It’s great if you can work for a company that hires the actual smart people instead of management.
Good for her. Valve doesn’t run on the same talent recycling process you see in much of the industry. They’re small and retain talent.
I agree with the sentiment, and I’m sure Valve are one of the better companies to work for, so I’m happy for her…
But Valve aren’t small.
They ARE the PC gaming industry. They generate billions in revenue and control something like 75% of the global PC distribution market. I know they keep trying to sell themselves as just a small company, because they’re a small internal team, but I really wish they’d snap out of it and scale up a bit to match their market. Especially when talking about their hardware side. I live in New Zealand, and the number of conversations I’ve had with people who have gone to some pretty extreme lengths to get a hold of Valve hardware is ridiculous. I’m not even talking about the new stuff, I mean the damn Steam Deck. I find it incredibly frustrating to hear people refer to them as a small company. Jolla is a small company. Valve is not.
Anyway, sorry, /rant
Small was in regards to the number of people they employ. Valve runs a lean ship of a few hundred.
Neither Jolla nor Valve are small companies, 200 and 350 (ish) employees respectively. But company size has nothing to do with revenue or profit, it’s literally just people on the payroll and a cutoff of your choosing.
I don’t think it’s really fare to compare the distribution capabilities of a hardware company vs a software/service company, though. And doesn’t this hiring kind of imply they’re expanding their hardware side?
I am extremely hopeful about steam frame. Wikipedia says it will still run linux like steamdeck.
Ofc it’s going to run Linux, it’s default OS is going to be some variant of SteamOS
Eyup. ARM Linux.
I wish I could have a cool job like that instead of this soul crushing one I’ve ended up with
I wish I could have a job…
I’m going on 20 months of unemployment.
My dude, I wish you nothing but the best of luck. It’s hell out there, but don’t let it get to you. You’re worth it and will find what you need.
Nice! 2 hours ago in case anyone was wondering how old the screenshot is.
Thank you!
Social media’s use of time since posting of timestamps is so frustrating.
I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.
And most of the time I’m just using the delta to get to the timestamp.
Yes, but it makes sense in relation to other posts. It is just frustrating after longer period of time then a few minutes or hours, or when screenshot like this.
The layouts generally have room to state time in relation and the actual time. Even a simple date would be better than only relational. Most hide the real time in a hover over or click on the relational time whoch isn’t captured in a screenshot.
Social media screenshots are so common it is time to update to show both be default.
But then it wouldn’t drive you crazy, and you wouldn’t sign up and find the post just to find out the actual time
And if you don’t make the conversion then that’s basically stealing /s ^but not really, they actually think like this^
I think the compromise is a visual indicator of age - color or an icon indicating recency, in addition to a good old fashioned date timestamp.
I’m not a fan of coloring for age of post. Usually the compromise is, when mouse hover it will show the actual date in a on hover popup. How about when clicking the time it changes to a timestamp (and back) or while mouse is hovering / touching the time it changes on the fly (without any hover tip, Edit: I just realized that most people don’t use a mouse on their phone :D also this would require dynamic changing with JavaScript).
It makes perfect sense when using the website. The problem isn’t the timestamp, it’s the lazy people who share fuzzy inaccessible screenshots instead of links.
it makes sense to include the time passed since posting, yes
doesn’t make much sense to not include the date and time posted
But that’s perfectly fine if you’re not screen grabbing and posting elsewhere?
no, it’s not just show me the damn time it was posted. I hate when only relative information is given.
So then what you’re saying is it’s not fine. Cause screenshots of Twitter is basically all the internet is these days.
I love it when people demolish stereotypes. Nice work.
What stereotypes?
People with glasses can’t work in VR!
That Half Life 3 isn’t coming out
That VR sucks maybe?
You don’t know any?
Congratulations to her on getting the job
Very cool! You known what would also be cool? Releasing the damn thing!
Given the current chip market there’d be a 400+ USD upcharge from the previously stated price of “below the (Valve) Index”
What’s upcharge? Is that like updog?
What the fuck is updog?
Fuckin’ not muchdog, what’s up with you?
I understood that reference
Sort of a synonym for markup, an additional cost on top of the original planned price.
Right and in a year it will be outdated + overpriced hardware, rather than just overpriced. Like, steam box haven’t teached you a thing?
Upd. Cry and downvote me more, it won’t change a fact that chip in this vr headset already pretty weak: it’s impressive by ARM standards, but not like it can run Cyberpunk, a game that have been released 6 years ago, mind you. And in a year, it will not cost less, it will just be outdated AND overpriced. Yea, not like “overpriced” comes from bad intentions, it just state of the market — why da fuck should I care tho?
I can already run cyberpunk on my pc. I want this so I can now see it in VR in higher quality than my current headset, wirelessly, with a much less bulky format.
It might be outdated, but it won’t be overpriced. Meta made it clear their next headset will not be subsidised. And Pico are saying their next headset will be a Apple Vision Pro competitor.
So you saying they all will be overpriced? How that contradicts what I just said?
It’s not overpriced if that’s what components and comparable hardware costs now and in the future, it’s just the new normal.
They have to finish HL3 first so that it has a launch title worthy of a new platform.
Even valve is poachin’ gee whilickers.
Ohhh! I like that!!! Fuck Meta!
It’s cool that she was hired. Let’s hope more VR hardware is released from Valve in the near future.
Neat
She has a lovely smile, I hope she enjoys her time there
She does! She should smile more! /s
Lemmy behavioral study, day #1105:
A person does not get crucified for having a blue checkmark if they are a girl engineer.Cool!
Now get to work Amanda, the Internet demands more cool shit from Valve in exchange for money!
