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That sounds horrible. All of the added complexity of a heavyweight framework without any of the advantages. Most frameworks have an option to cache the output if you want to go that route, then you'll get the performance of a static site wi
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I converted my site ( http://www.tapnik.com ) from Django to use Wok and it's been a great move. It's much simpler, and easier to add hooks to do stuff like cropping/resizing images. I don't update it very frequently, so I don't miss the ad
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I remember learning this trick, not sure where I learned it from but this particular snippet had a huge impact on me. I spent hours and hours playing with variations on this.
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This is actually a very common stumbling block. See the Ira Glass video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbC4gqZGPSY You learn how to differentiate between good and bad much faster than you learn how to create good. Which can be super dis
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I love the iPad and already preordered my iPad Mini. But it's nice to see a little competition. Sure, the amazon ad is stretching things a bit, but it's advertising, that's what they do. I can't wait for the "tablet wars" to really start, i
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Also taking a photo of your screen hides a lot of the telltale giveaways of a rendered image. But yeah, Blender's renderer is pretty amazing.
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If someone LIKES it on facebook, they now have a direct, reusable channel to communicate with an interested customer. That's worth a lot more than a website visit.
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It varies a lot. During one of the big thrice-yearly compos, your posts will fall off the main page within minutes (but there are tons of people reading), between compos a post might stay on the front page for a few days (but no one is chec
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"Shortage of tech workers" or "Shortage of people who want to work at Microsoft"?
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Nice work! Looks great.
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This is good advice, but I think he's missing a distinction between "finding what you love" and "being good at something". I see a lot of people who seem to feel a ton of pressure to find what they're good at struggling and becoming frustra
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1) Have a long title with keywords in it: "Super Task: The todo organizer time management for agile" 2) Pick good keywords. Repeat them in your description copy. 3) Get everyone you know to give you a 5-star review when you launch. That's a
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Here's a fantastic presentation about API design: http://mollyrocket.com/873
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The enthusiasm is good, but add more specific examples of problems you've solved and things you've built.
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This looks really great, but I'd call it "Learning GDB with C"
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I think at that level you don't really learn stuff through tutorials anymore. Tutorials/conferences stuff are mostly to get you started and looking in the right direction. You learn the advanced stuff by doing it. Want to learn linux kernel
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I have completed three apps under similar circumstance. It's tough. It's really tough. Here's some stuff that helps me: - The hardest part for me is getting started at night when I'm already tired and brain-drained from a full workday. Once
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Because you can't write pac-man using it. http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html
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Quote from article: "When I want to make quick money on clicks," he said, "I just buy late-night impressions on women's gaming sites. I guess the users are tired. They click like crazy. I make a lot of money." I don't know that much about o
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This is a cool idea but I don't think it works quite right, matching RGB color is a perceptual thing, there's no absolute "starbucks green" that you could display on a monitor. Even a calibrated monitor in controlled lighting conditions is
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yeah that was the first thing I thought of as well.
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Yeah this is a fantastic book if you look past all the hyperbole about reinventing science, it's chock full of fun experiments like this.
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http://www.butdoesitfloat.com/ is my favorite site when im stuck for inspiration.
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Nice. This is a great way to deal with Sturgeon's Law.
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First change I would suggest is to have some kind of avatar representing the player on the screen. This allows players to identify more strongly with the game. Second, reward and punish. Add some kind of consequence, perhaps even a game-ove
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I actually started getting more done once my daughter was born (well, not at first, after about 8 months or so). I only had an hour or two when she was asleep in the mornings or evenings when I wasn't, but I was really focused and productiv
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If you really get along with him and like his work, ask him if he'd rather get payed by the project or task rather than jumping through hoops of filling out timecards. Also, please pay him ASAP.
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Here's the usage numbers by version for the last month on my Planet Minesweeper game: http://imgur.com/Mu7Tp It's a universal app, so this covers iPhone and iPad. Over 80% of users are on 5.0 or above. My take on this is that if there is
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This is why I always put a "fall through" comment in place of break if I intend to omit it, and always put a blank line after each case. Once I got in the habit of this, it makes spotting this bug pretty easy.
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It's a fun game. I've build a Minesweeper varient that works on a spherical planet with hexes rather than a square grid. http://bit.ly/ycjiGQ It's true that it's a huge timewaster. Since I've released it in Dec. of last year people have

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