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LOVED my Action Replay. That was really clever - apart from infinite lives, you could also pull out the sprites.

I feel like we live in similar times any time I see a good javascript game!

I know this will change within the hour, but I'm watching the apple keynote and they haven't said a thing about the iPhone yet...

I was thinking the same thing... I can only think of "bragging rights" or a learning experience.

Although I think this is what makes the (internet) world awesome at the moment. The author sounds like they were mucking around to see how far they could get. Put some thoughts down for others to read and who knows?

Whenever we're recruiting, we always look for interesting things a candidate has done. Something like this will easily get you a first interview...

If I were 10 years younger & without kids... Hand to hand combat with the military police on a weekend sounds awesome!!!

Never understood westerners who live in Thailand (or any non-english, Asian country) but don't bother to learn the language. It's not as if you need to be fluent or even that good at it...

If you are going to stay as a junior or even mid level developer - not much. But if there's even a slight chance you might move on to software architect, management or sales then in my experience it is essential. That doesn't mean you have to like it or promote it. Just having an understanding of what it is and how it might help makes a difference.

I don't think that is as crazy as it sounds. Remember, back then, the commercial potential of a "computer" was for the military.

Even if you had the idea & concept back then, AND the money to build it - what would you do with it? You're not using it like we use computers today...

I've certainly seen great slabs of code that have clearly been copied from somewhere, perhaps not Stackoverflow.

Unless there is some type of reference, you have no idea of what is going on or why...

VERY opinionated! You are going to get downvoted to heck for comments like that.

Try personalizing it: 'I found PHP much easier to learn for ..... but when I wanted xyz performance, .NET performance was abc.'

Give a use case / example where no code changes helped.

As others have said, apparently PHP7 is better than PHP5...

You are (VERY!) unlikely to change the minds of die hard .NET or PHP people, but you'll have a lot more potential with someone who doesn't know either...

In 2012, Microsoft was a significant contributor to Linux[1]. This was mostly because of Hyper-V.

So, if/when it suits them, Microsoft are all over Linux

[1]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/16/linux_foundation_ker...

Well, you don't have to. But if you are a teacher, I can see the potential

I think you might be a bit harsh.

First thing on the landing page, it says: "Write your music scores online" Create, collaborate and discover sheet music with your web browser

I found the "popular" link pretty quickly. Click that, and if you STILL unclear on the site, then no matter what they do, you're unlikely to be happy...

Well written.

I know we hear a lot of doom and gloom, but I think it's a fantastic time we live in.

Not only do we have the transparency of the courts (which is good, but I don't understand it), we have an article summarising it. We then have the author available for comment.

I don't have any questions or feedback, but if I did, I feel confident you would respond appropriately.

I know we are far from perfect world but the one we have is pretty dam awesome!

Have you read 'the Artists Way' (Julia Cameron)?

For me, it wasn't about setting thoughts & feelings free, it was about getting clarity around them.

A good example - Donald Trump. Do I like him? (No! He's racist!) What about him do I respect? Are there better options? etc.

Give it a try!

My wife is a professional violinist. If you've seen a recent Australian movie or watched commercial news, you most likely have heard her play.

The way she practices, the way she "gets in the flow" is VASTLY different to a new pupil.

Perhaps if you have been doing (anything!) for 25 years, comparing yourself (and the steps you take) to get into the right head space is different.

That being said, if you've been doing this for 25 years - how do you get in the flow? What techniques do you use? If this doesn't work, what does?

Help us / help me! Seriously, I'd like to know.

I'm not too sure why, but I find this quite clever and very funny!

Can anyone recommend other Github projects with a similar ReadMe?

I was the same. Spent many hours trying to convert the C64 / Apple code into the Dick Smith Wizard. Loved it and drove me nuts at the same time...

(In over 20 years) I've been laid off 3 times.

I know how much it sucks the first & second time, but once you see the warning signs there is no glory in hanging around.

For me, being laid off (or resigning) is just another skill I got better at (like learning a new tech stack or framework).

You are right, with leadership like that, the environment must be toxic...

That's very clever - but I can't keep thinking that you would go to hell for using it...

I'm sure that was a commercial decision, not a technical one.

They could be running Glacier storage at cost (or even a slight loss).

But they make their profit when you try to get your data out.

I'm not implying anything nefarious - more along the lines that Amazon (could have!) looked at the market and compared demand to what they were offering. Then found something that scratched an itch...

(I think!!!) it is a problem of scale.

In 3rd world locations, you can be walking 3km every 2nd day to fill a jerrycan of water.

If that's the case then you aren't going to use that to flush.

And even if you do (using grey water after cleaning etc.), then you won't have the toilet inside the house.

THIS is spot on!

The only thing I'd add is to choose one of those technologies (jQuery / Node / Angular / Whatever!) and learn it (reasonably) well.

I can't tell you how many times I've used Pluralsight to bone up on a particular technology...

I've been following Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) who has some really interesting solutions.

As others have said, bombing didn't work the first time...

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133201726716/france

I had the same reaction to the South photo.

I often wonder how much of what I see today as "normal" will be perceived as horrible / offensive / wrong in 50 years time.

Gay marriage is an obvious one, (Australian) treatment of refugees, anything else?

Most people are helpful (so long as you don't sound snarky) and don't mind answering...

(Coming from a Windows background) I often wonder what the appeal is to something like this.

(Seriously!) Why would you use something like this over say a spreadsheet? Is it really much easier than opening a browser and running Google Docs???

I agree. I am constantly surprised when people have the concept of free

They will happily pay $50 - $200 for drinks on the weekend, but when something hosting comes up, there's a perception that it "should" be free.

At the end of the day, we all pay. It's just a question of how much...

What do you do with one of these things? I get the concept of totally understanding the hardware & software, but once you bootup, then what? Are you presented with a command prompt? Can you use it for an IoT?

Or (on the software side) is its purpose to understand how compilers work?

What @personjerry said. His accountant must loose his mind.

In my experience, hosting is a lot more expensive than everyone thinks. That being said, choose a number - 40%, 60%, 90%.

I've never seen a business that generates THAT much revenue with such low overheads. Awesome business!

The article says the platform has a ‘few thousand’ users. Let's be conservative and say 2000.

40% of basic at $295 = $236k 40% of pro at $295 = $396k 20% of basic at $295 = $398k

Equals $1.03M. PER MONTH! With one staff (I think the zero staff is a stretch)

Overheads would be significant, but still, let's say they are 90%.

He is still earning $100k per month profit. Not a bad business...

I'd love to see a postmortem on Atlassian's rise to fame where other tools haven't succeeded.

I remember reading a brief comment by Joel Spolsky saying he wasn't too worried about "those blokes from Australia". At lot more people I work with know more about Jira than Fogbugz.

IMO Atlassian do OK tools. But nothing to justify the hype they are always receiving. What am I missing - Price? Features? Implementation pain (or lack thereof)?