xsmasher

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by xsmasher 13y ago
"Having a conversation about a piece of code" sounds good, it proves you can read code and not just write it. Everything else you mention should have been taken care of on your resume or you wouldn't be in the interview, BUT
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by xsmasher 13y ago
There exist too-clever "gotcha" questions that are obvious if you've seen them before, and near impossible if you haven't. Those are terrible, and they fall to your "They're exams" criticism. Other questio
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by xsmasher 13y ago
I'm disliking this design decision so far; maybe I'm just too used to the 7.0 behavior, but the new shift button seems wrong. It looks fine in isolation on this web page - left is empty, right is full - but on the keyboard sits ri
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Okay, sounds like you're assuming a scenario where you need to actually create the view to figure out the height, sure. In other scenarios (contact list, list of artists and albums and songs) you know the height of an item from its typ
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by xsmasher 13y ago
> It's very computationally heavy to ask for the heights of each ListView item. Can you expand on that? Do you mean that it's expensive for the OS for some reason, or do you mean that it's expensive for your (client) code
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by xsmasher 13y ago
I think cubes are actually worse than open plan; in a cube you can't see that someone is working intently three feet away, and you don't see their death glare.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
You're spot on. Archimedes said he could move the world with the right lever. Figuring out the right "angle" or abstraction for a task reduces the effort required and often reduces the complexity of the solution, and that hap
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Sounds like a web app would satisfy your requirements.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
The "Postmortems" book from Game Developer Magazine has a bunch of similar stories about Diablo 2, Thief, Deus Ex, AoE, and more. http://www.amazon.com/Postmortems-Game-Developer-Developers-...
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by xsmasher 13y ago
I'll contend that Mt.Gox::Bitcoin as Napster::MP3. MP3 was "good enough" to revolutionize the way we buy and pirate music. Napster was enabled by MP3 tech, but flamed out spectacularly. MP3 survived though, and now more music
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by xsmasher 13y ago
http://toucharcade.com/ http://www.metacritic.com/game/ios http://www.pockettactics.com/
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Depends what you mean by "target". You can specify the whatever minimum OS version you want for an app. You have probably heard something like "[After Feb 1] new apps [...] must be built with the latest version of Xcode 5 and
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by xsmasher 13y ago
I'm not the OP, but I've had trouble with the JPEGOptim feature of ImageOptim. It created JPEG files that crashed the JPEG decoder on some older android phones. The files worked fine elsewhere, so I think it was an decoder bug not
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Zipdisks were overtaken by CD-R tech, which started out expensive ($2000+ writers, but with $100 readers in most machines) but quickly became too cheap for zip to compete (almost every CD-ROM drive was also a writer by the time DVD took ove
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Did Blade Runner have a hacking scene? I don't recall one.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Anyone know how "mergeable" the project files are? Are they git friendly?
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by xsmasher 13y ago
I avoid them like a plague, except in specific situations where I need the extra range or need to save the bytes. I expect my reasons will be unpopular. Suppose you have an object with a interface like object.setValue(7). You'd like to
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by xsmasher 13y ago
So the owner goes delinquent on taxes for a year, then gets multiple notices that a tax sale will take place, then the tax sale takes place, then they have six MORE months to make good on the bill... then a hideous, unforeseen tragedy takes
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by xsmasher 13y ago
You are correct, they buy the lien and have to foreclose later. I'm still curious what myname would propose as an alternative collection scheme. The article mentions that Michigan stopped doing tax lien sales, so I checked up on what t
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by xsmasher 13y ago
What makes you think the public tax sale took place without due process of law? Straight from the article: * Homeowners receive several warnings before their liens are put up at annual auctions. * Once a lien is sold, owners have six month
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by xsmasher 13y ago
It's happening to elderly / vulnerable because anyone else, faced with losing their house over a $50 tax bill, would pay the tax bill. This isn't something that happens in a single day, or in the middle of the night. I'm
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by xsmasher 13y ago
The government tried collecting the taxes, and the owners did not (perhaps because they could not) pay. So the government auctions off the house to make good on the debt. What else could the government do, put the homeowner in debtor's
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Not that I can locate. You may be thinking of Alameda or Angel Island.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
And it's probably correct; access to Treasure Island is restricted until the new bridge is opened.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
If you're looking for people with the proverbial "smart and gets things done" properties, you need to give them something to do and see how smart their solution is. I give a task, like "write some code to store data in X
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by xsmasher 13y ago
The GIF format is not lossy. There is no "quality" option in the format itself; just a color depth option, same as PNG. Photoshop uses the same tricks for "lossy" gif that this article uses for PNG.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Raw smarts is one thing, and experience with a particular platform/problem space is another, and both are valuable on the job, and both should be weighted in hiring. Sometimes it's appropriate to hire a brilliant person who's
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Ah, thanks. I don't do much Java. So "println() uses synchronized internally" means two println statements will never overlap each other, but still says nothing about their interaction with other objects, right? Does nothing
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by xsmasher 13y ago
In less technical language, "creation of the object is not atomic". You could switch threads in the middle of the creation. Also, "reading of the data is not atomic" - you can switch threads in the middle of reading the
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by xsmasher 13y ago
http://blog.chron.com/frugalconfessions/2011/09/mined-consum... and http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe... Show that individual data can be a

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