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I like the creativity here. To be honest, the 'rockstar' and 'ninja' stuff is just us having some fun (we actually have a team that is internally known as the "ninja team"). It's stupid, I know.

The one thing I don't agree with here is that SmartBear doesn't use or talk about "old and boring" languages like C/C++. Some of the best content on the blog is about using C++ or C++11 (Danny Kalev writes some great posts). There's actually a new one being published on Wednesday
I think it says a lot about the U.S. and its world police attitude. Coming without notice to another country on a private jet demanding full cooperation. That's the height of arrogance. I can only praise Iceland for such swift and duly response.
I can't argue with your "hugely out of date" note. It is likely that I am also out of date, not having written compilers since the mid-80s.

Do you have an opinion about the Holub book? Also I have a collection of Davidson papers about code generation that I haven't looked at since back then.
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Very well put
You have to draw the snowflakes
Makes sense, I'm from Ontario too and I knew kids in school who got cigs (under 18) but since I didn't smoke I never tracked down how to do it.
There are already many places that do camping equipment rentals. I think even REI does it.
I don't know about anyone else, but for me it's the tedium of construction plus the annoyance of checking the Minecraft wiki all the time that prevented this from grabbing me. The survival/exploration aspects might be bigger hits for me if it weren't for those drawbacks.

(And I still like Lego.)
Do you have an example in mind of such data?
Yep, you could definitely build it yourself. I know I've created this for myself a handful of times. Though after a while, if you value your time at more than $1/hour, you learn that paying $35/month for pre-made software is a great deal.

But I know where you are coming from. I've definitely had that mindset in the past.
That changes everything!
It's super cool to see these guys open source the code that runs their project.
We're extremely happy CircleCI customers, and I've been tremendously impressed by how they're running a business. Via feature requests and a few minor issues, I've been in contact with a few members of their team and have been impressed each time.
Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX?
Agreed that it needs more visuals. I'll work on that.
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You didn't read the post I linked to, just the headlines. You seem to be familiar with the article. Maybe reread it. I think you missed the part of it I was calling out.
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Would you need to dig into the source code for this? I thought there were just texture images that you could modify.
Your interpretation of what I wrote, and what I actually wrote share very few similarities.

>See here for the difference between the terms responsive/liquid/adaptive (http://liquidapsive.com/).

That website has no authority over the term responsive. That is precisely the nonsense I am saying is wrong. Responsive is not defined as "having several fixed layouts and choosing between them". Responsive is defined as "responding to the environment and conditions to customize the behaviour". This encompasses correct web design.

>And the use of media queries, or 'stupid grid nonsense'

Media queries have absolutely nothing to do with grids. We use media queries all the time, every single site we have uses them in fact. We have no grids anywhere.
Any reason you have node-irc in the lib instead of npm installing it as a dep?
I just posted these less than a week ago on the Angular mailing list, and I think I might have blown any potential cover you had John... or at least any time to get a logo done =) Sorry!
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/angular/pvV6JOTHXiA/discus...

That said, beginners should watch the first 10 videos or so. Once you're comfortable with the idea behind directives, start watching the isolate scope videos. Those are golden. I've spent a TON of time staring at the angular directive docs trying to grok the different transclusion and the different scope declarations, with no luck. These videos are what actually taught me how this stuff works. They were so desperately needed.

Thank you John!
Nice, hopefully they will invest in Reborn(A vaporware game told to be the new Quake.).
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I dislike Java to develop in. I don't dislike software just because it's written in Java, nor do I wish that everything written in Java wasn't.
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I live in the US since five years and I never understood that zoning obsession. Can anyone explain why that's so different than it is in Europe for example? I really don't understand what the issue with mixed use is from an American perspective.
Because you asked, yes, I love Sim City and The Sims series; haven't really given dwarf fortress much time.
Whoa, that is harsh. Is it ok I am a ruby developer that likes java?
> 1) people who got a software developer job with the H1B visa. How many companies you contacted? When did you contact them? Is February too late? Were you interviewed remotely or at their US office?

Getting a job like @pbiggar said is a total crapshoot that is completely stochastic. Interviews are weakly correlated with how good you are. So you can apply as often as you want. Now, I am assuming you are not in the U.S. so here are issues that can happen: Very few companies will fly you out here for an on site visit. This means that quite a few companies will balk at the idea of recruiting someone that they just can interview on Skype (unless you are very good.)

I got a job offer in June last year ten days or so before the H1B cap was getting over. I got the H1B filed successfully under the nick of time because my company has an excellent lawyer. On the other hand, delays during the filing process could mess with you.
Really great design and a nice face lift to a classic game. My only complaint is no local high score board - or at least tracking of the top score.
Yes, Patrick would definitely fit the target market. Actually, I fit the target market pretty well. I have 2 ebooks that have had great first months for sales, but need reliable sales funnels to continue making money.

That's what ConvertKit is going to help me (or anyone else) setup.
Good points. I think you are correct with the business user: also vpn/security would likely mean that it would be unusable for their needs.

Perhaps people would like to rent the latest tech products and use them while on holiday. They would get to try out the latest Ipad/nexus in the real road.
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Is that why they got kicked out? they were trying to arrest people?

I'm not sure why gathering information would be a serious problem if they followed the laws.
Congratulations on heading to HackerSchool!

A and B seem mutually exclusive to me these days. You seem to have an interesting (and not necessarily narrow) skillset, so don't sweat "broadness" much. The greatest number of opportunities are probably in enterprise Java or C# and I would feel bad recommending you use HackerSchool for that unless that is personally compelling to you.

For B, I scanned your webpage. You have a short posting on predictions. I have this theory that I intend to more fully explore that building up a real strong background in stats and applied modeling would be a superpower. The applied part might be great fun at HackerSchool. Maybe tackle something with Clojure and Incanter. Or really push your Python chops.

If you feel like you really want or need to build your foundations, maybe you could take a book like Concept, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming and grind through. I wish my formal CS education had spent at least a year doing a kind of "paradigms of programming" path, studying functional and logic programming deeply. Ask around about this, I often think that doing this with one or two others would be better than alone.

I feel like I'm writing this comment to myself. Hopefully it's at least somewhat helpful to you.
I guess you're right. But I don't want to be the person who says it will ship in February and doesn't until June. Projects get delayed, so I don't want to say a date until I can really stick to it.

That said, development is coming along very quickly, I bet we'll have the first testers using the platform within a week.
You would if you wanted to add it as a separate block type, or if you wanted to change non-visual properties of the block.
Where have you seen that they dropped charges? Everything I've read has indicated exactly the opposite.
> Why aren't you answering your phone? Why haven't you responded to that email I sent you 5 minutes ago? Are you even at your computer right now? Hello???

That sounds like an incredibly frustrating work environment.

I mean for them, not for you.
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yeah, many people took out loans and couldn't pay them back. Iceland's answer? The banks are evil and those people shouldn't have to pay them back anyway.

It doesn't really teach responsibility.
We started customizing it and felt like it would be easier to just house the module within the app itself. None of the customizations would have made good contributions to the module for others.
What say, if any, should society have when parents name their kids something offensive or demeaning, like "Ima Hoare"?
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An "automatic visa" is what I get when I visit South Africa. The officials at the airport when I arrive put a paper in my passport which says "temporary visa."

Iceland does not have a visa, automatic or otherwise, for Americans on a short visit. Quoting from the Icelandic Útlendingastofnun at http://utl.is/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&... : "Who does not need a visa to enter Iceland?" ... "Nationals of the following countries are exempted from the obligation to carry a visa on arrival in Iceland for a stay of up to three months in all within the Schengen area." ... "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."

So no, US citizens visiting Iceland do not need a visa to enter Iceland.
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In my opinion, linkedin answers were far better than the groups. Groups are easy to start but hard to maintain and keep engaged. I have learnt that the best way to keep audience focussed is to give specifics which answers can do better than a group. For example, creating a group called "Python developers" might attract a few folks but what do you do when you join it ? A more specific question like "What technology stack is used by python developers for web" will definitely attract a more engaged conversation.
I am 100% with the author. Moreover, I now always check the audience and try to make assumptions about the changing browser usage picture. After that I design for that particular audience, not for everyone.
What would be an improvement? I type tar from the command line so infrequently that I don't think anything would be particularly easy to remember. Spending the 5 minutes to get it right in a script isn't a big deal.

tar --help

is surprisingly nice.
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We're a relatively small software company that develops simulation products that are extensively used for product design in a number of (e.g. automotive, aerospace, and motorsports). I manage the preprocessor group here.

Exa has a number of SW positions listed on our site, but I'm hiring for a couple of positions that aren't yet listed there. Here's the more senior position description on monster (I'm also looking for recent grads for a similar, but more junior role)...

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On C) Yes I have 2 iMacs one a recent and love it, but still need a beast to run windows and osx. I don't like to take that space on my iMacs. I have also had a drive fail in 2 iMacs and I do like to have access to expand on dev machines. Swapping a video card or drive really is not fun on iMacs.

On D) I agree, I was overreacting to my tool of over 5 years going away. As long as the update comes through like Cook said. If not I feel Apple is making a mistake and this reflects on the CEO and direction, believing too much in 'post-pc'.

However, I do know what I am talking about regarding gamedev needs. Windows is part of that in parallels or bootcamp and a portion of your drives - including enough processor and memory to run both, if there is no 2013 refresh changes will take place in gamedev'ing for Apple. That will be a clear signal the biggest machine is the iMac.

Apple is a hardware company, they should always have something like the Mac Pro that is a market need/demand even if it is not directly as profitable. 4-5 years for an update and only a hint of an update does not leave one satisfied. Cook has been in charge at least half that time.

If they don't have a beast to buy that I can swap out the video card on or add a drive easily on occasion that means a windows tower will be back in my office. I got rid of the last one a year ago for parallels and bootcamp but only run that on Mac Pro now. It isn't like they play in the low end commodity desktop market, this is high end, higher margins than most. Passing on good customers if they bail.
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i must be pretty terrible at drawing the snowman, because I couldn't get it to match that.
Well, Sweden's kind of irrelevant to whether this is permitted in Iceland, and I think it was more the going there and snooping around.

Also please read the options for contact with a witness -

- Travel to the United Kingdom to make a statement
- Statement at a British embassy
- Statement by telephone or email

The entire page you linked there was about formal and informal ways to make requests to law enforcement in other countries, and 'direct' contact still doesn't involve the cops actually going to the other country, just speaking to people who are in another country via one of these methods.

--edit-- thanks for the link, that was informative reading

--edit2-- All that said, even Brit cops do go to other countries for their investigations from time to time, just this week I heard about some going to Libya for continuing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-2128117...
Presumably this is with the full knowledge and cooperation of the (new) Libyan government though. I wonder what use it can possibly be after so long.