William

Ah, yeah. Clan. I’m used to playing fantasy MMOs with “guilds” instead, and still call them that.

I played D2 with a good guild for a while, and it was quite a different game than playing solo. They often wanted another player to go through things, and it was pretty easy to pick up a third player if 2 of us wanted to do things. I could see an easy-going guild being a good place to pick up a third player when that wants to explore like you do, without the same person always having to want to play when you do.

I left the guild when some of the shine of D2 fell off after the last expansion, and I realized I was letting it run my life. They even offered to let me stay, but I knew that’d be bad for taking control back.

Anyhow, try to find an active, but casual guild.

I wish that was a panacea. If you work remotely, but they require you to be available via some messenger, they can and will interrupt you just as much as if you were in a physical office with a door.

https://ivopereira.net/efficient-pagination-dont-use-offset-limit

This seems to be the same article.

I have my doubts about the technique, but it could be useful in certain controlled situations.

No, it’s a bad analogy. SMS is more like shooting a homing missile at someone, and then walking away. It’s probably going to find them, but if it doesn’t, you won’t know until you ask them about it.

I think you’re being optimistic in thinking that either of those is going to happen.

Even if you release multiple times every day, refusing to release on Friday still makes sense. It’s not about expecting bugs, it’s about guaranteeing that your devs’ time is their own. If you aren’t okay with paying your devs for time they spend dealing with their own problems at home (without charging them their PTO time for it!) then you shouldn’t be okay with making them work on weekends, no matter how rare it is.

I voted you up, but this is tough. I write tests at work when they’ll help me, but nobody else maintains or creates them. Except for the tests that the boss created and insists that everyone run.

I haven’t pushed terribly hard for my tests, but it’s pretty obvious that I wouldn’t get any traction if I did, and I’m picking my battles.

So while I agree with “write your tests anyhow”, it’s a lot harder than it sounds, and a lot less successful than a proper testing strategy that’s embraced by the team.

I use Palm until my fingers ache and I remember that I need to not grip it like that any more (some of my fingers ache from it), and then I move to fingertip for a while.

I don’t see Watchtower in there anywhere. Even just used as a simple on-demand updater, it’s worth the time to set it up. (Which is pretty minimal anyhow.) But it can also just run automatically and keep things up to date all the time.

I’m not defending Ubi here, they absolutely should have ripped this code out. They had to know the outrage that it would generate.

But it might not have been a management decision. It could have been a “20% time” project where a developer designed and implemented a system that they thought management would like, and then it never got ripped back out after it was rejected. Those projects are usually barebones and use existing assets as much as possible, so it wouldn’t even mean that they had to stand up other systems to support it… They could just link to an existing ad from something else.

What do you use for a launcher now?

Most good clients should start seeding from an existing file if you find the original torrent on the web somewhere. Or even one that just has that same file in it.

I bought one recently for 4k BRs. It’s awful, even though I bought one of the highest-recommended ones. They’re still slow, lose your place, and generally suck. And if there’s any dirt on the disc, you’ve got a major problem, no matter how small the smudge.

And that isn’t even counting the problems with the format, such as unskippable intros and copyright notices.

Ripped media is so, so superior that it’s absolutely ridiculous.

That sucks. I’ve been using Mailbird, but their recent push for purchasing 3.0 (and a yearly subscription for security updates) has put a bad taste in my mouth for it. I’m definitely looking for something else rather than give them more money now.

I’ve noticed this, too, with both video and audio. It’s ridiculous.

They’ve actually been ramping up efforts to get people to pay for storage lately. I’ve always been fairly close to full, but lately they’ve started popping up brightly-colored warnings on various interfaces telling me to buy more space.

I did the opposite and got down to like 80% full, and the warnings are still there!

This is a far cry from the original statement that I’d never run out of email storage. (Yes, I use it for other things, too, but I’ve found myself having to delete emails with attachments to keep storage requirements down.

Yeah, I didn’t watch the video, but my first thought was “no, that’s just FAANG”. Plenty of smaller companies hire entry level developers.

Unfortunately, I think “local” is the best word usually, just not when also talking about computers. I’ve tried to think of an alternative and haven’t come up with one. I think you need a phrase like “music from local artists” or something.

I’ve had video games refuse to play because of that. Ridiculous.