mangosteenjuice

See Games Workshop and If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device.

Yes this is what I meant, not sure how others misinterpreted given the context of no prior art to compare to.

I don't disagree with you, but Valorant is the first and only FPS played by millions of people, so I can see why its presented this way. The vast majority of the audience has no prior art context, so Riot can get away with it :)

>How do you get teams to use it?

Carrot: Thorough documentation with examples, and ease of migration that is as close to 100% automatable as possible, ex. with bash scripts. Migrating should be so easy that your own team could assist with it and not lose cycles.

Stick: Duress and coercion through management alignment, OKR scoring, and deadlines. Bonus if you can involve Legal for regulatory compliance issues resolved by your new components.

If we're talking about the Bay Area, anecdotally my experience is the percentage of uninsured drivers seems MUCH higher than other California metros.

I have used footage from my Tesla to get evidence and plate # that I could hand over to my insurance company and the police three times. 2 out of 3 were uninsured. This was during the past two years.

The customers are the victims, not the companies.

You picked the wrong point to counter with. The real problem is that the corporate decision-makers who bear the most responsibility will never be held accountable. They will always be able to shift blame to someone below them in the corporate hierarchy.

You need both discipline and the "stuff" that you're referring to.

The vast majority of the programming workforce doesn't have both.

If you can only pick one, you're better off with the discipline, because you will earn more money and be able to retire earlier, and/or with better living standards.

Violating social contracts has consequences.

The point is that rules don't matter without consequences for breaking them, and a rule is only as effective as the severity of the consequences.

When you're rewarded for breaking them, you can't even really consider it a rule anymore.

This highly depends on your skillset. Most employers with equivalent liquid comp will be HFT, and you will be writing C++.

Netflix is the only employer I know of where an Android or iOS IC can make liquid 500k+ TC without RSUs.

So do Android and iOS. They're still the primary indicators of the strength of the smartphone market. You probably can't imagine a world without advertisements or smartphones, but that's the point from the post you're responding to that you're missing. If the advertising industry looks healthy, it helps everyone by keeping investors satisfied and share prices up, even if it's a ruse. It is possible for smartphones and the concept of advertising to cease existing some day. There's a spectrum between the current reality and absolute zero, and staying as far away from zero is the goal, even once we enter an inescapable decline.

I have 5000+ hours on DOTA 2 despite not having played since 2017, and I wish I could get those hours back.

The people I used to play with are hitting 10,000+.

I now only play deckbuilders, citybuilders, and roguelikes. I'm very excited about STS 2.

This isn't true. There are lenders that will loan you money in a way that qualifies your offer as all-cash, even though you are still borrowing money with interest. I think the distinction is based on whether or not the borrowed money comes from a traditional mortgage.

I think people are over-extending themselves.

This article mentions a single-earner household with $160k income purchasing a $900k+ home.

Assuming this is with 20% or less down at current interest rates, this is bonkers. The term "house poor" is cliche, but I think it describes the position most California buyers are putting themselves in.

For comparison, our household income with RSU deltas is projected to be 500k this year. Half of that gets taxed away. I do not expect to make this much money forever. I'd be satisfied if we made this much for the next sixteen months, then took 50% paycuts.

We bought our home earlier this year, and we set our max price point based on what we could theoretically pool together from all of our liquid holdings and retirement, in a catastrophic situation where we both couldn't find work.

There's an obvious flaw here -- if things got really bad, liquid assets would be devalued, to the point where we may not be able to cover. We got around this by cutting our budget in half, and using what would have been a 40% downpayment for a 1.5 million dollar house to put 75% down on a $800,000 house. We now have a house that cannot be reasonably commuted from on a daily basis unless we leave at 4 in the morning, but we also won't be screwed if we lose our jobs.

I kind of regret buying. Our house immediately appraised for $30k over sale price, and is nearly $80k over a few months after closing. That would get eaten up by taxed and fees if we sold. I expect housing prices to crash after people run out of money sources to tap.

I have no way to prove this, but my impression is that most people with mortgages are buying more house than they can responsibly afford, and they are effectively gambling on not losing their incomes.