wdmeldon

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by wdmeldon 11y ago
It kinda looks like he somehow made $31M selling "mystery boxes"....
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
I still live in fear of the day some time down the road when all the people far smarter than me start writing articles titled "Why Function/Reactive/Reactifluxidux architecture was a horrible decision". That's the
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
I wouldn't honestly be surprised if Twitch managed to get better returns than a lot of automated trading software...
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
In the .NET/Enterprise world, absolutely.
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
I think my biggest issue is how clear it was that he had something to say about the state of American prisons in the 21st century and the depiction of sensitive political topics in video games, then just lopped off all the rest of the conte
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
My issue with Bogost's article was that he missed one of the core mentalities that went into designing the game: that you are only the architect. The prison industrial complex's main causes aren't rooted in the way prisons a
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
I believe this was GitHub's justification for it early on. The barrier to reading (but not necessarily writing) CoffeeScript is so low for a JavaScript dev that it's basically non-existent. I'm moving my code towards ES6 an
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
Absolutely phenomenal. Reminds me a lot of the older Maxis games like SimTower. Simplistic yet complex at the same time. The recent addition of escape mode adds some much needed flavor and the campaign is a perfect way to learn how to pl
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
I only wonder how far these new attitudes will seep into the general .NET developer culture.
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
It honestly feels a lot like all the kids in the neighborhood just got new mountain bikes and you're still using a scooter. You can usually keep up, but as soon as they go off the road, you're on your own. VMs are 100% the way to
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by wdmeldon 11y ago
More importantly for a business, you can get a lot more bang for your buck. High School grads have much lower pay expectations.
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
I'm very curious as to why this is diverging from the "Ember Way" and not using http://www.ember-cli.com/ It's an officially supported approach that is under very active development and (at least ostensi
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
Fair warning. Chromebooks don't support Java browser plugins (arguably a plus) and some big colleges still need them for their student websites. Something that you'd want to check out first.
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
I liked that the demo shows the program failing. Nice to see the capabilities AND the limitations displayed front an center. Definitely impressive.
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
I entered this industry in February 2012, but his essays have still had a major impact on me as a developer. Part of the credit for this goes to Jeff Atwood, who has retained a lot more visibility than Joel, for frequently linking back to
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
Imagine pushing 5kg worth of cocaine down a toilet while, most likely, incredibly strung out on said cocaine, with the SWAT team beating on your door. Couple that with the fact that they likely aren't stored in easy to open bags desig
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
I think the real answer to this one is not really. Most of the possible attacks are either unrealistic or only possible if you're doing something stupid to begin with. That said, there is still no excuse to trust user input. Always p
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
There are some definite valid criticisms here (Photos/Gallery being the least understandable oversight), but you really need to try the Nexus 5. Fragmentation needs to be dealt with and OEM's need to stop "differentiating&qu
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
I find it interesting how much they seem to be focusing on the "career" aspect. I wonder if they are pivoting to an open source model with premium training. Even so, I'm not exactly inclined to throw my career behind what b
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
Your's was a little pedantic honestly, but TOGoS was just insulting. Basically just trashing something he didn't like. Ending it with "It's this kind of thing that makes me want to take up shooting spree" definitel
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
I avergaged the 1-bedroom numbers for all of the counties in Rhode Island (guess why I picked Rhode Island) and got ~$15.00, which is ~$3.00 less than the 2-bedroom on the PDF. So they probably calculated it correctly. Two bedrooms are alw
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by wdmeldon 12y ago
We've been using Stash as well and I'm, for the most part, quite pleased with it. My biggest initial problem was a lack of GitHub style, convenience feature. In the last couple updates, they've filled in the biggest feature
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by wdmeldon 13y ago
https://projecteuler.net/ is really a great place to start. Solving the first problem with any level of efficiency means understanding Summation. I didn't even know what that was until I was staring at the programmat
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by wdmeldon 13y ago
This isn't a theme, it's a customized boilerplate for themes. On it's own, this is fairly worthless, but it's a good starting point for modern theme development. I pretty much did this myself for the last theme I put t
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by wdmeldon 13y ago
Thats the curse of distributable code unfortunately. And PHP only makes it worse because it's old versions are absolutely terrible...
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by wdmeldon 13y ago
Probably because SysAdmins are fervent about customization. If a simple tool pops up like this, the demands for complex features overwhelms the product and brings it all the way back to the complex nightmare it's always been. Develope