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Comment EA is propped up by sports (Score 2) 307

Football is the only thing keeping cable alive, and it is the safety net for EA as well.
EA has a core base of suckers who will buy the same madden/fifa game every year, even better most are "non-gamers" who don't give a shit about what happens in some star wars game.
fifa was the best selling game of 2016, they can afford to take loot box risks on "niche" titles which are full of whales.

Comment codebase is more important functionality (Score 1) 421

Your codebase's primary job is to attract and retain top talent. Whatever the fuck you want to sell or buy or disrupt or facilitate is secondary, if you can't get people to write and maintain your code.

You could have a hideous frankensystem that grants golden penis wishes and you will go bankrupt trying to maintain it if you don't let those two skinny guys and that fat guy convert it to Rails, then Angular, then React every 6 months.

Comment The SDK is simple, open-ish, powerful (Score 2) 96

I have played with the SDK which is simple and straightforward, in a few hours I wrote a "channel" that streams menus and content from my own server. My 3 year-old can use the menus. .

The roku also accepts rest calls for pretty much all the remote control functions, and you can add "launch parameters" to your custom channels, effectively allowing you to add arbitrary rest calls.

So basically I have a local picture menu that you can run from a browser to launch movies on any of my TVs, using fully supported and easy to understand roku APIs.

This makes it basically the only viable choice for my household

Comment unpaid internships are basically illegal in the US (Score 2) 223

The federal regulations on them include provisions that the company receive "no immediate advantage" from the activities of the intern... in other words, they can't do real, profitable work for free.

Not that the law is actually enforced.

But if the company is willing to skirt employment law in order to get something for nothing, they are going to fuck you once you get hired there too.

Comment Vinyl is the only physical media I buy (Score 1) 136

I am not some hipster (maybe I am?) I have a cheap ass turntable and mostly I subscribe to a streaming music service. I buy Vinyl here and there, mostly as displayable, hold able music art. 20 bucks for an album is too high, but 20 bucks for a collectible, playable statue of music is pretty decent. It is just pure nostalgia, but I am not even old enough to be nostalgic about records.

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