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by tstrimple 13y ago
And I'm an avid Mac user. My primary machine is a Retina Macbook Pro. I just converted my wife from yet another Thinkpad, which fell apart after two years, to a Macbook Air. I've got my whole house connected via an Airport Extreme
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by tstrimple 13y ago
Windows 8 has more users than all versions of OS X combined. If that's an "unmitigated disaster", what does that make OS X? Windows Phone has overtaken iOS in Latin America and holds the number two spot for mobile devices. Wi
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by tstrimple 13y ago
Whether a person wants a completely Windows experience or not has no bearing on unification being beneficial overall. I personally don't believe that they are worse experiences. The Windows Phone UI is loved by pretty much everyone who
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by tstrimple 13y ago
A game machine controlled by a gamepad is almost identical to a touchscreen smartphone (Windows Phone 8) or a touchscreen tablet (Windows 8) with the exception of lack of gestures. You essentially move the pointing device (finger or selecti
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by tstrimple 13y ago
On the other end of the spectrum, the best developers a startup can hire will probably come from their network. Not from recruiters or random people submitting resumes. Early hires are incredibly important and actively seeking the first few
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by tstrimple 13y ago
I disagree completely. That's essentially the way things were a few years ago. A big part of Microsoft's problems, both internal and external, come from the fiefdoms that sprung up around the different divisions. They were effecti
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Yes, but as we've seen with Linux VMs on Azure and Microsoft Office for other platforms, it's better to service the competition than to miss out completely on that market.
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I don't think that's true at all. Zune, Windows Phone, Windows Tablets and Xbox are all more innovative than the competition. The phone and tablet are suffering from being so late to the game, and Xbox is "suffering" f
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by tstrimple 13y ago
It's a pattern I see over and over unfortunately. As soon as something is dominant, they put focus into something else allowing competition to eclipse their lead. Suddenly they are in a position of having to become relevant in the mark
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I'm sorry you had a bad experience at the Azure workshop. There are a lot of people running those types of events both inside and outside of Microsoft and the quality is all over the map. Unfortunately a lot of technical people at Micr
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Azure bills by the minute as well. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-az...
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by tstrimple 13y ago
In my experience, there is a strong correlation between people who like programming and work on projects in their spare time, and their ability to contribute successfully in a programming job. As I've said in other comments, you need
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by tstrimple 13y ago
I could absolutely see myself using this as a screening mechanism. When I was hiring developers, I would get literally hundreds of resumes sent to me. Filtering through resumes is a waste of time. You cannot tell from that piece of paper (P
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What makes her a great programmer? Some natural ability? Surely during the time she has developed all of these skills she has developed something that is worth showing off? If she is such a great programmer, how is she maintaining her skill
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Wait, we have a social class of programmers (who on average make well above the median income) that are unable to contribute to something on github? I would agree that there is a whole class of people unwilling to contribute anything,
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I don't think there is anything wrong with preferring developers who like programming enough to choose to do it in their free time as well. Especially in a startup environment where a bad hire can be devastating.
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Yet PS3 requires you to have PSN+ to download in the background and to save games to the cloud. Both things you can do without Gold on Xbox. They each have their pros and cons for paid upgrade, but I find the Xbox live experience to be far
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by tstrimple 13y ago
Agreed. There is a reason I actively participate in StackOverflow and have Quora in my Google search block list.
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I see it as a form of customer development. The days of building something and hoping people like it when you're done should be over. If they can generate enough interest to support the development they know they are working on a produ
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To be fair, Azure IaaS was in preview in 2012. It didn't become generally available until April of this year. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/04/16/the-...
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by tstrimple 14y ago
I would love some feedback on the existing basic chat features as well as some guidance as to whether it's worth putting time into fleshing out the developer specific features. It's worth noting that you can create your own rooms now if you
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HackerChat: Worth putting more time into chat for developers?(hc.io)
6 points by tstrimple 14y ago|5 comments