arandomJohn

We’ve got people starting every week and open headcount for seniors.

For companies that do on-campus recruiting it is the busiest hiring time of year. But for experienced devs it might be a weird time to look.

If by burning the trees you are also permanently changing the use of that land from forest to agricultural then you are changing how much carbon is held by that area. This leaves aside the problems with burning peat.

This does change both the short term and long term atmospheric balance. If the land were left to eventually recover then the long term balance would be restored. That isn't going to happen.

I agree. Ten to fifteen years ago I saw stream of UML horror stories. The tools were expensive, complex, and you never needed or wanted 90% of what they could do. But PM's loved to show a stack of paperwork to the client.

Now something like Lucidchart is a great way to knock out some swim lanes or ER diagrams without the nonsense of automatically generated code. You can use the diagrams to get your team and the client on the same page without UML becoming a religion.

I remember in the late 90's I'd download the full set of javadocs to have them locally on my computer so I didn't have to wait to browse them over the network.

In fact I had burned them to a cd-rom so I could pass them out easily to co-workers...

Better than printing them out, but still unthinkable now.

Having played a lot of 2048 and Threes, I have to say that while 2048 is fun, it is a shadow of the game that Threes is.

There is a polish and outright joy to Threes that the clones lack. While the games are superficially similar Threes has a depth of play, complexity, and game design that reflects true craftsmanship. They took an idea and put in the hard work to make it the best they could make it. 2048 and other derivatives play like a rough draft of Threes.

As a hobbyist game designer myself I can appreciate the difference.

I'd challenge any 2048 fan to drop the $1.99 on Threes and see what they're missing.

All that said, I appreciate the awkward position Gabriele is in and appreciate his effort to address what has been going on in an open fashion. He's not the bad guy here. He has made a very good clone of an imitation of a great game.

If you're going to publicly shame people for making inappropriate puns you'd be well served to keep your own semi-public behavior impeccable.

First a disclaimer: I think this is outrageous and hope that her account is restored.

Now my questions:

Does her account use her home address? That seems unlikely as she is in Norway but is dealing with Amazon US. What are the rules for purchasing content when you're not resident? Could this be the problem? If so that sucks.

Secondly, it appears that she began her Kindle odyssey with a used Kindle. Could that be what links her account to a fraudulent one? A unique ID from one of her devices has been used by someone else in the past?

Nonsense. I took a camera phone photo at a McD's in Hong Kong earlier this year and several employees freaked out and they all came over to ask me to delete it. Are ALL the stores with no-photo policies mafia fronts?

This is exactly why I kicked in $80, tweeted this thing, and linked to it on Reddit. I think it is hitting $200k for sure, the question is whether it can plow through to $300k.

Invest? Hardly. If it is an investment then I'm a VC and should have a stake in the resulting company.

Frankly, I think that Kickstarter should head towards this model and fund companies and give equity rather than being an oversized tip jar for projects. I could imagine a Kickstarted financed feature film that paid the investors. They could call it The Producers...

I attended the talk. It was pretty cool, especially the OpenCV part. Frankly I think he needs to upgrade the armaments. Hook that bad boy up to the hose with a nozzle.

Frankly, if you wanted to, you could hook such a system up to an automated sprinkler control system and just turn on the water for whatever area the squirrels happen to be in at the moment. It would only have to be on for a few moments. Soon they'd think your yard is some sort of special hell, where water follows them wherever they go.

Here's the thing. His rich dad is fictional. He doesn't make money the way he tells you to. He's not a real estate mogul. He make money selling books and seminars. If the advice he gives were so great he'd be Donald Trump ten times over.

you can skip a track by double clicking the microphone button. Center button if you have the three button microphone.

I've been using the Strong Lifts 5x5 app for a few weeks and have felt that the need to fiddle with it after each set is a drawback. This looks like it solves that problem and adds charting. Very cool. I'll check it out.

That is interesting to me. I've developed an iOS game that uses precises touch/swipe gestures to control movement. In iOS 3.2 Apple changed the infrastructure for touch events such that there is a huge (100ms) lag for a swipe event. This made my game perform terribly in certain situations. I filed a bug with Apple and even spoke to an Apple engineer. I was told that the lag is there for system level gesture recognition and there is nothing to fix.

Get her an old copy of Kids and the Commodore 64 and a Commodore 64. Then she'll be retro cool.

I was detained for several hours at the Montreal airport trying to enter Canada. The immigration officer at one point started yelling at me about Wal-Mart and how Canada isn't like Wal-Mart and the workers in Canada have rights! None of which had anything to do with me. I assume she was having a bad day and decided to take it out on the first American she came across.

She began insisting that I pay $1000 cash to enter the country with my laptop and printer. I refused to give her cash but offered to pay with a credit card. That got me detained for another hour, sitting alone locked in a room.

Finally she brought someone else out that wasn't irrationally mad at me and she charged my credit card $250. The entire thing was surreal.

My level of confidence in the Belize Development Trust, which produced this "document", just dropped through the floor.

Do you have an iOS SDK? What are the licensing terms? I'd love to integrate this into some of my math games.

Oh wow. This would make my iPad math game so much better. I already have handwriting, just no handwriting recognition... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-battle/id476344792?mt=8

I've stared at this thing for 30 minutes trying to extract text from it. There is probably some trick meant to be clever that will strike people as obnoxious once they hear it.

I get about $100 (sometimes more, often less) from my iPhone/iPad game, Battle for Vesta: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-space-combat-battle-for/id...

More would be nice, but I have done a terrible job at marketing it.

My HDTV antenna is a paperclip stuck into the back of a TiVo. I get solid HD reception, no artifacts or other problems. It is all about how close you are to the broadcast towers. I have line of sight to towers that are about 12 miles away.

Would anyone be shocked if the iPad eventually featured some version of Time Machine and that versioning just happened automagically in the background?