notreallyserio

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Comment · 4 years ago
It was some time within the last month.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm middle aged and I'm lucky if I get to 5 on puzzle storm. It takes me several times longer than it probably should to solve puzzles, and even then I get about half wrong. Dunno what it is.

Folks say you should spend time studying past games to learn weaknesses but I feel like that's as bad advice as is asking children to grade their own homework -- it will simply reinforce bad ideas.

Still, I enjoy it. Mostly the self-paced puzzles. I'm hovering around 1200-1300 there (on lichess).

Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting. This was with a minor app that has no users and no name brand. Thus I assumed it was standard. Sorry about that, maybe it's more arbitrary than I thought.
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you contend that they are lying when they include this in their rejection emails:

> If you have a question about your app's review, send us a message in Resolution Center. If you would prefer to speak over the phone, just let us know in your message, and we'll schedule a call.

Comment · 4 years ago
They certainly offer the option.
Comment · 4 years ago
How does Apple manage to have human reviewers and engineers you can talk with on the phone about App Store issues? It seems like it scales just fine for them.
Comment · 4 years ago
> called to account for why I didn't personally meet the goals that I was pressured into setting "for myself"

This is one of the most hostile things an employer can do to a person. I don't want them involved in my personal growth -- fuck allllll of that. I will grow when and how I want to, if I even want to.

IME this never-ending push for continual improvement discourages me when I inevitably fail to meet goals they want me to want.

I want to say "just leave me alone I'm speedrunning to early retirement" but that'll just get me in more trouble.

Comment · 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure that's not true. If it's the case I'm thinking of the result was exactly the opposite. Do you have more details on what case you're referring to?
Comment · 4 years ago
> In videos like this, he's not being conservative but simply making an observation or asking a question that liberals don't like.

Isn't that his whole thing? Asking weasely questions instead of making statements?

Comment · 4 years ago
My favorite part of the flight sim is how ships take damage. You can lose various RCS thrusters and still fly, but obviously it's more difficult. Landing can be a fun ordeal without thrusters in every direction.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish the game was in a better state but I can't say the $5/mo or so I spend on it has been wasted. I play with a friend and I upgrade my ship every couple months (hence the $5).

If they got rid of the forced slow play where you have to trek from apartment (or hospital) to the ship request terminal I'd be a lot happier. Or at least they could let you request a new ship using your mobiglas wherever you are.

Comment · 4 years ago
The thing that most frustrates me about YAML is probably not the language itself but the poor IDE and GitHub tooling I have been using. Trying to figure out the hierarchy of a key in a YAML file (local or GH) is incredibly frustrating. With formats like JSON at least (if nothing else) I can just open the file in vi, find the next close-curly and hit % to find the parent -- easy.

Significant whitespace is also a problem but I think that war has been lost.

Comment · 4 years ago
"y" is similarly afflicted.
Comment · 4 years ago
The only fact asserted here is that conversation involves more than one party.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not like these folks don't know you can have multiple wallets. How many whacks to the head would you or your family have to suffer before you admit you have more coins somewhere?

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