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by joeld42 16y ago
There's not really any trick to it. You just pick one and build it anyways. At some point you will think it's a waste of time and useless. Just keep going, the hardest part is pretending to be jazzed about it when discussing it with others,
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by joeld42 16y ago
My bet is a crappy pseudo-random number generator, or other software bug.
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by joeld42 16y ago
This is wrong. They're not checking for 150 words. They need to check that, once typeset on the printable form, the text fits in a box of a certain size. Still, whatever they are using to typeset the form should be able to easily give them
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by joeld42 16y ago
This is one of the rare cases where bringing a netbook is a better idea than an iPad.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I hope they also make "Barbie's Dream Cubical" and an overweight "workplace sexual harassment" Ken.
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He should give some examples of WP7 apps that are more "successful" than those iPhone fart apps.
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A general purpose memory manager that doesn't suck.
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by joeld42 16y ago
Here's some code for doing this with Qt Webkit for a local app: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2008/11/03/thumbnail-preview-of-web... What you'd want to do is make a little server that does the same thing but can serve the resulting image, or j
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Indie movement pioneers GarageGames/Torque shuttered by parent IAC(torquepowered.com)
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by joeld42 16y ago
How much of what Kinect does is done in hardware, and how much of the vision solve is done in software? the "drivers" might be a huge undertaking if it just gives you the raw input from the cameras.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I would try to generate many small, focused apps, try to make them better than average but not obsess about perfection. I would aim for one app every 2 months. You can't predict which ideas are going to take off, so if you generate a lot yo
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by joeld42 16y ago
I used my app to generate a topic for my novel, here's my blog post about it: http://www.tapnik.com/post/nano2010 The topic was "Mistaken Judgement / Corporate / Cannon", so far the novel is about a burnt out software dev at a large and i
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by joeld42 16y ago
It's extremely confusing. A simple email anonymizer seems like a better option in every case I can think of.
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by joeld42 16y ago
A fun way to learn a little or at least get inspired is to check out LayerTennis on fridays: http://www.layertennis.com Each round, each layer, ask yourself "do I like that or not"? and then try to articulate why or why not. Why is this l
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by joeld42 16y ago
Yeah, this book not only explains the "good parts" it gives you a lot of context as to why a lot of the weird stuff in JS is the way it is.
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Ian M. Banks "Culture" series. "Matter" might be a good one to start with if you're looking for something similar to LotR.
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Hear hear. The user interface for my first app took me 3x as long as I expected, despite finding (unexpectedly) that Cocoa Touch to be one of the nicest API's I've encountered. It was because I re-built it several times to make it feel "rig
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by joeld42 16y ago
I think it's more subtle than it lets on. The message wasn't "the simpsons is produced by sweatshop labor" which of course isn't true. Because if it was, this intro never would have aired. By joking openly, "we use sweatshop labor", they're
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by joeld42 16y ago
I'm nowhere near making a living, but my "Brainstormer" app ( http://www.tapnik.com/brainstormer ) is making enough to pay for my apple gadgets, so it's kind of a self-sustaining hobby at this point. I just released a free, iAd supported ga
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by joeld42 16y ago
It's called a 'backlash'. It's been happening for a while now, minecraft just dragged it into the spotlight. The current demand is for games that are fun, not games that are pretty or push your gfx card to the limit. It doesn't have to look
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by joeld42 16y ago
Names are really important. This is a bad name. Gimp, the image editor, is another victim of OSS naming. I know many serious artists who won't give it a try simply because of the name. They don't take it seriously. The fact that it's free i
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by joeld42 16y ago
I wrote an article about this: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art/features/CoderGameArt/ In general, this was trying to offer concrete advice that people could use right away. Here's what I'd suggest (and what I'm doing for my games): -
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by joeld42 16y ago
Really interesting collection of cool things you can do with Cellular Automata. I've implemented a few of the automata in the book for fun (they're all pretty simple), but I've yet to find a real-world use for any of it. If you don't take t
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by joeld42 16y ago
You could stick "sponsored" tweets into the twitter feed.
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These are just my opinions... Don't target any one specific platform, write your app to be as portable as possible and target multiple devices (android, iPhone, webos, etc.. ) Larger markets have more customers, smaller markets have less cu
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by joeld42 16y ago
there's a ton of words-with-friends cheat apps in the app store already
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A sheet of glass!? They could install the device in windows, instead of installing windows on the device. (sorry)
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Yeah, but that happens with groceries, too.
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I use it to look for blog posts and other mentions of my iPhone app, the Brainstormer. If someone posts about how cool the web version is, I can email them and offer them a promo code for the iPhone version. I've got a handful of reviews th
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by joeld42 16y ago
Short answer: Yes.

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