cubicle67

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by cubicle67 18y ago
I recommend "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner as an excellent read on the history of id. Love the book and makes me pine for those days (must be getting old...) http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
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by cubicle67 18y ago
> Published September 2008 I'm still stuck in August :(
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by cubicle67 18y ago
Reference http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-03-04/
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by cubicle67 18y ago
The game I'm making has a target market of me. I'm building a game I'd like to play of the bus on the way to work. I'm a big fan of the really slick side-scrolling shooters (think R-Type), but my biggest influence for this is my favourite V
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by cubicle67 18y ago
I applied day 1, was accepted the day the 3G was released. I'm working on a game in the evenings; here's my blog for anyone interested in its progress http://daves-game.blogspot.com/ We're (I have 4 kids) moving to the other side of the c
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by cubicle67 18y ago
Not yet. I'm trying to get him to get a blog up and running as I think a number of people here would find what he's doing pretty interesting.
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by cubicle67 18y ago
Yeah, a friend of mine is. He's built a video game console kit. hardware is complete, software mostly done, teaching material still to come. What it aims to do is take you through the steps required to build a game console, from how to get
1148.
by cubicle67 19y ago
Anyone else have their kids wake them up before 7 this morning :( Looks like being another long hot Summer day... Happy new year everyone!
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by cubicle67 19y ago
No, it seems like a rip-off of a better one that's been around for a number of years. I'll see if I can find it.
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by cubicle67 19y ago
Me too. Funny thing is, I don't ever remember learning _how_ to programme it, just that I always have been. Still have it too. Oh, and +10 points for the Vic=20 manual, complete with schematic and entire list of memory addresses and their
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by cubicle67 19y ago
Good on you. Don't let your future be determined by the success/failure of your application. Make a decision now to do what needs to be done regardless of your application's outcome. You need to have the mindset "I'm doing this anyway, and
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by cubicle67 19y ago
No offense, but if I had the money (there's six of us, so I'd need a bit) there's a list of places I'd rather go besides the US.
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by cubicle67 19y ago
I'm from Perth but living in Canberra
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by cubicle67 19y ago
> So I guess you know quite a bit about linux then? No, the _other_ big three letter IT company. Hint: was started by a prior US presidential candidate.
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by cubicle67 19y ago
Hence the six months lead time, not 'I quit now!' I've been without income before and am acutely aware of how much it hurts. I'd like to say I have no plan B, that we will make this work, but I have to be realistic and I'm in no hurry to
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by cubicle67 19y ago
Thanks. I've been reading ycombinator about six months or so now and discussing ideas with my wife for about as long. It's reached the stage where we decided we may as well actually do something. Tell you what, though. Gives you a whole d
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by cubicle67 19y ago
You know, I hadn't realised until I read your comment, but our tenth wedding anniversary coincides very nicely with our leaving the BigCo life. The Downs: You don't always see eye to eye, and you need to be able to work things out. The Up
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by cubicle67 19y ago
Nothing too fancy. We're taking something that's been done hundreds of times before, but all very badly, adding a bit of a twist and making it usable. Our aims are fairly modest, just to generate enough income to support us. I have no (well
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by cubicle67 19y ago
kinda like a blub programmer, but with more rrrrr
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by cubicle67 19y ago
I'd love to, but I'm outside the US (Australia)
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by cubicle67 19y ago
Think massive international co with a tla for a name. Australia.
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OK, you've convinced me. I'm coming to join you.
43 points by cubicle67 19y ago|74 comments
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by cubicle67 19y ago
2 points: - When anyone writes a story about something failing, they need to define what they mean by fail. Do they mean loose Apple millions, or not sell a zillion a week? I suppose the fairest means of judging failure here, is to use Appl
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by cubicle67 19y ago
How do you define 'fast'? I type a lot slower now that I did 15 years ago (as in LOC/hour), but I think a lot more about what I'm going to type, and my code is much more efficient. I have this crazy drive to constantly improve and learn mor