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by joeld42 13y ago
I don't know, and it certainly feels kind of silly reading the prologue where it promises to reinvent everything, but I found that book to be fascinating and thought provoking. It didn't change the world but a lot of people are th
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by joeld42 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. I was in this boat and I don't think I would have figured it out otherwise. I owe you a beer. Also, in case anyone else is reading this, I was also getting mysterious "Unknown Errors" from iTunes w
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What happens when everyone loses the app store race to the bottom?(rampantgames.com)
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This is really cool. While it's obviously aimed at people making ads (which makes sense for Google), this seems very useful for any kind of interactive element on a web page. I'm pretty sure I'll use it.
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If these are the worst things that people can find to complain about in iOS7, then Apple should feel pretty proud of themselves.
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'"When we talk to developers and say, 'if you can pick one thing for Valve to work on the tools side to make Linux a better development target,' they always say we should build a debugger," he said.' Yes, pleas
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I struggled with this for years. I solved this problem with one simple rule. I don't allow myself to talk about what I am planning, or doing, but only what I have done. It doesn't have to be a whole project finished, it could just
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by joeld42 13y ago
I'll second the namecheap recommendation. I've used it for registration and hosting for setting up a few sites for friends and I've always had a good experience with them. They offer hosting as well as domain name registratio
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It falls off very quickly, unless you have some mechanism to get people back into the app (updates, new content, etc..). Even big-name apps will fall off the charts very fast without work. There's nothing passive about it. I don't think "ma
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Bitbucket is great for small teams and individual work. Thanks for existing.
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Ah, closures. Is there anything they can't do?
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing these.
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you get huge points from me for using "Tessier-Ashpool" as the example client in your screenshots. :)
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by joeld42 14y ago
Very interesting. I've been trying to learn to read music so I gave it a shot with some of the example songs. I think I'm right in their target audience with where I'm at. I liked the symbols as reminders (I still have to count All-cows-eat
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by joeld42 14y ago
What's so bad about a floppy disk icon? Even if the kids today don't know what that is, they still know the icon means save. We recognize a pawnbroker's symbol or a barber pole without knowing where they came from.
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Why can't both be true? If you actually had some objective measure of programmer skill, wouldn't you expect there to be some kind of bell curve of skilled programmers, with 10x and 0.1x people somewhere at the tails?
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Do this. It really means a lot to an app developer. I wish I could send a thank you email to everyone who writes a review for my apps. Even the bad ones. Though I'd rather they email me for support first in case it's something I can help wi
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by joeld42 14y ago
Maybe, but there's plenty of apps that flat out ask for that. Here's a particularly shameless example: http://imgur.com/8UGRals But yeah, you'd probably get better results if you're like "hey, here's this free thing, want it?" (tap YES) "
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A less sleazy way to do this is to offer players something ("unlock the secret panda level") in return for giving you a five star review. You can't verify that they actually do, but if you give them the item and then send them to the app st
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The closest analogy I see is with the segway. Something that could be useful and even world-changing but overhyped and dumped on a market without justifying it's existence. Apple could have released the iPad first but they waited to teach t
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Really? I was also one of the initial licensees and I feel like it's the most value over the years I've received for $100 ever. Even though I've never released a game with it, having a "real" game engine (warts and all) to play around in an
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AFAIK (and it's been a few years since I've looked), most people still block out interiors with the DIF (bsp-style) editor, but do most of the details and decorations with a bunch of static DTS shapes (very similar to your heightfield/rocks
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I tried using just a laptop screen for a year, after using 2-3 monitors before that. I just recently switched back to using 2 monitors (well, my laptop + a big monitor). Using the single small screen did help my focus and attention, but I f
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by joeld42 14y ago
As simple as this suggestion is, it's probably the best advice on the topic ever. I still do this when learning a new language, and I've been programming for almost 20 years now...
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No, but there are some really interesting fractal image compression algorithms that can do that and "synthesize" more detail than is in the original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression#Resolution_...
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I had this problem and they way I tackled it was I don't allow myself to talk about anything I'm working on, not to anyone at all. Only what I've done. If I'm exited about an idea I really want to share it, but once i have a "wouldn't it be
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I don't think it's really a chicken/egg here. If you could instantly solve the problem of having lots of entrepreneurs posting that wouldn't necessarily create any value for potential users (beyond app discovery, which there are better plac
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I'd use this. Certainly some ideas are different and exciting enough that you wouldn't want to audition them publicly. But for the most part, it's execution that matters. This site seems like a good idea to gauge reaction to those ideas. Ho
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My #1 want is some kind of process or hints for taking a screen that is crowded with controls and options and simplifying it. Often I am faced with this and just don't know where to begin.
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That's pretty funny. But that's really all there is to it. There's no secret formula, just practice.

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