Seems fairly complicated. React devs should read about XAML, where components have “templates” that allow the consumer of the component to specify how it’s rendered, leaving the component itself to provide behaviors and a default template. I think Flutter works similarly.
One thing that’s been really motivating at Microsoft lately is a sudden increase in the number of hackathons. In each of the last three months I’ve had the freedom to spend a week working on something completely separate from my day job (all focused on a different high priority business goal) and the organizers have done a good job of getting executives to attend the final presentations.
It’s been extremely motivating. There has been a marked shift in our lunch conversations from complaining about engineering systems and technical debt to brainstorming and pitching ideas to each other.
It’s also a lot of fun to dive into code you’ve never touched, and meeting new people along the way. When you tell people you need help with a crazy, time-limited experiment they seem much more likely to want to help.
I work on Windows and run nightly builds of a developer branch. Occassionally some big regressions slip through, like networking or Hyper-V not working, broken graphics drivers not allowing multi-mon, and prerelease SDK's that break Visual Studio.
Still fun though, and I enjoy finding and filing bugs.
Thanks to Movies Anywhere I've started just buying movies instead. iTunes regularly has tons of movies on sale for $5-10 and you can almost always get iTunes gift cards for 15% off. And you can stream them from any service since the license transfers.
HBO Now has the shows I care about most.
All in all, I'm watching less stuff now but enjoying what I do watch more.
Washington state will act under our own authority and under our own laws and under our own jurisdiction to protect the very important measure of net neutrality for all Washington citizens,” he said. “We are not powerless.
I'm excited by the specs, especially given that Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefront 2, Call of Duty WW2, and Destiny 2 are all hitting this holiday. Should be the best way to play those games.
Although I wish they had more unique games coming out alongside that stuff. Playing Zelda on Switch is a good reminder that eye candy doesn't matter all that much after the novelty wears off.
On paper it's incrementally better--significantly higher clocks, more RAM and much more memory bandwidth. But the bigger news is that all existing Xbox One games get 16x anisotropic filtering, framerate boosts, v-sync, and resolution bumps (if the game supports dynamic resolution). Not to mention system-wide downsampling for 1080p TV's.
Should be a pretty big bump in image quality for Xbox One games. They demoed Forza running at 4k/60 FPS with PC Ultra-equivalent settings at less than 90% GPU load.
"But what will happen when the point has been reached where everybody could be comfortable without working long hours?
In the West we have various ways of dealing with this problem. We have no attempt at economic justice, so that a large proportion of the total produce goes to a small minority of the population, many of whom do no work at all. Owing to the absence of any central control over production, we produce hosts of things that are not wanted. We keep a large percentage of the working population idle because we can dispense with their labor by making others overwork. When all these methods prove inadequate we have a war: we cause a number of people to manufacture high explosives, and a number of others to explode them, as if we were children who had just discovered fireworks. By a combination of all these devices we manage, though with difficulty, to keep alive the notion that a great deal of manual work must be the lot of the average man."
I'm not an economist, but from what I've read, running a trade deficit isn't necessarily a bad thing. The US ran trade deficits through the 80's and 90's while the economy was booming.
And there is never a good time for war between two nuclear powers.
Trump explicitly called for a Muslim ban during the campaign. Rudy Guiliani is on camera saying that this EO was drafted as a legal way to implement a Muslim ban.
I am not a lawyer, but is seems like it should be illegal to deny refugees or immigrants based on religion.