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Fair enough. The products could, and probably had, been made in good faith. But, I think the constant barrage of new products from Sega, along with the complicated hierarchy of how the products interacted with each other, burned people out.

Sega releases:

- Master System: October 1985

- Genesis: August 14, 1989

- Sega CD: December 12, 1991

- x32: December 3, 1994

- Saturn: November 22, 1994

- Dreamcast: November 27, 1998

Nintendo Releases:

- NES: July 1983

- Super Nintendo: November 1990

- Nintendo 64: June 1996

As a student who SUFFERED through K-12, was an awful C-D student, I agree 100% with this overall idea.

I went from a D high school to a straight A student in college. I found the freedom to choose to study what I am interested in ( Computer Science ) extremely liberating. I found the respect shown by the faculty to the students refreshing compared to my high-school. I found that being able to leave, take a nap, and then come back for my next class much more tolerable. I found that not being locked in a building for 9 hours a day freed up time to actually study and get your homework done.

Basically, I discovered what everyone else already knew: Current schooling is intended to keep kids in child-jail while their parents are working. Most schools do not have the resources to cater to bored gifted students, so we are cast aside with the understanding that "we'll be fine" while sitting through remedial classes where we have to read out loud because some of the students in the classroom are illiterate.

People claim college is a waste of time? HA. HIGH SCHOOL is four years of my life WASTED that I will never get back.

Let students set their own pace for education. Have them take responsibility for their own lives and future at a younger age. Let the children out of child jail.

So sad Neo-Geo and Sega have sunk so low.

I don't really miss their hardware, Sega shot themselves in the foot by releasing too much cash-grab junk over the 90's instead of focusing on their core products.

But the games they made still create this painful nostalgic twinge in my heart. Just HEARING the Dreamcast sound chip affects me.

YMMV, where I grew up it was very flat and almost completely corn fields.

Depends on what you want.

I've lived in the Midwest my entire life, from a tiny town of 2,000 people to Chicago Illinois. I'm moving out to Portland in less than a month.

I REALLY dislike the Midwest due to it's lack of natural beauty, epidemic of poor civil engineering and city design, and hostile climate.

> If you're looking to move to the Bay area, you should also look at moving to the like Lincoln, NE or Omaha, NE or Kansas City. A lot more so if you have a family. I know that sounds strange, but....

Comparing the job market of Lincoln, Omaha, or KC to the Bay Area is very flawed. The tech-hubs are a real thing, and there are advantages to working in an office that make remote work undesirable. ( More likely to be promoted, having a social life, etc. )

Even in cities like Portland, you look around at the jobs being offered and see MOSTLY lame fintech and insurance company jobs. Additionally, you are away from the critical mass of highly educated and motivated developers. Even here in Chicago, you meet a LOT of the b-team.

> The Midwest is cheap. Albeit harder than the past, it is still possible and common in the Midwest to live a middle-class-ish lifestyle on a single income. A two bedroom apartment can be less than $500 a month.

While it's true that you can get a large house for cheaper, what are you going to do while you are in these cities? They, full stop, lack the cultural and natural vibrancy of the Bay Area. Extremely homogeneous, poorly designed cities full of insurance salesmen and hicks.

Brutal cold winters and sweltering, buggy summers. Not that you would want to go outside anyway, since most of these Midwestern cities have declined to invest in walkable infrastructure and instead more resemble disconnected buildings joined by huge highways. You will drive everywhere and none of it will be interesting or beautiful. ( To be fair, I hear Columbus has some nice infrastructure )

Not that you would have anywhere to drive to. The nature sucks. You can drive out of town and see some beautiful... corn fields. And flat land. Filled with bugs. Nobody has bothered to forge hiking trails because there's nothing to see.

> I have friends with $830/month mortgage payments on their house.

The most expensive house is the one you can't sell. And housing is not an automatically good investment like many people believe.

I know from experience, a lot of my friends who bought cheap houses regret it now that they are interested in selling and NOBODY'S BUYING.

> The Internet is solid in the Midwest too...

True. You can do the job. If you don't mind working remote / find a good job in the Midwest, it is 100% viable to live there.

> Lastly, (this is a hot topic issue so I am reluctant to put it in, but it is something that comes up from my friends on the west coast) the states are red states, but the cities are blue.

Yes. This means every time you decide you want to get away from the city, you are greeted by a bunch of Trump-supporting, confederate flag waving yokels who cut the sleeves off of their shirts. Also this means that when those people want to get away from the country, guess where they go? Your city, where you have to interact with them.

Would love something like this for single-handed use in Android.

I'm amazed at how poor my typing skills in android are, after years and years of constant use. Something just is not working!

I have a System76 Galago Pro with 32 gigs of ram and an i7 processor.

Works GREAT, fan of the keyboard and everything.

The case is kinda shit, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I'm not obsessed with having a designer laptop that looks beautiful, just something to slam around and run programs on. Additionally, having a ton of ports to plug things into has been very welcome after migrating off of the touchpad macbook pros.

Linux desktop is nice because of the great docker support, and honestly it tends to work quite well for pretty much everything I throw at it. Multi-monitor support is great, it works fine with my 4k monitor. I was AMAZED when I plugged my usb-c headphones into the usb-c port and heard sound come out.

I tend to just travel with a ball mouse because I have really severe hyperhidrosis which renders basically all track-pads, even Apples', completely unusable, and uncomfortable to boot. Moisture + friction is not a great combo.

I admit that I'm a bit of a weirdo and this set-up would be sub-optimal for a lot of people due to support for various adobe products. But I'm happy with the setup.

If I could go back in time I would probably get a Surface laptop and set my home computer up as a server, and automate sending work to it, because I'm a big fan of indie video games and would enjoy being able to play games on my laptop.

I am a full time remote worker, but I have survived the tyranny of an open office in the past. I dislike the open office format.

A lot of the time companies don't "choose" an open office, it chooses them.

If you are working at a small or mid-sized company, building out rented office space you will probably outgrow in a year or two is a crappy investment.

The alternative? Buy the desks, throw them into a room, expect people to be quiet and respectful.

I would be a indie game maker if I could start over, so I guess I would still need the programming skills.

But I would also gain skills in art, music, level design, etc. on top of it.

I would avoid corporate life and carve out a happy little niche in a funky little community like Portland or somewhere similar. Save, live within my means, pay off my student loans. Work as a hard working, humble little dev and pursue my passions on my fiercely guarded free time. Volunteer some of my spare time for environmental conservation and human rights organizations. Have a garden, two cats in the yard... wait that's exactly how I live now, except I'm a sysadmin instead of a game developer.

Overall I have an amazing life and a really bright future so I can't really complain. Choosing to study Computer Science in college is what lead me down my current path. And when I look around at my options, I feel like I made a really great decision. Happiness comes from within. Keep your eyes peeled, always be learning, and don't be nobody's sucker. Don't get left behind.

Really my biggest regret is under-valuing and not believing in myself. It's amazing how great things can go when you just commit to something and make realistic and well-thought out choices while pursing your desired path.

ALTHOUGH, I'm only 29 so I can still do a LOT to change my life and work towards my goals.

Agreed.

It's amazing to me how people still "meh" away testing as a secondary concern, and then regret it later. Over and over again.

WRITING software is easy, anyone can do it. CHANGING software is extremely difficult. THAT is why we have tests. Also, if you are smart about it, you can get documentation out of the deal for relatively little additional cost.

My go to example is on-boarding new developers:

New dev: "OK, i'm here! How do I start?"

with tests: Clone the repo, install dependencies, and run the test suite. As you develop new features, be sure to write additional test.

They are up and going in a matter of minutes.

without tests: Clone the repo, install deps, download testing database, achieve homeostasis with your dev environment, learn the entire system, build up the state you require to write your feature, iterate on it by hand over and over again.

That's nice.

Give me the `|>` operator plz

Good, their support is pathetic and they ship barely working projects.