I hate Huffman as much as the next guy, but the $193 million factoid is misleading clickbait nonsense. His actual salary is apparently $400k, the rest is "stock value" or whatever. Reddit is not giving 25% of its yearly revenue to the CEO.
There was another article I read that had a snippet from F5. As I read it, their concern was that they have two release tracks: the paid/subscription track, and the free track. They are actually the same code, but the free track is just 2 releases behind, so the idea is that if you want the "latest and greatest" stuff, you gotta pay. It's a fairly common strategy in the industry.
So, the concern is that for security vulnerabilities that are not CVEs, info about the vulnerability (and how to exploit it) is out in the wild for two whole releases, before the patch reaches the free-tier users.
Seems like an actively good position on F5's part, from this angle.
If the animations look realistic, it's almost certainly not predetermined. That's by far the simplest way to get the desired effect. However, that doesn't mean it's fair. It could easily use a real physics engine, but still subtly rig the system. For example, bounces off of the pins could have an elasticity factor of 0.4 for bounces towards the big prize, but 0.5 for bounces away from it. Or maybe the hitboxes on the center pins are just a little bit bigger. Stuff that will noticably affect the large-scale statistics, but that you're not gonna notice with your eyes.
There are certainly people in the world who would be offended by this, but reasonable people are fully-capable of understanding wedding size limits. Weddings are expensive, it's entirely common to set a limit and invite people based on that. If the topic ever came up directly with these folks, a simple "I'm sorry we couldn't invite you all, we just didn't have enough room on the list" should be all you need. If they can't understand that, it's kinda beyond being your problem.
I can't decide if Kojima is putting the acid industry out of business, because his games are enough of a trip already, or singlehandedly propping the industry up because he's obviously consuming it all himself.
A DNS Proxy/Forwarder server? That's where you would configure how your .internal domain resolves to IPs on your internal network. Machines inside the network make their DNS queries to that server, which either serves them from cache, or from the local mappings, for forwards them off to a public/ISP server.
Stating outright that you don't expect the obvious thing that always happens to happen... bro you're already giving shareholders a reason to say you're an incompetent manager and replace you with someone that will gut the company for stock growth.
Name checks out.