I was in this position recently. It's pure hell. I moved teams internally. Now I'm happy. It feels like an abusive relationship, you don't realise how bad it was until you leave.
So no changes have been made apart from being in black and white? I tried watching it a few months ago. It was awful (imo), I turned it off half way through.
I think its very spread out at least in Europe in my experience. Hell even my own brother is envious on my salary because he got a engineering degree (vs my IT degree), so "by right" he should have a higher salary than me. Aside from the fact that he's employed by the local government to move paper from a desk to desk or rubber stamp documents.
My parents also think the same as being civil engineers themselves. Paraphrasing: doctors, lawyers and engineers should have the highest salaries whatever job they do, everyone else should just fight over leftovers.
Just got a new Samsung sound bar. Can anyone explain why when I connect via Bluetooth (or maybe it was their smart things app) it wants access to my phone contacts and messages!?
Not sure about messages, but most Bluetooth speakers prompt if I want to give them access to my contacts - I've always assumed it's so they can display/say the caller ID for an incoming call.
Pretty sure it's the app. If the soundbar is a plain Bluetooth audio device it shouldn't even need any other software than what is already contained in the device you want to connect it to. They however could have replicated or moved some of its controls on the app so that you're encouraged (if not forced) to install it and surrender your personal data in the process.
I hate that practice; almost every device or service today wants to install an app because it brings their brand on the phone main screen and gives full access to users private data. Besides privacy concerns, it can't scale: 100 products or services done the traditional way were 100 addresses in a bookmarks file that used a few KBs combined and no CPU power at all except for the browser (that is, just one app), now they are 100 executables that waste orders of magnitude more storage and can slow a device like molasses even when not in use; all this in the name of sticking a logo on the main page of a phone and exfiltrating users personal data.
What are those other variables? They could point to other problems. For example, if adjusting for experience eliminates the gap, wages might be driven down for a group of folks due to a lack of opportunities to gain that experience.
I'm not sure I agree with this type of legislation. Most of us have experienced that developer value add varies hugely. I think what bothers me most is that it seems to be a push for pay banding. We re individuals, I'd prefer to neogitate on my own terms.
I would guess not systemically doing it is covered under it not being a “reasonable” expectation. If you are, over the course of time, paying 70% of the candidates you hire more than your stated top range, that might be a problem.
That's interesting. Would it have been better if sega had wait until post PS2? The Dreamcast was the last console I loved. I bought one on launch day. But I think looking back it was always doomed. I can't recall properly but I think it was someone in EA or high up in sega America who tried to persuade sega Japan that they wouldn't survive with the type of games they were planning for the Dreamcast. Oh well in those two years the Dreamcast had some of my favourite games.
I'm not sure if delaying it would have made any difference. PS1 was a zeitgeist machine, especially with titles like wipEout. I remember going to underground nightclubs in London and there'd be a chillout room with Playstations in. The Dreamcast just wasn't cool enough I guess.
I think Sega also seriously fucked up with the Saturn. There were lots of claims of it being more powerful than the PS1, but nobody could extract that power really. A Saturn dev at a studio I worked at had a complete breakdown just trying to keep up with what I was doing on the PS1. I feel they burned a lot of industry bridges with that machine.
I'd have loved to see the Dreamcast succeed because I'd always been a big fan of Sega, but I think a lot of things just went awry for them.
Ha! I'm still playing wipeout (on retro arch though). I only bought a PS1 around 2010 as I'd been an N64 fanboy. I really had missed out.
I heard the Saturn was originally designed as a 2d machine, sega saw what the PS1 was going to be capable of and bolted on 3d. Hence it was a mess. Is it true it could only use quads not triangles for polygons?
> Is it true it could only use quads not triangles for polygons?
Yep, but obviously a quad could become a triangle with two shared vertices. I never worked on the machine myself, and my memory is definitely fuzzy on this, but I seem to remember one of the things stressing out my colleagues was the poor transfer rate of getting textures into the video hardware, and the space being quite limited. So, all textures ended up being down-res'd by 50%, which just made everything look terrible.
I'm sure there were other issues, that's just the one I can vaguely remember.
There was a post on hacker news a while back about a study in Finland showing that it doesn't matter if the new builds are "luxury", they increase so supply which will always eventually stop/slow/reverse price increases.
This actually makes sense in terms of supply and demand but more interestingly it's because people tend to "upgrade" when they move this then frees up space at the lower end of the market.
The argument I've heard in South Africa for why luxury builds are the only things being built is that they're the only things that are profitable. After time and maintenance, ideally the luxury aspect falls away and it becomes affordable for the masses.
Same idea as buying a car - most people won't buy brand new because of the cost.
