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Really nice game...great job! Graphics are really nice.

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto, Canada onsite

Over 15 years experience with Microsoft technologies and specialization in integration using BizTalk server. Broad range of industries and sizes of implemented systems with excellent verbal as well as written communication skills.

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The article references a paper from 1980 called "On Understanding Laws, Evolution, and Conservation in the Large-Program Life Cycle". I just skimmed it - incredible insights that continue to be relevant.

from the article..."It won’t take long until there is virtually no time in between a movie release in theaters and a movie release on Netflix."

...not in Canada!

Latest we have is from 1996 (not actually of course, but what's available on Netflix Canada lags pretty far behind Netflix US)

This is great! I think it would be useful to provide more details about this. Perhaps include a 360 degree view (rotate); a view of the administrator's interface; sample report/audit report; details about connectivity.

>Error establishing a database connection

This works...

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/sep14/09-30fu...

Just a day on the job as far as they were concerned. As with many things you might do, you only realize what you were doing was important (often) long after the fact.

This is a really good article because it clearly lays out possible exploits; journalists could use this to more accurately report about this.

How about sys 64738 (cold start/reboot) - useful in many ways!

Nicely written - the last paragraph draws the whole arc...from C preprocessor directives to Twitter hashtags; brings it together.

I try to keep it simple - use the rss feed with something like newsblur and click stories I find interesting. So you can skip the big company stories and focus on what you prefer.

Plus, who knows, by reviewing all of the headlines you just might find a gem of a story.

I think a better experience is possible with a start button over a static background to provide the viewer with an idea about what they're about to get into.

Hi,

Your story is really nice and your motivation is well stated in your blog post: "...the fragmented condition and outdated technologies of the commercial real estate industry continued to frustrate me.....I decided to find a better solution"

I feel your story stands out with that one sentence - it would have been better to lead with that. I also feel the emphasis on your age and role as a single parent takes away from your central motivation when you lead with those points.

My 0.0000424 btc! Good luck with your startup

..."in a non-Enterprise environment" - yes...well..expanding into an enterprise; using BizTalk server (Microsoft).

I design and create SOA solutions through services exposed by/through BizTalk and build an ESB solution to orchestrate the services which acts as a substrate for 'composable' applications (again, using BizTalk and apps that use the services are web-based, or whatever client apps the organization wants to use; many apps are integrations between systems like line of business using various approaches that include EDI, etc).

Basic information: the time zone - it's not in the article, so how is this information useful?

I take it that both Google and Bing are broken...I get this message..

"um, you broke it. I could blame myself for letting you break it but that would make an ass out of you and me :)"

Nice try!

From the article..."Create an alternative", "...Find another way to give people a similar experience."

Maybe PhoneGap...balsamiq...plus there are lots of apps for prototyping using an iPad.

The article also advises to find your niche...be careful of going too specialized - there are thousands of apps around and getting too specialized could be detrimental since so many other apps might cover your niche plus many others (like teaching only addition when other math educational apps teach other operations in addition to addition)

>>...which is an extremely scaled down version of a real application

You're putting the candidate in a very vulnerable and stressful position:

You're potentially asking a candidate to solve a problem with your application (even if scaled down)--

The question/assignment could be a long-standing issue your staff have been unable to address on their own and you want to try to find out whether you can get a free solution from qualified people.

The candidate(s) could get the correct answer, yet you could walk away from the process with a free solution.

>> "I think very few people have ever declined"

That's short-sighted - they're not declining because the want/need a job and are already vulnerable during the process; many would not, understandably, have the presence of mind to decline.

...in other words, understand your customers.

Nice 'onboarding' with the call to action to tweet to get rewarded with more info

The "mistake" is at the end...

'There are no breakout apps. There is no WhatsApp or DrawSomething. App.net remains a plaything for developers...'

...it certainly took them long enough to get to it.

I think firing the guy for this is pretty extreme - it does not allow for:

* the owner to constructively handle issues like this (maybe like educating the 'offender') * the 'offender' to learn from his mistake and understand it in a broader context

All we have here is action: twitter-shame non-tipper; result: fired. Very short-sighted.

As far as the story itself goes - tipping is optional (even for large/huge orders), so the guy was in the wrong to begin with.

I think we're a little late to the party - this story is from July 15 and the facebook page for this dates back to May 15.

* Get a copy editor

A copy editor will challenge your sentence structures, paragraphs, overall flow, and much more.

Compare what you wrote before the copy editor did their work, versus after - you'll see a big difference.

Note that copy editing is often an iterative process - so you'll work with the editor as you complete your revisions.

Yet in the end it is your book, so you don't have to follow the copy editor's suggestions if you think you're right/know your topic more than he or she does/etc.

If you want your experience to come through, don't make it the primary point. Your experience will become apparent in the things you write and the way you write about them.

Out of the first 9 paragraphs in 'Focus on Delivering Results' you use "I" in 6 of them - you start 3 of them with "I". The excerpt reads more like a biography.

I don't know whether you worked with a copy editor - if you didn't, you should have.

You also should have had some independent reviews prior to publishing - maybe someone would have been kind enough to tell you about all of those "I"s - they make the text "feel" rough and unfinished.

You could go crazy with the "I"s in your "about the author" section, yet let the book's content speak for itself.

Given this, the excerpt diminishes the book's value for me, so it's unlikely I would pay $25 for it. If I wanted a biography, I would get a biography.

I agree - a thinly veiled slam against young adults and the changing nature of communications.

They're both somewhat in the wrong, yet the author should have been more mature in the approach as well as the blog post.

This is the first time I have heard of Snow Fall - and no wonder - it's nothing new. A bunch of moving pictures and some text. I don't see how this is any different than sites with irritating flash video ads (or just video) on them - text plus video/moving pictures.

If I were someone at NYT, I would be flattered that someone took the time to replicate my stuff since it seems someone seems to think it's worth stealing/borrowing/copying/etc

Try ddg.gg

Various news outlets are starting to report on the outage:

http://www.theaustralianeye.com/current-news/widespread-inte...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/26/major-sites-and-pla...

http://investorplace.com/2012/10/tumblr-comes-tumbling-down-...

On the same note, with today's economy it's likely the majority won't bother upgrading since their Windows installs work, so why upgrade now?

This is an interesting analysis yet the information can be derived from using your site's analytics and your observational skills to come to the author's conclusion.

It's like a painting - the subject matter is important, yet the stuff around the main subject is what makes it stand out.

Analyze what your stats don't have, or seem to have 'less of', as compared to other content.

I think the data analysis could have been more interesting to a broader audience by making it more 'newsworthy' rather than a raw analysis targeted at a relatively small community (compared to a more general audience).

By 'newsworthy' I mean something along the lines of 'NYTimes, WSJ used by technical users too' - or something like that - or something like - 'Hackers in controversy - observers and participants'.