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Yeah, I did watch those, but haven't kept up with the latest news - not sure if they have announced any progress.

Thank you, I didn't know this wasn't actually announced.

Question for you - I have created a few (okay, two) UWP apps, but the limited success of the store has made me look to using Xamarin. Only thing is, Xamarin's XAML is sufficiently different from UWP's XAML that I got disoriented and gave up.

If I want to target cross platform apps (including Linux and Mac), should I wait for Xamarin Forms 3 or will UWP eventually expand to cover Mac & Linux?

I'm only a hobby programmer so I don't want to waste hours learning something that will be a dead end.

Any insight you might have would be very useful! thanks

"I was working in games, and testing a 3d game while walking was often disorienting and would cause me to trip on myself or walk off the treadmill."

I chuckled when I read that! I hope you didn't get hurt, of course, but it must have been quite funny for your coworkers.

Cheers for the post-lunch laugh :)

Thanks, that was a good read.

I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who uses this on the floor. Is it really all they say it is? The marketing and PR looks good, but do mechanics really love it?

To be fair to the author, he does say this

"I don’t ask for or expect any sympathy. I am responsible for my quagmire—no one else. I didn’t get gulled into overextending myself by unscrupulous credit merchants. Basically, I screwed up, royally. I lived beyond my means, primarily because my means kept dwindling."

Yes, exactly. That's why I don't get it. I can understand going through a rough patch where you pay the minimum cause you can't afford it, but I cannot understand constantly paying the minimum when you can afford to pay much more

I'm always baffled by one thing in these sorts of articles - the belief that paying the minimum due on your credit cards is the right thing to do.

I'm not going to pontificate about living within your means or whatever, obviously people have reasons for doing what they do. But I don't understand how so many people are cheerfully paying the minimums and treating credit as basically an extension on their salary.

I have seen this at work as well, people making low six- figure incomes paying minimums. I've even had someone tell me that paying in full is bad for your credit score.

Is this a generally held belief? Do most people pay the minimum?

This was inevitable. I wonder how Blue Apron is planning to compete.

While I agree with your basic point, there's something to be said about anonymously searching for information in a non-dynamic fashion (that is, the catalogue is exactly the same for everyone - it doesn't rearrange itself based on your profile)

I love technology and all it brings us, but I find browsing in a good bookstore often more helpful than Amazon's recommendations or GoodReads or what have you. And the best part is, no one knows what I'm searching for - it's not stored forever in a database of my "preferences". (Yes, I know that bookstores save data on books that I buy, but Amazon et al track every click regardless of purchase)

That's not really fair. The data should speak for itself, and I for one found the argument cogent. Did you find any errors or bias?

Otherwise you might as well say the CDC saying something about Disease is invalid.