of his reports formed a 2-person patent brainsto
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by psyc 5y ago
All but gmail. That was created in house by Paul Buchheit.
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by psyc 5y ago
Google Earth was acquired. Formerly Keyhole, IIRC.
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by psyc 5y ago
I can summarize my path. Ages 12-20, wrote code every day. Took a QA job at a small software company. Moved to development team. Spent 6 years there. Used that experience to get into Microsoft. 5 years there. At that point, there were almos
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by psyc 5y ago
I think self-teaching is much more about the student than the subject. As for CS (but really, programming) the investment for equipment and learning materials is comparatively next to nothing.
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by psyc 5y ago
Before culling a few, I was subscribed to 5 streaming services. Typically, it would take me about 3 weeks to find something worth watching, and then a week or two to binge it. That’s TV. I can barely ever find a movie I can sit through. Net
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by psyc 5y ago
I didn’t go to college, and I don’t include an education section on my resume. In 23 years in the industry, I’ve never been asked.
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by psyc 5y ago
I find 95+% of companies of any size include the equivalent experience line as standard. I did not go to college, and I’ve worked at MS, FB, and had interview rounds at all the non-Netflix FAANGs.
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by psyc 5y ago
Ah right, I forgot about the WFH part. I can imagine one’s leverage declining quickly in that case. Special circumstances, plus out of sight out of mind.
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by psyc 5y ago
I really wish he’d explained, because I can’t figure out how that could happen and not be trivial to fix. I have no idea what goes on in Google, but I worked at Microsoft HQ for many years. Sure, it’s overwhelmingly gargantuan in many ways,
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by psyc 5y ago
I have taken several breaks lasting from 6 months to 2.5 years. They did not hurt my job prospects, but obviously I would likely be further in my career. I can live with that. Some of the time (30-40%?) I spent recovering from burnout by re

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