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marcog1on JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

http://codesheriff.blogspot.com/2012/02/xcode-vs-appcode.htm...

This article summed it up quite well for me when I was making the decision.

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marcog1on Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM

It sounds like he prepared for that: "get as close to PHP as possible, implementing enough warts and corner cases to be reasonably sure that it answers hard problems in the PHP language"

marcog1on Prototype PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolchain - Hippy VM

http://www.quora.com/What-Kickstarter-alternatives-exist-for...

Not sure if any of these are worth looking into. You definitely lose out on the brand weight that comes with kickstarter.

marcog1on The Facebook Offering: How It Compares

Have you taken into account Facebook being the reason a lot of people joined the Internet?

marcog1on Just say No to brainteaser questions at interviews

The main problem I have, is when I've seen the answer to a question but don't remember it 100%. Your brain generally goes into recall mode, and rather than actually solving the problem I sometimes give an inaccurate answer and it can become hard to kick your brain back into thinking the answer through. Sometimes telling the interviewer you've heard the question before is enough to make him move on, other times they want to hear your answer anyway.

marcog1on What I learned interviewing with Google

The big companies get so many candidates that they can't possibly do all applications justice. So they rely on referrals. If you know someone at the company, asking them to pass on your CV will hugely increase the chance of getting a phone screen.

marcog1on Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

Facebook now has asymmetric relationships with subscriptions, and the app platform noisiness has improved a great deal in recent years. I just block apps which are particularly noisy.

marcog1on Google+ for Google Apps users - it's a matter of days

Many people, me included, use Google Apps for personal use. You get a much more personalised/professional email address.

marcog1on Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

He makes about €172,493 in sales a day (source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp). $15,000 is relatively nothing to him.

marcog1on Scryptic iPhone game: words are your weapons and strategy your friend

This was developed by Computer Science professors at the University of Cape Town.

Video for those on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150400020984867...

Design docs: http://www.lksgameworks.com/dev.html

marcog1on Ask HN: Programming Problems for Plane Rides

I'm not sure about sites that let you download all their problems in one go, but look at my list of sites of programming problems here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697615/are-there-any-sit...

marcog1on Google launches Y Combinator-like Umbono in South Africa

I'll honestly say I'm not hugely familiar with YCombinator, but this project Google just announced in South Africa sounds quite similar. What do fellow hacker news readers think about this initiative? Would you apply?

marcog1on Regular expression to search for Gadaffi

Also see http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/6/1/f/61f34aa25871e9546b6a1...

marcog1on Why I do my resume in LaTeX

I've had that before. I sent them the latex source and they've been able to handle the rest.

marcog1on Bing search results showing up in Google

Small correction: All crawled urls are "/Search" or "/~/search". Note that www.bing.com/search/ is indexed (link was found on another page), but not crawled (result has no snippet).

marcog1on New security settings coming to Facebook

You can kinda do this, but the current implementation is cleverer and only triggers for logins from new computers. The option is in the same place where you enable https.

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marcog1on Google Purchases 111 Eighth Avenue, NYC

Google's mission:

"organize the world's information" - what information is being organized?

"and make it universally accessible" - are they going to make the building universally accessible?

"and useful" - I'm sure the building is useful without Google owning it :)

marcog1on List of freely available programming books

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/

marcog1on 14-year-old Belarusian wins International Olympiad in Informatics

From what I hear he has 3 more years. It's damn impressive when you consider who he had to beat and the problems they were given. He also came into this year's IOI with two golds and one silver from previous years, so he has a lot of experience. Another major feat is that he recently became the youngest TopCoder target (top 20 or so in an open ranking system).

marcog1on YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

It' doesn't take much for Google's web search to support an outdated browser since it uses minimal javascript, so Google will only lose out by blocking IE6.

marcog1on Google Calendar now has tasks

My Google domain has it already. In general though, it's probably because most Google domain clients are businesses which require greater stability than the average individual.