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I can see the appeal, if you're hiring for someone who can, eventually, figure out how to do what you want them to. However, if you're hiring for people with a common knowledge base (i.e. computer scientists), who will be required to think up novel solutions to problems that cannot be found online, then you're not going to get the right kind of candidate (and should, instead, be offering double what you would have to that friend who got the answer in 5 min, over the phone, with all the communication issues that presents, to what took the original interviewer 10 or 20+ minutes to figure out they couldn't do by themselves).

In short, if you're trying to hire someone to do work that's been done elsewhere many times before, then this is probably fine. But I don't expect the most innovative companies to ever want to filter for google skills.
Only portion of the C#/.NET/VS I was OK with. Even said so on my resume, now dead.
It sucks, because it was actually pretty decent. This coming from a hardcore Cocoa lover.

"Can you imagine spending 5 years learning XNA and becomming a guru, only to have them yank the rug from under you?"

Maybe open source, the Web and JS is a better place to rely on, but I just love having a compiler.
Isn't that true of TBBT? One joke I always remember is Sheldon telling Leonard that he shouldn't become romantically involved with a particular woman, because "her research methods are sloppy and she's unreasonably arrogant about loop quantum gravity". Most viewers probably haven't even heard of loop quantum gravity, and yet for the joke to be funny you have to understand Sheldon's occupation as a "classical" string theorist, and that loop quantum gravity is a competing theory that is supposed to supplant string theory, and around that time was being touted as the hot new thing.

Which is a bit more rewarding than a German not knowing the word 'schadenfreude'.
i dont really understand this. So that means that longterm, all game programming has to use just the DirectX API for the windows platform ?
Can anyone explain which benefits XNA had over DirectX?
Ah man, I feel bad. I've yet to experience that to happen. Most tools I started to pickup when learning are still here, and new additions.

I hope things get better for you.
> Why is Sheldon such a douchebag? He is socially incompetent but does he have to be an asshole too?

Have you ever read Hacker News comments?
Many utilities have long-form names in GNU flavors but not in BSD flavors, so it would seem that using short form is best. However, there are some tools that are not the same (where the bsd flag differs) ...
Those people don't know what an app is. The people going "where's the app" will also look at your site on your phone and think it is an app. They just need a way to bookmark your site and see a little icon for it with their apps.
It might be idealistic to expect that technology like this could eliminate the requirement for HVAC entirely, but a more achievable goal might be to increase the number of HVAC-free days by 10-20%. That would NET a significant energy savings.
When XNA was invented, I learned it, and then moved on quickly to other things.

Why I learned it? Just in case someone offered me a XNA job...

Why I moved quickly to other things?

Well, because I expected that, and in fact I think it took TOO LONG to it happen, but it happened anyway...
> Apps ought to provide some actual functionality, not just blobs of content wrapped up in binary files.

I completely agree with this. I've downloaded some apps for blogs on my phone, but I realized that they just sit there in a folder, on a home page a rarely visit, while my RSS app is front and center in my dock.
Was the use of dict and list necessary? This is an actual question, not a rhetorical criticism. I have recently been trying to learn common lisp.
EX : Vancouver riots of 2012.
I was very interested to see a presentation about D3.js, I struggled to wrap my head around it a few days ago and left for simplier libraries.
I opened this presentation and I can't figure out in which order should I visit these pages. I closed it in anger.

Good intentions, awful execution.
To be fair, developers don't have to have ads on their sites.
Step 0 is the only way to do it. I'm constantly stunned to see how many PHP apps violate this rule.
Even if there is such an example, you really need to have your head stuck firmly up your ass if you're willing to argue that it would have anywhere near the same social and emotional impact.

Perhaps "outing" a developer as gay could have a comparable impact for men, but that would only apply in predominantly homophobic communities.

Which in turn says a lot about this community's attitude towards women. If it wasn't hostile to women in the first place, extreme examples like this troll would never have such an impact.
More like fancy accounting. The numbers just don't add up. Actual cost is over $1.50/W, not counting the cost of the acquisition of the plant:

See here:

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/02...
Check out Scott Murray's D3 Tutorials

http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3/

Also in book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do
But why did it die?
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They can't force you to pay for the software after they have already decided to release the code under an open license. As a high-profile example, Red Hat sells Red Hat Enterprise Linux (with various support options). But they release release (most of) their code under various open-source licenses, and the Centos project builds a binary-compatible OS with only the trademarked Red Hat stuff changed.
I've been working on video games for 20 years and from my perspective Minecraft is not a one hit wonder, it's the coming of age of a genre. It reminds me of when I first saw Doom running. It was graphically beautiful for the day and a real technical accomplishment. Although it was by no means the first FPS, it was a huge hit and drove a lot of other companies to go into the genre. That industry has peaked today with Call of Duty being a $1b franchise.

With Minecraft, Notch took some really good games and put them together in a way that had much more Universal appeal. I wouldn't be surprised if the genre expands and matures and takes 15 years to play out. I think it's likely Mojang will lead that process.
I'm not sure what an oil change coupon is. I presume it is something that gets a garage to change the oil in your car?

You also haven't mentioned actually speaking to garages. If you can get a few garages on board, they might be willing to put a flyer or something in their office. It might also be attractive for the cheapest garage in any given town to advertise themselves as such.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about business.
Yes, I'm not looking forward to the wiring/soldering job that's for sure. An affordable switching driver is what I was missing, but have just found one. Thought I'd better circle back here and drop a link in case anyone else has a simular need: http://www.brilldea.com/product_LEDPainter.html
Shutterstock's awesome image color search
Not defending Microsoft, but the same thing has happened many other places:

* Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash
* Mac OS X Carbon
* Symbian
* JavaFX and Java Applets
* etc.
You assume people can't laugh at caricatures of themselves.
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It’s a shame that this post can even be deemed heretical when in fact it’s the normal mechanism for completing tasks by the vast preponderance of developers for overcoming technical challenges.

Understanding the ways in which technical people find answers, and can fully grok and socialize those answers internally with options is invaluable in a technical interview.
> Will this script ever run anywhere that I don't have the GNU toolchain? Effectively-0% likely.

Not really. A lot of stuff broke when /bin/sh moved to a POSIX-compatibile shell rather than Bash.
So if one were to write a small indie game targetted at say Windows 8 and didn't want to mess around with writing unmanaged C++ what is the MS recommended way for doing this?

There are third party things like Unity3D but that looks like overkill for just making a pixel art game.
At least some of that investment should be reusable with Mono/MonoGame/MonoTouch|Droid/Unity3d.
And now porting your script to non GNU such as BSD becomes a pain in the behind ... whereas before maybe only one or two commands would have had to change, now it will be most if not all.
My experience too. I'm stuck with the .net stack for many years and none of the technologies I got familiar with became obsolete.

That said, I'm starting to be skeptical on trusting them after all of these.
The day the killed himself was the anniversary of his arrest.
Hi, I'm the author (finally figured out why I suddenly got so many new people starring the library).

I hope you guys find queue-flow useful. It's nice for organizing source code in Node.js, especially when you need to mix-and-match sync and async methods (the "flow" part of the name), but particularly shines when you have a large queue of data to process (the "queue" part of the name).

There are some other libraries I've written that are useful with it:

[sloppy-queue-flow](https://github.com/dfellis/sloppy-queue-flow) drops the "queue" part of queue-flow and leaves just the source code organization. Good for request-response type operations where any particular request has nothing to do with any other request.

[parallel-queue-flow](https://github.com/dfellis/parallel-queue-flow) keeps the queue in-tact, but allows each "step" to process more than one piece at a time -- but sends the results down the line in the order it received the input. (Blocking only enough to keep the order, not waiting for the entire queue to finish before continuing.)

[lambda-js](https://github.com/dfellis/lambda-js) is a simple library that creates true one-liner lambdas in javascript (not closures) with no perf penalty versus "regular" functions, and if it detects that you defined that same lambda elsewhere it re-uses that one rather than parse and re-define again.

[binders](https://github.com/dfellis/binders) was sort of a joke library that has some use. It creates a "binder full of bound functions." Give it an object and it will return another object where all of the methods are bound to the original object, perfect for passing around in functional-style libraries like queue-flow.

Finally, I'm working on what I call a "baby map-reduce", [queue-flow-server](https://github.com/dfellis/queue-flow-server). It's not ready, yet. I only got to start working on it a few days ago, though I'd been turning the concept around in my mind for a while. Feel free to make comments on the current design goals, and let me know if it seems like something you'd find useful.
I was actually pretty worried that I'd lost a bunch of archived data for about 30 seconds. Whew!
I did a SkillShare presentation on D3.js a few months ago covering basic topics and workflow within D3.js. People might find it useful after looking at this presentation, since it goes a little bit more in-depth with documented source code.

http://kpeng.github.com/d3-workshop
Why? It's a glacier. A "river of ice". They flow into the ocean. Calving is what they do ffs.
Agreed. They look cool, but they are usability disaster.
Luckily that XNA experience transfers over to MonoGame and the general principles of basic game programming are quite universal. A lot of aspiring game developers have got their feet wet thanks to XNA.
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Was Joe Flacco the MVP winner because people were asked to cast their vote on nfl.com or by texting only during the fourth quarter?

Good question. I don't think Twitter is the correct measuring medium but it's a worthwhile question. The answer is, of course, "It makes no sense to open voting any earlier than the fourth quarter". What if the voting was open in the 2nd quarter, for example, and Jacoby Jones earned 16,800 mentions. But then... the 49ers come back and win the game at the end thanks to Colin Cantspellhisname's comeback throws. But Colin only gets 16,799 votes due to the lateness of his surge...
Same trouble here and I'm getting pissed off with it.

We got fucked by Windows Workflow and Silverlight, both of which were canned. The former was rewritten completely but didn't support our use cases any more.

The main thing for me is that I have to relearn every damn API every 6 months to keep up.
"They `need' it so they have a paper-trail in case something goes belly-up."

We had that before email. It used to be handwritten memos on three part carbonised sets, original and yellow copy were sent and the blue one kept, the other person wrote their reply underneath and then kept the yellow one. I wish I had kept a few of those forms - the Internet seems not to know them...

What I'm saying is that it is all down to the organisational culture. Any technology will be used in a way that conforms to the culture!
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Just to shed some light on this. Carbon to Cocoa was a nice transition. Not as bad as how Microsoft has handled it.
I got in when it was still supported, but obsolete.
I think the correct answer is do both.
To be fair you are not immune from this by using OS projects.

I have made extensive use of projects in the past that have had active repos and mailing lists only to have them slowly turn into a ghost town because one of the major maintainers stopped working on it and nobody else stepped in.
Have you thought about adding the possibility to share the pushed content to other phone app?
Interesting link, with some prescience:

"What most users want, though, is a cheap simple device that lets them collaborate with others... Thus the market for computing may in the end boil down to simple stuff to be used by consumers and reliable stuff to be operated by professional IT staff. Windows is way too complex for most consumers and difficult to justify on the server side when you can run Linux for free."

e.g. "someday we'll just build the cloud on LAMP"
Yeah, XNA was great, Microsoft handling it, less so.
As an aside, it find it really hard to read black text on a "brown paper bag" background.
A highly recommended read from defmacro.

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

Other articles on the site are very nice as well: http://www.defmacro.org/
Equating a lesser crime (copyright infringement) with a greater crime (theft) diminishes the weight of the greater crime[1].

To use a ridiculous example, if you say that taking a picture of a statue is the same as stealing the statue, any accusations you make of theft will not be taken very seriously.

[1] My basis for this claim is that taking $40 that I already have is worse than not giving me $40 for a license to software that I wrote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod
Isn't that pretty much the point of the entire elaborate SEC apparatus of reporting requirements? Making companies disgorge private information to enable the markets to judge them?
Aaron died because he killed himself. He was the proximate cause of his own death so to speak. Are there other factors without which he wouldn't have killed himself? Indeed, there are an infinite number of them. An infinite number of things could have happened to change the course of his life. Indeed, ultimately you can trace the blame all the way back to his parents (depression is quite heritable): http://depressiongenetics.stanford.edu/mddandgenes.html
I remember my friend telling me about this game and showed me a youtube video of the gameplay. I tested Minecraft and didn't like it. After a while I tested it again and I was completely hooked.

Today we're playing it almost every evening after work with my wife in our own server. Doing missions together, building our own city, farming and raising animals.

I just found out the FTB mod pack for it. It's unbelievable how much stuff people have added to the game. Now I can make a portal gun, build a railroad system or design my own futuristic neon city.

I paid like what, 10 euros for this?
At least you can fork it internally though and support it if need be. The same is not the case with something like XNA which is so tied into the OS that when they drop it, you're up shit creek.
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I'm not a denier but I don't find the video particularly impressive. It's massive event from a human perspective, but that doesn't mean anything. The total amount of sea level change from that is probably below 1mm.

You also shouldn't expect deniers or people like me, who think that there is little that can be done to prevent climate change, to be impressed by that footage.
XNA is dead but who cares, MonoGame is here, it supports many platforms and it's been getting much better lately (they just released 3.0 which brings 3D support).

I'm shipping my own real-time cooperative game-making software (http://craftstud.io/) using XNA on Windows and MonoGame on Mac and although it was very rocky at first, after submitting a few patches/bug reports and with all the work happening, it's now in great shape.

The Linux version of MonoGame still has a few nasty issues, especially with window-sizing but those are being worked on.

Some of the core developers are now working on reimplementing the Content pipeline which is basically the spine of XNA and one of its big strength, so that MonoGame can be used without relying on XNA at all. It looks like it's well on tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYOtWdMV2Q
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>For the life of me, it is these events that make me seriously question whether the climate change deniers have ulterior motives.

I don't follow.

I'd think ulterior motives would be all but implicit in any case where there's even a perception of money / power to be gained/lost.
Is this as big of an issue as the article makes it out to be? I just went to about 30 news sites on my iPhone and none of them prompted me to download an app, the more common approach now seems to be a small popup that says "click here to add this homepage to your home screen". The only one that really restricted me was Quora (which isn't news but I saw it mentioned in the comments so I gave it a try).
Very interesting, indeed as an outsider it's hard to see what really happens there... no matter the media that reports on Iceland they will try to hype something.
Can you please write here a list of facts about what happened there after the crisis besides what you already wrote? I'm curious to learn
I agree with this. Regexps in general encourage a bit of "if unsure, escape".
Boxing will knock down touchscreen based UI
We're not suggesting that this 4 minute clip alone would be understood or change anyone's perspective. The full length film, showing significantly more than just one large event that happened in less than two hours, is what we're talking about and what is so immensely impactful.

Edit: Wait. What? You said you are someone "who think[s] that there is little that can be done to prevent climate change"

What makes you think that? Since humans are a leading cause of the existing change, almost by definition we are capable of working to prevent further damage. Sure, it's going to be extraordinarily difficult and near-impossible, but we can do it. Why would you think otherwise?
Sheldon is a douchebag because he is brutally honest. He doesn't have that part of personality that softens one's opinions for the benefit of other people's feelings.

Leonard doesn't want to discuss science with Sheldon because Sheldon thinks lowly of Leonard's scientific merit, and doesn't hesitate to express that sentiment (see above).
In the follow-up to the blog referenced in OP

>There’s more content in today’s email regarding XNA which I don’t care to share, thanks to a stern NDA reminder. (Ironically, when MS finally gives us what they should be saying to the public all along, I can’t share it.)

Could someone more informed make a guess on whether that's good or bad news?
Why we should all speak English
>If you talk to hiring managers you’ll hear that they wish there was a way to provide feedback to rejected job applicants

No, million times no. Providing feedback to a rejected applicant may open a huge can of worms. If these hiring managers really exist they are putting their employers in a very risky situation.
It's a running joke that Sheldon and others look down on Leonard as a scientist. The claim is often that his work is very "derivative". Even Leonard's own mother criticized the originality of his science fair experiments as a child. Also, the dynamic between Sheldon and Leonard can be seen as theoretical physicist versus experimental physicist. (Not to mention extending the layers of superiority when Howard, the non-PhD mechanical engineer, is included.)

As for Sheldon generally being a douchebag, the article does a good job of explaining his (partially deserved) sense of superiority.
I agree. It's really bad and lacks any subtlety in the humour or acting. If you wanna see funny humour like this watch the IT Crowd.
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In tech?

Not that it doesn't happen in day-to-day life, but I can't think of any case where even a white, gay cis man was targeted this way during a conference or subjected to an online harassment campaign. When maddog came out there were a couple comments quoting Leviticus and that was it. Certainly the HN threads about sexual orientation are almost completely free of the sort of "they're lying!" or "they're just manipulative!" or actually any sort of vitriol whatsoever (and what there is is rapidly down-voted.)

This is a good thing! But if you are going to argue that straight gay men in tech are treated similarly, I'd like some citations.