I really don't think Apple expects any average consumer to buy this. It's definitely aimed at creative professionals and enterprise, hence why it was launched with the Mac Pro and costs an obscene amount.

Really? For software? I hardly use 200GB and that's including a lot of extra, personal stuff on my drive.

> Epic isn't making a marketplace where I want to spend my money by being better than Steam, they're just trying to make a place where I have to spend money if I want to play certain games. Good luck with that one.

The irony in this statement is kind of ridiculous. You can't play many games without owning a Steam account right now. How is that any different in principle?

Overall, I recognize the Epic Store has some large issues and it definitely deserves criticism, but I just don't see why this shift is such a big deal in the long run. It's a good thing that Valve is getting competition, whose customer support has been a complete joke since its inception and monopoly allowed them to take huge bites from studio profits for years.

I don't believe anyone should be tied to one company's products like we have with Steam and there should never be a monopoly over this kind of stuff; Valve's dominance of the PC gaming marketplace is plain scary. I'm fine with Valve having to prove that people should use their product over the newcomers.

Right now the most frustrating thing will definitely be the split among ecosystems (chat, etc) and feature parity for things like Steam Workshop. That will smooth out over time, but yeah for now that's definitely an annoyance. I think we'll see an intermediary app like Discord fill the social space, just like how XFire used to dominate in the 2000's.

wtf. epic "buys" exclusives. This is something steam has never done. If a developer has their game on steam, they're free to release it anywhere else. Epic has exclusivity contracts

You're phrasing this as if Epic is going around making all these poor developers do their bidding - the developer is agreeing to list their game as an exclusive.

Be mad at the dev for making the choice to host only on Epic Store if you're upset about it - they're aware of the consequences and could have easily gone with Steam instead.

It's often a decision of the publishers, not the devs.

The monopoly store doesn't need exclusives, they're already the monopoly. And back when Steam was first starting out, there weren't competing storefronts that they could demand developers withhold their games from.

Has it not been submitted to a journal and/or conference? Typically these things are peer-reviewed and tested over time, no?

There's hardly any public seating in New York City other in major parks.

Central Park and Union Square have plenty of seating. So does Washington Square Park.

The plazas at Herald Square and Times Square also have limited seating, but there the main limit is space.

And the parks will give you a ticket if you sit on a bench after sunset. I've gotten them for taking a rest on the way to walking between work and my parking garage.

What on earth? America truly is a dystopia

It's definitely not a load of shit. Source: I work at one of those companies.

You're not doing anything wrong - only a select number of employers can afford to throw that much money at their recruits. It's just a method of recruiting, nothing more; most other smaller companies / startups can't (or won't) match it so they gain a major advantage over their competitors.

I just managed to pass their interview - maybe that counts for something, but I definitely am not a top 5% engineer. I think there are a lot of advantages you get from smaller places that you won't find at a large "FANG" company as well.

Amazon is being a huge diva. They enjoy public support and the deal was guaranteed.

I remain unconvinced that they care about local politicians' angry takes on their campus (who they probably expected to hate it in the first place).

Lol did he really claim that SV wasn't about making money? That's rich.

Not if you go by the parent comment instead of what your brain translated it to.

> And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.

Doesn't this imply fairly clearly that he believes the Bay Area is not plagued by these two things?

It implies he thinks it's less of a thing there than in New York.

I mean they don't have to do anything at all so I don't view it as cynical. You can't help everyone in the world.

But would you trade the amount of time spent at Pinterest before IPO with the experience you gained at Gumroad? Tough call, given the professional and personal growth you gained from it.