cppsnob

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by cppsnob 14y ago
Heh, Naggum. Why do we still talk about him? Did he build awesome things? Did he change the world? Affect so many lives by being a great teacher? One thing he did do was hate a lot. You can find him throwing hate at whatever it is you
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by cppsnob 15y ago
No, they made it possible to port XNA games to the platform. Except that XNA != XBOX SDK. XNA is a .NET-based game SDK that some people have used for Xbox Arcade games. As far as I know it hasn't been used for any disc-based games. Games
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> Where did all of that money go? I remember seeing a single TV ad at WP7's launch, and nothing more. Remember the "Really?!" campaign? I saw this ad at least 50 times last fall. Here it is in glorious Silverlight: http://www.microsof
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by cppsnob 15y ago
UI code should be in the same portable OpenGL that the rest of your game is in.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
If I remember the numbers, leading up to the WP7 launch, MS dropped roughly 100 million on marketing. They sold less than 100,000 units on launch week. Whatever the exact numbers, I remember someone pointing out it would have been more co
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Please, name a .NET app that is widely used on Windows.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Worse is better. Everyone seems to rediscover this again and again the hard way, most especially certain companies in Cupertino and Redmond.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
"unless you’re willing to spend beaucoup dollars on buying and operating physical infrastructure" This is the biggest misconception out there about cloud computing. Cloud computing has nothing to do with saving money. It is usually MORE ex
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Fair enough, let me add to my counterpoint another piece of personal experience [I see another commenter ripped me for telling an anecdote -- what posted to HN is ever NOT anecdotal or opinion]. Have you ever worked at a company where they'
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by cppsnob 15y ago
I normally wouldn't respond to a post like this but when it comes to career advice, many of you who have not been in the workforce long should hear the counterpoint. The Austin businesspeople are right: folks who want to make a lifestyle c
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by cppsnob 15y ago
The web is not a platform in the sense that we're talking about here. It's a set of open, free, non-proprietary specifications that anyone can implement on top of. iOS is not that. Just like Windows is not that.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
How's this: Whatever you create, even if it's for iPhone first, don't get bogged down on it being on "platform X". Photoshop, as you mentioned, is a great example, it didn't need to be on a Mac to be great. It just was developed there fir
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by cppsnob 15y ago
I was sad to see that Gruber couldn't step out of his Apple bubble to tackle this topic (or any topic, ever), so I will: Everyone who thinks "I should be developing for platform X" is thinking far too small. Take a look around you.. how ma
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Related: how's Apple's "open" FaceTime specification coming along? Still waiting on just the specification here. Not even code.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
The real news is not that they're taking back stock, it's that their initial stock plan was so screwed up that they have to do it.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Prediction: A BSD fan is going to go bonkers over a particular line in this article.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> If Google didn't raise big money, they wouldn't have went on to do as many early acquisitions. Without those acquisitions, they don't stumble onto adwords/adsense Adwords was out for around 6 months before the company's very first acq
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Galvin is/was a household name in Chicagoland. RIP.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> Who's making that conclusion? Everyone who even brings up that he used LSD as a point of interest. At least that's the implication being made. > that doesn't make the points being made any less valid. No, the points are not valid
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> What fallacy is being committed here? Concluding that he wouldn't been the same successful person without doing LSD. There's no evidence of causation. That's the fallacy. I'm not sure why so many people are excited about this, it se
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by cppsnob 15y ago
I learned LISP and Python before Java and C#. The latter two are just as useful nevertheless. The world's experience outside of HN makes me think Dart will not be at all inhibited by its Java like syntax. If it doesn't catch on, it will be
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Staying with the norm worked out quite well for both Java and C#.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
The thing I never understand about these articles: why aren't C, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, Python and other mundane languages "worth checking out?" I don't think you should assume people have used all of these, and they're all worth "checking o
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Ok... that fixes the keyboard, not the entire reach, which is what OP is discussing.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Given your 3.5" measurement, a 7" screen for the iPad would have been much better, would it have not? Apple's not shipping a bigger phone yet because it's something they can hold back on until they need to do it. The iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, i
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Serious question: has anyone gotten anything out of these browser-based language playgrounds? I just don't think it's hard to download the real thing to try it, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has really been inspired by it.
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by cppsnob 15y ago
crucial is the ability to get shit done Ok, so what exactly does that mean? Are you concerned with velocity or correctness?
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by cppsnob 15y ago
e.g. v1 of some key scalable infrastructure Just so I understand: You're always willing to trade intelligence and experience for someone who produces more, for essential key components of your startup. So you would hire a less experienc
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by cppsnob 15y ago
> I'm going to make a bold statement that might not be well received around here. There is no smart people in what you think "webby" is A large number of web programmers I've met do not have a degree, they know very little theory, and
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by cppsnob 15y ago
Thanks hello_moto. I wasn't being sarcastic -- I mean what I said earnestly. Put another way: find developers who want to work for you because they want to build what you want to build, not ones who will only work for you because you chos

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