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by itsboring 14y ago
Fair enough, I can certainly agree with that.
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by itsboring 14y ago
Maybe those are your priorities, but I don't think you should apply them to everyone else and then accuse them of not taking time to think it through if they don't share your priorities. Of the things you listed, only two are really concret
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by itsboring 14y ago
I have what I think is an effective strategy for evaluating product reviews. I ignore the five star and four star reviews. In fact, I go right to the one and two star reviews. If most of the bad reviews are well-reasoned, thought-out and co
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by itsboring 14y ago
I think the problem here specifically is mod-mono and the fastcgi server (basically the xsp-derived glue). I've seen a number of people complain about memory leaks and instability and having to restart apache. It's not readily reproducible
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by itsboring 14y ago
I recommend Stroustroup's book as it really leaves no area unexplored. It is better to read it after having read some other material, as you have. I would wait for the 4th edition, though, which covers C++11.
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by itsboring 14y ago
Holy crap, I do this exact thing, and had the same thought about the git hamster. That and "gitp ush".
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by itsboring 14y ago
It's really tough to say, I've been working on it off and on for a few months. But I didn't really keep track of the time spent. I'll probably put it up on github when finished and see if anyone wants to rip apart my solutions and/or contri
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by itsboring 14y ago
I've been putting myself through C++ "boot camp". I got a copy of Bjarne's "The C++ Programming Language" and I'm doing every exercise. I'm up to 302 at last count, and only a couple more chapters to go. It's been grueling, but very well wo
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by itsboring 14y ago
Something similar happened to me. It's not necessarily that the hire is intended to be sacrificial, but it sometimes falls to the "new guy" to take the hit. So after about 3-4 months of working at Microsoft, I was ranked in the bottom 10% (
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by itsboring 14y ago
Yup, stack ranking effectively punishes good teams. Why should a manager strive to consistently hire the best people possible when some of them are going to have to be unfairly ranked?
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by itsboring 14y ago
In the case of iOS, the code gets AOT-compiled and any unused bytecode is stripped out. Mono is statically linked in and adds about 6mb at the minimum. On desktop, the necessary parts of the mono runtime would just be included with the dist
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by itsboring 14y ago
I would, of course, agree that the majority of C# developers are on Windows (this seems natural). However, I think mono is in wider use than people think because of the fact that it's embedded in products like Unity. It's often not very obv
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by itsboring 14y ago
We've used both Unity and MonoTouch for different projects. They have their problems, but much less so, I think, than different native implementations on every platform. On the server side, we just build the latest stable mono release and w
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by itsboring 14y ago
Not relevant to the question, but: Some of the comments in that thread illustrate a widespread misconception that C# isn't cross-platform. We're finishing up a game that runs on windows, osx, ios, and android, with a server on linux; and it
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by itsboring 14y ago
Whenever I do a fresh windows install, it's a race to turn off cleartype before I get a headache.
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by itsboring 14y ago
We use mono on linux to share logic and data structures between server and (unity) client. Works great.
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by itsboring 14y ago
We use the murmur server on a linode, so it's totally free (if you have a linux server already). Just "apt-get install mumble-server" on ubuntu server. Still have to use skype for external calls and stuff, but for internal comms we love it
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by itsboring 14y ago
I'm inclined to agree with your points, I always preferred the linux client over the windows one, but skype just gets on my nerves recently. My team has switched to mumble for meetings and stuff and we find it immeasurably better. Plus, cha
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by itsboring 14y ago
100% cool stuff, 0% old browsers!
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by itsboring 14y ago
Whether something is a federal crime (you know, with warrants and handcuffs and all that) or not hardly seems pedantic. You're the one making the assertion here, so do you have any legal sources to cite or are you sticking with the "pedanti
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by itsboring 14y ago
I've also shifted all my business from newegg to amazon for that reason and also this one: newegg's packing is horrible. What am I supposed to do with an enormous pile of packing peanuts from the box that's three times larger than it needs
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by itsboring 14y ago
Come now, I'm sure he has an awesome idea, but we have to sign an NDA to hear it.
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by itsboring 15y ago
I agree with you. Given some of the stories we've seen lately, my approach, after disclosing the vulnerability once, would be a three step process: 1) Do nothing. 2) Fuck 'em. 3) Not my problem.
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by itsboring 15y ago
It's just really low-hanging fruit I think (the spec is crazy simple), and people are understandably excited to get to work on something of the sort vs. boring day job stuff. I think we'll see a massive wave of python/javascript implementat
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by itsboring 15y ago
You do need pro to make scene files and stuff text, but the most important thing for source control (the use of .meta files) can be enabled in the free version now.
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by itsboring 15y ago
We've been using Unity for the past year to develop a couple of games and we've had very good success with it so far. The best part, for us, is the fact that it uses Mono as its scripting engine (if you want to call C# scripting). This unlo
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by itsboring 15y ago
While I agree that good engineers should be able to do all of the things on your list, I don't agree that a distributed team is necessarily a huge barrier to all those things. I work with such a team, and we're in constant contact. I teach,
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by itsboring 15y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I don't really agree that you can't build a company culture remotely. As usual, this all depends on the team. I'm part of a small company and we generally work remotely with occasional meet-ups. This is,