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by allenu 5y ago
I remember the ending. I remember you had to make a sort of moral decision on behalf of one of the other characters. It was an interesting question posed to the player, but I remember watching a clip of what happens if you do the "bad&
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by allenu 5y ago
I don't know if there's data, but I've seen other people posting about on Indie Hackers. I started noticing something was up when I saw the same generic comments you mentioned on my post as other people's posts. Another
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by allenu 5y ago
It seems like it would be simple enough, but it's death by a thousand cuts. Supporting Android means having to keep track of even more screen sizes, OS versions, updates, app store releases and so on. It just adds on more and more. For
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by allenu 5y ago
For mobile apps, if you're a single developer, I think going with a single platform is fine. You can only do so much, and if you're familiar with the platform, you can move much more quickly than having to support two. That's
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by allenu 5y ago
I've posted on ProductHunt as well and so many of the upvotes I get and comments that I get are clearly spambots.
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by allenu 5y ago
I remember a coworker made a very basic compass app with a friend in the early days of the iPhone and he disclosed that they made something like $200k on it, which is absolutely wild.
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by allenu 5y ago
I think the biggest myth with apps today is "if you build it, they will come". I think it was true 10 years ago when the iPhone App Store was getting started, but not today. The thing is, having a ton of competitors in the space m
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by allenu 5y ago
I learned BASIC via books myself. I learned about it through the Commodore PET at school and some Apple IIes later on. I didn't have a computer at home, but I'd often write simple little text "games" in BASIC (things whe
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by allenu 5y ago
I think the fact that it slides in slowly is what it makes it creepy. I was scrolling/skimming the article and all of a sudden I saw movement to the side and it freaked me out.
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by allenu 5y ago
I agree that there's a lot of learned behavior here. I feel the same way about my younger self. I also thought I knew better than people above me, and I also now recognize that it's not so simple. Even if I was right and we took a
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by allenu 5y ago
Regarding changing the way they communicate, I think some of it is just a natural filter that gets applied to people who move up. At some point, you notice that the people who move up the management chain are more "diplomatic" and
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by allenu 5y ago
I would love if it was possible to just track general industry sentiment over the same time period. As someone who was working at another big tech company nearly over the same duration he was at Google, I myself noticed it became "less
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by allenu 5y ago
> * microwaves that don’t have a start button As far as I'm concerned, a microwave with an "Add 30 seconds" and a "Stop" button has everything I need.
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by allenu 5y ago
Similarly, I remember when those card readers would beep loudly at you when it was time to remove the card. "EEP EEP EEP!" they'd go, like something went horribly wrong, but when you'd look at the screen it would just te
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by allenu 5y ago
The problem is, even if you don't want it, your employer might.
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by allenu 5y ago
Yeah, this feels like a "why do you need an IT department?" kind of thing. Just rent your computers from MSFT and they'll take care of maintaining them, upgrading, etc. "It's all in the cloud" and all that. It
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by allenu 5y ago
I totally agree. I once did a half marathon and during training, and the half marathon itself, I used some cheap shoes I bought from Payless. My friend that I did the run with was shocked when I told her that on the day of the event. It did
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by allenu 5y ago
Yeah, money is definitely weird. I suppose it's all about what we value. I have coworkers who have bought Teslas but when they talk about furniture, they'll buy super cheap things that, to me are poor quality and will fall apart e
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by allenu 5y ago
I'm not a particularly outdoorsy person, but being a frugal person, I have noticed that a lot of outdoors activities really do "require" an investment. Equipment can be expensive, as can ski passes or trips. Once you hang out
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by allenu 5y ago
That's a good, healthy way to look at things in general. When I was younger, I also was more bitter about life circumstances, especially with family, as we were poor, but beyond family as well. As I got older, I realized finding the bl
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by allenu 5y ago
This is great advice and one that I'm using in my own side project. I have a macOS/iOS app out in the App Store and spent several months of my spare time working on it. Once it was released, I've pulled back a bit on how much
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by allenu 5y ago
One of my favorite songs of all time. The guitar playing is so good, and apparently the guitarist, Ricky Wilson, only played with 4 strings (D and G strings removed on the guitar). The last third of the song, when it gets really frenetic, a
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by allenu 5y ago
That sounds like a horrible place to work. I hope the author learned a lot from the experience and is cautious around future employers. I chalk up this post to a young dev not knowing what options they really had available to them. It sound
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by allenu 5y ago
I think we make comments because we want our thoughts and opinions to be validated by someone else. With Twitter, you have an endless list of trending topics to discuss, and an endless list of people to discuss them. In real life, you have
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by allenu 5y ago
I interned at IBM Canada in the late 90s and I remember back then among my peer group, the only thing we cared about was that they made great laptops in the ThinkPad line (now owned by Lenovo, of course). It definitely felt like an "ol
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by allenu 5y ago
I suppose for me, going to a restaurant is not a matter of "efficiency". I go there to socialize with friends, to enjoy the atmosphere, to interact with people. If service is slow, then, yes, I get annoyed. However, I don't t
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by allenu 5y ago
Yes. Anything that required me to pay would mean I'd have to charge a subscription from users, which I didn't want to do.
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by allenu 5y ago
Yup, I'm doing event sourcing. For my approach, I really just have each device append to its own journal file. I use iCloud's file storage, so I don't even have a service that I run. Each peer device just uploads the latest v
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by allenu 5y ago
I've built my own flashcard app and I ended up just syncing a journal of all your actions on a device (creating/edit cardings, evaluating them) and having all your other devices play those back to get to the "shared state&quo
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by allenu 5y ago
I think the reason it is where it is is because it was created a long time ago when some of the things we expect today weren't the norm (cloud sync, friendly UX). I think it has such a large user base that it would be very difficult to

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