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The article is quite superficial, so not much unless you were clueless to the beginnings of reddit. That said, a lot of things are actually out of your control. You can't make everyone like the thing you want to work on and people often don't even know what they want to see next. Its not about doing projects just because they are fun and lucking out. These guys were actively trying to make a successful product and had to pivot from their original direction.

He wanted to remain together just for the children. It's pretty safe to conclude he would not have done so if he had no children and that her presence is detrimental to him in some fashion. The terms listed are harsh, but they reflect his priorities quite well. Calling him a jerk is a bit out of line when he's prioritizing his children highly enough to try being a father when that isn't his most important goal.

Blame both laptops and consoles. The reasoning is the same: both have less powerful hardware and developers want to maximize the availability of their game.

Play with a time increment per move. I play casually at work with 2 minutes on the clock and 5 seconds per move.

Perfect, another nail in flash's coffin.

One of the main purposes of SSL is to prevent someone who may control the route from server to client from eavesdropping or injecting their own data, so the article assumes this situation: only the server and client are trusted. It's trivial to inject something into an unencrypted stream if you own the network, but they're saying they can slip in some arbitrary JS to an encrypted stream with about 10 minutes of work.

Funny, I blanked out when I read CTRL+F. Guess it's just muscle memory now.

His version is a bit more realistic analogy of what people do.

"is broken" equates to "allows or encourages something that wasn't originally intended". That's an apt description of the patent system and the current situation.

There's value given to a cause if someone important endorses it. Sure, a wealthy individual can write a check and cover the entire amount with ease, but why should he/she? You won't be rich for long if you hand out money every time you're asked. In the end, even the most generous wealthy individuals have to prioritize:

  -"I support X so much that I'll donate $100k."
  -"I like what Y is doing, I'll associate my name with it."
  -"I don't care for Z much/Z might be a scam, ignore them."

And sometimes the money will go toward a new house or a car. It's their money, and I assure you it's a lot harder to see from their perspective than you think.

This is my preferred unix-in-windows setup as well. Free VMWare player and your favorite distro of linux and you're good to go.

Awesome! Bookmarked for future usage.

Off the top of my head benefits:

  -No mental context switch when working on both ends
  -Easier serialization (though JSON is pretty portable...)
  -Sharing code

They aren't exclusive to Node and JS, but browsers run JS and will continue to for the foreseeable future. Since the front end can't budge its language at the moment, the back end has to.

The referenced post brings up a good point, but for many purposes (including your event) it's irrelevant. If your guests are likely to be on facebook, then facebook is a perfectly valid choice.