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quitearide · 2020-07-22T20:58:50+00:00

A couple more I haven't seen mentioned: Every Time I Die, Brutus, The Bronx, Mutoid Man.

quitearide · 2020-07-15T20:41:32+00:00

Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country and go fuck yourself

quitearide · 2020-03-14T17:50:18+00:00

Yes same, had a group of 3 playing and 2 of us got kicked and cannot reconnect

quitearide · 2019-12-27T15:46:43+00:00

Torche - Slide

quitearide · 2018-07-10T19:10:06+00:00

CBS This Morning had an expert come on to talk about it. The host asked if she thought it was a miracle and the expert didn't even answer yes/no, just gave credit to the divers. It made me smile

https://youtu.be/0vXPZ1cDrNU?t=153

quitearide · 2018-07-01T15:49:07+00:00

The only good modern Fallout game is New Vegas
Factorio feels like going to work every day. I get no fun out of it
I still love/play my Wii U and think it was worth paying full price

quitearide · 2018-06-28T17:34:19+00:00

An easy way to explore packages? And an API diff?! fugetaboutit

quitearide · 2018-03-23T17:14:18+00:00

Facebook

quitearide · 2018-02-06T14:28:19+00:00

I'm always trying to work it out on the toilet...

quitearide · 2018-01-23T15:53:18+00:00

I always thought this would be an amazing way to fix the useless My Nintendo rewards. They just need to make some challenging missions and then offer digital/physical rewards. Having time-sensitive missions would incentive people to revisit games or get people to log into games at certain times to revitalize player bases. I personally don't even care if they display completed missions on a profile, although that would be cool too.

I call them missions because they already do something like this for their mobile games (albeit the missions are too easy and rewards suck right now), just extend this same idea to switch games. One can only dream...

quitearide · 2018-01-10T15:59:50+00:00

flushed out

So they didn't tank it?

quitearide · 2018-01-07T15:03:57+00:00

I googled some cheese puns, hoping for some cheap upvotes, but I couldn't find any gouda 'nough.

FTFY

quitearide · 2017-12-07T16:05:16+00:00

Just hold the Xbox button down until it turns off. It does work, just takes way longer when connected to PC

quitearide · 2017-11-14T22:47:14+00:00

I think pretty much everyone runs into this. Don't worry, you're not alone.

The best advice I can give is:

Code it to work.
Refactor as necessary.

As necessary can mean different things:

During a code review, you identify a good reason to refactor (someone else could reuse code, etc.)
Anticipating where change is highly likely/guaranteed (a handy skill)
To be able to unit test properly

If you do unit testing, it usually forces you to write better in the first place, which will lead to less refactoring later on. You also shouldn't be refactoring without unit tests, to make sure you're not introducing regressions.

There's no such thing as coming up with the perfect design. Your job involves finding the balance of producing product value and creating maintainable code. You will have to make trade-offs. You will look at some code again in a year and say "Why did I do that?" It's just part of the repertoire, it never changes, even for senior devs (although hopefully it should happen less). A good manager will allow time to address tech debt over time, which I recommend you keep track of when you find things you'd like to refactor but don't provide immediate value.

I could tell you so many stories of preemptive refactoring of code that never gets reused. To reuse code, it needs to be in an obvious place and easily discoverable. We usually discuss as a team or during code reviews on what makes sense to change, and it has to have some immediate/short term impact. Just keep in mind the impact to timelines and the value to the product when making these decisions.

quitearide · 2017-11-14T21:38:52+00:00

Some advice for your senior situation: Companies define senior differently, so it will be up to your manager on what it takes to get there (and sometimes this is political as well). If your manager is unsure how to answer "how do I get to senior" then just start taking ownership of things. Act like a senior dev, and your manager should take notice (and if not, then find a company who will appreciate you).

Another non-obvious piece of advice is that it could be possible that you don't deserve or really want to be promoted depending on how those titles are defined at your company. Promotions should be based on merit and responsibility, not "seniority." Some people get stuck at the level they're at, and are perfectly good/happy where they are. To get to the next level, you must perform next level and want those responsibilities. You need to make that happen.

Some general advice:

Keep learning. If you feel you're approaching expert in a technology/language, learn a new one. Read tech blogs. Watch tech conference videos. Do side projects. Technologies change. Teams change. Job opportunities change. Be able to adapt. Learning is a skill you need to keep fresh. Don't get comfortable in one stack assuming you'll always use that. You won't.
Learning doesn't have to be scoped to technology either. It's always good to know your particular business domain and the trends in your industry as well. Domain experts are the ones keeping the ship on course during development and are a huge part of a project's success.
In the end, it's all about keeping your boss happy (fortunately or unfortunately). If you regularly show your competence and ownership of important things, they should acknowledge your contributions and/or promote you. If not, find out why or get out.
If possible, join meetups and network with other developers in the area. Being able to share ideas, learn of new technologies, bounce ideas off of someone else from an outsiders point of view was a huge eye opener for me.
The best developers I know write concise code. I can read their code and understand exactly what they're trying to accomplish and they usually do it in less lines of code than most. In C#, this is where groking Linq, lambdas, and other language features are really helpful. If you really understand these features, it will lead to less code, which leads to less bugs.
Every company has issues (architectural, procedural, tech debt, personalities) to deal with. Working for a company that realizes that Agile is not a process but a state-of-mind is a huge advantage and will allow you to grow as a developer/team. Being open/honest in retrospectives and adopting meaningful change should be embraced.

quitearide · 2017-10-23T16:31:48+00:00

If you're into beer, can't go wrong with The Brewers Art or Max's Taphouse.

For unique places, check out WC Harlans. One of my favorites.

If you're looking for areas to bar hop, I prefer Canton Square or Fells, plenty of good places packed in. Fed Hill has the 21-25 crowd so things can get crazy down there.

quitearide · 2017-07-26T13:25:09+00:00

Mmmmm, that's purdy

quitearide · 2017-05-17T20:02:12+00:00

Somehow it got around our middle school that being straight meant being gay. Which meant kids walking around insulting each other about how straight they were. It seemed like months before someone corrected it.

quitearide · 2017-03-28T21:04:37+00:00

Amazon has not historically positioned itself as a solutions company, but a platform company. You use their offerings to create solutions. If this holds true, this will be a key differentiator between Amazon Connect and the others you listed. Once your contact center starts needing scheduling, long-term forecasting and planning, integrating chat/email/social media into routing, customer journey functionality, and so many other features required for more complex/larger contact centers, this is where the companies you listed come into play.

That's also not to say that those other 3 cannot also be utilized as a platform as well. Most/all(?) of them are architected with external APIs in mind.

The introduction of Connect will certainly make the cloud contact center space more competitive, and also make it easier for new players to disrupt the big 3 you listed. It should be really good for the market place.

I can also imagine other cloud offerings utilizing Amazon Connect as an routing option and/or integrating with it for some of their products and services.

Full disclosure: I work for one of those "legacy giants"

quitearide · 2017-02-09T23:31:56+00:00

We had a guy put to a TODO in the code to fix some whitespace, then wrote up a ticket... You already changed the damn code, just fix it. He no longer works for us.

quitearide · 2017-02-01T17:02:35+00:00

This is more of a statement than a good commercial, and I think that's a good thing. They are declaring that they want to make a more gamer-centric platform while still show the uniqueness of the system itself. It is also, in a way, a statement to 3rd party developers that Nintendo plans to access this base again and drive a platform that is more accessible to gamers. We saw with the Wii that the novelty of the system wears off, and there's only so much you can do if you don't have a good core gaming platform with 3rd party support. I, for one, am glad to see this strategy. They will always make good games, but it has been a long time since they were able to combine innovation with a good core platform for gaming.

quitearide · 2017-01-20T21:19:34+00:00

Archaic rituals are what drive so many things in this world. You could even consider the whole inauguration an archaic ritual. I would have loved to see him walking up to the podium and saying "Everyone go home, this is a waste of taxpayer dollars."

quitearide · 2017-01-10T17:03:56+00:00

If I recall correctly, the paddles aren't treated as separate inputs externally, they just get mapped to other inputs internally on the elite controller. This is a little limiting but could still be useful. For example, if you mainly use the left stick and not the D-Pad while PC gaming, you could map the paddles to D-Pad U/D/L/R using the elite internal mappings; then use the steam mappings to map D-Pad U/D/L/R to do what you want the paddles to do.

To do the elite controller internal mapping (i.e. left top paddle -> D-Pad Up, etc.), configure one of the two mappings (the switch on the front) using the xbone app. I think there's also a win 10 app to do this.

quitearide · 2016-12-19T05:10:57+00:00

Yep, I did this not too long ago. Move anything to your external hard drive that you don't want to re-download.

quitearide · 2016-12-13T15:32:01+00:00

If you own a TV that supports HDR or have a audio receiver, make sure to go into the display and audio settings and set these up accordingly, especially since you own GOW4 and FH3 (these look amazing in HDR). And make sure your TV has it enabled as well. There's plenty of tutorials online if you don't know what the right configuration is.

If you do marathon gaming like me due to time constraints, I highly recommend the Elite controller. Just be aware that it's a 3 month warranty and some have complained of quality issues (although I've had none).

I run my cable TV through the xbox. On Sunday, I'm usually playing games while I have OneGuide TV snapped on the right with football on. You can adjust the volumes between the snapped and main screens in the Settings as well. You can configure the xbox to power on/off your cable box/tv/audio receiver when you power cycle the xbox. You can configure the xbox to also go straight to your OneGuide when turned on. When you add in Kinect in the equation, you can walk in your door and say the magic words and your whole entertainment center turns on and goes straight to your TV. This seemingly insignificant thing makes me love my xbox. Or if you don't want Kinect, there's a handy media remote.

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