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by alex_c 13y ago
Very, very cool. It "feels" great to use it - the lines look smooth and satisfying to draw. I can see this being a lot of fun to use for random doodling. The simplicity is also great - it does exactly what it needs to, and no m
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by alex_c 13y ago
Does anyone know how installing Mavericks affects hard drive space? I'm running on an 128GB SSD and space is always at a premium for me.
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by alex_c 13y ago
So it sounds like the problem isn't actually storage, but cataloguing and retrieval? This might make more sense as an in-house service somehow, rather than something that involves shipping and the associated costs.
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by alex_c 13y ago
I strongly, strongly disagree. You can approach programming as a craft, and immerse yield in tools, techniques, concepts and so on. Or you can approach it as a means to an end, which is creating an app, website, service, etc, and just look
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by alex_c 13y ago
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
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by alex_c 13y ago
Well, that's the problem with dynamic languages, isn't it? The distinction can get a bit blurry. http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/Array.html vs. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Array.ht
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by alex_c 13y ago
While reading this article, keep just one thing in mind: think back to every "teenagers these days" article you saw back in your teens, and how closely it actually reflected your own experience as a teenager.
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by alex_c 13y ago
http://www.andybarratt.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/imac...
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by alex_c 13y ago
>They followed Microsoft's path of screwing developers which clearly was a bad move. Can you elaborate? From what I've seen RIM made a pretty significant effort to court developers to its platform - the users and revenue just w
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by alex_c 13y ago
Well, still (or perhaps even more so) - if they considered something like chat rooms to be as essential as many users feel, it would have been easier to implement earlier rather than later, when there are more products to support. Then agai
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by alex_c 13y ago
I can see it being more difficult to modify, since it powers all Blizzard games. That also raises another option - it's a technical mess that no one wants to touch...
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by alex_c 13y ago
I agree with your experience, but I disagree with your conclusions re: cause and effect. Specifically: * Penalizing players for dying for longer and longer periods of time * Penalizing players for playing in groups I suspect these were sim
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by alex_c 13y ago
You don't live somewhere with 6 months of winter, do you?
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by alex_c 13y ago
That kind of preconceived notion isn't doing you any favors. I'll agree with you most of the time (DS was actually the first, and so far only game I played with a controller), but just like keyboard + mouse is inherently a better
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by alex_c 13y ago
Ah, yes... the PC version should come with a giant red warning that says "DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY THIS WITHOUT A CONTROLLER". There's still a learning curve even with a controller, but once past that the controls have a beauti
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by alex_c 13y ago
OK, so ~6 years later, I get a new laptop. The only reason I haven't already is because the MacBook was a great machine to start with. I understand the complaint if mobile development is a hobby (then yes, iOS development gets expensi
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by alex_c 13y ago
"5 years old" is a pretty far cry from "absolute latest". My 2008 Core2 Duo MacBook, upgraded to 5GB of RAM and an SSD, works like a champ for iPhone development. I don't understand this complaint.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Well, this makes all the speculation about Elop succeeding Ballmer that much more interesting.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Yahoo tops Google in number of unique visitors, not (necessarily) in US traffic. The cnet article misquotes the ComScore report.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Still disagree - when I see a mockup like that I assume it's all fake, including the user names. The surprising part isn't that the tweets are fake, but that the usernames are real.
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by alex_c 13y ago
>Thinking they are legitimate is the DEFAULT expectation. Not if you're looking at a mockup in an ad. Quite the opposite, actually.
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by alex_c 13y ago
1) Headline is highly misleading. The "fake" tweets were for a fake product in a mockup used in an ad for Twitter's ad platform. Still a bad idea, but nowhere close to what the headline is implying. 2) The venturebeat artic
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by alex_c 13y ago
I guess we're talking about different things - you're talking about the high end positions, I'm talking about the average case. To get my analogies even further muddled up, you're talking about musicians signed with a m
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by alex_c 13y ago
I don't have numbers to back this up, but I strongly suspect your average hotdog cart sells more hotdogs per day than your average indie or solo game developer sells iPhone games per day. A new street food vendor only competes with oth
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by alex_c 13y ago
Why is that really sad? More people need food than games. More people want to make games than sell street food. The food business is brutally hard work, and I have a lot of respect for anyone doing it (well). There's no a priori reason
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by alex_c 13y ago
I'm trying to force myself to do this instead of always jumping straight to hacking a prototype together, but I always hit the same roadblock: domain names. The whole point of doing early validation is to avoid wasting too much time o
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by alex_c 13y ago
No one ever reads blog posts titled "Decent books worth reading for some people" or "Mildly useful advice that applies in certain situations". The format of the web and sites like HN and Reddit almost forces hyperbole.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Apple typically doesn't engage with the developer community outside official channels, do they? I don't remember ever reading a post here by an Apple employee in an official or even semi-official capacity.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Without any kind of email or notice to developers, it's an outage. A big one.
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by alex_c 13y ago
On QWERTY keyboards, that's a dangerous typo for a general-purpose search engine...

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