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Honest question: how does that article contradict that statement? Everyone is bouncing off the walls about this but I honestly can't see where the story is. Microsoft + others enab…

"I’m your typical “balls to the wall” founder that will sacrifice all for the sake of the startup" ... "I founded and ran GooseChase, which makes running scavenger hunts incredibly…

Partially, the problem is that "designer" is such an elastic word. You could argue that an interaction designer should be able to code, at least enough to make a realistic prototyp…

But affordances (such as bevelled buttons) are not the same as skeuomorphic design. Bevelling an area of the screen implies that something is pressable and hence aids the user. Cov…

They all have something to do with software development in specific situations. But the assertion is that this set of "exam papers" represent the canonical body of development know…

:) This is surely just degenerating into parody now. I can't wait for part 4: "Build a Turing Machine from scratch using paper-clips and sticky tape and send it to me for grading. …

Indeed, presenting this more 'guide to interesting things you should know' rather than 'here's an exam I've condescended to set for everyone dumber than me' would have worked out m…

No. They can be interesting things to read about, and knowing a little about the themes each question comes from (i.e. how does a processor cache work) will make you a better progr…

Hear, hear. Obsession with trivia and a supercilious tone are sure signals of a B-player in my experience. "Name and describe the four states in MESI cache coherence"? Sorry, memor…

I'm a big fan of The Verge but this seems melodramatic and a little hollow. The HP machine doesn't just share a few design features with the iMac, it's lifted the design wholesale.…

Oh god, an OSNews article from Thom Holwerda about how "obvious" the iPhone was is now top of Hacker News? How long do I need to switch the internet off for to restore sanity?

Hitler? That's where you want to go in a thread about web browsers? Maybe it's time to switch to decaff.

I'm not a big fan of agile either but "over 40" == "the smell of death"? Seriously? Not a convincing, or classy, opening line. And this was posted by the CEO of Assembla.

Chrome 19.0.1084.56 on OSX 10.7.4...

I hit this too - what does "doesn't cover" mean above? If two people have already hit this you might be having problems with more than 0.7%...

Wow. What a disgraceful exchange. The 'apology' that not-so-subtly implies Shanley has an agenda because they didn't employ her doesn't exactly exude contrition, or class.

Meh. I'm sure his comment was well-intentioned: If you spend most of your time communicating with computers then your communication with humans can sometimes tend toward the 'abrup…

Thanks, I'll patch this up when I have more time - though I'm not sure there's enough time in the world to fix my sloppy C code... ;)

This is often how text buffers are implemented in editors. Since most text edits are contiguous, the gap means you don't keep shuffling memory around with each insertion and theref…

Thoroughly depressed by the responses here - especially on a site that prides itself (or used to) on being more nuanced and intelligent than average. If you don't like the message …

"I will instantly disregard any CV that doesn't have reference to a GitHub account" Well bravo you. The problem with recruitment in our industry is not the candidates with no GitHu…

Nice! Like everyone else, I had a stab at the same problem. Not nearly as slick but might be interesting: http://www.thebitflow.com/journal.php#photo_upload (github: https://github…

Augmentative dicks always think they are A-players. That's very rarely the case, but they'll never rise far enough to find that out.

Agreed. I've looked at Go quite a bit and I can't figure out what new problems it solves, or how it solves existing problems better than previous procedural/OOP languages. How is b…

You may want to check out Opacity ( http://likethought.com/opacity/ ) which can export to ObjC, HTML5 Canvas, SVG and PNG/Jpeg etc.