I'm middle aged and I'm lucky if I get to 5 on puzzle storm. It takes me several times longer than it probably should to solve puzzles, and even then I get about half wrong. Dunno what it is.
Folks say you should spend time studying past games to learn weaknesses but I feel like that's as bad advice as is asking children to grade their own homework -- it will simply reinforce bad ideas.
Still, I enjoy it. Mostly the self-paced puzzles. I'm hovering around 1200-1300 there (on lichess).
Interesting. This was with a minor app that has no users and no name brand. Thus I assumed it was standard. Sorry about that, maybe it's more arbitrary than I thought.
Do you contend that they are lying when they include this in their rejection emails:
> If you have a question about your app's review, send us a message in Resolution Center. If you would prefer to speak over the phone, just let us know in your message, and we'll schedule a call.
How does Apple manage to have human reviewers and engineers you can talk with on the phone about App Store issues? It seems like it scales just fine for them.
> called to account for why I didn't personally meet the goals that I was pressured into setting "for myself"
This is one of the most hostile things an employer can do to a person. I don't want them involved in my personal growth -- fuck allllll of that. I will grow when and how I want to, if I even want to.
IME this never-ending push for continual improvement discourages me when I inevitably fail to meet goals they want me to want.
I want to say "just leave me alone I'm speedrunning to early retirement" but that'll just get me in more trouble.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. If it's the case I'm thinking of the result was exactly the opposite. Do you have more details on what case you're referring to?
My favorite part of the flight sim is how ships take damage. You can lose various RCS thrusters and still fly, but obviously it's more difficult. Landing can be a fun ordeal without thrusters in every direction.
I wish the game was in a better state but I can't say the $5/mo or so I spend on it has been wasted. I play with a friend and I upgrade my ship every couple months (hence the $5).
If they got rid of the forced slow play where you have to trek from apartment (or hospital) to the ship request terminal I'd be a lot happier. Or at least they could let you request a new ship using your mobiglas wherever you are.
The thing that most frustrates me about YAML is probably not the language itself but the poor IDE and GitHub tooling I have been using. Trying to figure out the hierarchy of a key in a YAML file (local or GH) is incredibly frustrating. With formats like JSON at least (if nothing else) I can just open the file in vi, find the next close-curly and hit % to find the parent -- easy.
Significant whitespace is also a problem but I think that war has been lost.
It's not like these folks don't know you can have multiple wallets. How many whacks to the head would you or your family have to suffer before you admit you have more coins somewhere?
I'm not sure we've tried it or anything like it in the US. Intrinsic in this idea is the requirement that we actually enforce the rules, so when folks dismiss it as ineffective because it won't be enforced, I think they're missing the point.
I'd bet on improvement if we enforced the law and actually sent people to jail.
If you make the punishment for passing hazardous product high enough you could make a dent. Send the C-suite to jail if they cut enough corners that infants die -- you'll probably see a lot of improvements very quickly. Money fines won't be enough and are a complete waste of time and human life.
It still won't be perfect, but we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
The companies that provide the cash back get way less than 3-5% of the gross purchase price. Merchant fees, at least for Visa, don't even approach 5%[0] -- it's more like 1.5 to 3%. And they're definitely not spending all that fee on rewards (and thus taking no profit).