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I'm not sure why this is Microsoft's fault as opposed to the developer's. Exactly the same kind of techniques have been used for years on desktop applications/games.

(and, y'know, you could pay for stuff that you like using, feed a developer's starving family and continue to get updates and improvements rather than ripping them off)

I made the same decision when we moved to Cambridge (UK). It's a really, really big cycling town and there's a noticable drop off in property prices once you go beyond about a half-hour cycle commute to the science/business park part of the city. The A14 (the main commuter road to that part of Cambridge) is basically a carpark during peak times, and I can cycle to work on (relatively) quiet cycle paths in less than half the time it would take me to drive.

Given I (and most HN readers) spend a not insubstantial fraction of my waking hours in front of a text editor, I don't think I'd call them trivial - which is why editor wars won't be going away any time soon. Keeping a sense of humour - and ridiculing our emacs-using peers over a beer or two - is a good thing, but that shouldn't mean we think of text editors as being trivial.

"Lately"? Text editor holy-wars have been a fundamental part of geek discourse dating back to the very earliest days of the internet, and probably before. And it's probably not going to go away any time soon, either.

This story is a year old, why post it now?

Probably worth noting that this guy develops/sells a tool for finding Java memory leaks.

Black on white, because then there's less contrast between my main focus of attention (my monitor) and my environment (a fairly brightly lit office).

I honestly can't tell if this is satire.

On the other hand, everyone crucified DropBox when it turned out they had the ability to arbitrarily access user data. Turns out people don't want companies to have access to their private data, right up until they do.

That's not a real job ad, is it? Sheesh.

I thought the entire point of the Agile movement was that such a requirements spec was, in essence, impossible for precisely the reasons shown in that cartoon?

Worth noting that this is very gcc specific. Implementation details will vary across compilers, but it's not made clear.

Last I checked, though, Python wasn't a statistical programming language.

Eclipse with PyDev with a Vi emulator (can't remember which one offhand). Having been something of an Eclipse skeptic in the past (despite being a Visual Studio devotee) I have to say I'm really quite impressed with it. It certainly makes navigating larger Python projects somewhat easier. Eclipse certainly seems no worse than VS for bloat or memory usage - although I guess that's not saying much :)

That said, if I'm just knocking out a single script or something, I'll just drop straight into vim.

(Oh, on Windows, almost exclusively)

Family comes first, except it's halfway down his list.

Snarky, yes, but I'm a bitter ex-games industry programmer and it's easy to talk, and a fuck of a lot harder to produce a work environment that is genuinely conducive to both producing excellent games and not treating your staff like shit. If Insomniac have really, genuinely managed it, then kudos to them. But I've seen a lot of lists like this in my time and, well, I don't buy it any more.

If you really want to impress me, tell me - with figures to back it up - how you made you last game with minimal to no unpaid overtime. Show me how you build slippage into the schedule. Show me how your developers all went home at 5:30pm for the entire duration of the project. Otherwise, sorry, it's just talk.