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No, Saro Dursun is a fraudster. I don't remember all the details but she Imigrated to Sweden in the 60/70s with another persons papers stating she was 65+ when she was in fact 40-something. 65 is the retirement age in Sweden...

I don't think that bothers him. He has discussed his views and tastes regarding pornography (with explicit examples) before on his site. He also has a travellog from Las Vegas that includes a visit to a prostitute. He's quite a character and his site includes posts about everything from math and tech to the stuff I mentioned above.

One reason is ambiguity, this is an extreme example but shows a bit of the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D...

MonoGame mirrors XNA down to the namespace names so that's a very suitable replacement. You also have Unity of course.

WebClient is mentioned on here http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/. It's not just the compiler.

He asked for (relatively) low risk alternatives though.

You get the full Office 2013 suite with most x86 tablets nowadays (which you won't when you buy a Surface oddly enough). For me that definitely played a part in my decision to get an Asus T100.

For me it correctly reports it as IE11. I am also using it in modern mode and have the exact same user agent string.

They have already proven that WP can run on low spec hardware though with the Lumia 520. It's also a 1GHz, 512MB RAM device.

As a sidenote regarding iOS, you could checkout http://www.robovm.org/. It's already used for running libgdx (a Java game framework for a number of platforms) games on iOS for example.

You can still do that though.

To be honest I am not seeing a lot of "excellent features" there. Except for the UI changes the rest seem to be mostly small miscellaneous stuff and some of them for the better.

I am doing it daily, I think it's a great OS.

University education in China is not free, they have tuition costs as well.

Silverlight for Linux has existed through the Mono platform since 2007 under the name Moonlight: http://mono-project.com/Moonlight . With Microsoft's blessing I might add.

The PIL, http://www.lua.org/pil/, is as canonical as it gets, written by the creator of Lua.

That's why milk companies in Sweden (total fucking darkness for 6 months every year) have to enrich milk with less than 1,5% fat with Vitamin D. It's actually a requirement by law.

Nokia Maps is _amazing_ and has been since the Symbian days, even more so by the fact that you can download maps beforehand (whole countries) and use them offline. Utterly unparalleled might be a bit harsh.

I can't say that I have used the Firefox OS simulator extensively but I have been fiddling around with it a little bit and a lot of stuff didn't seem to work for me at least (like landscape mode, buttons in the notification menu, scroll seem to behave very weird in lists and/or gets stuck quite often resulting in me accidentally clicking on stuff, strange text formatting so that text gets printed outside of the screen, it crashes when I turn on WIFI, can't seem to change screen resolution, etc.). So "the best" might be pushing it, especially compared to the Windows Phone emulator and tools which are really, really great (but sadly won't be used by most mobile developers for obvious reasons :) ).

However I am excited to see where Firefox OS might be heading even though I think they will have a though time fighting it out with other potential "third spot" platforms for starters.

Well doesn't most IT-students qualify for a free MSDN subscription or at least Dreamspark (which has Windows Server, SQL, VS and so on for free for any student)? My experience with Microsoft is that they are very generous with their software in regards to students since they have a lot to gain and really nothing to lose by letting soon-to-be-professional-developers get comfortable with their stack.

I agree to some degree but MMO games in general are serious business and a special breed, especially when real currency is involved. It was most definitely against the ToS and I am sure that most of the players who participated in the exploit knew that. Also there were people who were using this bug to make real life money through the real money auction house, those people in particular can't be surprised that they were banned.

I am 26 and got started with programming mainly through QBasic and to a degree DOS batch scripts before that.

There has been some interesting discussion and code golfing on this piece over at Reddit that may be a worthwhile read for some:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ag0c3/someone_...

C# is definitely more portable than Java when it comes to games nowadays. You can target all the (big) mobile platforms (WP, iOS, Android) as well as the usual Windows/Mac/Linux. It's also used for Xbox Live Indie and Playstation Mobile games.

Might as well chime in with another Kickstarter in progress for a spiritual successor of another famous RPG: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...

Kickstarter has been really great so far for people, like myself, who were and are very fond of the "old school" type of RPGs.

Not only on iOS. The "App Store" model as it is implemented today on most platforms is bloated and corrupted, it's just a mess. It _could_ be a tad better on Android since Google allows 3rd party app stores (could open up for specialization etc, like Steam for Android or similar) but in reality you still must be on Google Play (which is a hell hole) to succeed.

Code sharing between platforms could make it a worthwhile investment of time and money. But it's quite costly if you are just starting out.

Or, if we disregard costs, C# and use Xamarin's (http://xamarin.com/) products.

That seem to be dated to 2002.

It's AltGr+7/0 though (on german and swedish layouts at least), which is much worse. Open curly brace is a killer if you are doing it with one hand only. Also the AltGr button is only represented on the right side of the keyboard while you get the Shift on both sides, which makes it more awkward to use with two hands in some situations.

edit: Wow, just learned that Ctrl+Alt is the same as AltGr from the comment below. I've only used computers daily for 21 years ...