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by g051051 9y ago
> completely fearful and reactive, has no basis in recorded fact, and does an appalling disservice to the many people who have spent many years (successfully) trying to change Microsoft's internal culture and make it more friendly t
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by g051051 9y ago
CodePlex was created because they didn't want to use the (at the time) standard for Open Source, SourceForge. They abandoned it when GitHub rose to prominence. This was pretty much exactly what Google did as well, with Google Code.
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by g051051 9y ago
You're mistaking Microsoft's purely reactive strategy to something like real planning and commitment to open source. MSFT has been pushing into that area (sort of) recently because they kept getting their lunch stolen by all of t
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by g051051 9y ago
Course availability is different, just as course availability varies from semester to semester in the residential program. Not every class is taught every semester. However, the coursework has the same rigor and the degree awarded is the
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by g051051 9y ago
Considering how competitive the acceptance criteria are for Harvard (2,056 out of 39,506 applications), this is just another decision point. Now 10 other people are able to get in, and the entire body of current and prospective students ha
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by g051051 9y ago
"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" by DeMarco and Lister.
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by g051051 10y ago
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Amazing book, and Roarke's whole philosophy is really inspiring.
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by g051051 10y ago
I don't know the implementation specifics. But I can go out to the app store on my old iPad and download older versions of my apps. The problem is when the older version was updated incorrectly and is incompatible with my device&#x2F
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by g051051 10y ago
The 1st generation iPad was released April 2010. The last version of iOS for that hardware was iOS 5.1.1, released May 2012. That's just barely 2 years later, not 5.
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by g051051 10y ago
Considering that the app store allows device and os specific versions to coexist, there's no reason that requires a dev to break an old game. When it happens, it's typically because the dev made an error and added a feature but i
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by g051051 10y ago
Mine's not a children's toy, but it's almost useless now. Once they stop updating iOS for a device, it's pretty much game over. Many apps have stopped working due to the developers making mistakes and publishing incomp
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by g051051 10y ago
Yes, I worked full-time. I'm fortunate in that I WFH, so I could allocate the time I'd have had to commute to school, figure 90 minutes a day. I'm married but have no children, so I didn't have that requiring my attent
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by g051051 10y ago
Absolutely. One of the key pillars in the program is student-to-student interaction, either via the Piazza course communication system, or direct contact. I have extensive knowledge of VMs, so I helped many students get their environments
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by g051051 10y ago
Yes, that's certainly an aspect of it. As someone with a lot of professional experience, it's easy to get into a rut with what you're required to do in your day job. I always tried to keep up with new techniques, frameworks
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by g051051 10y ago
I was exposed to new sources of information throughout the program, such as Youtube videos, books, and lots of papers on computer science topics. Being required to read all that upped my ability to absorb and comprehend them. So now I fee
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by g051051 10y ago
I just graduated from the OMSCS (online master of science in computer science) program, and I found it a wholly worthwhile experience. It was challenging, informative, and for the most part well-run. Software Analysis and Test in particul
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by g051051 10y ago
How is this even a point of such outrage? No one is compelling you to interview with Amazon. If you don't like their conditions, just don't do it. Why write about it as if it was such a huge burden? It's their job, their
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by g051051 10y ago
Tech 8 - It's a Java shop, and I get to try out a lot of new things when we're evaluating them. Office 10 - Full-time WFH for over 3 years. People 8 - Generally a lot of good, smart people. General Happiness 9 - Good job, well res
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by g051051 10y ago
I used to work for a place with serious ethics issues. We'd sell customized software packages along with a hardware solution, used by cities and counties. Once I was told that, per the contract, we were supposed to hand over the hard
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by g051051 10y ago
I have one I'd love to use but it's no longer usable even under a VM. It's an audio mixing game called "No World Order" put out by Todd Rundgren back in 1993. It was a Windows 3.1 app, but remarkably worked up unt
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by g051051 10y ago
You can try the Ga Tech OMSCS. It's fully online, is the same as the on campus version, and costs about $8000.
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by g051051 10y ago
1. Peopleware 2. The C Programming Language 3. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Honorable mention: Compiler Design in C
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by g051051 10y ago
> If you saw a LinkedIn profile that you thought would make a good addition to your team, would you not reach out to that person just because you found them on LinkedIn? I'd never approach someone cold like that. >If someone appr
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by g051051 10y ago
A place I worked at did a trial of NeXTSTEP back in the 90's when they ported it to other architectures. I got to play with it on a high end HP PA-RISC workstation...it as amazing.
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by g051051 10y ago
Are you using "obscure" in the sense of "closed" and "proprietary"? Or are you using it as "relatively unknown"?
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by g051051 10y ago
What would you consider a "less obscure platform" than Windows and XBox One?
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by g051051 11y ago
When have they ever been considered innovative? Virtually every successful product has been either copied from or bought outright from another company. The only real exception I can think of is OneNote (which preceded EverNote by 5 year
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by g051051 11y ago
It says it's a free service and doesn't directly mention any restrictions, but when you try to sign up it will only accept something it thinks is a work or school email address. So I guess self-employed people who use Gmail don&#
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by g051051 11y ago
Considering their abysmal track record, it's pretty clear they don't.
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by g051051 11y ago
> everything from elevators to ATMs to heart rate monitors to wearables I've never been more frightened in my life. Forget the zombie apocalypse, this is the W10 apocalypse.

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