Hacker News: kosei

New comment by kosei in "Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]"

kosei — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 01:22:58 +0000

It was a different time: “Condor plans to spend one year in the development of Diablo. Personnel will consist of: one designer, one chief programmer, 2 junior programmer, 2 art director/artists, 1 illustrator/sculptor, 3 pixel artists, and 1 sound FX person”

So, 11 people for a year for Diablo. Meanwhile Diablo 4 took 300+ people 6+ years. So over 150x the cost, not accounting for the fact that game developers are paid much more now as well. People pretend it’s the same industry but it’s evolved dramatically.

New comment by kosei in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

kosei — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 01:58:31 +0000

I wonder how long it takes to go from “those who live near Google offices” to “all employees”. Once 80-90% of employees are back at work regularly it’s not a stretch to believe that those few people who are always remote will be seen as less effective and less connected to their peers going into the office everyday. This is likely one step of many.

New comment by kosei in "Introducing Age Verification"

kosei — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:03:00 +0000

Though I applaud the effort to get age right and protect players, I'm not sure I'll ever be comfortable having me or my child scan our photo ID and selfie to upload it as part of a login flow to an application.

Introducing Age Verification

kosei — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.roblox.com/2021/09/introducing-age-verification/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609223

Points: 125

# Comments: 147

AppLovin to Buy Mobile Measurement Startup Adjust for $1B

kosei — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adexchanger.com/mobile/applovin-to-buy-mobile-measurement-startup-adjust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26026768

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kosei in "AppLovin Said to Acquire Berlin’s Adjust in $1B Deal"

kosei — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:16:52 +0000

Pretty wild. May be buying Adjust for a low price here, but the vertical integration of Applovin (a game developer/ad tech platform) owning Adjust (the biggest mobile attribution platform) and its data and all the data of its game developer partners seems... pretty questionable.

AppLovin Said to Acquire Berlin’s Adjust in $1B Deal

kosei — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/applovin-is-said-to-acquire-berlin-s-adjust-in-1-billion-deal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26023322

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kosei in "Letter to New Science Advisor Eric Lander from President-Elect Biden [pdf]"

kosei — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:48:04 +0000

I love this letter. This is exactly the type of direction and freedom to come up with solutions that I would expect from a strong CEO or leader. Not prescriptive, but clear on which problems are critical to solve.

Letter to New Science Advisor Eric Lander from President-Elect Biden [pdf]

kosei — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://buildbackbetter.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OSTP-Appointment.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804848

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Microsoft criticizes Apple’s new App Store rules for streaming game services

kosei — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/11/microsoft-criticizes-apples-new-app-store-rules-for-streaming-game-services-as-a-bad-experience-for-customers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454395

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kosei in "FDA issues emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma"

kosei — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:00:31 +0000

Holy cow, if that doesn’t come off as biased, I don’t know what does.

It was once valued at $12.7B. Now Luckin Coffee isn’t even a unicorn

kosei — Thu, 21 May 2020 02:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2020/05/20/luckin-coffee-stock-lk-shares-valuation-china-nasdaq-delisting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23254320

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

New comment by kosei in "US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home"

kosei — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:03:30 +0000

As someone who works in the video games industry, I can guarantee it is the lockdown. Stay at home orders align really closely with significant lifts in new players, increased hours played, and many other core metrics across the industry. And many games have seen significant lifts in their existing live service performance (not just new games).

Nintendo Leak Reportedly Includes Wii Source Code, Dev Materials, N64 Test ROMs

kosei — Tue, 05 May 2020 13:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/massive-nintendo-leak-reportedly-includes-wii-source-co-1843248357

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080037

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kosei in "Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff"

kosei — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 08:01:13 +0000

> "Dougherty said that despite rain, Maker Faire’s big Bay Area event last week met its ticket sales target."

Why would you set a target so low that meeting it still results in bankruptcy?

New comment by kosei in "This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips"

kosei — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:53:49 +0000

And this is happening the same day they show off their brand new Stadia product? Oops.

New comment by kosei in "The Long and Lucrative Mirage of the Driverless Car"

kosei — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:22:03 +0000

Curious whether VC funding anticipated this long a timeline for autonomous driving and VR or if they all got swept along with the hype too. Countless billions invested with a very long time horizon.

The Long and Lucrative Mirage of the Driverless Car

kosei — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:17:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/5/16/18625127/driverless-cars-mirage-uber-lyft-tesla-timeline-profitability

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929781

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kosei in "I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion"

kosei — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:28:48 +0000

True. The comment I responded to specifically referred to Senior Data Analyst.

New comment by kosei in "I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion"

kosei — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:21:45 +0000

Really? $125k doesn't seem low to me based on experience. Also, just looked on Payscale and it says Senior Data Analyst (with 6 years experience) salary range was $63-113k.