Just literally had this happen to me with our HR/Accounting Department, with a subtitle of "We want to understand what you do around here." Visons of Office Space are dancing in my head.
No I didn't. I thought that Rush had taken my money in the first place for the album, and should have done a good job on that so didn't deserve me buying it again!
It would be interesting to hear it though. The bass drum is completely lost in the first one (no punch at all).
Their most recent album was also full of reverberation and distortion, which made listening to it in the car very very difficult. It fared better in a quieter environment I thought.
How long have you been playing bass? In a band or anything? All good fun!
I've been a huge Rush fan since I was a little kid (thanks to my parents for that). I loved Vapor Trails when it came out even with the poor sound mixing. The remixed version is even better in my opinion. To me, it's just a fuller sound that's much more enjoyable.
I recall some minigame-esque loading screens in some old Dragon Ball Z games and wondering why more games did do something similar. It's interesting to see there was actually a reason beyond simply missed opportunity.
Seeing this sort of negative behavior, both in groups online and off and coding and not, affected me greatly, even when I wasn't the target. On one hand, it gave me pause to consider and critique my own work, enhancing the final product. On the other hand, it made me go into over-perfectionist overdrive and too scared to release stuff lest "everyone" hates it. This fear, however irrational, has gripped me for many years. Stories, scripts and projects being left in folders partially because I wasn't sure where to go with them, but I believe in part that I was too scared to see it through and be rejected (The McFly effect, if you will.) I'm only now just coming to terms with it and learning how to, excusing the french, not give a fuck what others think. If I'm happy with it, that's a great start.
It's like with improv comedy: Denying the other person doesn't go anywhere and typically ruins the whole scene. Working with the other person in a positive light,though, goes miles and miles.
It's pretty easy to do! I've had one for a while, but I just now got to sit down and play with it for a bit. The RetroPie script makes things very simple, though you'll probably want to play with overclock settings for best performance. The biggest surprise for me was getting PSX games working decently.
I have a second one and I just recently picked up the Adafruit LCD kit for the Pi, so I'm hoping to have some more fun with that soon.
I wonder how much you could overclock the Pi if you had some proper air cooling in it. Probably a fair amount, considering it works totally off passive cooling by default.
I live in Knoxville and while I love living here, finding tech positions at decent pay is difficult. The cost of living is lower and many firms here take advantage of that to an insulting degree. I can imagine it being similar nearby in Chattanooga.
If I was planning to move to Chattanooga, the payout would nice small bonus, but that's about it.
many firms here take advantage of that to an insulting degree
I found that to be the case throughout a lot of the Blue Ridge area, when I lived there. To a greater extent, unless you're heading to larger metropolis areas like Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Columbia or Charleston, what you've said is 100% true throughout much of the Southeast. Outside of larger cities, firms don't like to pay much.
It's why I hightailed it to Austin two years ago and haven't looked back except holiday visits to family.
It's even worse if you're in a small college town — you're competing against fresh grads who will work for pizza and Coke, as well as not-so-fresh grads who will take a huge pay cut just to return to party town.
Awesome, another Knoxvillain on HN. I feared I was the only one.
Decent pay here in Knoxville isn't all that difficult, but you do have to hustle and build up a bit of a name for yourself before you can reasonably expect to pull in anything, and it won't approach SV rates. Oh, and you pretty much have to be a .NET developer, although there is some demand for Java and a tiny bit of demand building for Ruby and Python.
Feel free to drop me a line (email is in my profile) and maybe we can help each other out.
Another HN'er in Knoxville here. I'm a grad student at UT. I really like the Knoxville area (more than Atlanta -- where I was) and am curious about what sort of technical jobs are in the area.
I'd kind of like to stay here and find a good engineering position, but I'm concerned that since the COL is so low (=> low starting salary when I graduate) that it may be better to get a job in a big city first and then move back here later.
On the dev side, there's a crap load of .NET work. I get two or three emails from local recruiters every week.
Unfortunately, half the jobs are at companies you will not want to work at for more than a year (ignore what anyone says about turn over rates, peoples expectations are too low).
I have no clue what starting salary around here is currently though, but it should be easy to find out by asking one of the local recruiters. Shoot me an email if you need the names of some of the more trustworthy headhunters in the area.
I keep meaning to go to some of the local user group meetings. Things keep getting in the way and I keep making excuses. Perhaps I'll do so this this month!
What steverb is pretty accurate here. I myself currently work in a .NET position. Most places around here, particularly healthcare companies, look for people familiar with .NET Framework. If you're doing web development, it's much the same, with a smattering of PHP (I've heard of a couple of Ruby positions available in the area, but there are very few.) It's a good opportunity to have consistent pay while you build an online presence/work on side projects if you're willing to go that route at the very least. Your mileage may vary, though.
One more Knoxvillian here. But I'm teaching part time at UT, not working in tech, so no clue on the job situation. ORNL definitely has some interesting tech jobs, but maybe not a ton of them.
What I don't like about the article is how he goes into how "great" or "stunning" and "amazing" it all is without, like you said, any details. I can understand if there are limited things that can be said at this time, but I read enough fluff words on the internet as is without any backing to show for it.
I ran out of time to do my game this weekend (Other insanities were going on, unfortunately. I managed to only spend about 5-6 hours on it all in all), but I might as well show what I did make for those curious. It's more of a concept than anything else, but I did make a couple of things that I can carry on to my other FlashPunk project, so it's all good in the end! It was a lot of fun and I wish I could have done something more, or at least relinquish myself to a simpler idea.
Chromium 13.0.782.107 (Developer Build 94237 Linux) Ubuntu 11.04 user here.. just want to report that Arrows don't move, A doesn't shoot. Looks interesting though!
Noted! I'll have to check that out. I didn't do a whole lot of testing outside of the flash player/in firefox, so it may be a bug inside Flashpunk for all I know. If so, gives me a chance to do a little bug fixing for the community. :D Thanks!
FYI Chrome and Flash have a bug with Action script 2. So if you're using AS2 for that game that's why his controls don't work. http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1265535 second paragraph.
