andrew_wc_brown

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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
My open source game is Electron+PhaserCE+Typescript+Webpack. I tried to avoid webpack since I knew compile time would be an issue for my other team members and it turned it out it was. As a web-dev I'm use to its workflow but onboardin
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Navicat has a high price tag but its still a better tool and I wish everyday if I had to use a GUI it could be Navicat over TablePlus. TablePlus looks good but its design is confusing and downright stupid.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I'm for the Northwestern Ontario, or as we think of it as the "truth north" up and down are directions. Also we say pack sack instead of back pack.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I have been trying to spin up projects for years since my early teens and the best project I've have had traction on so far is my open source Tetris Attack-like clone. I think it has come the farthest then any of my previous projects b
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Here in Toronto I always ask, have you looked at the source code I shared? And the answer is no. I have lots of source code open to private to share, and its just because I'm a workaholic, though I find having source code doesn't
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Come on. Where the heck is Mithril.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I hate this kind of writing, where I'm slogging through story to get to the utility of Onion Juice.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Its quite frustrating as a Canadian web-developer. There are plenty of remote jobs that I would qualify skill and experience wise in the US that are for 120K USD. But they won't hire remote Canadians because its a hassle for some reaso
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
As a chid I was told I was smart, as you suggested and to fit the description of what I was labeled, I resorted to chronically lying about my skills to measure up. There's no sliver bullet to this problem.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I think the best in the series on AOM, felt like a streamlined version, though that game requires no cloning. I only have faint memories of AoE II and at the time never had a powerful enough computer for AoE III. I can never get the iconic
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
To be honest I can't even tell that I've been down voted. I never thought to bother posting my clone to hackernews and likely wont unless I do a postmortem when the game has been released and if I have something worth reading. My
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I'm working on my own open-source game as a Tetris Attack clone. https://github.com/omenking/swap-n-pop/ What I'm always surprised is the lack of tooling and test code and I'm of the belief that in
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I remember building one of these 10 years ago. Nice to see the resurgence
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I think the show has excellent character building which makes you invested in the show. Giving them backstories, intertwining their relationships. There's no waste is this this show. Dann who appears as a background character and broug
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I really wanted to buy into Meteor. It felt like the second coming of Rails. I just couldn't get onboard with something I couldn't plug SQL into. A psql adapter never came.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Ever since Elance merged with ODesk to make Upwork getting online work has dried up, and so I have to rely on my personal network. With Elance you'd get leads for jobs, and take them offsite. Its not that I wouldn't want to use th
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I've applied to TopHat in the past. I and found their hiring process to be humiliating and waste of time for serious developers. I would have linked the a previous hacker news thread if I could because their was a stream of complaints
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I've worked on over 40 Rails web-apps in the last 10 years and what I see it lots of apps built by juniors who didn't even bother to read the most basic conventions of the frameworks which result in bizarre behaviour. At least in
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I love both Ruby and Coffescript and I love magic. When you've embraced pure happiness and productivity everything else is depressing.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I wish companies cared about side-projects as qualifications for hiring. I send full projects and they never seem to peer into them when I query. I want them to look so we can have a discussion around them. In the last 10 years I've bu
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
MithrilJS
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I love seeing startups who can actually transform lives. Its sad being a developer with no technical limitations but have no useful ideas.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Big yellow newsletter box interrupts my reading that I was compelled enough to open inspector and remove it. The pricing makes no sense, that or its not obvious what you are getting in the full-course. The testimonials appear phony. I belie
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
retro video gaming thats where its at. Play games, make videos about games. Talk about the technical behind games.
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by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
I love CS and I see myself using it for another 5 years. The aversion developers have had to CS never were legit reasons. If you put all your time in ES6 and CS, I think you'll be more productive in CS. The only issue I foresee is too
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by andrew_wc_brown 10y ago
Mithril, Mithril, Mithril
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by andrew_wc_brown 10y ago
I tried listening to your podcast episode, but the windiness of your intro didn't get me hooked after 10 mins of listening and I had to stop listening.
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God.js(medium.com)
2 points by andrew_wc_brown 10y ago|0 comments
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by andrew_wc_brown 10y ago
Won't have to learn GoLang or Elxir. Crystal on Rails!
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by andrew_wc_brown 10y ago
Toronto startup hire culture is really sad even today. I interviewed at Top Hat 3+ years ago and I remember their hiring process was sad because it was a FizzBuzz test under conditions that were setup for me to fail. I wasn't allowed t

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