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_random_on Ask HN: What computer setup do you use?

Most important stuff (no brands): SSD, two screens, mechanical tenkeyless keyboard.

_random_on Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (2007)

2016-s default gentlemen's choice: Azure, Win10, Docker, CoreCLR, ASP.NET Web API, F#, TypeScript.

_random_on Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (2007)

Unfortunately it pushed the industry on the wrong path. Now everyone is coming app with transpilable super-sets and some folks are even pushing the unmaintainable code to the previously safe server-side (node, meteor etc.).

_random_on Experimental New Directions for Javascript

How can you f..k up something that is screwed up from the start? Oh, the beauty: http://wtfjs.com

_random_on Experimental New Directions for Javascript

Google consists of openly competing departments as far as I understand? Java vs Go vs Dart vs Python vs AtScript vs Sane/Sound/Script. They are either non-general-purpose (DSL) or competing.

_random_on Programmer IS a Career Path, Thank You

Sounds great, but how is ageism going to be fixed first? It's one of the drivers for becoming managers.

_random_on Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward.

OK, you probably know more than me. I just assumed that most of those libraries are then consumed from something like Python. If you want to develop high-performance libraries themselves, then C++ is probably the way to go. Unless you want to be on the cutting edge with something like Rust :).

_random_on Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward.

"I would really like get more involved in machine learning, data analytics, scientific computing" - this doesn't sound like C++ at all.

_random_on Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward.

It's quite a different and useful language but definitely not a better one. You have to be forgiving, as F# is struggling to get more traction, especially in terms of tooling... No ReSharper, no CodeRush, no Roslyn. But I've heard that F# compiler implementation is quite elegant - that's something, right?

_random_on Programmers Need to Learn Statistics

Nah, rather market needs to pay us more for knowing it. Then we'll learn it.

_random_on How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web

So, not Dart, not Go.

_random_on CoreCLR is now open source

If they could add native C#(+HTML5) support to Spartan now that would be amazing...

_random_on How much do indie PC devs make, anyways?

Good analogy. One can also become a "porn" actor: producing lots of poor-quality ad-driven Android games (which is most of Android games).

_random_on How much do indie PC devs make, anyways?

Yeah, market loves games that are f..ing people right in the brain: Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans and other 3 word combinations slapped on psychologically-tuned IAP "fun".

_random_on Ask HN: What do you do if some other startup got funding for your exact idea?

Don't want to rub it in, but I thought the rule #1 of modern start up is to never bet your own money.

_random_on Frontend dev is getting exhausting

"I have to learn & master yet another framework like Ember and Backbone. And all of the hard work that I've put into learning Angular would have been for nothing."

Would it be awkward to send him that Angular 2.0 changes presentation?

This is the reason we see so many JS job posts. It's not that it's popular, more like nobody wants to deal with that crap. Not only the language is hopelessly broken (which cannot be fixed by ES 6 syntax sugar due to compatibility reasons AFAIK), the frameworks are changing every month. I did not even start giving a f..k about React and now I am supposed to be caring about some Riot 2.0 or whatever?

_random_on Back-up brains: The era of digital immortality

A taste of future-shocked ludditish outlook to come.

_random_on The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978) [pdf]

Yes, long-term everything could be printed via nano-robots. Even if not directly but as a sequence of building different plants. So something like a seed nano-robot colony + manufacturing blue-prints.

_random_on $1.6B in funding and $7B in exits: Chicago tech just had its best year ever

It's interesting what would be 80s/90s person assumption?

"1.6B in funding! Oh boy, robots, life extension, hover cars!"

"Err, no. But you will be targeted with ads about food delivery and HR services much more precisely!"

_random_on How much should I raise in my angel round? How should I spend it?

London: $50-100k USD for 40% (Gaming). Don't come here.

_random_on What you can earn working at Google

"If you want one of those jobs, the data suggest you should go to school in the California."

Because Diversity.

_random_on Will Windows 10, DirectX 12 mean a golden age for PC gamers?

If I could play mainstream indie titles from Steam in a touch-friendly manner on a tablet... Man, I would throw my CandyCrushClanClash-infested iPad and Nexus right into a fire barrel.

_random_on Akka.NET – One Year Later

I guess Pluralsight might be interested in a series later on. Sounds similar to what NServiceBus is doing, but unfortunately NServiceBus is a bit of an endemic.

_random_on Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

Yes, and Oculus Rift is now less relevant as well (good timing for selling it to Facebook). Why buy a dedicated heavy wired non-see-throw helmet? To shit yourself when someone is tapping your shoulder?

_random_on Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

1 year to product announcement, but the whole retina-projection thing might be game changing.

_random_on Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

They have a vision, Minecraft was fitting that vision. So they consumed it. It was smart. Project Spark makes more sense now as well.

_random_on Windows 10 Live Stream (17:00 GMT, 9AM PT, 12PM ET)

Thanks, corrected!

_random_on Windows 10 Live Stream (17:00 GMT, 9AM PT, 12PM ET)

The Verge live blog:

http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-10-event-live-blo...

_random_on Show HN: My First 3D Android Game Using Unity3D – Dragon Slayer: Reign of Fire

First word-combination on this page is "cross-language":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL

Taking that goodness and making it CrapScript-only is an abomination:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL

_random_on Show HN: My First 3D Android Game Using Unity3D – Dragon Slayer: Reign of Fire

Also not having to deal with C++ or visual scripting could be a major plus.