Nintendo raised the price of Switch games from $60 to $80. And now the rest of the industry is doing the same.
Also, Nintendo shamelessly admits they will sell a "japanese-only" version of the switch for $100 less in Japan. IOW, they will charge the rest of the world $100 more
Unfortunately, nintendo can do whatever the fuck they want because nintendo users are just like apple users. They will complain but still buy whatever nintendo is selling.
many Argentinians call it castellano due to some silly perceived anti imperialistic view.
Every few years, we have a new global scare, of a household product that is slowly killing us. And the claims are often backed by corporations with different interests in such products.
Remember the "low fat" fad a few years ago? Remember when eggs were terrible for your cholesterol? Or that milk was great and then it wasn't.
It's the 3 spidermen "my grandpa full of asbestos/my father full of lead/me full of microplastics" meme.
the worst are the "content creators" that, for views and ragebait, will treat such "dangerous" products as radioactive. seen some youtube content of people treating lead as if it would leach into their skin and cause permanent damage. ffs we used to drink out of lead. i'm not saying we should, or that we should still use asbestos, but let's be realistic when approaching such things.
Google used it's dominant position in the search market to promote chrome in a way that it never allowed other advertisers to.
I didn't say we're good with the callers, they aren't our clients. The companies that hire us are our clients.
We're the most expensive provider but at the same time we're the only ones that can spin up a new call center with 1000 agents in 2 weeks, while the competition had 3-6 months waits for that many agents.
And I don't work on the line and never have. It's just another corporate dev job. It's exactly the same as working at any other large company.
I usually make a jokes about "Death by compliance", about the number of useless "complicance documents" my company makes me sign every few months. 100% for CYA reasons and no real value.
My guess is this is the same. They order tests just to leave a paper trail that you were actually tested, so you can't sue them for not testing you.
This is literal Death by compliance.
I'm based in Argentina. I'm one of those "outsourcing" people. I've worked with many indian devs and honestly this has been my experience too. You have brilliant engineers, but mostly it's guys just faking it. I suppose most of the good ones are living the good H1B life in the US.
I haven't heard the same complaints about people from my country, or from South America in general. Someone has argued with me that this is just because of sheer numbers, and that the market here is just as bad. But honestly i'm not sure.
I work (as IT) for a call center. They aren't an answering machine telling people to piss off. They are a machine that will tell the client whatever you're willing to pay for. We're the best player in the market and we had two very large clients. One was a cable company and the other was a mobile phone company.
The mobile phone company did care about its clients. They had trained agents, they solved things, they even waived charges off your bill. The company genuinely wanted to keep a long time relationship with you and they paid the service fee required for this.
The cable company wanted to have an outlet for its clients. An ear to yell at when the service didn't work. Period. Attention was crap, service calls were never really dispatched to location, etc. Their business model was "keep the 99% of clients that just pay wihout whining, and drag the remaining 1% into paying you until they get tired and cancel".
The cable company left us as their provider because they found a cheaper company that will do this for them.
So yeah, it all boils down to "you get what you pay for".
Yeah, Apple users will always defend the apple way of doing things, even if it's inferior in every way to everything out there.
I remember back in single-button mouse era, they defended this claiming that "the os is designed so you don't need a second button, so it's a non issue".
Or that stupid mouse with the charge port on the bottom, and yes, apple users defending apple "because duh, why would you want to use your mouse while charging? and also it's your fault for running out of battery in the middle of the day"
Apple users have always been a special breed.
open two chrome windows, and some other program. now command-tab between all 3 windows.
ok so, you're running a single monitor now. Please, open chrome, open the inspector, and detach it so it's now two separate windows.
Now open whatever. An IDE maybe, or a word processor, whatever you want.
And tell me the combination to cycle between those 3 windows.
lol no. This is a case of "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
it's not about "sysadmins want this". most sysadmins out there aren't UNIX wizards wanting to customize everything with shell scripts. They want something that works. Even if they have the technical ability, they don't want the LIABILITY of it not working. Anyone who has worked 1 single day in IT knows how short-staffed it can be when you have to spend half your day rebooting printers, swapping keyboards and mice, and re-plugging workstations.
Active Directory just fucking works. I tried running Kerberos here at home. It DID NOT WORK, there were so many vendor incompatibilities between Linux and FreeBSD (there are multiple implementations too, of course). Windows? just join to the domain. Want to deploy a program? policy it. Want to update the antivirus? Policy it. Want to block an app? Policy it.
On Linux you're looking at 1 week of tinkering and debugging that shell script to do what windows can do in one click.
Now, for servers, I wouldn't touch Windows Server even if my job depended on it. Linux all the way.
oh is that so?
on windows i can alt-tab between any window i want. On the mac i'm forced to use for work, I had to install a third party app to let me switch between my IDE, my browser window, and my browser inspector window. the only way for mac to do this is to use "expose" to show all windows and click on the right one, or go to the dock and right click on the app, and then click on the window i want.
macos only command-tabs between "the last window you used in the group of windows in the app"
also, on PC i can stretch a window between two screens.
what is the obsession with leaving software engineers jobless?
Why is every AI out there trying to, first of all, leave us software engineers without a job?
I think it's a false narrative: "all companies need software, and they can get it from expensive engineers, or from us". The reality is that: not all companies need software (at least not custom software), and those that do, already have as many as they need. Not every company out there is trying to be the next dotcom thing. Not every company wants an "AI Agent" to do whatever they do. And most companies are small, not FAANGs with thousands of "top talent". Even if you can replace the "engineer", in small companies the engineer fills many roles (IT, support, etc). Is an AI agent going to come to a desktop and unplug the printer and plug it back in?
And, why are we talking so much about replacing engineers? We engineers know the truth: AI can leave lawyers without a job RIGHT NOW. It can be trained in the whole corpus of the law, in every ruling, know every precedent, and you can give it the context of all parts in a trial and it can provide you with a defense. A team of lawyers can be reduced to a single lawyer and an AI. Why is no one saying this? Why are they only focusing in the "engineers will be replaced"?
I see many other lines of work replaced long before engineers.
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. -- Norm Schryer
