HexadecimalSky
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- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 week ago:
They may have moved on from the structure they had ~10 years ago but there was documentation and interviews about that internal structure. yes it worked similar to that, there where tasks to be done but employees could largely choose whatever they want to work on, there where no formal managers but plenty de facto managers, there was base pay scales but most of the pay was bonuses, that where indeed based on the reviews of your coworkers based on how much work/value you appeared to make for the company. Because valve is private is why it had such a unique structure. Alot of former employees spoke about how that pay structure killed alot of projects and deincetivised maintenance tasks. Then because there was no formal management, if you wanted to work on larger projects you had to convince coworkers to work with you there was no assigned teams or bosses, and if your project took longer then the year, it would be likely there would be no fruit of your labor and you would likely be rated lower, i.e. less pay. Of course no formal bosses does not mean there was not cliques employees that had been there longer and/or had more influence with more coworkers had more power to form teams and trusted when working longer projects, also employees would connect with coworkers so that the work they did would be noticed. Who completed your employee review would be basically random, so you had to hope/ensure everyone knew what you where doing.
Obviously there are alot of issues with this, I hope they have since moved on but last I heard there wasn’t much traction to change it. There is no board to appease and Gabe is the one who made the system, change is difficult for valve.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 week ago:
ah, didn’t hear that, yeah its from heard a long time ago
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 week ago:
Yeah, also its less “valve staff get bored and dont do mundane tasks” iirc thier pay is based on what thier coworkers think the value of thier work was, which is usually in how visible/noticeable which discourages long projects thay take more than a year and mundane tasks that are not very clear and visible
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 5 weeks ago:
The rose gardes deco has gotten controversy, but a green space seems way better then drab concrete. Such a tall flagpole wont even be seen in press conferences. I bet he got stuck in some mud and got mad, and the flag pole is a vain attempt to say hes got a huge pole…
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 5 weeks ago:
With an llc and enough contracts, sure. Have “investors” pay into some cooperative to buy land/startup, then everyone is somehow working for that co-op which pays for everything?
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
I thought it already had, I swear I rember some scientists finding or creating something, bacteria fungus or something that processes some polymers and they where tryna get ot to out and eat plastic ig so they can put it in landfills everywhere.
- Comment on Unholy curses 1 month ago:
I always want to mention, remember hwo you might say bless you when someone sneezes. Bcs, it was thought that you where expelling evil spirts that where possessing your body? Like viruses? Possession was illness…
- Comment on Career-Ending ‘Game Of Thrones’ Injury Led To $9.4M Settlement: Why Stuntwoman Thinks It Exposes Everything That’s Wrong With Her Profession 1 month ago:
9.4m, including legal fees. Hope there was a good chunk left after that. Utter gross negligence, horrible the coordinator thinks he did nothing wrong and there isn’t more recourse, no license to remove no firing.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 3 months ago:
Yeah, they didn’t fart in that jar, shart maybe…
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 3 months ago:
Persumebly not but there is oxygen in the air, usually.
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 4 months ago:
iirc the the creative who made the movie is quoted “I didn’t finish the book, it was too boring”
Yes, the books is heavy on the facisism, so a true movie adaptation that isn’t going the route of satirical parody wouldn’t read so well, and nowadays it might be a little to close to reality.
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 4 months ago:
But Helldivers is based on Starship troopers the movie not the book but the new Starship troppers movie will be based not on the movie, so, the book?
The book and the movie are wildy different, the movie was made by someone that didn’t bother reading the full book so just winged the story and made his own kida thing.
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 4 months ago:
Lol, it doesn’t sound great but its a child development club based around the child development lab on campus, we are all grandparents at heart I guess.
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 4 months ago:
LMAO, but this sound so good. At a college club meeting we heard about an event that’s supposed to run until 10pm and everyone whinged, we’re in our early 20’s here, we dont want to be staying out that late.
- Comment on naughty naughty 5 months ago:
I always appreciated the professors that looked out for us and warned us of the places not to get any textbooks from, with links so we could recognize what to avoid, of course.
Then we’d get a professor that gave up doing anything and had us buy a $200, license (with a $200 textbook) to an online course that taught and graded his class.
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 6 months ago:
That is for employment/workers, not housing. Under equal opertunity employment you cannot discriminate agianst someone 40 or over.
For fair housing, you must not discriminate, such as refuse familys with minor children, except in a number of cases,
one being if 80% of the dwellings units must have at least one occupant who is 55 years of age or older and the community is made and operates as a 55+ place.
- Comment on F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm 6 months ago:
One of the biggest threats to national security, privacy. (Joke)
- Comment on F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm 6 months ago:
Article states they found over 150 in a detached garage, and in his bedroom was a backpack stuffed with explosives.
- Comment on F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm 6 months ago:
Yes, ideally it would be days, not months, but realistically 2 months is not that bad. There are so many threats, reports, etc. Ideally the FBI could investigate every possible threat, but there are too many false threats. I think it makes sense, the 2 reports part. I person says it, just one of thousands of reports daily, 2 reports, there is much higher likelihood of there being something.
For an example of how many threats,
Where I live, it’s not a large city, but the school district gets a threat or report agianst a school about once a week. Boy who cried wolf, they can’t treat everyone as legitimate, at best they notify parents.
Of course these are symptoms of systematic government and societal problems, after all I don’t know any other “First world country”, we have to drill preschoolers and thier teachers active shooter drills as much as fire and earthquakes.
- Comment on flouride 8 months ago:
I am still concerned about fluoride, but for different reasons. The federal government says there is too much natural fluoride in our water so we must import water to dilute it. The federal government doesn’t trust us with police officers, or politicians, but surely the public water company isn’t corrupt or incompetent…surely.
But hey, our teeth are really white and no ones died from flouride, far more likely to die from sudden lead.
- Comment on Platypuses 10 months ago:
If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 11 months ago:
Reminds me of a comedians joke,
American: and how many sick days go you get off?
European: All of them? If you’re sick, you don’t go to work…
- Comment on Anon makes up a word 1 year ago:
In middle school I had to argue with a teacher that “Floral” was a word. I was unsuccessful in convincing him.
- Comment on Anon remembers Halloween 1995 1 year ago:
One Christmas extended family had a Christmas gift exchange, one uncle had made a “gag gift”, it was a piggy bank with pennies, I got it, he felt bad but to everyone’s suprise, I was estatic. I was 5 and collecting coins, a piggy bank filled with loose change was the best present.