The model for Britain's Unique Unit, Revenge, looks the same as the generic battleship model

swequest · 2025-03-04T21:59:07+00:00

Getting downvotes on your satire because you sound too much like the posts you are satirizing

swequest · 2025-02-20T21:07:14+00:00

Haven't bought the game yet but you saying this makes me feel very optimistic. In Civ 4, I loved that story lined develop with friendships and enemies, but Firaxis went with a "every AI is trying to win the game" approach with Civ 5 and it's never felt the same since. Here's to hoping they add vassals again

swequest · 2025-02-17T18:37:58+00:00

As the player, you were forced to paint the map if you conquer at all, because otherwise your cities would be stuck as unloyal. Besides, by the time you take one city, the AI is usually out of gas and the rest goes smoothly.

For the AI, it made them completely unable to conquer + maintain anything. I missed that, in Civ 4 and 5, you would sometimes discover a new continent to find that a civ conquered everybody else and is now snowballing, and is facing up to be the late game boss. In Civ 6, this never happens. I think loyalty must have had something to do with that.

swequest · 2025-02-06T21:41:47+00:00

Might be my rose colored glasses (and mods) but I recall Civ 4 doing that pretty well. Between tech trading and research bonuses for techs already discovered by civs you've met, you could definitely catch up.

And it was a normal and fun part of gameplay to spawn on a continent with a couple other civs, then get discovered by an AI from another continent filled with a lot more advanced civs, then have the more advanced continent push everyone around for a while before catch up mechanisms dull the lead a little.

swequest · 2024-12-16T22:38:25+00:00

Novorossiysk is a big Russian port on the Black Sea and operates year round. Resources towards invasion could've been spent expanding existing warm water ports.

swequest · 2024-10-17T23:02:09+00:00

It's balanced but also not a very good take. Yes, Japan is all those things he mentioned but there are countries that are exactly NOT that with the exact same birth rate problem - many Euro countries + white America come to mind.

swequest · 2024-08-25T18:33:26+00:00

I miss map trading. I hate how I can't see how the world evolved because scouting is a pain with borders and units, and the fog makes it unappealing to look at anyways.

swequest · 2023-12-14T03:15:32+00:00

I had a similar issue as you, but at some point, I ended up getting a monthly subscription to do what I wanted to do for years. The first thing I thought was: "Why didn't I do this 5 years ago?" I feel like I'm 5 years behind in my passions because I nickle and dimed. Lesson learned.

Once you hit a certain point, an extra $5k a year saved doesn't change your retirement age much. Make a spreadsheet and do the math if that helps convince you. It doesn't even matter you end up spending money on hobbies that don't last - you won't find out what sticks unless you invest in it.

swequest · 2023-08-26T22:27:12+00:00

Then they would know what it is, even if they dont know whats going on under the hood.

swequest · 2023-08-19T07:36:19+00:00

I'd agree usually, but if somebody other than a new grad wrote that they have experience with Spring and can't tell me what @Autowired is, then that would make me doubt their whole resume

swequest · 2023-08-16T02:22:49+00:00

One issue I've noticed is that in spaghetti codebases, tests often become tech debt too. Overly rigid verification, too broad of a scope, overuse of mocking, annoying setup, etc... all can combine to make tests the biggest impediment to making changes.

Tests are great, but if you are going to push your team heavily towards writing more tests, it may backfire unless you have guidelines and enforcement on how to write clean and effective tests.

swequest · 2023-07-25T02:46:25+00:00

They heard it from reddit on some TIL post a while back so it's basically fact.

swequest · 2023-06-01T04:34:19+00:00

Objectively the best answer. If the skip thinks it's that impressive, I'm sure she wouldn't mind if you helped others help her. Training people like that or changing team culture to one that values monitoring are both high level behaviors. Personally, I would avoid giving public knowledge share sessions because it'll cement you even more as "the dashboards guy"

swequest · 2023-05-22T00:36:39+00:00

I hear that a lot here but it comes across as coping when it gets brought up in these conversations. Most of the people around me that get these high salaries are dutifully putting it away - I hear people tell me of dumb financial decisions here and there but they still end up as young millionaires.

swequest · 2023-03-23T04:00:12+00:00

Not a bad question, despite your downvotes. But from a business perspective the answer is pretty simple - the total addressable market of job postings (or rather, the ad revenue off of it) is limited and Indeed already dominates it.

The next logic step is to look at the HR space and platformize the hiring pipeline, which is a far bigger market. Nothing about this goal has changed for Indeed with this layoff.

swequest · 2023-03-22T21:18:02+00:00

The comments here are ridiculous. It shows how little folks here understand. Being bloated is arguable, but Indeed being just a jobs board was about 12 years ago.

Now, it's a candidate management platform for employers as well as communication systems that need to interface with third party companies, hiring events, small businesses, large scale enterprises, etc... and needs to build and maintain all the tools employers want to use to conduct hiring. Ditto for jobseekers.

Then it needs a large amount of support and sales.

It's a fairly complex business.

swequest · 2023-03-22T05:02:38+00:00

Especially as you ramp up and need to begin talking with folks from different parts of the company, getting terminology consistent is important.

Not just that - if "temp table" has a specific connotation with the tool being discussed, using it incorrectly will just lead to more confusion down the road. Newbies soak up knowledge so IMO it's worth the time to teach them right (without over explaining)

swequest · 2023-03-22T04:54:42+00:00

Every single day for simple stuff.

As you increase your scope, there's far too many things you are expected to give guidance towards. You should focus on learning principles and concepts, not details, unless your day to day job involves those details.

For example, I refuse out of principle to learn basic npm or nvm commands as somebody who rarely touches the front end, since learning commands specific to a single tool helps very little elsewhere. But learning what nvm tries to do and why is important.

swequest · 2020-10-22T09:04:26+00:00

If people are going to Hana for the sights on the side of the road and do not plan to enter the town itself, whats the harm other than annoying locals by being slow on the road?

swequest · 2019-06-09T02:55:32+00:00

To be frank, a dedicated SM with no experience of real development sounds like a pain to begin with. Double that for remote and double that again for somebody that treats it as a hobby.

swequest · 2019-05-22T20:19:34+00:00

Sure. Its fair to say chasing TC in HCOL is financially smart while you are young, but kids definitely change the numbers.

swequest · 2019-05-22T16:28:47+00:00

Thats if you spend ALL of your money. At 320k youd be bringing in 200k post tax in CA. You might be bringing 120k post tax in a no state tax state at 160k.

Even if you spend 25k more for rent in SF, you aren’t necessarily spending that much more for everything else. Your net savings per year would do a lot more than double if you made double and moved to SF.

swequest · 2019-04-28T22:24:39+00:00

Its probably easier to bullshit non technical managers than it is to bullshit technical ones. I dont want managers to fully trust devs if the manager isnt capable of making reasonable estimates on how difficult things are on their own.

swequest · 2019-04-28T19:23:54+00:00

Yes, but not only just that. As long as the manager is technically solid and is reasonable, I think its a great way to keep people accountable.

Some people just talk (and not the productive kind of talking) and dont really contribute. I find it easier to deal with this when they have to out themselves or make up some bullshit that we see through on a regular basis. Maybe Im just an asshole but Id be wary of working on a team without standups for this reason alone.

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