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by CodeCube 14y ago
_I posted this on the techcrunch article, but thought it might be useful to post it here as well_ Perhaps one thing that the "startup world" could adopt is the practice of postmortems. The game industry, which many have pointed out have man
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Honestly, all of those things are still secondary to actually developing. You can write great code without doing static analysis and profiling it. And with the most recent version, NuGet is included even in Express. The biggest roadblocks t
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by CodeCube 14y ago
That's not quite fair to Mono ... Xamarin is a great steward of mono, and is supporting the platform quite well. I guess that statement is pretty subjective, but I can only point to the release history of mono, and related products (MonoTou
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by CodeCube 14y ago
haha, very true ... but then, why would any techie want to live anywhere else other than a hub. I don't think you'll be attending many tech meetups in Ocala ;)
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by CodeCube 14y ago
I rode my motorcycle to work earlier this week and last week. Could have probably done so in a t-shirt (though I tend to wear a jacket anyways, just for safety) ... this is in February, when much of the northeast was being blasted by snow.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
I think for #1, there are a number of hosting providers that match this description, such as Dreamhost, that offer a number of open source web apps that you can install with a single click. They manage them, upgrade them, back them up ... a
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by CodeCube 14y ago
haha, I love the florida man twitter account! But really, Florida ain't so bad ... I live in Orlando. There's lots of activity going on, lots of meetups, and lots of energy.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Unfortunately, working lots of man hours for a smaller or set fee is still tantamount to underpaying. A project where you are overworked is not worth the hassle.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
This is a great point here. I got pretty sick in January, I assume it was the flu ... but I didn't go to the doctor because I know there's nothing they can really do. I just got my rest, kept hydrated, and tried to stay as comfortable as po
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by CodeCube 14y ago
... for a more civilized age.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
actually, the onscreen keyboard is quite good IMO. You can switch between the full sized mode (similar to any other tablet), and a layout designed for using your thumbs when holding the device.
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Reflections on XNA(gamasutra.com)
1 points by CodeCube 14y ago|0 comments
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Here Here! Our team used to play age of empires from time to time ... it really helps make for a good experience when you are friends with your co-workers. I know that's not always realistic, but I can say it's preferred.
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DirectX/XNA Phase Out Continues(ventspace.wordpress.com)
6 points by CodeCube 14y ago|0 comments
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Whoa, interesting ... I'm particularly curious as to what performance improvements he will go over. I've been working on a little html5 game engine myself. It lets you use sprites in a retained mode like API, while still giving you an immed
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by CodeCube 14y ago
hahaha, grimaceledger.com ... that is hilarious. People in the office must have thought I was mad; as I was laughing while going through some permutations of domain names.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Yeah, if I ever did have to troubleshoot in SQL directly, I definitely started doing this ... only changing it to update or delete when I was 100% sure it was affecting only what I wanted to affect.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Well, you can write C# without having to develop on windows through the Mono framework, and Xamarin's products - http://xamarin.com/ These days, you can be a C# developer without having to do an ounce of "Microsoft Stack" programming if y
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Kind of along the same lines in the sense of being my biggest facepalm moment; many years ago in my first professional programming gig we had full SA access to our sql server. We regularly did troubleshooting via direct SQL statements (a
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by CodeCube 14y ago
aaahahaha ... the part when the angler fish was comparing it's camouflage slayed me.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
It depends, are you trying to get a job contributing to SVN? I would say no. Bringing it back on topic, I was just thinking the other day how I've been using git for the last two years straight, and still have to google Every.Single.Time wh
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Good god man! between the anglers ( http://i.imgur.com/zTHuT.jpg ), and the goblin sharks ( http://i.imgur.com/40WP8.jpg ) ... stuff of nightmares!
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Well yeah, but if you've got an iPhone, chances are you have a cell connection. If he can't access the internet, even over the cell network, I'd be curious to know what kind of environment he's working in.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
agreed ... the animation and art direction for it was superb.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Chris Sells added reference counting to the open source "Rotor" release years ago. This was to test whether GC overhead was indeed an overhead over deterministic finalization. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/refcount_rotor.doc I'll l
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by CodeCube 14y ago
You say things like "google scares me", and "kurzweil ... isn't exactly comforting". Is this a bad thing?
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by CodeCube 14y ago
GCD is very similar to writing against the TPL ... so you have the choice of writing async/await code which makes the execution flow very easy to grok; or if that doesn't make sense in a given scenario you can just fire of a task. Best of b
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by CodeCube 14y ago
for #1, there's a bit more to asynchronous programming in C# these days than the TPL. Take a look at the new async/await keywords in C# 5. Lets you write asynchronous code without having to deal with callbacks.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
Good for them! I've been a fan of zipcar ever since I moved to work in NY for a few years. Made my time in the city without a car really convenient.
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by CodeCube 14y ago
A good intro to this frame of mind (and also relevant, since the dude works at Google ;) ) is to watch this video of a talk by Chade-Meng Tan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fcqrNO7so And then if that interests you, see if you get thro

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