embwbam

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Launched my iOS game as Open Source(github.com)
83 points by embwbam 13y ago|55 comments
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Show HN: Launched my open source multiplayer iOS game.(github.com)
1 points by embwbam 13y ago|0 comments
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by embwbam 13y ago
While the other answer made me laugh, the reason is because gold is an element. Diamonds can be manufactured because they are made out carbon, and carbon and cheap and plentiful. You either have gold or you don't. Alchemy tried to conv
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by embwbam 13y ago
Oh man, I did something like this years ago, but for teenagers. It's super fun to make them. Just think maze + dice and you can come up with some cool stuff.
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by embwbam 13y ago
I left my startup last year. I didn't sell it, but had saved enough money to last me 3-5 years. It's enough to make me feel free to work on whatever is important to me. One of the unintuitive things I have struggled with is that n
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by embwbam 13y ago
The goal of doing something "more important" like solving world hunger or whatever should be to get more people able to concentrate on 1st world problems. It is good both for people to help others get up to first world, and for pe
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by embwbam 13y ago
ReQL for the win. It's so expressive, it's composable, I love it. I feel more confident that the m will be easy to scale if/when my app needs it. My code that interacts with the API feels cleaner.
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by embwbam 13y ago
Only change, try RethinkDB instead mongo. Doesn't sound quite as nice with REAN though. NEAR? EARN? NARE? :)
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by embwbam 13y ago
Promises are the only real solution. https://github.com/kriskowal/q
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by embwbam 13y ago
Wait! Read "Drive" first. Open Source is a textbook example of people working for intrinsic motivation. While offering money might make that bug get fixed sooner, it very often reduces their drive to work on the open source projec
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by embwbam 13y ago
I also highly recommend Wealthfront.com for super easy diversified investing. (Once you've maxed your HSA and IRA)
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by embwbam 13y ago
I'm sorry man. I was forced out of my first startup last year. It was very traumatic. It's so obvious what you should have done in hindsight but that doesn't help. I wish you the best if luck in the future.
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by embwbam 14y ago
I'll take a crack at my own over-generalization, albeit one I think is more useful. Adding strict types (Typescript!) to your code base gives you way more maintainability than testing. Do it first, then if you still needs tests, write them.
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by embwbam 14y ago
I strongly recommend AngularJS. Huge reduction in application code complexity. There are other good frameworks, like Ember, but the only one I wouldn't recommend is backbone. The only things that it has going for it are that it is easier to
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by embwbam 14y ago
I'm American. I grew up in a conservative household so I think I understand where they are coming from. My understanding is that many consider the 2nd amendment to allow them to bear arms to protect themselves from their own oppressive gove
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by embwbam 14y ago
I've tried stuff like this before, but it clutters your code pretty bad anyway, doesn't it? You have to do something like this: function myAsyncThing(cb) { var handleErrors = errHandler(cb) doSomethingElse(handleErrors
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by embwbam 14y ago
At least in node, you usually pass errors all the way back up the call chain. With normal callback style error handling, you have to put "if (err) return cb(err)" after each async call. It's crazy. With promises, you can attach an error han
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by embwbam 14y ago
Imagine if the language handled async code for you. So you could call an async function and it "returned" a value. But it still uses the event loop. See http://taskjs.org/ for how it could work in ES6.
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by embwbam 14y ago
TypeScript makes it way more maintainable.
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by embwbam 14y ago
When you don't have to share it with anyone, keeping a todo list in plain text really reduces the mental load of switching between your code and the list. It's easy to modify, make it look however you want. +1
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by embwbam 14y ago
I had this same problem for years, and it made me sad because I never listened to music. Then I realized that it wasn't the case for music I know really well. Even jazz or complicated folk (Chris thile) is great if I listen to an album over
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by embwbam 14y ago
Well, wait. I've always said this too: it shouldn't matter how I dress. But the truth is that dress is very frequently an indicator of how aware one is. It's a social consciousness that is sometimes reflected in other things (like being abl
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by embwbam 14y ago
I read the language spec and skipped everything but the code samples. It wasn't too bad, but yeah, not a cheatsheet.
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by embwbam 14y ago
Yeah, my dream is a Typescript + Coffeescript dialect.
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by embwbam 14y ago
I ported a project to TypeScript last week, and was very impressed with the language. I had rejected it out of hand in favor of coffeescript, but didn't realize how modern and expressive a type system they had created. Bug-catching gains we
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by embwbam 14y ago
this. I don't like SQL columns. They make life hard. But I'm spending time learning TypeScript specifically so I can add some types/schemas to my JavaScript. That doesn't mean I want to deal with the implementation detail of columns, but I
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by embwbam 14y ago
cabal-dev is close to giving you a separate copy of all needed libraries for your projects. It just doesn't do it for dependencies of your dependencies
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by embwbam 14y ago
Try AngularJS - No strong typing, of course, but the MVC separation is much cleaner (directives are awesome!), and it focuses on making things composable instead of a huge inheritance tree. Lots of fun. I totally agree overall, I felt like
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I.TV is the startup behind NintendoTVii(m.engadget.com)
1 points by embwbam 14y ago|0 comments
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by embwbam 14y ago
I made this for a local user's group. It demonstrates how to do some "custom" stuff in Angular. It includes two custom directives, one of them is bound to a jQuery plugin. I also made it poll the server for realtime updates. I'm hoping it c

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