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Hey Eli,

Wow, looks very full featured for a side project. Must have taken a lot of effort to get it to this stage.

I'm an Axure user (also use pixate and framer), so I gave your tool a quick whirl (using Chrome).

I think some of the workflow bits could be improved, for example, here is what I did:

1) Placed a tab container on the screen (iPhone template)

2) Went into edit mode and placed a header on tab 1

3) Copied header from tab 1 and went to tab 2 and pasted it there.

What I expected was that it would place it in the same location as it was on tab 1, but instead it placed it somewhere randomly, so I had to move it to the same location, which takes extra time. I know, it might seem picky, but these little things do matter to me, as it speeds up my work.

Haven't tried the 'scratch' like code editor yet. Will give it a go.

What would you say makes your app better than Axure for example?

Anyway, congrats on launching and wish you all the success with it!

I wouldn't say it was dictatorial - Metro was a strong set of guidelines and templates to help developers get a good enough looking app without the need of a UI designer (can't say it worked though).

Nothing was stopping you from actually doing a hamburger menu yourself - other apps have done it - see Facebook and Barclays.

To me the decision to move away from Metro feels like it wasn't made by the design team. I think it was mostly driven by engineering and the business and of course time constraints to launch Windows 10. I can understand it from that perspective, but I don't necessarily think it will help adoption for WP.

Will developers now suddenly consider to port their apps, just because the UI is similar to iOS / Android, implying that it will be easier?

I doubt it.

Clickable link: https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/windows-phone/3000/ex-micros...

To answer your question what to do with your knowledge, how about building an app just to get the ball rolling. This way you are also building a portfolio, which will help in your job interview.

If you're lacking ideas for a project then read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5234692

Agree, yes it might 'wow' you at first, but when you see this used more and more on other sites, the novelty is gone.

What does it really add, other than slowing down your scrolling (my laptop: i7, discrete gfx) and briefly distracting you while you focused on the text.

Congrats for shipping and thanks for the write-up. I think you should follow up with how you found developing the game with Unity3D.

Also had a quick look at your game. I tried the web version. I like the animation of the astronaut, but all in all it probably needs a bit more polish and it's quite difficult - even more so than Flappy Bird. Maybe it's easier on a touch device.

I'm a beginner and Clojure is on my list to try out, so this tutorial comes in handy. However I was looking to use LightTable - is this still a good choice?

http://lighttable.com/

Thanks guys... Mixamo looks pretty good, bookmarked for future use.

Impressive animation - where did you the mocap data from, or all animated by hand?

Excellent - I'd be willing to spend around $20 - PDF is my preferred format (iPad and Desktop PC), but agree with notdrunkatall, why not offer all three.

Same here - I was excited to see this kind of book, as I'm trying to improve my maths knowledge and the conciseness and structure of Ivan's book was attractive, but no eBook option stopped me right there.

While we're on the topic of exams, I've recently came across the following book[1] that deals specifically with doing better in maths heavy exams - you might want to have a look whether it's something that can help you in your exams:

[1] Exam Mastery - How to excel in maths-heavy exams http://www.amazon.com/Exam-Mastery-excel-maths-heavy-ebook/d...

As the price point is a deciding factor, do you think Microsoft will subsidize the Surface as they did with the XBox?

Tried it and it made me smile - you're much prettier than me, so I take my comment back referring to your drawing as sh*tty. Just wanted to illustrate what was happening in my head. I know it's very subjective anyway, so please don't take it personal.

Regarding my first link, I didn't know it was based on a template and I doubt many recruiters will know as well. Just thought it's one example of an easy to scan resume.

I've done my share of recruiting and here is some brutally honest but hopefully helpful feedback:

1) The caricature of yourself is the first thing I noticed and it put me off. It's a bad drawing and triggered a negative responsive - I now have to make a mental effort to screen it out and avoid referring to you as "the dev with the sh*tty drawing". I'd just stick to your photo, which looks much better and gives me the impression that you're a pleasant chap to work with.

2) Your CV is a visual mess - serif font with varying sizes and styles... I felt lost.

3) Too much waffle, i.e. too many words. Focus on your recent achievements, major obstacles you've encountered and how you overcame those etc. something to peek my interest.

4) Horrible color-scheme (might be the texture and the poor gradient further down), reminds me of old battle-ship gray Windows 95 apps. If you want to use gray, see how Apple's website is using it.

5) I'd avoid words like "cool" or "mad skillz".

In short, keep it simple and stick to what recruiters are used to seeing. Some examples of nicely formatted and easy to scan resumes are:

http://resume.justindickinson.com/ http://oaktreecreative.com/resume/

Appreciate what you're saying and I did get that Watson doesn't truly "understand" us yet, but still, what has been achieved so far is pretty impressive and would have useful applications even in its current form. Curious to see what IBM will do next with this.

Ignorance is bliss so they say. This is not about a computer beating humans in trivia questions, but about computers learning to understand humans. This is a major milestone in natural language processing and imagine what this can do when it will be available on a wider scale.

Watch this please:

Building Watson - A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2H3DZ8rNc

Delicious is not being closed down, this should be old news by now: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101217/tc_pcworld/yahoower...

So there is no need to jump ship, unless you want to of course.