I read the article and it sounds like this guy is debugging and QCing by submission. He sounds like a sloppy programmer. Microsoft rejected his app and gave him the technical reasons why. He failed two more resubmissions. The first two comments on his blog sum it up nicely:

"We had the opposite experience. We ported a complex WP7 XNA game to Windows 8. We got invited to the App Excellence Lab. We won an early access token. We submitted to the store in July and passed on the first try. To date we've submitted to the store 3 times and passed all three times."

"Makes me wonder if his code is very inefficient"

Personally, I'm glad they are rejecting apps that don't work or perform as required.

Why not? Microsoft is a *software* company at its core.

Of course. At least until the priests of the temple of Syrinx take over a week later.

Buy two baseball gloves and a ball. Give him one glove. Throw the ball back and forth with him. He will probably appreciate and remember that more as an adult than programming books.

Pretty much every government is in debt to one degree or another. Who controls the money supply? The governments.

Dilution is the solution.

Hold it, hold it. Why build? You're better off leasing at a buck and a quarter, a buck and a half a square foot. Take your down payment and put it into CDs or something else you can roll over every couple of months.

Well, for starters all the charts and figures have been omitted from the pdf. Makes it kind of hard to trust/verify what he says.

The chain of command and rank structure takes care of decision making. Someone is always in charge, even if it is the last person standing.

Does it detect box cutters?

The paper finds that: "These findings together with the trends revealed in long-term CGCM runs suggest that large-scale summer temperatures were some tenths of a degree Celsius warmer during Roman times than previously thought." They aren't talking about 2 to 5 C warming, rather a few tenths of a degree.

Nothing new. "If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb" ---Ozzy

The military runs on coffee. I used to wash raw coffee grounds down with a swig from my canteen on road marches (no hot water) when I was an infantryman. Plenty of people with non-desk jobs drink coffee, especially in colder climates. That's what Thermos bottles are for.

I like it. I use it. I have some. I keep it in a jar above my refrigerator. I'd like to put some more money in that jar. That's where the employer comes in.