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Heh, Naggum. Why do we still talk about him? Did he build awesome things? Did he change the world? Affect so many lives by being a great teacher? One thing he did do was hate a lot…

No, they made it possible to port XNA games to the platform. Except that XNA != XBOX SDK. XNA is a .NET-based game SDK that some people have used for Xbox Arcade games. As far as I…

> Where did all of that money go? I remember seeing a single TV ad at WP7's launch, and nothing more. Remember the "Really?!" campaign? I saw this ad at least 50 times last fall. H…

UI code should be in the same portable OpenGL that the rest of your game is in.

If I remember the numbers, leading up to the WP7 launch, MS dropped roughly 100 million on marketing. They sold less than 100,000 units on launch week. Whatever the exact numbers, …

Please, name a .NET app that is widely used on Windows.

Worse is better. Everyone seems to rediscover this again and again the hard way, most especially certain companies in Cupertino and Redmond.

"unless you’re willing to spend beaucoup dollars on buying and operating physical infrastructure" This is the biggest misconception out there about cloud computing. Cloud computing…

Fair enough, let me add to my counterpoint another piece of personal experience [I see another commenter ripped me for telling an anecdote -- what posted to HN is ever NOT anecdota…

I normally wouldn't respond to a post like this but when it comes to career advice, many of you who have not been in the workforce long should hear the counterpoint. The Austin bus…

The web is not a platform in the sense that we're talking about here. It's a set of open, free, non-proprietary specifications that anyone can implement on top of. iOS is not that.…

How's this: Whatever you create, even if it's for iPhone first, don't get bogged down on it being on "platform X". Photoshop, as you mentioned, is a great example, it didn't need t…

I was sad to see that Gruber couldn't step out of his Apple bubble to tackle this topic (or any topic, ever), so I will: Everyone who thinks "I should be developing for platform X"…

Related: how's Apple's "open" FaceTime specification coming along? Still waiting on just the specification here. Not even code.

The real news is not that they're taking back stock, it's that their initial stock plan was so screwed up that they have to do it.

Prediction: A BSD fan is going to go bonkers over a particular line in this article.

> If Google didn't raise big money, they wouldn't have went on to do as many early acquisitions. Without those acquisitions, they don't stumble onto adwords/adsense Adwords was out…

Galvin is/was a household name in Chicagoland. RIP.

> Who's making that conclusion? Everyone who even brings up that he used LSD as a point of interest. At least that's the implication being made. > that doesn't make the points bein…

> What fallacy is being committed here? Concluding that he wouldn't been the same successful person without doing LSD. There's no evidence of causation. That's the fallacy. I'm not…

I learned LISP and Python before Java and C#. The latter two are just as useful nevertheless. The world's experience outside of HN makes me think Dart will not be at all inhibited …

Staying with the norm worked out quite well for both Java and C#.

The thing I never understand about these articles: why aren't C, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, Python and other mundane languages "worth checking out?" I don't think you should assume peopl…

Ok... that fixes the keyboard, not the entire reach, which is what OP is discussing.