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Not anymore, the US Supreme Court struck down the 1992 law prohibiting sports betting at a federal level [1]

Now, it’s up to each state to decide if and how they want to legalize it. New Jersey is actually the reason this went to the Supreme Court, and you can now take wagers within NJ if you have a physical operation in Atlantic City [2]

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-476_dbfi.pdf

[2] https://www.nj.gov/lps/ge/sportsbetting.html

Edit: adding a link to the NJ sportsbetting rules

This is cool, but I hope the new Linux Subsystem in Windows 10 will propagate enough that everything can be written in bash

Yea unfortunately is

https://on.google.com/hub/#specs

The detailed specs page shows a 1.4 GHz Dual Core processor and a 1GB of DDR3 RAM. Thats a little ridiculous for a router

Taylor Swift is by far the most influential person in the music industry right now. Ignoring her when trying to launch a new music service in this competitive market would have disastrous results, even for Apple

Game Maker is the best way to go at that age. I used it when I was younger and the drag and drop functionality was great. As I grew older and started learning to code, the editor let me easily start writing scripts and such to give me more control over the gameplay

Why is Chrome Developer Tools meh?

It's something people are familiar with and has a full debugging suite

That might be a core problem right there. There's no developer influence in product meetings? While on the business end there might be a need for a feature, business people are not going to understanding what complexities are involved in a particular feature. What you might think takes a day could take 3 weeks. On the other hand, you may be passing over useful features you think are complex but only take a day. If you trust your developers with as much as you say you do, they should have a voice in your meetings. That may be a way to retain this lead developers interest

This looks great, but I'm not willing to put down $75 to alpha test a product.

I was involved with theater when I was younger, and would always read the script 50-60 times outside of rehersal. Halfway through a 4 month production, I would not only know my lines, but they would come to me naturally, leading me to interact as if I was that character.

The book I've probably read the most is One of the Eragon books.... last count I was at 24 read through. I really love that book. You do notice something different every time

2009, I was a freshman comp sci major at a startup trying to get experience. I wrote some SQL and VB.NET code for a proof of concept web service. Turned out someone sold it and some major companies are using it today....

I also wonder what the percentage of graduates they have after the four years. I'm sure a lot of people see the draw of a fun career and money, but don't know how difficult the degree is.

I've been wondering about this for a while. For my thesis project in college, my class created a web app for a school for the blind and visually impaired. We were greenhorns when it came to creating a production ready system, but we were able to meet the standards for usability by implementing them while the project was going, not as an after thought.

I wish I had thought of this when I was trying to develop a WoW Addon. I was building an advanced party gui and wanted to communicate the whereabouts of each user, but was stmyed about how to send information between each instance

I don't think that's weird. We have an open office setup where I work and everyone bounces ideas off each other in the open room environment, and comments on conversations that they have valuable input on. We also have empty offices all around that anyone can go sit in to do work when they want. I find myself doing about 80% in the open office and 20% in the private one

This article really hits the nail on the head. my first job out of college I was working for a big firm where I was bored. I kept getting told I was an exceptional engineer and was on a fast track for becoming a senior engineer. I was barely twenty two. I moved to a new job six months later where I was constantly challenged and learning new things and I couldn't have been happier.

This is a bug specific to android devices that is caused when the camera is used. Skype accesses the camera often so it can cause the bug to appear more, it's not Skype itself causing the issue

If they want to make a donation to the city with a stipulation that it goes towards a new officer being hired that's fine. It becomes unsettling if they begin being able to dictate what that public official is supposed to do

Try and find something she's interested in. I was this way all throughout high school because nothing ever interested. When I got to college and started studying CS though, I was extremely interested and always wanted to know how things worked, I still knew most of the answers without trying, but I would dig in to see why the answer worked. This saved me my Junior year when we started getting into complex concept that I couldn't just "figure out". Having something of interest (to the person) to study will almost always lead to better study habits.

This, I had the same issue, except they paid well. I ended up leaving for a job that would actually use my skills with more pay

yea, a lot of people would be submitting issues that they can't run a game without those first disclaimers

This is stupid. Leaking the database will compromise users, which may hurt the company a bit, but will hurt the common person more. Its a pointless hack that won't accomplish much more than just reporting the bug would.

I've noticed this issue since I switched to comcast last year. I figured it was a bug that would get fixed soon. I actually didn't pay my bill the first month because I never received anything saying I needed to pay until I received a reminder email about my account balance. I've just set up auto pay and track the bill through my financial software

Yea, powdery snow isn't all that hard to simulate (relatively) I believe. The snowflakes are just particles that are acted upon by an outside force( wind usually). I live and grew up in New England, and the snow in Frozen looks completely realistic.

It's amazing the amount of work put into these movies. Most moviegoers won't realize what it took to simulate snow realistically, but the would have noticed if it was wrong.

A company I recently interviewed for handled assessing my technical skills in a way I found acceptable without having to pay me. I was sent a small Requirements document to program a small app that had nothing to do with their application, but would show off my technical chops. I was told to use whatever language and framework I wanted, but it had to be production ready code. I spent a little over half a day working on it and submitted it. During the on site interview I was given an hour to update the application with new requirements, then I went through a Peer Review as if the code was going out to the customer.

I thought this was completely fair, as I wasn't doing work for them but they were able to receive a fair assessment of my skills through more than, "Write a recursive function to calculate the factorial of a number"

Having an interviewee code on a live code base, whether or not they are being paid, is just a bad idea. They don't know anything about the code or architecture of the project, and aren't as invested in the product as the people actually working for the company are. What happens if the person writes some bad code that works? Do you throw it out? Will it slip through the cracks? What if they change something that was already coded that they don't know breaks something else? Do you not allow them access to the rest of the code base? The questions go on and on, just save yourself the trouble and don't do it. The fake application idea works great

This is great, I've been playing around with node and express recently and just using notepad++, I'll be integrating it into my VS environment when I get home

I had a great question once that didn't show my skills explicitly, but showed my reasoning skills.

Say you are at a restaurant in the city, and your friend asks how many people are on Facebook at any given moment in the city. How would you answer this without writing any code, on the spot at the restaurant?

I completely agree. I'll have a day at work where I just do not want to code, and anything I create will be garbage. Sometimes I'll do a rough prototype of what actually needs to be done, which will get my brain thinking. A day or two later, everything clicks into place in my brain and I go through, rework the prototype, and create a great piece of code I'm happy to turn in. If I get interrupted during that period of programming though, I usually lose my train of thought which make me stumble to catch up again. The prototype helps because I can see what I was doing if I was interrupted

Hey! I watch tv, play video games, and get drunk on weekends. I also have a girlfriend, friends, a new kitten to look after. Oh and I have multiple side projects I work on while having a full time job.

Just because people do one thing doesn't mean they don't do other things.

Like other people have said, try programming in your spare time. There are a lot of great sites lube codecademy and udacity that have great introductions into software development. I don't regret going to school for Computer Science,I learned a lot of theory and algorithms that would have taken a lot more time on my own, but I learned a lot about good software practices from researching on my own. The mythical man month and code complete are excellent software best practice books as well