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by amitt 13y ago
Union Square, San Francisco, CA. Full-time. Full-stack Engineer, All Levels. Red Hot Labs (RHL) is looking for full-stack engineers at all levels that want to work on cutting edge mobile games and services for other mobile developers. =Resp
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by amitt 15y ago
This is great advice. This is how the Unreal Engine was architected and it makes it really easy to create new composite objects. In contrast, when we did the first version of the MyMiniLife/FarmVille engine in flash, in the name of the spee
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by amitt 16y ago
Seems the test-drive feature is disabled or not working (for me at least). The tech behind how they got this to work is cool and could end up being a competitive advantage vs. other app stores.
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Amazon’s Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser(techcrunch.com)
73 points by amitt 16y ago|45 comments
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by amitt 16y ago
I'm in this picture (the blobby looking guy) and yeah we were working under the desks while all of the aftershocks were happening. It was pretty intense as we've been having earthquakes here the last few days and thought it was going to jus
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Porting Competitive Advantages(amitt.com)
2 points by amitt 16y ago|0 comments
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Hiring "Smart"(amitt.com)
2 points by amitt 16y ago|0 comments
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by amitt 16y ago
i live there, expect 1500-1800 a month per person on rent for a 2bd room in one of the high rises. The apartments are all new, though with W/D in unit and other good amenities.
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by amitt 16y ago
exactly. its the same reason you want to have your databases and application servers in the same data center.
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by amitt 16y ago
The article is somewhat confusing, for FV we didn't split our servers across ec2 and a data center. games are either fully on ec2 or fully in the data center.
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by amitt 16y ago
This is using the Canvas tag which is new to html5
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by amitt 17y ago
We use AMF protocol as XML is slow to parse on the client
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by amitt 17y ago
I second that, I had him in '05 and specifically waited to take the class with him as the teacher. Was well worth it, he brings a sense of humor and style to teaching that turned an otherwise difficult class into an absolute joy.
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Google to uncensor search in China, may shut down if deemed illegal(techcrunch.com)
7 points by amitt 17y ago|0 comments
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by amitt 17y ago
This is exactly the type of mentality we employ when trying to hire folks for the FarmVille team. We tell our recruiters to put job descriptions out for "Software Engineers" versus "Flash Developers" and "PHP Developers". For us, it's rare
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by amitt 17y ago
Having used both and worked at companies that make 3d engines as their main product, I've seen that one good way to approach this problem is to simply abstract away the API into a common interface that can be swapped between. At a high leve
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Building Big Social Games(amitt.com)
6 points by amitt 17y ago|0 comments
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by amitt 17y ago
UnrealEd 3 is based on wxWindows and is theoretically portable to linux and MacOSX. When I was working there a few years back, however, it wasn't actively compiled on any platform other than Windows.
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by amitt 17y ago
I used to work at epic on UE3 and can say that there's a LOT of engineering and considerations that go into keeping the engine flexible and usable for so many different types of games. As a programmer on UE3, part of my job was spent respon
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by amitt 17y ago
Depending on how you're trying to exercise your mind, there are different options available: 1) I tend to use google reader to keep tabs on several authors I find interesting. I then make it a habit to find time to read a couple articles a
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by amitt 17y ago
The FarmVille (#1 app on Facebook) team that is hiring devs and PMs. Having gone from 0 to 7million+ daily users in 2 months, we're tackling a TON of challenging scaling and engineering problems daily. If you want to work with a VERY fast
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by amitt 17y ago
Cofounder of MyMiniLife. Was recently acquired by Zynga: http://www.myminilife.com
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by amitt 17y ago
We had 4 engineer founders, 1 of which volunteered to handle most of the marketing/legal/biz stuff to allow the other 3 of us to code without distraction. Some background, the 4 of us lived in a house together and took turns cooking meals t
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by amitt 17y ago
Fantastic article. Having been born in the 80s, I find the author's point about younger generations not seeing the "magic" of automobiles fairly accurate.
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by amitt 18y ago
Had the read the article carefully to see if i wasn't "getting" the joke. It's legit, and very cool that they were so innovative with their data centers.
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by amitt 18y ago
the C++ STL library was based off of the header based standard developed at SGI. So if you've used STL before in C++, you're building off the work that came out of SGI.
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by amitt 18y ago
To echo what was said earlier, the independent projects help a ton. At my previous job we would ask for X number of years of exp. but would overlook that requirement if the person genuinely seemed passionate and intelligent. The way we wo
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by amitt 18y ago
We've had our own set of issues managing user feedback on our blog. Never to the scale of this, though. It will be interesting to see how they moderate this forum.
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Facebook opened their blog to user comments(blog.facebook.com)
2 points by amitt 18y ago|1 comments
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by amitt 18y ago
I've been a beta tester for this for a while. A ton of fun and great for quick games when you're not feeling too inspired to work. The team arena mode is definitely the best of the bunch, though in the beta all of the testers were ridicul

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