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by larsberg 17y ago
emacs
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by larsberg 17y ago
I am a developer for the platform and am a bit pissed. I have done a bit over a hundred grand in sales and another bit in AdMob revenue from free apps. I'm pissed less from a pragmatic perspective and more on principles. I'm working on my P
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by larsberg 17y ago
I am clearly misinformed and apologize for my mistake!
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Compared to the video game console industry, this is still pretty nice. Several of the companies require submission of the source code for review. And Nintendo in particular is renowned among my video game programming friends for having r
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by larsberg 17y ago
"Hopefully such occurrences are rare and can be considered a special case." What if it's both high-priority and hard? Like you find out that a fundamental part of how your product works causes data to be miscalculated in a certain scenario,
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by larsberg 17y ago
A single developer working remotely one day a week is easy to manage. On a team of 13+, coordinating remote day per week plus late starts for kid-drop-offs / early leaves for kid-pick-ups, vacation days, etc. makes it very hard to figure ou
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by larsberg 17y ago
I personally find Steele's C: A Reference Manual far more useful in day to day hacking. But, that's one of four Steele-authored language specs I look at frequently (Common LISP, Scheme, and Fortress), so I might just have carefully tuned my
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by larsberg 17y ago
Despite my prior work affiliation, no evil was intended --- I stand corrected :-)
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by larsberg 17y ago
I still remember globalization training back at Microsoft. The short version was, "Take this stuff seriously. A few years ago, somebody left the string Taiwan in a product and China detained & questioned a bunch of unrelated employees w
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by larsberg 17y ago
Was Kodesh new to Microsoft at the time? The culture there is a "prove it works first, ask for approval once you've worked everything through in detail and need a Big Change" one. I would have expected any reasonable manager to just spin up
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by larsberg 17y ago
Sure --- the professor might also just be tired of getting attitude from mediocre students. It's never the A students who show up late and then complain about getting in trouble for it :-) The professor overreacted, to be sure. And probably
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by larsberg 17y ago
I agree that it's probably a bad idea. However, coming from Windows, you don't really think twice about it. MSFT has a long history of continuing to support all APIs, no matter how you get to them, and not really caring what you do with the
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by larsberg 17y ago
I wrote the first WiFi stumbler that hit the app store (WiFinder / WiFi Checker). It was probably the first app to use private APIs, as dubious a distinction as that is. The reviewers rapidly figured out I was using them, told me about thei
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by larsberg 17y ago
I'm utterly terrified of any CS curriculum that allows a student to graduate having taken only one year (three quarter-long classes) that require programming. What are those students going to do when they graduate? Manage? I guess it's Stan
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by larsberg 17y ago
It helps to realize when and why it was created. The internal lore, as best I recall it is below... At the time, application developers stored settings in INI files in the \Windows directory. Reading this name=value file was very slow. The
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by larsberg 17y ago
Which is more likely: A) that Microsoft had a huge, coordinated anti-Apple conspiracy, or B) that the MacOffice team -- a separate team from the rest of Office located in the valley -- just decided to do their own thing rather than trying t
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by larsberg 17y ago
There are a bunch of advantages to the non-startup route: - Weekends are yours. - Guaranteed good pay. After ~4 years at MSFT, I was making nicely north of $200k gross. As a developer. In 2004 dollars --- it's probably more now. - There are
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by larsberg 17y ago
The VS2010 text editor and MEF (the Microsoft Extensibility Framework). To be honest, I'd have a harder time naming innovative features that shipped at Microsoft and didn't come up from the bottom. Pushing innovation from the top seems like
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by larsberg 17y ago
Interviewing only the disgruntled and fired is just as one-sided as business books that determine rules of success by only interviewing people who made it rich. What's the opposite of survivor bias? Just to give the other side as somebody w
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by larsberg 17y ago
I'm probably the only one, but I find this somewhat hope-inspiring. This response by their CTO gives the Flash team permission to go back and fix all of the crashing bugs and improve performance. If Adobe is like most other large companies,
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by larsberg 17y ago
There's also a distraction issue: you can write while the professor writes, and they can't really talk coherently while they're writing. With a presentation, they can start talking while you're still taking notes. Additionally, having to wr
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by larsberg 17y ago
He didn't have a chance to look too closely when he was a vendor at MSFT: - build.exe is not perl. Perl (and many other tools) have been used to do specific tasks within the build, but build.exe is essentially a makefile driver. You can rea
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by larsberg 17y ago
Not all xkcd comics are garbage. I worked on autonomous robotics back in the late 90s, and when I read this one I had to hold back a little sniffle: http://www.xkcd.com/695/ I've got a couple of friends out at NASA, and I doubt they'd beg
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by larsberg 17y ago
What about people starting small businesses in accounting and law?
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by larsberg 17y ago
You're on Windows, aren't you?
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I've seen it help for unranked applications. If you're currently a decently-ranked paid application, don't forget that in the transition back from free -> paid you will be unranked until you have sufficient paid purchases over time to r
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by larsberg 17y ago
You'll find that something more substantial can be required once you're no longer in your 20s :-)
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Two classes and a thesis is still at least 3 years away.
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The 10.1 beta2 for OSX is slightly less horrible ( http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ ). It's still just as crashy, but slightly less CPU-killing.
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by larsberg 17y ago
Somebody should patent the process of patent trolling. Then, at least, there would just be one doing it...

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