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Thanks for checking the page out buddy!

Microsoft made licenses for their OS's free for anything under 9 inches.

I haven't used Typescript yet, but I'm very keen on it. How fast is the compiler currently for you? (eg. seconds or minutes?, and how big is your codebase? (eg. 10k or 100k?)

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I'll be honest with you guys. Since G+ integration, I've found the comments left on YouTube videos to be far more intelligent and appealing to read.

Can't the merchant just treat it like an online payment. Take the Card number, expiry date and security code?

Not sure what you mean by that, but thanks for checking it out :D

Real-time is definitely the future of development, but disappointed to see no mention of real-time client side technologies like the one I'm working on (http://playir.com). That allows you to update client-side source code across mobile web & native platforms.

Here's the full progress update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920406198/playir-drag-an...

I loved it back when it was using a fixed Wednesday deadline and saved bandwidth by linking to private YouTube videos, (rather than hosting nReduce copies).

If you bring it back, make sure you let me know.

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Great post! I'm a huge C++/Anti-GC/Games developer here.

Few notes. On performance, most of the time, I'm GPU bound when writing games. In this JavaScript based game for iOS: http://imgur.com/XQdGKHw,swTBC9T#0

I'm getting 11ms used up on the CPU and 29ms used up on the GPU: http://imgur.com/XQdGKHw,swTBC9T#1

That's 11ms using iOS JavaScript which isn't JIT optimised.

Granted CPU will go crazy if I try running advanced Physics using JavaScript, but I tend to push Math intensive functions to C++ using a hybrid approach.

On GC, I'm not a fan, I like managing my memory. However, UnrealEngine, which is super-awesome, has a built in garbage collector. In my experience with it, whenever someone tries to blame its GC for performance/memory abuse, to my dissatisfaction, the problem usually lies elsewhere.

Main reason I've full on switched to the JavaScript world for development is its ability to re-interpret code on the fly. Allowing me to write and tweak, code/ui/design changes in real-time across multiple-devices.

I imagine you can do both in a really small or one man team, but to do both in anything bigger will require a very difficult context switch between job functions.

You beat me by 30 seconds. Congrats!

The new version of IE supports WebGL: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/30/4165204/microsoft-bringing...

*I totally nerded out when I found out by the way.

That's really interesting actually. Is JavaScript still considered a scripting language or given it's modern web development application, is it now a fully fledged programming language?

C++ is awesome, but I kinda went the other way with my stuff for more flexibility. JavaScript as the main programming language and C++ only for the performance and driver access bottlenecks. (More info: http://multiplay.io)

Are there any good counter-examples of uber-successful tech CEOs who aren't/weren't jerks?

My friend works now for Skype/rosoft and they hired him particularly because of his knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript.

Mr. Doob talked about this at JSConf EU 2012. Here's a link if you're interested in finding out more about it: http://youtu.be/qx40CRwwkS8?t=25m31s

I'm sure this is true, but I believe that the root cause of the management practices that result in this situation is the byproduct of company direction and culture. As an example, if the direction of the company is primarily to maintain a headcount, then there is only so many mental games a manager can play to retain it's ambitious employees.

Thanks!

I loved this comment 'I noticed that "mongodb.org" is not on the Production Deployments List above. It appears this site uses Confluence which I believe uses PostgreSQL(or MySQL). It's hard to have confidence in an organization that does not even use its own technology.'

Check the get started section of the new official language website: http://isocpp.org/

Very clever.

I love this part: "Google built the largest pattern recognizer of them all, a system running on sixteen thousand processor cores that analyzed ten million YouTube videos and managed to learn, all by itself, to recognize cats and faces" with 15.8 percent accuracy.

I'm working on one of those. Beta SDK should be out soon too: http://multiplay.io

We didn't get in either this time. But it's always nice having the opportunity to apply to these things.

Would love to see more of the application videos (it might be embarrassing to put yourself out there, but I'm sure everyone here's a supportive bunch and just wants to learn).

Hang in there.

Definitely recommend, I've been with nReduce for about 16 weeks now, and I've found it really useful publicly setting yourself weekly targets that you actually need to deliver for.

Plus the guys who run it are great.

Rys is cool though. He gives out of office hours support for people learning 3d graphics.

Check out his recent talk at the London Graphics Hackerspace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzcEKHbBv4