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gamesurgeon | 9 years ago | on: Apple Removes New York Times Apps from iTunes Store in China

"...Later that day, a separate team from Apple informed The Times that the apps would be removed".

Am I reading that right? Seems like the Times is not-so-subtly implying that Apple tipped off the Chinese authorities. Maybe they mentioned the scathing nature of the article that could potentially paint China in bad light.

For those that didn't read that article, it unveils billions of dollars in perks given to Foxconn/Apple: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-ch...

gamesurgeon | 10 years ago | on: Xv6

I'm a student at Johns Hopkins, and we're using xv6 in our OS course this semester: http://gaming.jhu.edu/~phf/2015/fall/cs318/

xv6 is pretty awesome for learning, and lecture is generally spent reading through the source code, some of which is...cute.

Most of us have the source code printed out. If you're interested in reading the source, this document is well-formated: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/xv6-rev8.pdf (and can actually be generated by the Makefile!)

gamesurgeon | 11 years ago | on: What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs

"A week later, Smith published an open letter calling for Yahoo to...merge with AOL. Redundancies could be eliminated, thousands of people could be fired and two former Internet superpowers would be downsized into a single and steady (if uninspiring) entity...'We trust the board and management will do the right thing for shareholders, even if this may mean accepting AOL as the surviving entity'"

I see where Smith is coming from, but that doesn't make his case any less unsettling. Do some economists really believe that the "right" thing to do is fire thousands of people?

Are a company's shareholders really more important than its employees?

gamesurgeon | 11 years ago | on: Skeleton 2.0 CSS Framework

Skeleton is the only "sane" CSS boilerplate framework I've encountered. It's incredibly minimal -- the entire framework is so small and elegant that I can crank out websites without delving into the subtleties of the documentation. I find it really intuitive to use, and while I don't do a lot of web dev, when I do it's almost always with Skeleton.

Anyways, I'm so glad you're working on Skeleton again! Congrats on the 2.0 release, and thanks for all of the hard work!

gamesurgeon | 11 years ago | on: I'm Leaving Mojang

"I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter...If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately."

I have the utmost respect for notch after reading that.

gamesurgeon | 11 years ago | on: Stupid Apps and Changing the World

If you build something you love, chances are someone else will love it, too. If you use something you love, chances are someone else will love it to. Incremental things that we love can spread like wild fire (Facebook, Twitter, and reddit), and they have changed the world; further incremental products will likely do so, too.

...An interesting discussion is whether these things we love make the world a better place. Another interesting discussion is if engineers and entrepreneurs focus too much on the things we love instead of the things the world needs.

gamesurgeon | 11 years ago | on: Microsoft Announces The Surface Pro 3

Any news regarding Surface 3 RT?

RT's lackluster sales and noticeable absence from this announcement makes me think Microsoft could be narrowing focus to just x86 versions of Windows going forward.

gamesurgeon | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft Updates Visual Studio

There are rumors that Microsoft is considering the purchase of Xamarin [1]. And now Microsoft is now previewing their .NET AOT compiler for X64 and ARM. I see great things in C#/.NET's future in mobile and cross platform development.

On another note, I wonder if Microsoft addressed the inherent limitations of AOT in C# [2]. I wonder if it's a compile-time error, or if that segment of code is interpreted. I doubt it's interpreted, as that's a giant perf loss.

[1] http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-reportedly-considering-ac...

[2] http://www.mono-project.com/AOT#Limitation:_Generic_Interfac...

gamesurgeon | 13 years ago | on: Take pride or fuck it

I wholeheartedly concur. I explained this exact phenomenon to a friend in finance, who looked at me like I was some crazy shithead. I think we need to somehow make "the boring business stuff" seem cool to engineers. It'd do wonders for our industry as a whole.
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