I am very much impressed by this project. The smoothly rendering on the browser, stunning graphics and captivating music create an immersive journey. And I always love to discover some Easter eggs. Bravo!
While creating Equinox, it frequently felt like we were working on tiny details that hardly anyone would notice. But ultimately I believe that immersion largely relies on the accumulation of all these small additions.
My experience is that people being good at the job tend to be promoted to managerial positions, but being good at certain tasks does not make you necessarily good at managing people, even if they just do these very tasks.
I also have been in companies with two career paths: managerial and technical, both respected and rewarded, to the point you can be paid much higher than your boss if you are senior and performing. Might not work in every sector/size though.
I'll add on to your point: moving up the IC ladder is often slow because it takes more to both become an expert in a field and to prove it to your leadership. Each step up the IC ladder is harder to actually obtain those skills, and harder to prove that you have obtained those skills to management.
On the flip side, the management ladder is more delivery focused (though not exclusively): are you getting your team to get their work done? It's somewhat easier to demonstrate success on the management side, and because you're leading a team, it's possible (though not necessarily true in most cases) for a manager to get promoted on the strength of their team and not their ability as a manager.
According to the article, they are betting on Betfair. When the race starts, you have a delay in placing new bets (5-10 seconds) but no delay in cancelling bets. Given they are ahead of the official live feed by just few seconds, it should leave enough time for a misplaced bet to be cancelled before they can take it. I am quite surprised they have an edge here, I might miss something.
The delay is 1s for placing bets inplay on racing, you are correct in regards to zero delay on cancellations. The advantage is simply down to latency and being ahead of everyone (except GPS users) in an event where probabilities move very fast. A lot (maybe the majority) is liquidity provided by automated systems or ’keep’ bets placed before the race where the user has no intention to cancel.
It does have the third movement. I tried it for shits and giggles:
- Playing fast sections of a song is like mashing through a cutscene, but it's easier to press quickly (not sure at a consistent pace) with multiple fingers. The original piano music was meant for multiple fingers as well.
- The hardest part is advancing the right number of buttons. I don't even know the right number of notes in the trills, and would kinda prefer if the website automatically advanced through trills finer than a 16th note, so it's less likely to end up desynced with the actual piece (I'm not sure if you get used to it with learning each piece or not).
- The website has noticeable audio latency, which makes it hard to associate keypresses and which sound came out in fast sections.
I leaved for 3 years in Amsterdam coming from another European country, moved flat several times and always had bad tap water in my house. I never got sick though, but the taste was always awful. My feeling was it was not the water that was bad, but more the pipes, as most house I leaved in was old. Either way, I gave up and bought water bottle
