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by joeld42 16y ago
Everyone ignored the "don't hard-code sizes" thing. Why not, when the only devices that exist were 480x320. I'm about to start porting my iPhone "Brainstormer" app to the iPad (along with an overhaul of the editing UI). It doesn't seem like
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by joeld42 16y ago
Where did they come up with $35k to develop an app?? That's craziness. Where do I find people willing to pay me that much?
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by joeld42 16y ago
This looks great. I cook a lot with my iPhone (just in the browser). My suggestions, with the caveat that I haven't actually tried your app yet. - Make sure there's a way to disable the "sleep/screensaver" mode. This is my biggest annoyance
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by joeld42 16y ago
Here's a link to the Epic demo in the app store (free): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epic-citadel/id388888815# It's pretty impressive.
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by joeld42 16y ago
Listen to the "many of people". Seriously. I've worked on a lot of video games (indie and commercial), and this is a perfect example of something that is much cooler to you (the programmer) but not to the player. You 100% need to have a pla
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by joeld42 16y ago
There is a gamecomp mailing list that sends out announcements of the LD contests. It is extremely low-traffic, basically only compo announcements (thrice yearly): visit this to subscribe. http://www.gamecompo.com/mailing-list/ The TIGSour
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by joeld42 16y ago
Yeah, can you get them to call your friends and say "you suck!"??
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by joeld42 16y ago
A great way to get started is by offering to port and package something to a different platform, or add an api/wrapper for another language. Most single developer/small group projects would be happy to have the help.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I wish I had your problem. But seriously, change your goal. Income is obviously not a good motivator anymore. Looking for a way to do what you used to enjoy doing do competitively can be motivating, or perhaps doing it as a way of artistic
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by joeld42 16y ago
The problem in your thinking is that you say "it can eventually bottom out by returning NULL". But you don't tell the compiler that. You have to end the recursion somewhere. Fortunately, you can just use an equivalent type. typedef void^(^f
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by joeld42 16y ago
Try to refute yourself mentally before you speak. If you can argue on both sides of a topic, then you aren't really sure. The best way to proceed when you're not sure is to ask the others. Don't say, "The internet is made of turtles," inste
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by joeld42 16y ago
This is a good idea and I wish you luck with it. Another great way to build your portfolio is to approach local non-profits and ask to volunteer to make web apps or website improvements for them. There is almost always a way to make a big d
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by joeld42 16y ago
People tend to overestimate short-term revenue, and underestimate long-term revenue. It will probably take you much longer than you think to get 200 users, but if you stick with it and your idea is good, you'll end up with more than you eve
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by joeld42 16y ago
We used to have these at my workplace. It was terrible. But still better than the drip they had. One guy would open and dump like 20 of the vacuum packed capsules into the drip machine, and we'd have the only decent pot for a week.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I swear by the Aeropress: http://www.aerobie.com/Products/aeropress_story.htm I brew it a little differently than the instructions -- I use 2 scoops of coarse espresso, fill the canister, let it drip halfway out (about 2 mins) then top it
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by joeld42 16y ago
This isn't a resume or CV, it's a list of requirements for a potential employer. The actual 'resume' part was poorly formatted and overlong. It would be much better if the resume was in code, that would be a cute gimmick. (i.e. self.knowsLa
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by joeld42 16y ago
Another cheaper option is a standing desk with a high office chair. I used one of these for about two years and it did make a positive difference. You can stand or sit and it costs no more than a regular desk. (My workplace uses desks from
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by joeld42 16y ago
There's some info towards the bottom of this article: http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1570-how-to-track-your-ipho... "About 2 weeks after the end of the month, you'll start to get emails from Apple with a subject line that begins with "i
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by joeld42 16y ago
My understanding is that's it more about marketing rather than people stealing your idea. You may want to emerge on the scene with a new product and concentrate the media buzz rather than having information trickle out and have it seem like
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by joeld42 16y ago
The best way to improve any type of writing is workshopping. Find other people writing similar material, and offer to give them feedback on pieces they are working on if they will do the same. There are plenty of established online workshop
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How One Writer Developed an iPhone App(blog.writersdigest.com)
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I love those writeroom style apps. (I use WriteRoom on mac, and Q10 on windows). I also wrote my own free writing-motivator software: http://code.google.com/p/write-attack/ If this kind of app is the "carrot" approach, write-attack is the
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by joeld42 16y ago
The iphone version is a bit more interactive in that you can edit the list of words. Is that what you mean? And since the iphone has touch input, you can spin the wheels with your fingers, they have some inertia and keep going for a bit. Th
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by joeld42 16y ago
Thats neat, thanks for the link. I knew that there was plenty of historical precedent for this kind of thing, but I hadn't heard of Llull before. That's really neat that he also used concentric dials. But I doubt his wheels had Twitter inte
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by joeld42 16y ago
I'm a writer and an iPhone dev, and I found the original version of this to be very useful, so I worked with Andrew to build a version for iPhone. I'd love to hear feedback from HN folks about this app, and any tips to help promote it. Also
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The Brainstormer -- creativity booster with neat design(andrewbosley.com)
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I think that's the distinction that a lot of people miss (your post included). These are frameworks that work with apple's official dev environment, so if apple introduces a new feature, and if oolong or cocos2d or whatever is dragging thei
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by joeld42 16y ago
seriously good advice. And if you are not a huge company, just making a single page with a list of colors and logos is a huge help and doesn't take more than an hour to put together. I am barely more than a hobbyist and I have a little one-
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PyGame. http://www.pygame.org/
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by joeld42 17y ago
I think app store prohibits gambling games, so you couldn't actually give stuff away. Good idea tho.

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