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by ivm 9y ago
HTML5 toolset is too fragmented and developer-oriented. Unity is humongous and WebGL builds are too big. There's no replacement for Flash.
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by ivm 9y ago
And the size was great – we were keeping many games with art, animations, music, and effects under 1.5 megabytes.
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by ivm 9y ago
This is an underrated comment. Breaking through the public's indifference for the first time is mostly luck, snowballing with some existing audience is much easier. Here's another great comment about the "minimum amount of at
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by ivm 9y ago
The original report is full of dubious country placements. They claim that Chile is #57 from 60 in friendliness. Haha, ok.
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by ivm 9y ago
> folly Small cultural artifacts move humanity in more subtle ways than the utilitarian behemoths mentioned by you. Weebls Stuff and Rathergood influenced my thinking a lot by introducing 14yo me to absurd. I'm sure less popular cre
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by ivm 9y ago
Flash is not just ActionScript 3. The only environment that beats Flash IDE for asset management and editing is Unity3d.
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by ivm 9y ago
Qt programming is done in C++ or Python and it includes everything required inside the distributed app package. It's also easily skinned to look very close to native UIs (see VLC). I've never used both of these languages and wrote
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by ivm 9y ago
> I get that it's easier to build a singular cross platform app using a JS framework More like to wrap a website. I doubt that it's easier than Qt when building from scratch.
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by ivm 9y ago
> I don't understand the allergy that so many developers have (in my experience) to subscription software. Not owning it, keeping data somewhere else, stacking many small subscriptions into a big monthly bill. > Software is never
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by ivm 9y ago
https://sidebar.io/ for getting better at design
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by ivm 9y ago
> I have nothing against the former, those are simply links, but it's not about back links, it's about getting the word out to people. > By calling something a back link, you are specifically referring to Googles page rankin
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by ivm 9y ago
> Build a site that attracts and builds an audience first Who will never find it because you didn't post it anywhere to raise up in ranking because "backlinking is gaming the system and bad". > SEO is for shitty sites t
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by ivm 9y ago
I think you use a narrow definition of a backlink which is "asking a link to weak content". Asking to add a new app to somebody's "Useful tools for ..." list is link building too. > Google wants good content, not
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by ivm 9y ago
So you are saying that one needs to pick a mildly occupied niche in a relatively high demand for the organic approach to work. I understand the possibility, but this will not work that well: – for any market where you have competitors with
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by ivm 9y ago
Well, it probably worked in 2007.
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by ivm 9y ago
I wasn't able to predict that discussing a better setup can cause "an extreme reaction". The second machine is not that important, I would prefer to schedule distraction blocking on my computer for most of the day and removin
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by ivm 9y ago
They do not come naturally, speaking from experience. Our site is placed on the 2nd to 3rd pages for the vital search queries that our product needs for long-term survival despite relatively low competition. But most of the first page resul
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by ivm 9y ago
Google will find it but it will not place it on top of your competitors if your site has low authority, i.e. small amount of backlinks. So you will not get any organic traffic because your site is not visible. On-page keyword optimization i
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by ivm 9y ago
It's not enough to be "useful", you need to work on visibility (marketing, SEO). You need to reach the owners of the sites where your potential customers are hanging out and ask them to link to your useful product. This way y
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by ivm 9y ago
All the events in my city are organized on FB. Even restaurants post their lunch menus daily on FB. I just check it from my laptop before leaving. It's not like most people need it on the go and if you suddenly do – there's still
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by ivm 9y ago
What's with the sarcasm? I asked why somebody keeps a purely entertaining app while trying not to get distracted by it. The Messenger argument is completely unrelated because it's a useful app to stay in touch.
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by ivm 9y ago
So if you or your company release something, you'll let it die without visibility because you don't like link building outreach?
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by ivm 9y ago
Yes, I have a separate laptop for all the distracting sites including HN. My main machine is for work. But why do you need Facebook app on your iPhone at all? Messenger is enough.
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by ivm 9y ago
What's your plan to rank a good product for relevant keywords without building backlinks?
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by ivm 9y ago
> Never thought the SEO actually paid off It not only pays off for the ad-fueled sites, it's also the only way up in rankings for a product site. No matter how good your software is – unless it went viral you'll be annoying peo
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by ivm 9y ago
Our team had little experience with backends in 2013 and a fear that it will be hard to scale game servers in case of success (players hate lags and downtimes). So we followed the hype of Node.js and MongoDB because everybody was saying how
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by ivm 9y ago
Spanish conjugations are not harder for me than saying the right English verb (do/does, was/were, am/are/is, has/have). Yes, conjugation adds a bit more to learn at the start but learning English spelling and irregu
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by ivm 9y ago
Spanish would be a much better global language than English or French due to simple phonetics and overall consistency. Gendered nouns are really simple. I'd say the hardest part is the subjunctive case but it's not critical for co
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by ivm 9y ago
https://medium.com/@inFullMobile/limitations-of-custom-ios-k...
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by ivm 9y ago
Third party keyboards are still second-class citizens on iOS. They lag on switching, they don't have access to native keyboard settings, they crash debugger, their layers can't be viewed in Xcode, they sometimes break on app updat

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