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by bennyg 14y ago
As a guitarist and music snob, I absolutely LOVED the game when it came out - bought GH1,2,3 and World Tour. You guys nailed it, and I'm just happy I personally get to tell you thanks. Thanks for sharing your side as a developer.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I guess I thought that Andreessen made a correct abstraction, in that "superior creative talent or exceptional brain power will be essential" to succeed in the workplace (in 2042, and really every year before and after because nothing has c
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by bennyg 14y ago
Monetarily, the statistics pan out and STEM graduates earn more than liberal arts majors. But is that everything? There's a lot to be said for curiosity as a motivator for work - a lot of us here dive in to side-projects with zero care for
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by bennyg 14y ago
This is a great resource right here. I'm from Alabama and have no idea what SF is all about, but would love to be out in California one day.
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by bennyg 14y ago
The landlords can see more money, so they're likely trying to maximize profits.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Exactly. I hate when it tries to be too real, so I take the exact opposite position as the parent. It's a movie, not reality. And they look like soap operas.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I think he hit upon the main point at the very end. If you wanna' learn something, and I mean really learn it, you've gotta' be invested in it - and there's no better way to do that then building your own projects. Saying I want to learn to
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by bennyg 14y ago
Don't undervalue the effect of "unproductive" communication. It's usually what drives creativity.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Sounds like a human-guided genetic algorithm might be able to handle this today.
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by bennyg 14y ago
"shiny stuff that doesn't work" Give me a break. Name an international company with 100% success in user happiness and usability with their product(s). Go ahead, try it. Also, don't act like Android hasn't had faults and failings on their o
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by bennyg 14y ago
It depends on the nature of the work. I could make a beautiful illustration, then scale it from here to the moon and, at least to me in my hypothetical situation, it would still look good. Like all things, it depends. Some people crave deta
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by bennyg 14y ago
Sure it makes you responsible, but this is a very, very easy solution to the problem. Obviously, for dynamically iterating, an NSAttributedString is the "best" solution. You just line them up in interface builder and use your eyes and the a
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by bennyg 14y ago
I will never forget super-bouncing in Halo 2. Ever.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Which is a beautiful thing, no doubt. The creative process is amazing, but reading through years worth of scribbles isn't the point of the proof. Write a proof, then accompany it with a blog of sketchbook scans and a detailed walkthrough of
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by bennyg 14y ago
This isn't just interface design, or product design. It's brand design, if you will. This is especially true if you're in the business of mostly consumer-facing software. The experience absolutely matters, and if you can consistently provid
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by bennyg 14y ago
Ahh, about time I think. I'm very excited to see these in MoMA, if only for the discussion that was lingering around finally being brought to the forefront. Videogames (and now computer programs) are an art form. Some certainly deserve gett
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by bennyg 14y ago
No he's comparing the annoying way to censor yourself, while making everybody else read it in their head. It's not very responsible. "You're a b ." You read it aloud in your head right?
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by bennyg 14y ago
Any iOS dev worth his/her salt could make a well-polished fart button app in under an hour and for less than $100. But no iOS dev worth their salt is gonna' do that.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I guess it's a solid article on web design standards and trends that deal with storytelling, but really the title is a little fluffy. Storytelling is an effective tool of communication, period. That's the lesson.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Cool idea, but I wouldn't plan to have it be branded long-term as "The Hacker News for Education." I could imagine a very small subset of educators know what HN is, and to be honest, I always thought of "hacking" in the stereotypical Hollyw
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by bennyg 14y ago
What a brilliant teacher of conceptually tough questions. I am an art major with cursory physics/math knowledge, but could understand and ponder further implications without any further help. This man is a genius.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Yes yes yes yes yes. Discovery/play is crucial to expanding creativity, and creativity is crucial to solving problems, especially really hard ones. Take breaks and do stuff to break the norm. Of course, rigorous scientific literature on thi
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by bennyg 14y ago
I totally believe this. Whenever I'm being unproductive or battling an idea/problem I'll go outside - walk around or bike, do something. Taking your mind off things allows it to come back stronger than ever when tackling the problem again.
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by bennyg 14y ago
And that's what the thrill of money does.
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by bennyg 14y ago
Haha, of course yes. You should start sketching again.
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by bennyg 14y ago
I'm compelled to create. Side-project means a lot of things to me. It could be an app, or it could be a painting, or a series of short stories examining the human condition, or an EP of instrumental tracks using mathematics as the guiding c
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by bennyg 14y ago
I still think it's a bit more abstract than that. Would you agree that overall knowledge is good? Or at least holds more objective, intrinsic good than not? I'm positing that a society that knows more is better than a society that knows les
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by bennyg 14y ago
He meant that there is literally only one definition for literally. Any other use of the word cuts away at its meaning (like what happened in that context).
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by bennyg 14y ago
Exactly. He's saying a smarter public trends towards a better government system in place - by the majority of people using logic, reason and rationality to vote in someone worth their salt for each position.
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by bennyg 14y ago
For me, I love every single part of creation of software. From dreaming up its function and laying it down elegantly in code, to designing the user interface, the logo and making everything smooth. Then looking at it - deciding it's shit -

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