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Sales is up compared to last year but still doesn't meet target? Hmm... this infinite growth thing is harder than I though.

companies of the modern era have to justify their existence not just with success, but growth, and Microsoft's been struggling to do that

"The last year or so in videogames," says Bond, "largely the industry's been flat … [we saw some] tremendously groundbreaking games, but the growth didn't follow all that."

Whelp, now that everyone went back to work and not stuck at home anymore, it's actually amazing that the video game industry is still flat, but apparently that's not enough. Probably nothing can top covid19 effect to game industry anytime soon, unless they have another virus in the work /s

He wouldn't make that statement unless he experienced the horror himself.

Now, if he still does it these days...

They hate Taco Bell

Your first few programming languages usually influence you the most for the rest of your career.

Ah, must've been a fortran developer. I swear they have this ability to make the shortest yet the least memorable variable names. E.g. was the variable called APFLWS or APFLWD? Impossible to remember without going back and forth to recheck the definition. Autocomplete won't help you because both variables exist.

When I was a teenager, I made a page in Word, saved it as html, then uploaded it to geocities. Good times.

Google Reader was the best. Not sure why Google killed it, but it was really good at both content discovery and keeping up with sites you're interested in. I tried several alternatives but nothing came close, so I gave up and hung out more on forums / link aggregators like slashdot, hacker news, reddit and now lemmy for content discovery. I'm also interested to hear what others use.

Whelp, I actually love the 3d feature 3ds, just wished the screen had higher resolution.

I missed HTC Evo 3D. Too bad phones with 3d screens didn't catch on.

When it was released, the screen was huge, at least to me. Crazy how 6.7" has become the norm now.

I thought they were using natural materials like ground coffee. Did some of them actually use plastic beads?