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Not at all. There's an extremely loud online contingent that has developed a distaste for it. Mostly game developers who were badly bitten by some of the nastier parts of it in the late 90s. There's good reasoning behind some of the anger, but there's a lot of emotions, too.

I do feel like functional programming reached peak hype over 10 years ago. LtU barely seems to work at all anymore.

If you hire using LeetCode, you will surround yourself with people who enjoy blogging about LeetCode in their free time.

LeetCode was never about LeetCode, it was always a stand in for culture.

It's now a signal for baseline compliance. That's generally good for companies that require mostly operationalists.

The problem is that anyone can learn to leetcode. If you're interested in doing something new and not just warehousing CS lawyers, you're gonna have to ask better questions than that.

1) I know a few kids that went on to great schools that were addicted to various video games. In general, all of them are successful today, a couple decades later. In only two instances, did a parent actually have to intervene. One sent their kid to a sort of "boot camp" and the other grounded the kid for a year. Both of these were in high school.

2) Which game is it? Roblox is generally geared towards children - it's not exactly a mature game or audience. The gaming sounds like less of an issue than the choice of game. I would actually try to find out more about the game and what interests them about it.

My personal opinion is: hands off, supportive, but make your thoughts known - they are their own person and not every mistake leads to a life of disaster. If they got into a great school, they will land on their feet one way or another. But 19 is pretty old to have a video game issue, so it might be a symptom of other problems.

The internet underground in the late 90s/early 2000s was absolutely full of Australians. I feel like I hardly encounter them anymore, for some reason.

New internets have been formed, and the same stuff you knew and loved about earlier internets are present there. But it feels smaller & lonelier - because you've become accustomed to the firehose. You'll have to go through a sort of Matrixical unplugging to find them, however. Unplugging is the new turning on.

It's possible to learn CS on your own, but judging by how many people on HN seem to have a complete misunderstanding of what big O means, I would say it's rare.

> In Germany, signing a FTE contract also entails implicitly that, if I produce something over the weekends, my employer has legal power to claim it as their IP.

What gave you that idea? In fact, I was under the impression that Germany has pretty strong protections in that arena.

The Pokemon Snap one brings me back to when I was a kid. They had these Pokemon Snap machines, and you used to be able to take your memory card to the local mall and use them to print out stickers from the photos you took in game. Those "bridges" between the virtual world and the real world endlessly fascinated me.

You should add "democratic mode" - every button push counts as a vote for that control. An election is held every X frames.

As someone running about to start a SaaS, this is scary. Can you comment on if you've tried alternative payment providers/gateways?

The first example looks pretty unique for an art style. I'd love to see this done on the fly, so that each building is unique during game play.

Also, I think the buildings would look better if you give it some context of the ground surrounding the buildings.

This certainly solves a lot of issues for tile-based games where you have to handle at least 3 cases in both graphics + programming (in a 2d, single-layer tile game, you need corner pieces, middle pieces, and edge pieces). Think two houses built next to each other in AoE - now they could mesh and form a completely new style of row house, without any effort

Berlin's Pergamon museum is also closing soon - 4 years completely, and some sections will be closed for 14 years.

Unfortunately, even that might not be enough these days with newer fingerprinting methods.

- Total control

- Chaotic, energizing environment

- Massive payoffs

- Low-stakes politics, informal environment

- Being around an eclectic group of people

You face basically no risk, not in any real sense (like being sued, owing someone money, public embarrassment). You might have opportunity cost, but really only if you're a Bogglehead/Blind/FIRE-type, in which case you probably wouldn't pass the culture fit anyway. Someone people thrive in these early environments.

It's like weighing the pros and cons list of skydiving "Hm... I get only 14 seconds of pleasure for every 2 micromorts? I could get 2 minutes of pleasure from roller coasters for only 0.5 micromorts!" As soon as you bring "risk-reward ratio" into the conversation, you've lost the plot.

Watch Halt and Catch Fire (cheesy show, but in a good way), read about the very early SpaceX days when everything was going wrong.

My general understanding is that Zig was made to make video games and Rust was made to make system software, and everything falls out from there.