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Symbol

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About Symbol

Game hacker. I also like low-level tech - drivers, kernels, hardware/software interaction, etc. I also like the business side of technology, and am particularly interested in team dynamics.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #11507955

    You just jogged my memory about WoW (Windows on Windows) :)

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    Comment #11343787

    It was in the works after Full Throttle's success, but was cancelled. I don't know the reasons.

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    Comment #11210720

    Back up. Time to migrate!

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    Comment #10992481

    My sympathies to any workers displaced by these events, but I'm happy. Parse is a bad product: it has weird quirks in normal usage but most importantly scales abysmally. I'm thrill…

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    Comment #8543547

    Concord, MA USA (soon Cambridge, MA USA) KAYAK Software Corporation Mobile engineers, iOS Hi all. Kayak is a world leader in travel search and our iOS app is #1 in the App Store. H…

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    Comment #8479730

    Two great points. I'll address.

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    Comment #8479728

    My issue with masonry is that it's a paper thin abstraction over auto layout. There's some nice syntactic sugar, like chained calls to layout rules. Ultimately I think there's room…

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    Comment #8478145

    Thoughts? Does anyone care?

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    Comment #7297852

    That's all you need to do to make money on stocks, or bonds, or any other speculative trade. The trick is being consistent :)

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    Comment #6938907

    There is a difference between "shit talk" and rooting out personal contact information to then send death or rape threats. I don't think anyone expects an experience akin to high t…

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    Comment #6917282

    Realizing you had more options at your disposal because you were not submitting to the App Store was a cool hack.

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    Comment #6684390

    Are there places where "birds of a feather" congregate? Forums, lists, etc? I'm excited to tap the wisdom of others as I get my business off the ground.

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    Comment #6683737

    For the same reason dating couples breakup: because something changes, externally or internally, that makes staying together less desirable than splitting up. I've been married for…

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    Comment #6669542

    Plz -> please.

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    Comment #6669168

    Can we get net-speak out of titles please?

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    Comment #6668850

    Oh BlackBerry. What are we going to do with you? FWIW, developing on their BlackBerry 10 series phones was an absolute joy. Great hardware and lots of options for realizing apps.

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    Comment #6599675

    I won't be surprised if we get to the point where OS updates can be done seamlessly in the background without user prompting. I also won't be surprised if Apple will be the first v…

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    Comment #6431787

    I'm pretty confused about the value this product provides. Anyone care to enlighten?

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    Comment #6360354

    Not saying he is wrong, but almost any pattern can be traced if the lower and upper bounds are picked carefully. For those interested in trading with technicals: how can you know w…

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    Comment #5731503

    A reason this disparity sprigs to mind has to do with age. I'm reminded that the translation of sophomore from the Greek is "wise fool": it's possible high school students at the a…

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    Comment #5729437

    This is good advice. If CS intrigues you, sign up for the most advanced courses you can handle. Also, be sure not to shortchange yourself when it comes to a foundation. Lots of peo…

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    Steven Soderbergh's "State of Cinema"

    Some nice analysis and interesting parallels to other industries, like games.

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    Comment #5632488

    Makes me wish I had taken a class with him while at Tufts. It's a hard truth that you can usually plot a good course through your university experience AFTER you are finished.