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I’ve been responsible for the technical evaluation portion of some developer interviews recently. I stumbled through the first few, unhappy with my aged and worn approach of asking questions, having the candidate write pseudo code on a white-board, and so. A friend challenged me: he said that the interview should be a positive experience for the candidate even if they don’t get the job. With that in mind, here’s what I decided to do. Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about...
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...your mother.
"I'll tell you about my mother!" Boom!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Just under a year ago, we unveiled a set of SkyDrive APIs that made it easy for developers on modern mobile platforms to provide their users with the ability to access their SkyDrive content in their favorite apps. And since then, we’ve been working at how we could continue to make this easy for more and more developers.... We also continue to be impressed by the broad range of ways in which developers building apps of all kinds are using the SkyDrive APIs to build great experiences for their users.Here, we wanted to highlight some new additions that we find compelling—IFTTT, DocuSign and SoundGecko. How are you using the SkyDrive APIs?
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This manual supersedes all earlier information about the FORTRAN system. It describes the system which will be made available during late 1956, and is intended to permit planning and FORTRAN coding in advance of that time. An Introductory Programmer's Manual and an Operator's Manual will also be issued. Kickin' it old school.
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Scott Hanselman dubbed JavaScript the assembly language for the web and the number of compilers targeting JavaScript seems to confirm that statement. While there are many attempts at improving the JavaScript development experience through a different language, not all of them will be relevant to a game developer. In particular, you probably want to avoid one that will add overhead to the JavaScript virtual machine (VM) and slow it down. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the different approaches that are out there. To make cool HTML5 games, all we really need is the JavaScript engine and the canvas element.
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Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling. But Internet Explorer 10 has a problem: Web developers don't expect to see it on the mobile Web. The mobile Web is dominated by WebKit-based browsers, and mobile sites tend to be developed exclusively for, and tested exclusively on, WebKit browsers. A similar problem exists for tablets. Proprietary WebKit features are actually holding back the open web.
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meanwhile Internet Explorer is holding back 3D on the web (I mean no support for WebGL)
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Proprietary WebKit features are actually holding back the open web
And IE holds back whatever else is remaining. Not to mention that IE owned the term "Proprietary browser feature".
The HTML "standard" is whatever the majority of browser manufactures agree on. WebKit is simply more consistent a platform to develop. Every single IE release since IE4 has meant a scramble to update the workarounds for the quirks de jour the IE team added.
Each release has, admittedly, been getting better, but why not just move to the WebKit engine and innovate on things that matter, like matching and beating Chrome's dev tools, or having the fastest Javascript engine, or making the inbuilt HTML good enough that the Outlook team ditches Word as its HTML renderer and uses IE so we can have our HTML emails actually render properly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: or making the inbuilt HTML good enough that the Outlook team ditches Word as its HTML renderer and uses IE so we can have our HTML emails actually render properly.
That's probably a 10 year battle minimum. In the office team's shoes adding all of IE's exploit targeting to Outlook would be extremely high on my list of things never to do.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I doubt IE's issues are any worse than Office's issues. Using Word instead of IE is because composing emails in Word is a better experience than composing them in IE. Which is kinda ironic since viewing emails in Word is a far worse experience than viewing them in IE.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I doubt IE's issues are any worse than Office's issues.
They might not be any worse; but they are AFAIK much more readily exploited. You here about IE exploits all the time; when's the last time you heard about a virus that spread by exploiting outlook's renderer.
Chris Maunder wrote: Using Word instead of IE is because composing emails in Word is a better experience than composing them in IE.
I suspect the fact that Doc/Docx and WordHtml map to each other roughly 1:1 is also a factor; if they added an html5 mode that supported all the new and shiney they'd need to figure out how to convert each and every one of those features into a word representation so your formatting survived mostly intact when you toggle the html/richtext modes. Word in the browser might get us there eventually. Assuming they don't keep it crippled to protect desktop office sales anyway.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The centre of gravity may not have fully shifted yet, but it's moving. Big Windows, as many insiders have called it, will be replaced by Bigger Windows, one that works at cloud scale to deliver information and services to smart end points. Tomorrow's Microsoft will be built around Azure. That strategy means more and more collaboration between the different parts of the organisation as what were in the past standalone applications become services that are consumed by other services. To the cloud!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: standalone applications become services that are consumed by other services.
Like what Amazon did all those years ago?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This sounds very much like going back to the good old days of time-sharing mainframes where you only had a terminal linked to a distant mainframe (often via an acoustic coupler). Yes, I am showing my age as I learned on one of these set-ups. Of course, interactive gaming back then meant an awful lot of typing and waiting.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Big Windows, as many insiders have called it, will be replaced by Bigger Windows, one that works at cloud scale to deliver information and services to smart end points.
Has someone been watching too much Family Guy[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nintendo insiders speak: How Microsoft and Sony were a handshake away from thwarting the Wii, and how its motion controller was born on an airplane... Tom Quinn, a serial inventor based in California, is described by some as "the man who invented the Wii". That's not an accurate statement, of course, but it's not an entirely false one either. Not invented here syndrome, Game of the Year edition.
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Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft’s internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing. But here’s the catch: The software giant blames the slow start on lackluster PC maker designs and availability, further justifying its new Surface strategy. But Windows 8’s market acceptance can be blamed on many factors. Windows 8 is no Vista, in many ways. Until it is.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Windows 8 is no Vista, in many ways. Until it is.
No, it's more like Windows ME.
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I don’t want to teach anyone how to cover their illicit tracks better, or how to have a more clandestine affair, but let’s take a look at where Petraeus and Broadwell went wrong so you can understand how to cover your tracks better in general, and how to secure your email and protect your privacy online. The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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Black Ops 2 Makes $500 Million in 24 Hours[^]
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
modified 17-Nov-12 10:39am.
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Just wait for GTA5 to break the record.
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LOL '24 hours'. I wonder how many hours and people it took to make the game itself...
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Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.
We are leaping into the future!
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Nice idea, but you'll be totally cramped after using it for an hour or so.
Wout
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