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by wpietri 3y ago
Do you have a citation for that? I've seen that as a cartoon of postmodernism, but I don't think I've ever seen a postmodernist scholar claim that.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I could argue that, but it would be wrong. For me, art is about human connection. When I look at a work, I'm interested not just in the surface layer of the image, but what the work evokes in me and what was in the mind and context of
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by wpietri 3y ago
If you're looking for other models, I recommend reading Artful Making: https://www.amazon.com/Artful-Making-Managers-About-Artists/... For me it was a nice contrast to the "industrial age corporation" an
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by wpietri 3y ago
Please also give the things you did not find inspiring but did find useful after trying them out. I think one of the flaws of modern management is that it often ends up being about the feelings of managers. I'd expect there to be signi
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by wpietri 3y ago
I have no inside knowledge and am not a game developer. So I'm just guessing here. But yes, I believe tracking installs, which have published app store numbers and are instrumentable by them, is much easier than tracking revenue. Note
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by wpietri 3y ago
Some people do want to spend time on that! It depends whether you see fast feedback as a competitive advantage. I once worked on a system where we had excellent test coverage and all our unit tests ran in under a minute. We worked hard to k
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'm glad it wasn't just me. I'm interested in both sides of this, the product development side and the dev tools side. But with all that somewhat confusing prose, I ended up in the neighborhood of: "I'm happy for u
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by wpietri 3y ago
I get the concern, but app stores can do that because the money flows through them. Unity says they're shifting away from revenue shares, presumably because they can't track purchase revenue and are tired of having a bunch of smal
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by wpietri 3y ago
This is a really solid article, and has a lot more meat to it than I expected. It's also a great example of how "AI" is such a boon to bad actors because neither the LLMs nor scammers care about the truth.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Honestly, changing the way they do it is a fine idea. Massive documentation pages were how we did it in the olden days. And I think they're still good for when you want to read through and get an understanding of the whole library. But
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Fandom can't decide if leaked songs are real or AI-generated(404media.co)
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, the case that interest me is mobile games with a high install/revenue ratio. If I install a popular game, try it out for 3 minutes, and decide it's not for me, then am I costing some indie developer $0.20 even though there&#
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ah, I see what you're saying, but in the linked FAQ it says, "Creators only pay once per download."
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, where does it say per month? I don't see that.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ooh, good question. Does Unity phone home when a game is launched? If I were in Unity's shoes and trying to enforce this cheaply, I'd either have it phone home so I could keep track of how many active users a game has, or I'd
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yes, but the developer has to have made $200k over the last 12 months and had 200k installs. So if you hit both minimums and have made $1/install, they'd like 20% of that. Unless you're in an emerging market, in which case it
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by wpietri 3y ago
I was looking at that table, which otherwise made great sense, but struggling to understand why Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise had cheaper per-install prices than Unity Personal. Part of the answer is that they charge up-front monthly fees
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by wpietri 3y ago
From Skinner's perspective, given his lack of interest in internal states, it would be seen in responses that are coherent despite variations in stimuli. For example, I could have a hundred different people ask you where you're fr
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by wpietri 3y ago
Oh? Since it's demonstrable, please demonstrate how impractical that is. Once the writing was on the wall for Musk's takeover of Twitter, I quit. After being a daily user for many years. It was not easy, but it was also not imprac
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Registering is free though. In money, not in time. > So I feel like it's a fair ask You do. But a lot of the people you'd like to sign up don't. You can argue all you like here, but it's not going to change many
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by wpietri 3y ago
If you would like to have a successful startup, you really need to learn that you can't make it about your feelings. Take a look at the B2C funnel here: https://www.alleywatch.com/2017/06/funnels-startups-prim
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'd strongly suggest you demonstrate more value before you require auth. I looked at the front page and none of the 3 visible articles grabbed me. So I clicked on "blogs" to see if I found anything interesting there. That gav
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by wpietri 3y ago
This is a very good point. And I'd add that in a society tuned for the "normal" participant, I'd add that many differences create the opportunity for situational anxiety and depression that are invisible to people who ar
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by wpietri 3y ago
> The end result is much he same though - an ultimately brittle system who's Achilles' heel is that it is based on a fixed set of knowledge I think CYC is a great cautionary tale for LLMs in terms of hope vs reality, but I thin
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by wpietri 3y ago
> I'd argue that better relative ergonomics had diddly squat effect on Python's current position. I'd agree with that. I've done a lot of work in Python and Ruby. I mostly do Python these days. I think Ruby's erg
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by wpietri 3y ago
> It’s conversely not great to have consumers not using their brains, applying zero scrutiny, and buying into whatever the new street fad is then wailing for the Uncle SEC when their little crypto tokens became worthless. I disagree. A f
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think it's a theory because that's what's useful for the people with power to believe and have others believe. It's the same deal with any elite; their first task is to secure a tacit belief in their superiority. CEO s
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by wpietri 3y ago
The burden of proof to prove a crime still falls on the accuser. Nothing has changed there. I also don't think the interpretation has changed at all. We're still using the Howey test. The SEC took no immediate position on the cryp
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by wpietri 3y ago
There seem to be a lot of people out there with paper cryptocurrency gains who are happy to use them for absolutely anything that will make more money.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I really appreciate the way the Howey Test matches the regulatory purpose, its operationalist approach to the question. That it's stood up to nearly a century of scammer "innovation" is admirable. It does have the drawback of

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