forrestthewoods

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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
So many amazing things could be done. The ideal situation is one in which users can quickly and efficiently mark all tools they use and also get them to update that list every ~6 months. It would integrate nicely with Stack Exchange network
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
"2. Yelp for business services" Take it three steps further. I want to know what tools of all types other developers are using. I'm a game developer want to browse what other studios are actually using and sort based on developer size, time
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
Analyst expectations missed. http://www.cnbc.com/id/44908357 Seems likely due to iPhone 4S shipping later than their normal cycle? That'd also be why guidance for the next quarter is so high I imagine?
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
As a game developer this post is rather amusing. I have far more questions about what happens behind the scenes on the python line than the C line.
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The making of an app trailer(altdevblogaday.com)
3 points by forrestthewoods 15y ago|0 comments
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
But that 260% type is also the same color as the top bar so it blends in. That's just poor design. This is the internet, people don't read walls of text. If that's a weed out feature then you're doing it wrong.
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
I skimmed the page five times before I ever saw the words "Software Developer." Everything about that page screams TLDR. The information contained is informative but it doesn't even have a decent summary.
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
Is there a good resource on the topic? I've read countless hype articles but nothing good on the issues that need to be solved for it to actually happen.
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
++irony;
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
The problem isn't that Ctrl-D is better than Ctrl-F, but that you aren't using Metal Scroll and/or Ctrl-Shift-F.
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
My favorite scaleform bug was when the game suddenly ran at less than 1fps due to a setting that led to the UI having more triangles than there were pixels on screen. Scaleform is good at a lot of things, but it's not even close to a "solve
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
Sure it can. When I play WoW years ago there were addons that could take up over a gig of ram. The mods that were item database related could often obliterate performance. I had a beefy PC at the time and there were still a few popular mods
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
Don't forget that AltDevBlogADay is a game developer blog and games have very different requirements than most other software.
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Synchronous RTS Engines 2: Sync Harder(altdevblogaday.com)
2 points by forrestthewoods 15y ago|1 comments
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Synchronous RTS Engines and a Tale of Desyncs(altdevblogaday.com)
83 points by forrestthewoods 15y ago|18 comments
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
It's less of an issue than you'd think. People become incredibly vested in their accounts. Hundreds of hours of playtime earning items and real money to buy others. Not many players will risk their time and money investments by trying to ch
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by forrestthewoods 15y ago
Not true. League of Legends is competitive, popular, and free to play. The developer, Riot Games, recently sold for $400 million. They just hosted their first major tournament which had over 200,000 concurrent users streaming the final matc