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notproductive | 12 years ago | on: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)

I do believe her section of Valve was probably shut down based on the success of Oculus, at the time this article was posted on HN this did not seem obvious to most people. I'm sure it was a difficult decision for everyone involved.

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: Know your NeRD: What submariners can expect from their new e-readers

Honestly the fact that at least someone commented on this is the reason I read ycombinator, I first checked the article's comment section but saw no mention of the above.

It's actually a good selection of books and the Navy would be better for it if the soldiers digest them

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: Protest in front of the FCC

+ Bump

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6

IPv6 addresses are determined by the computer MAC address, some governments must be excited about this feature.

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: Gnome 3.12 Released

Another happy Arch user here. I hope people stop harping on the GNOME team, at this point it should be clear to some end users that the gnome-shell interface has come together. 3.8 and 3.10 are beautiful once you install extensions the act of which could not be easier and browsing new extensions is kind of fun. The dev team has had terrible communication problems and I get pissed off when they remove stuff like transparency in gnome-terminal, but extensions often replace missing features (compiz wobble for example). Over time my Arch linux installs have become something I can show my friends and be proud of, this is in no small part thanks to Gnome developers. I wish more distros were able to experience bleeding edge gnome-shell and hopefully as time goes on they will. Also, when Debian stable users get moved to 3.8 and their transparent shell goes away hopefully someone like me or the above poster will be there to say, "grab the xcfe4-terminal and trust the developers decision to deprecate what they claim was unmaintainable code."

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: New Oculus Rift dev kit goes on sale for $350 today, likely ships in July

This is one of those rare moments where reading hacker news is not just worth while but makes me really really happy. I ordered mine!

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: What Happens to Older Developers?

It definitely is nice that you get to live in a Scandinavian Country, it's funny but I know two American girls that have totally changed their lives by meeting Scandinavian guys and moving across the ocean.

Anyway I'm just a low level system admin that looks at this stuff and always freaks out. It's ironic because the perceived situation is not unlike how women often feel the need to settle down before their looks go away.

When I'm healthy and I can take a step back (I'm 28), I kind of feel like if you are interested in technology you should be able to find work into old age. Maybe the reality truly is something different but I hope not.

The people I really feel bad for are Indian H1B workers. At least Chinese have a decent shot at getting citizenship, I know quite a few Microsoft employees (I live in Seattle) and the Indians are basically high paid slaves. They all make more than double my salary, but they can build a whole life here and then if they get too old or their performance suffers they get kicked out.

Anyway there are lots of hard things in the world I hope that old IT workers really don't have as much of an issue finding work as seems to be implied on a regular basis by my preferred news outlets

notproductive | 12 years ago | on: Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio

"We have solid proof that this program has saved zero lives, that's more then I can say for our drone program" lmao