citizenparker

Ironically, Piet is, an RGB in the land of greyscale PICS. They broke the abstraction layers, mess up logic with implementation, introduce not just different kinds of colors but redundant and irrelevant dark colors and ruined the magic of "everything is an alpha value." Look what a classic two tone Hello World became.)

It's inclusive in a way that puts most uses of that word to shame. I don't know how it happens, either. I want to grow up and be like Jim.

Hopefully now the docs around EmberJS can stabilize and really take off.

I think this is your problem. All of the compelling virtual worlds I've been part of have some hook that works on the individual. If you doubt, log into one of the old classic MUDs like LegendMUD (http://www.legendmud.org/) or Blood Dusk (http://mud.dusk.org/). They're still compelling when you're alone in the world (and these days, that's pretty likely).

I think it's perfectly legitimate to say your product is better in groups. I would hope so for something calling itself an "MMO." I think it has to be compelling by yourself to some extent though. I'd argue that every major virtual world from WoW to Second Life to even Minecraft has provided this.

What's even better is that when you have that action that is compelling alone, the second person into your virtual world sees that person being awesome and then desires to join in. You open yourself up to getting a "First Follower" effect, in other words.

2. Because it's something immediately useful to which I can direct anyone learning HTML so that they get instant feedback.

* At your level of experience, you should ABSOLUTELY have only one page. If your LinkedIn profile is a reflection of your current resume, there's a fair amount you can cut from that if you need to make room. Things like "Tool was eventually taken up by QA team" isn't terribly relevant, and the BCCampus Research Assistant unfortunately sounds a bit like fluff.

* Don't expect anyone to have given your resume more than a cursory overview. Instead, plan on that and make sure that your most important bullet points stand out on the page. You can do this by re-ordering your information or by varying your whitespace, verbs used, and sentence length.

* Think about implementing a template from http://www.oswd.org/ for your personal website. You may not have design skills (and even those majoring in design often lack them out of college), but at least show you can recognize good design and follow directions by implementing one of the free templates there

* I normally hate to flaunt my own stuff, but I wrote an article recently on some of my personal pet peeves on resumes - http://citizenparker.com/post/Spray-and-Pray-Developer-Resum...

I would be happy to give your resume a more in-depth review and follow-up with you personally. Get in touch on my website if you're interested. Either way, good luck and don't give up.

1. I learn it "enough" to know what it's good at, what it's bad at, and to have enough hand-written code to pick it back up pretty quickly (particularly if you set up a test-driven learning environment)

2. Even when I forget the language's particulars, it changes the way I see other programming languages. For instance, while I don't use Ruby in my day job yet, I still think of things I can do with method_missing and how I might approximate that same power and flexibility in my work where appropriate. In short, learning languages helps me program "into a language" rather than "in a language", to borrow Steve McConnell's terminology.

I think if someone were to adopt the Pixlr model and create a lightweight Flash-based solution to this, I think they would have the flexibility to create an experience as rich as Office, and start stealing customers.

However, I'm more and more impressed with the Cappucino apps I'm seeing, so there are clearly many possible solutions to this problem.

Short of a press release that states "Yes, we are doing this" I'm not sure how it gets clearer. That's just me though, can you describe the scenario you are imagining?

This is called a demo.

You can accurately say that the message of this article, like many of his articles, is completely obvious. However, the typical HN response to his articles also points out that sometimes the completely obvious points can go unheeded.

It seems like French is saying that these laws explain why some people wouldn't want to pair with some other people. I don't think anyone practicing XP would dispute that some pairs just aren't meant to be. However, I don't see how that leads to a failure of XP in general.

I'm not trying to be harsh, but if there are connections between these things, I want to see them truly explored with claims that are substantiated (or at least explained).

VS 2010 has some neat integration points but isn't really of interest to the HN community - an in-depth look at v4 (particularly the DLR) however is worth chatting about sometime.

I'm sure the user base of the delightful open source #develop making Windows apps will be sad to hear this, as will everyone using VS to develop against Mono.

Which compilers are part of VS that aren't available elsewhere?

- The logo could stand to be a bit crisper. Maybe take a look at some of the techniques from http://psd.tutsplus.com/designing-tutorials/elements-of-grea...

- I'm kinda stupid, but I didn't realize the scroll bars were scroll bars until I saw someone else's comment. Also frustrating that they seem to work with mousewheel only.

- As azrealus said, it looks strange while you're loading up. I'd hide everything until it's all loaded and show it at once.

Good start, keep it up.

View the slides though and then say the presenter thinks of it as genderless.

If you publicly mothball GC though, then you can maybe get a fraction (5-10% at most I'd guess) to become paying users at SOME level.

Even at that meager conversion rate, I see that being a better call then selling the remnants of GC off.

"While there are many other valid reasons to practice TDD, as a pure bug fixing mechanism it's always seemed far too much like premature optimization for my tastes."