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by fnayr 9y ago
Thanks for the alternate suggestions (biased as they may be). My biggest pain point when writing doc in md is tables. They are so hard to parse in the raw text, and I constantly have to be checking the rendered output to make any edits&#x2F
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by fnayr 9y ago
> Maybe that explains why Kickstarter and Steam saw a ton of retro 2D games in the past few years I actually think (as someone with gamedev experience) that the explanation has to do with the difficulty of creating art assets for 3d game
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by fnayr 9y ago
Yes players can sell items to other players, so that's the one place so far I've needed to worry about atomicity, but even mongodb docs give examples with how to deal with something like that: https://docs.mongodb.com&#
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by fnayr 9y ago
Video games storing player data are a great example of nonrelational data. I'm intending on writing a blog post after I finish my game detailing the structure of data I store and why it was so perfect for mongodb.
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by fnayr 9y ago
Is that a SaaS for SaaS's? Can we go deeper?
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by fnayr 9y ago
Typical for what? SaaS websites? Websites monetizing with ads generally sell for only around 12 months revenue, and apps generally sell for around 6 months, because of the volatility in users/downloads and uncertainty in the markets. R
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by fnayr 9y ago
> For whatever reason Just a wild guess, but that reason could be that ad monetization works way better on videos than static pages and are more likely to garner subscribers to build a following.
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by fnayr 9y ago
Another anecdote. I have been working on a large mobile game in Unity for over 3 years. I need to write a tool to manage the virtual (game) item database so we could add content to the game without updating the app. I could build this app w
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by fnayr 9y ago
> A disproportionate number of the apples in the grocery store have MacIntosh in their ancestry Interesting! I love Macintosh apples having grown up on them from my mother who is from Vermont (She makes a mean Apple Pie with only those).
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by fnayr 9y ago
Thanks for the intuition. We're done very soon and hope to never go this hard again.
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by fnayr 9y ago
I responded about why I do it in a sibling comment. If you ever find a link to other sleep cycles I’d appreciate it. I’ve heard of people taking many shorter naps before but not staying up longer and sleeping longer.
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by fnayr 9y ago
But if the rate of clearage is the same then because I’m sleeping longer it should clear more of the protein?
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by fnayr 9y ago
I make mobile apps with my brother. We’ve found that we’re much more efficient when we can work in long uninterrupted periods of time. It takes a while to get reloaded into the program, so if we do an 8 hour work day we may have 5 hours of
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by fnayr 9y ago
I wonder how the protein collects in people like myself, who will routinely stay up 24-30 hours, but then sleep 12-14 hours after.
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by fnayr 9y ago
Super Mario Run, Pokemon GO, and Hearthstone are also made with Unity.
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by fnayr 9y ago
Ok this is pretty cool. This is also why I love HN. I've been using SQLite for ~3 years, have I missed this from the beginning or has it been added since then?
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by fnayr 9y ago
Interesting, I did not know that. However, I use a 3rd party framework to transform the table rows to classes, and I assume I would lose all that magic conversion. In other words, the reason I go through all the effort of transforming to re
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by fnayr 9y ago
I am developing a mobile game and the BaaS we use (Gamesparks) uses MongoDB. Currently I use SQLite to cache the data locally, but that can be a pain to transform document formatted data to relational, and back. I wish I had known about thi
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by fnayr 9y ago
I agree. And the excuse I tell myself it's only temporary. But it's been 3 years now...sigh.
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by fnayr 9y ago
This is almost disturbingly accurate to how I feel in the "zone" as well. A consequence of this is it's hard to have a healthy life as a self-employed programmer. If I want the app I'm working on finished faster (and I d
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by fnayr 9y ago
Apple changed apps with In App Purchases from being able to say "Free" to "Get." Maybe they'll do the same with ad supported apps as well.
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by fnayr 9y ago
I'm currently making a mobile f2p game in Unity. I previously had created a Cocoa app for the game item creation/ db management. Since we changed the architecture of the game pretty heavily, I needed to rewrite the tool. I chose E
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by fnayr 9y ago
Yeah I've read some horror stories about that too. I think that the improvements to concurrency (ala WiredTiger), will help wth that, as well as making sure to think about possible concurrency issues from the outset, as I've tried
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by fnayr 9y ago
My claim wasn't that it didn't fulfill their needs, it was that it doesn't fulfill all needs (gamedev is one example that I'm familiar with). Postgres storing JSON types != All mongo functionality I'm sure I could
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by fnayr 9y ago
I know it's pretty popular to hate on Mongodb now (even more so than it was to love on Mongodb 4 years ago), but there are still areas where it's better than a relational db. In game development, it's extremely helpful (espec
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by fnayr 9y ago
All these stories are reminding me of m first encounter with programming. My Grandpa gave me his $600 Visual Basic (5?) book + software when I was 13 (~15 years ago). He didn't have the registration key, but I naively thought I could g
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by fnayr 9y ago
This is extremely useful to take advantage of (that you can store RGB values in 0-alpha pixels). I've written some pretty simple but powerful shaders for a game I'm working on by utilizing transparent pixels' "extra stor
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by fnayr 9y ago
Well I definitely got that recommendation too. His exact advice was that I shouldn't take it unless the office was it's own sealed off room that was NEVER used for ANY other purpose. He certainly scared me out of taking the deduct
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by fnayr 10y ago
Yeah OP seems to be indicating that VC or some other actor is influencing the developer "market" to deflate salaries by inflating the supply of devs, at least that's what I'm reading it as, and I'd be very curious t
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by fnayr 10y ago
Regarding the review hounding, I use Google labs experimental feature to auto reply to such posts. If any emails match the domain (something.amazon.com) and have the word "review" in them they get sent straight to the trash and ge

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