There's a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.

Microsoft was like "chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable". At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.

Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.

"When we decided to give the test to the development team (about 15 developers) — most of them got scores that were lower than our threshold (45%), despite them all being rock-solid developers. Also, there were some candidates who managed to get 95% and above — but would then just be absolutely awful during the interview — we would later discover that they were paying someone to complete the technical test on their behalf.

There is no substitute for taking the time to sit down and talk to someone."

That's pretty good advice. Interesting read.

I missed the "PornHub" in the corner at first. Maybe I won't share this with colleagues...

It's the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I'm going to buy a SteamDeck.

I predict that, within the year, AI will be doing 100% of the development work that isn't total and utter bullshit pain-in-the-ass complexity, layered on obfuscations, composed of needlessly complex bullshit.

That's right, within a year, AI will be doing .001% of programming tasks.

Employees should be automatic shareholders. Ought to be a workers right by default to receive some portion of the equity they're producing.

Edit: And to be clear, shareholders win too. More companies should voluntarily structure themselves to grant shareholder rights to employees. Dumbass company ending mistakes are usually seen a long way off by line and rank employees.

But it should also be legally mandated structure, much like 401k rules exist now. I propose that all players involved are better off with such a rule, other than the (not currently rare) asshole CEOs who only want to pump and dump their stock.

It must have been traumatic for that Arch user to discover such rebellion in their child. /s

On a more serious note, if my kids find this post: I hope you know we can talk about closed source software if you're curious about it - and about maintaining a proper virtual infrastructure to protect the rest of the network from it.

In this thread, a lot of folks who would use their one wish to make the language better.

But I would change "their" to be spelled "the're" and pronounced "all'y'all's".

I hope I do grow up to be more like the rest of you, and make better choices, in the future.

Yeah, this can be a generational cultural difference.

I mourned the death of my grandfather three separate times when my mother texted me "please call". Each time when I called back I learned something different:

1. We had to change our lunch plans.
2. There was an alarming local news article about driving conditions.
3. My grandfather had died.

Yep. There's nothing like face-to-face interactions to dispell myths, bias, and assumptions.

Good for him. And good for lots of other people, probably. But we all kind of figured, right? That man flirts with everyone, with impressive sincerity.

These are fun. For any other CEOs reading along, here's your new policy/advertisement:

• Furniture Row could convert every employee workstation to standing only.
• Starbucks could require every staff member to go caffeine free.
• Underarmor could set a black tie dress code for all employees.
• Master lock could shut down their staff gym citing uncontrolled theft from lockers.
• Grayhound could ban employees from traveling together to events.
• General Mills could establish a rewards program for employees who participate in a daily morning fast until lunchtime.
• Atlassian and Salseforce could shift their internal help desks to in-person only with 100% paper records.
• Peterbilt could start an incentive program that reimburses staff for buying local.