andywood

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by andywood 16y ago
Chrome is literally the only app I ever run on my MacBook. I do everything else on my desktop. So it's not that I only use the web, but that I only use the web on that particular device.
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by andywood 16y ago
I did C and C++ programming for more than 10 years, before suddenly delving into serious web development only 3 years ago. I soon realized that I had vastly underestimated how deeply technical web development is. But the reason was simply t
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by andywood 16y ago
15/19, but only because I wrote the back-end for this app: http://flashcards.educationlabs.com/#/Play/?deckid=0 and the Language Creators deck was the very first test deck I made early in development. I'm very impressed with those who act
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by andywood 16y ago
Programming is not fun when you're constrained by people, methodologies, or technologies that you don't agree with on the inside. It's great fun when you do it at home, or on a small team of like-minded people, because you get to pick what
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by andywood 16y ago
I didn't read that as anti-commercial, but rather as anti-humdrum.
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by andywood 16y ago
What's ironic is that Microsoft recruited a high-profile Wii hacker to work on Kinect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/johnny-chung-lee-joins-pr...
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by andywood 16y ago
Today was my last day at Microsoft. I'm taking time off to work on an XBOX indie game, and also the 3D engine I've been tinkering with on and off for 9 years.
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by andywood 16y ago
You really need to set your own construction goals. I had the urge to build a big house in a nice location. The I wanted to protect it, so I built a low wall around it. Now I want to landscape the hill that it's on. Next I'll want to irrig
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by andywood 16y ago
I went through exactly all of what you just did. For the first half-hour, I seriously thought there was nothing to do but roam an indistinct world and collect flowers. Then I googled a tutorial, figured out you have to hold the mouse butt
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by andywood 16y ago
I definitely read the opinion as more buddhist than geek.
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by andywood 16y ago
Good food, good neighborhood, books, hobbies. Or put another way - health, mental health, personal development, and fun.
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by andywood 16y ago
This post misses the mark widely, IMO. Instead of being alarmist about the perennial decline of society, realize that there has been a real cultural shift, and it may be for good reason. I think the brighter bulbs in my generation noticed
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by andywood 16y ago
I was contacted by a contingent staffing company (I think they found me on Monster) about contract work at Microsoft. This intrigued me at the time, so I took a 6-month contract, during which I earned respect and made friends. They extended
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by andywood 16y ago
I'd be able to relate to this better if it was "What real life good habits has programming given you?" One of my favorites is thinking about what is possible in similar terms to what is computable.
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by andywood 16y ago
I think it is a good point that there are different kinds of aptitudes, but I also think this point should be kept in perspective. I think it is misguided when people speak dismissively of IQ, SATs and the like, saying things like "well, a
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by andywood 16y ago
I agree - as worded, that sounds ridiculous. A majority of them were multi-millionaires according to the list. As if you would encounter such a thing in a random sampling of 43 people! I wonder what they meant by that line.
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by andywood 16y ago
Congratulations on finishing your book. I'm curious, how does support for non-.NET/non-Microsoft stack on Azure work? Do you get to install whatever you want in your Azure VM? Is it easy/hard? I've done a couple of small projects in Azur
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by andywood 16y ago
I still believe that a best-of-both-worlds is possible, and probably coming. But I sort of agree with you in the sense that I would much, much rather have only Internet-connected native clients, than only web apps. Fortunately it doesn't h
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by andywood 16y ago
The article read to me like thinly veiled mudslinging and innuendo.
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by andywood 16y ago
I think the situation with web languages and technologies is vaguely like the situation with C++ in one particular way: It isn't that they're really good, it's more that they've been around so long, evolving at glacial pace, and there is s
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by andywood 16y ago
I suspect that we are ALL reading our own perspectives into this story quite a bit, so I can't say that you're wrong. Where you see "refusing to engage with him emotionally", I see her simply declining to respond to his drama with counter
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by andywood 16y ago
Your last sentence comes pretty close. I have several passionate 'hobbies' that are each rather time-consuming, let alone all put together. I can't imagine even continuing a conversation with a woman after she'd suggested I give something
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by andywood 16y ago
I wasn't there to hear how she said it, but I took it as sincere. I thought she was really offering to let him do whatever he needed to do to find his happiness again.
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by andywood 16y ago
For me, the harder problem is finding a partner who will not detract from my substantial existing fulfillment.
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by andywood 16y ago
Same here. It had me thinking, "Are there more than 5 people in the world with the wisdom and self-assurance to actually pull this off?"
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by andywood 16y ago
Paragliding. It's pretty tactical, and there's a lot of information to assimilate about weather, clouds, thermals, etc. Snowboarding, cycling, hiking, guitar, piano/keyboards. Music composition is the closest thing to programming that I've
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by andywood 16y ago
I like this comment. When I was younger, I used to think a whole lot more about all the different ways that things could be. As I got older, I very slowly realized just how immovable most of the rest of society is. Gradually, I came to a
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by andywood 16y ago
"Who I know" has often, but not always, mattered in my career. But what mattered most was that what they knew about me was that I was the kind of developer they wanted to work with.
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by andywood 16y ago
I don't know if programming makes me less social, but I do know that I'm at my most social after I've already been socializing with a lot of people. So if I've spent my day doing anything that isn't socializing, I'm not going to be very so
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by andywood 16y ago
I agree with this definition of beautiful. The title sounds like yet another opportunity for everyone to display how humble they are. If I heard someone say that at work, it would make me wonder if they're too lazy to try harder. On the o

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