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by dgant 15y ago
The journals referenced in the article are an excellent read and will likely hit home for those pursuing or considering startups: http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2011/10/ebook/
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by dgant 15y ago
The top of the arrow is an M.
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by dgant 15y ago
One thing to consider is that the number of job postings may correlate negatively with project size. The strong representation of Objective C and Android may reflect that the life cycle for mobile applications is a lot shorter than for many
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by dgant 16y ago
Nice take on "working around the human aversion to choice overload"
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by dgant 16y ago
Similar to "Better to do and ask forgiveness, than to ask permission first"
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by dgant 16y ago
It certainly is a game of compound interest! On top of that the system has three features that interact to give it its depth: 1) There are several opportunities in each game to sacrifice your rate of growth to obtain a temporary advantage i
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by dgant 16y ago
C++ lends itself to a large variety of different programming styles and paradigms. C++ also lends itself to premature baldness, by developers ripping their hair out trying to make systems developed in different styles interact with each oth
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by dgant 16y ago
I haven't worked with webcams. I imagine the AS3 docs, and the included examples, should cover your use case: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/ For sending the photo, you probably want to look at URLRequest: http
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by dgant 16y ago
I don't know about iPhone-anything, but Flex offers a lot of the UI niceties you describe.
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by dgant 16y ago
I haven't worked with Flash cookies so I have no feedback about that domain specifically. There are plenty of legitimate uses for them, so there's no need to add a disclaimer! The Flex references do a pretty good job of documenting what err
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by dgant 16y ago
That's definitely true, about the small intersection between {Flash fluent people} and {CS/software engineering fluent people}. My last company tried to find such people several times without success. And indeed, that also means that many o
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by dgant 16y ago
I'd be happy to talk more about it. dsgant at gmail
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by dgant 16y ago
I haven't dealt with pyAMF but I have worked with AMF serialization. Do you have any particular questions about AMF?
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Offer HN: Help with ActionScript 3
8 points by dgant 16y ago|13 comments
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by dgant 16y ago
I've been using Gmail Tasks for about a year now. Its advantages? * I'll always have it open * I can't help but see it many times per day * It syncs automatically
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by dgant 16y ago
There's a similar thought process in the music production world: Get punchier mixes by listening to wimpier speakers while you mix.
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by dgant 16y ago
One of the most eye-opening lessons of my professional life: I had a set of coding questions to give final round candidates to complete in person. By paper, whiteboard, or laptop -- their pick. The success rate for candidates was about 25%.
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by dgant 16y ago
Mutalisks are a natural choice. The AI can individually control units to a super-human degree. Mutalisks are a harassment unit with a lot of potential upside when controlled properly. Mutalisks are cost/power balanced around a human's abili
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by dgant 16y ago
As in many creative fields, a common goal for many game designers is to create a thought-provoking work of art that's also a runaway commercial success. Who wouldn't want to create the next SimCity, Minecraft, or Civilization? But the harsh
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by dgant 16y ago
I was one of the original users of the site. The article, while good, omits what I think are two of the most important causes. When CUCommunity was relaunched a CampusNetwork, there was a long period -- several weeks, perhaps months -- when