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Accepting the counter offer may not be a great strategy, but listening to it is. When changing jobs the last time, my old employer offered a salary bump to keep me. When I told thi…

It's not really DOM manipulation that was avoided, it was the simpe rerender on every change model that was avoided (for good reason, before React it performed horribly for anythin…

In my previous job at the Finnish software consulting company Futurice ( http://futurice.com ), there was a long discussion about this that ended with a volunteer-based publication…

That sort of thing happens all the time on stackoverflow, where most of the users aren't native English speakers. Go for it!

I don't want to give any information out before it's revealed to everyone, it wouldn't be fair. I'll just say that the response speed does matter, but at least in our beta tests th…

F# is very likely to be added (unless we run into some problems), thanks for your feedback :)

During the finals yes. The qualifying round is run with standardized virtual linux boxes, so all bots must have the same build and run scripts. With the amount of participants we'r…

I agree. The main point of this competition is fun - having beta tested the system I can promise that writing bots and watching them compete is a lot of fun. I hope your team can p…

(Disclaimer: I'm not part of the organizing team, but I do work for Reaktor - so this is just my opinion, not an official position.) As I've understood, the same country requiremen…

It does work - I've seen it :) It does depend on a low ping between the bots and the server, but that is taken care of by the organizers.

Servers are available for testing during development, running the code on your own computer - the CI server is useful in that it verifies that your code compiles and runs on the li…