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by brianchu 13y ago
There's a big difference between reading the news every day, reading the news every week, and reading the news every month. I used the read the news every day (and reading news magazines weekly); what ended up happening is that I also
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I've not used both, but keep in mind that SpriteKit is only for iOS 7. Cocos2d-iphone is also really mature, compared to SpriteKit. If you want something cross-platform, look into cocos2d-x, which uses C++, but you can use their JavaSc
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Yep!
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Yep, skywing and quantumpotato have the general gist of it. When I first started I thought it was going to be really simple, but it turns out that building a game can be quite tough. Compared to building a web or mobile app where you have l
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by brianchu 13y ago
cocos2d-iphone is really simple and easy to use; it's my own code that messes things up :). The thing that added the most complexity was Box2D. I'd probably use Chipmunk if I were to write an iOS game again, simply to keep everyth
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Show HN: My first iPhone game, Devils in Heaven(brianchu.com)
58 points by brianchu 13y ago|22 comments
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by brianchu 13y ago
Note that bower is extremely lightweight; all it basically does is pull repos from github. So it can hardly be considered a package manager. The rest all offer various features above and beyond bower, AFAIK. The reason bower is so popular i
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by brianchu 13y ago
Some of the technical challenges I can think of: 1. Version control. 2. LAN sync. 3. Dropbox probably also does a lot to try and minimize their S3 costs - so probably a good deal of compression/duplication-detection on the backend. 4.
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by brianchu 13y ago
Since a lot of people have trouble imagining why Snapchat is popular, I wrote a blog post on it a while ago: http://www.brianchu.com/blog/2013/09/11/photo-embarrassment/ . One thing that bears noting
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Creating an Auto-Growing Text Input(brianchu.com)
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Several thoughts (from someone with only intro-level biology, fwiw): 1. I think a lot of biological why's might be fundamentally un-answerable except for "pure statistical randomness." That's just the branch that evoluti
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by brianchu 13y ago
A lot of people don't seem to get Snapchat, so I wrote a blog post about it here: http://www.brianchu.com/blog/2013/09/11/photo-embarrassment/ . Have people actually met/seen others using S
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by brianchu 13y ago
> Metrics only indicate what people think they want, not what they need. Metrics are only accurate if you look for trends. Long-lasting businesses don't rely on trends. This really does not make any sense. Metrics as a general conce
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by brianchu 13y ago
At several Startup School talks, Ron Conway, probably the most successful angel investor in SV, has frequently said "you never argue with metrics." In a talk at Startup School 2012, he said that he "didn't get" Face
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Ask HN: Does Django work out-of-the-box with GAE and Cloud SQL?
3 points by brianchu 13y ago|0 comments
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Here's a roll-your-own alternative: use an embedded Google form and style it to fit your website's theme. That's what I do at http://www.brianchu.com (Contact Me button at the left). Works like a charm and I get a
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by brianchu 13y ago
The interesting thing is that, from when I talked to the guys at AngelList, the bigger market (with larger monetization potential) is not its funding platform. It's the hiring platform.
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Students in public schools are routinely ranked by intelligence. There's the entire concept of "class rank," in which students are in fact put in ranks by their GPA (a proxy for intelligence) and from which a valedictorian is
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by brianchu 13y ago
On it.
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Photo Embarrassment(brianchu.com)
1 points by brianchu 13y ago|0 comments
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1. Agreed with tptacek. 1% is within the "standard" range of equity from what I've heard in SV. But that range is highly variable: 1-5%, but even 0.1-10% might be justified. But we have nowhere near enough information to judg
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If you have a sufficiently JavaScript-heavy client-side codebase, there is a very strong argument for essentially unifying the server-side and client-side tooling. Being able to write and run unit tests in exactly the same way (jasmine or
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by brianchu 13y ago
It isn't the article that I usually spend the most time reading. It's in the comments where most of HN's learning value lies, and thus where most of my time is spent. If the summaries included an outline of the opinions/
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Grunt by Example - A Tutorial for JavaScript's Task Runner(brianchu.com)
8 points by brianchu 13y ago|1 comments
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1. I really disagree with the assumption that you're not going to get more than 0.5% at a seed-funded startup. It is really common, at least in Silicon Valley, for an engineer at a seed-funded startup to receive more than 0.5%, espec
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by brianchu 13y ago
It's really hard to answer this question when Backbone is lumped together with Angular and Ember. What Backbone offers is a light layer of structure over your code. Yes, it doesn't give you much, but I believe its sole purpose is
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That is not even close to a solution. Then problem of establishing a connection (sharing connection info with both parties) remains in its entirety. The user still has to manually give the other user signaling information. The suggestion gi
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by brianchu 13y ago
I was recently at an AngularJS meetup at Google. One exciting (and drool-worthy) advancement the devs are making when it comes to Angular's documentation: a fully interactive Codecademy-style 5-step tutorial. You can see a rough demo h
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Ask HN: How do you and your team share code snippets?
5 points by brianchu 13y ago|7 comments
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by brianchu 13y ago
For each step build 1-2 basic apps. (Basic app = 1-3 days of work). Basic HTML + CSS (don't spend too much time here) + skim the Bootstrap docs (you should use Bootstrap for everything after this). Basic JS. Go deeply into JS (inheritance,

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