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One thing that puzzles me about the Chromecast compared to other Google/Android devices - why has Google locked it down so much and not released a bootloader unlocker? Is it for pu…

These are my gripes with Unity, in question format :) Would love to hear from anyone that has concrete answers for these: - How does UDK build apps for iOS natively on Windows with…

We'd tend to do that for stories, yes; take an overall story and assign it a number of story points. We'd then try and make time estimates for each of the story's subtasks, which i…

I'm currently taking stock of my own weaknesses as a developer and one of the areas I've constantly had trouble with (that I think has hurt me professionally) is in estimating how …

As many have said here, focus on what you're actually building. That means at some point you have to put aside the fear that the framework you've chosen "isn't good enough" and jus…

I'd never made the connection between "low priority project" and "strictness of arbitrary deadlines" as the project having to continually race against its' own insignificance. That…

An important overall point that the article seems to be highlighting is that, in general (independent of these myths), developers are becoming less and less familiar with what the …

I think this is a subtle but excellent point and answers the gut question I first had when reading your top post, which was to think: why would you (not YOU specifically, just the …

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'm starting out by working through some stuff on TreeHouse and then will go from there. Looks like it's going to be a great adventure!

Why is WYSIWYG not used? Is it just that the available tools aren't good? I would have thought that writing raw HTML would be a bit like writing raw WinForms code these days, or wr…

I'm curious; what is the modern development process for creating the front end of a web app look like? Are there drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editors for Web 2.0-style UIs? Do people ever…

Can you give some more examples of the kinds of closed-mindedness you're trying to get at? I'm trying to understand your line of thought. Are you saying that Myhrvold is being an a…

I realized after writing this that one force pushing prices down is that the marketplace has to serve a global audience; one thing lacking in the point of view of my question is th…

This is probably a naive question but would love to hear some HNer insight on this one. While pondering the prices being charged by many contractors on sites like oDesk and Freelan…

I currently feel like I'm stuck in the CV-advice-from-hell-hamster-wheel and need some perspective from the tech community, if for nothing else than to save my sanity :) One piece …

Alright this is the most awesome post I've read all day :) I really need to get to work putting together the kit Microbee that's currently sitting on my other desk....

Any specific recommendations for DeAngelo's later stuff? I too was big into that whole PUA/game thing in a former life (more theory than practice though) and came to much the same …

I think a lot of it has to do with that 30% cut. 30% of a $25 app isn't that much, but I guess if I were someone big like Autodesk or Adobe and it were my big, multi-thousand dolla…

It's a shame that this stuff happens really; I think it relegates the Mac App Store to a certain niche more than anything else. I was surprised at the limited selection I found in …

I'm understanding and doing stuff now in my mid-thirties that my young self only wished he could do. To boot, I'm more excited and passionate about my craft than ever; certainly mo…

As someone in the job market right now, I'm refreshed by the article's admission of how much chance plays a role in whether you land a job. I'm currently working on my CV and there…

I tend to agree with you on this after having watched the first two episodes, but I'm keeping an open mind (I'm still keen to see what happens, so it hasn't lost me just yet). The …

You've done something really awesome (and inspiring) here.

Worked on a .NET app with lets of C# and C++ interop and we were seeing what looked like a rare race condition. The bug was hard to repro and never seemed to happen in our dev envi…