w1ntermute

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It’s just another example of the “participation culture” that modern parenting and social media have made commonplace. Who needs to do anything real when you can just upvote or retweet? You get the same sort of participation trophy that you’ve been taught to aim for since childhood.

w1ntermute

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> I don't want to make a little bit of money every day. I want to make a fuck ton of money all at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo&t=15

w1ntermute

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> He's obviously not so terrible if he created this thing that has people so up in arms.

Oh please, double standards like this disgust me. Microsoft had shit slung at it for years on end by the tech community because IE was terrible and held back innovation on the web, but no one claimed that IE is "not so terrible" just because everyone cared about it.

The difference with Gruber is that he's a darling of the tech community because he's Apple-anointed nobility. But as a programmer, in my eyes (and in the eyes of any other objective observers) he's absolute shit.

w1ntermute

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I don't see how the other guy getting lucky hurts the OP. He was able to improve his team at Sun by getting rid of the guy, and that guy ultimately got rich anyway.

w1ntermute

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> There was a guy at Sun whom I helped manage out of the organization, he landed a job at a start up that two months later got bought with a full vesting of everyone. He walked away with several million dollars. It took a lot of thinking about that series of events to let it sit in my head without pissing me off.

Why did that piss you off? Sounds like it was a win-win situation for you and that guy.

w1ntermute

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Doesn't matter if there are exceptions. When there are so many job opportunities out there for developers, why take the risk?

w1ntermute

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It means that their mentality is significantly different from other game companies, which means that generalizations of gaming companies drawn from their work culture are much more tenuous.

w1ntermute

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Doesn't it say in Valve's handbook (the one released earlier this year) that it doesn't actually consider itself to be a gaming company?

w1ntermute

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Any developer with half a brain should know that the game industry should be avoided like the plague. Long working hours, abusive management, racism (the Kixeye debacle), the issues just go on and on.

Take patio11's advice and go into B2B, you'll make money hand over fist with much more manageable working hours.

w1ntermute

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> Top bar is all Apple.

Not sure what you mean by "top bar", but there's a Windows 8 Review above the fold.

Also, remember that the Zynga story is "From Polygon" (Polygon is The Verge's sister gaming site), so it wouldn't be at the top regardless.

w1ntermute

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Yes, early computers in Japan used katakana only. They were half-width (normally they are written in a square box) so as to be compatible with the Latin alphabet. This is also how telegrams were sent, starting from when Japan began modernizing in 1868.

w1ntermute

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If you use Japanese in a realistic environment, you'll find that having broken plurals or a dual form is no more difficult than trying to shift between different levels of formality while in the middle of a business meeting that is already complicated by its content.

w1ntermute

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> IMHO (1) is incredibly important. In Mandarin, if I want to tell you a new character I have to show you. There is no way to describe it.

Have you actually studied hanzi? It is very easy to describe a character verbally, and if you live in Asia for any period of time, you will see that people do this quite often. There are only 214 Kangxi radicals[0] (plus some variations based upon how much space is available). Clearly not the same as having 26 letters, but not unmanageable by any stretch of the imagination.

The second difference is that characters are "spelled" in 2 dimensions. Once again, there is a set of rules for radical placement, and if you're familiar with these (as you would be if you'd studied Chinese or Japanese), it is very straightforward.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radicals

w1ntermute

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> No it's not. I studied Japanese as my fourth language for 1.5 years and went through pretty much exactly what the OP described.

I've been studying Japanese as my fourth language for over 2 years, and I have to disagree with both you and the OP. If you didn't find Japanese to be very gramatically challenging or interesting, you unfortunately probably didn't get into any keigo, which contains grammar of a mindbogglingly high level of complexity that is probably only surpassed by a similar system in Korean, since Japanese grammar was artificially simplified during the Meiji Restoration in order to make a simpler national dialect that all Japanese could easily learn/use. Nevertheless, the situational shifts in Japanese grammar based upon the relationship between the speaker and the listener are very difficult to become accustomed to, even for native speakers.

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