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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
Eh, sure, but for me the appeal early-on was I could discover a lot of quirky, well-curated indie titles for a crazy cheap amount of money, including some that didn't have any marketing budget but were remarkably good to play. It was
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
One year at GDC (game developer's conference) I saw that SpaceX of all companies had a booth in the same area of the conference reserved for companies looking to hire devs. At first I thought this was rather curious. What on earth wou
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
To a certain extent. Truth be told, anytime I read that someone is a marathon runner I associate that with a red flag just as much as I do obesity. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ischemic-colit... Ischem
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
Not really. Looking at my code, I'll often see myself writing comments where I refer to functions and the like as "things". I never see written sentences as things, at least not in the same way. The closest analogy I can th
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The title makes me cringe a little. It implies the text-based nature of most programming languages is a problem, even THE problem. It is, if you're trying to simply get young kids to use <insert language here>, vs get them to u
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
"The Americans have brought their armed forces back home, adopted sensible foreign and domestic policies, and are starting to see eye-to-eye with people whom they once found too foreign to relate to. Now is the perfect time to strike!
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
Yeah, personally I find it in poor taste on the part of Crossfit to promote icons like Rhabdo the Clown. Granted, it's not official, but official enough for a decent looking cartoon mascot to exist They're raising awareness on a
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
I would argue that a sure fire way to make sure your game is more likely to succeed is actually making sure that your game is something that people genuinely want to play. Which kinda goes against the indie mantra of "make what you wan
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
I grew up in Eastern New Mexico, sparsely populated but also remarkably scant in public land. Noticed a lot of those green spots fell there. Wasn't for lacking of trying, you drive through and occasionally you'll see the remains
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by Bjorkbat 9y ago
I have to wonder how politically motivated this might be. I met an older couple a while ago who refused to file taxes to protest the war. Wasn't illegal mind you. They simply made sure that they didn't earn more than cut-off ($9
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
I'll throw in that this doesn't necessarily mean just use Ruby on Rails and get coding. I mean, that will probably allow you to ship a bare bones MVP pretty quickly, but making improvements to said MVP in a timely manner may be a
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
This might just have been the best thing I've ever seen on Wikipedia. We evolved from a species of ape that developed an appetite for going on cannibalistic brain-eating killing sprees followed shortly after by a lot of rape because ea
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
True, but one might argue that it's at least a step in the right direction if you're really worried about transmissible prions.
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Curiously this has come at a weird time for me. I didn't think much of healthcare. I just turned 27, and like most twenty-somethings I have this idea that I'm immortal (not literally, but you get the idea). Lately though I&#x27
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
That is true, I am conveniently omitting the jobs part. So maybe the right answer to ask is not how to create more affordable and attractive housing, but rather how to spread the jobs out to cities overlooked by employers. Why isn't th
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
With regards to the US, there is affordable and attractive urban housing, just not in cities that people particularly want to live in. I mean, look at the Midwest. Houses there cost nothing compared to houses in metro areas along the coast
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Yeah, that's true, although I've counted myself lucky for being largely unaffected by it. That's what you get for being the richest city in one of the poorest states. Upscale art galleries and horrible drunk driving statisti
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
In case anyone is curious, that blue county in New Mexico is Santa Fe county, which just happens to be adjacent to Los Alamos county. Besides the Los Alamos connection, there is a research institute that studies complexity in the county its
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Not bad at all honestly. Golang comes with a built-in templating engine that was easy enough to convince me not to look for a better one. Routing is simple, especially if you're using the Gorilla toolkit's mux package. Figuring
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Huh, that's actually a pretty valid point. So one detail that I left off was that I actually also teach programming to complete novices in short time frames. It's kind of like a bootcamp but different in a lot of ways. We teach
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
So, if you already know javascript then I would look at node.js. Full disclaimer: I actually use golang for my personal projects because I'm attracted by its simplicity and how it really doesn't hide stuff from me using hand-wavy
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
I think it's still super userful. I'm an Ember developer myself, and I love it, but there's no way in hell I'd use it for a small website. For that matter, I wouldn't use React or Angular 1.x either (I haven't
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Well, technically jQuery is listed as dependency in the bower.json file for Ember. But I think that's really only so the Ember jQuery wrapper will work properly. So you're still right.
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Does it really matter how long it lasts in the long run if he's making $125,000 a month by himself? Coming up with a good startup idea is sexy, but this is a pretty sweet deal too. You could argue that hours spent working on this prev
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
From the looks of it, paper. 60% of it having come from some family somewhere that's keen on recycling.
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
I could always put it into perspective for you and tell you about the Albuquerque, New Mexico startup ecosystem. As far as quality of life goes, it's still pretty good, but the startup ecosystem doesn't factor into that equation a
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Ironically it seems that China is trying to do a little empire-building of its own. They're still a long-ways away from playing globo-cop, but all that island-building in the South China Sea is pretty telling. They're also doing
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Curiously enough I've been using this thing I discovered here on HN a while back called Nuclino for this sort of stuff. I've rather enjoyed it, though one downside is that it's only 80% portable for me. as in I can't rea
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
This really resonates with my choice to live in Albuquerque, NM. Maybe San Francisco, New York, Austin, etc, are better, but (almost) everything those cities have we have too, just in fewer quantities, or more grounded, or both. I would arg
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
It would be kinda interesting if someone conducted a study to see how many jobs were created by outsourcing gone wrong.

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