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by Vekz 13y ago
It blows my mind that this is his first foray into functional languages. Makes my imagination wonder what the current state of the gaming and programming industries would be like, had he built Wolf 3D in a functional language and inspired e
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by Vekz 13y ago
Companies should sponser open source efforts similar to some pro athletes. Pro skateboarders make a living off sponsorships. They get free gear and travel expenses from their sponsors and in turn get their sponsors name out. More Organizati
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by Vekz 13y ago
Also be wary of companies passively pitching work/life balance as a culture point. I spent time at a company that superficially was very 'work/life balance'. When pressed on the specifics of what that ment to them regarding hours on call an
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by Vekz 13y ago
Your biggest competition is probably livecareer.com they have an outdated Flash/Flex product and poor user experience. They have the SEO for "resume builder" locked down through use of fighter sites and multiple domains. In addition to layo
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by Vekz 13y ago
Paul thanks for writing this. I always got the vibe you were a bit strung out. Glad to read this. Looks like some hard lessons learned. I can definitely relate to a lot of the article. The "perpetual feelings of guilt" that you should be wo
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by Vekz 13y ago
I am a big fan of Crafty. Glad to see it on the list I've used it successfully in a few projects its a great 'get shit done' game framework. Has an interesting composition inheritance model.
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The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away(rockpapershotgun.com)
443 points by Vekz 13y ago|107 comments
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by Vekz 14y ago
Beyond Ember.js this is a highly constructive approach to any API Library you are developing. Developers tend to disregard User Experience when building out tools for other developers. Put yourself in a first time users perspective like thi
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by Vekz 14y ago
Maybe you could elaborate here? Instead of leaving a vague passive comment.
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by Vekz 14y ago
How is this different from CloudFoundry? Which does this for more than rails apps?
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by Vekz 14y ago
Some projects like Lockitron aren't allowed anymore, so that's a big reason for them not using Kickstarter (and app.net I don't think was allowed either). But another reason is that Kickstarter is US/UK-only, and with the Crowdtilt API on t
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by Vekz 14y ago
I think the black and white is a great atmospheric choice. It reminds me of Frank Miller's Sin City. Also from the video I got a bit of feel of Metriod 2 on the GameBoy. Which was B&W and had a very creepy subterranean feel. You could p
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by Vekz 14y ago
Good Idea. Unfortunately the underlying technique the author has used to achieve this (DOM mutation events) is flawed, deprecated and non-optimal. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Mutation_events "Adding DOM mutation listeners
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by Vekz 14y ago
I have to agree. I found my self reading the source a lot while working with ember. That lead to discovering said hidden classes like ControllerMixin.
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by Vekz 14y ago
Glad to see this article. The recent buzz around convention and best practices in Backbone.js has been frustrating. A lot of the recent Backbone discussion are issues that have been thoughtfully addressed in Ember.js. I feel that Backbone.j
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by Vekz 14y ago
This is not a problem specific to backbone rendering. This is a common issue in jQuery plugins, and vanilla javascript in general. Its a best practice overall to keep your functions small. Have them do one thing and do it well, keep them un
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by Vekz 14y ago
What was the observable behavior recognized in your colleagues that prompted the judgement of them slacking off?
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by Vekz 14y ago
You are correct app stores are becoming standard OS components. I feel like Steam on linux is one step away from a SteamLinuxOS. Which opens up console ideas comprable to the Ouya Andriod powered console that was just buzzing on kickstarter
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by Vekz 14y ago
Agreed. Ember.js was originally named Sproutcore 2.0 and is a much better successor.
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by Vekz 14y ago
I've always considered SASS the only true successor to CSS. LESS and SCSS are syntactically conservative. I feel they retain the grammatical conventions of CSS (curly braces) as a way to ease the learning curve for conservative developers.
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by Vekz 14y ago
We will be discussing Fat Free CRM and other exciting open source projects at our SF meetup this Thursday. http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-New-Wave-Open-Source-App... Big thanks to our friends at singly.com for hosting.
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by Vekz 14y ago
We will be talking about Kandan and other exciting open source projects at our meetup http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-New-Wave-Open-Source-App... I'd like to thank our friends at singly.com for generously offering to host. Come join u
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by Vekz 14y ago
This is an exciting integration that we've considered and will be exploring more in the future.
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by Vekz 14y ago
You may be confused and thinking of this: http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html Which was Paul Graham using playback on Stypi
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by Vekz 15y ago
I totally agree with this. This is a lesson that NPM already had to learn the hard way.
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by Vekz 15y ago
What if I want my password field to say 'password', and on focus to be obscured with dots?
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by Vekz 15y ago
The proposed addition of an additonal 'scheme' return value, that dosen't include the colon seems reasonable enough. Yes its kind of unnecessary but a more respectful conclusion then, inciting this argument and tarnishing the node community
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by Vekz 15y ago
I think this is great. I was able to, half drunk. Setup a website for a fictional burger shop in a Podunk town in Wisconsin. With no forced registration. I think you have a promising product here and the experience is tight enough that with
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by Vekz 15y ago
This is a good idea but the UX needs to be tightened up. I'm excited as this is a nice intro to Coffescript. I'm using the bookmarklet. 1. I submit a command, and then the auto suggest pops up after suggesting a giant list of commands that
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by Vekz 15y ago
Having spent my share of time in the punk community. I have noticed a very interesting overlap of hacker and punk ethos. Here is similar piece on punks with PHDS: http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/punks-with-ph-ds/

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