joeld42

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by joeld42 9y ago
Yep, this is the way I work. Always rebase against master, and fix conflicts there, so branches merging into master should always be up-to-date and have zero conflicts.
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by joeld42 10y ago
Think about what valid, useful reasons people have to return to the app. E.g in a game, they might want to see the progress in their crops. In a book collecting app, it might be to find out what new books appeal to them, or to enter their r
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by joeld42 10y ago
Admit that it's a (better) chatroom and tailor it to that use case. It's not a new thing. Go super-aggressively after abuse, bots, etc. even if it hurts your bottom line short term, it will help it long term. Don't make state
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by joeld42 10y ago
I've always wondered why Google doesn't just slowly raise the prices on things like this until either everyone switches due to attrition and they can shut it down noiselessly, or it becomes profitable. There's been a few serv
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by joeld42 10y ago
Just to be another anecdotal data point, I am a white male iOS engineer with tons of experience on top-grossing apps. I live a few miles from Uber's new building in Oakland. But I would never consider working for them because of storie
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by joeld42 10y ago
I don't see any reason that Obj-C can't stick around for a long, long time, even if Swift is the "preferred" language. Also, rumors of first-class support for Swift as a .NET family language are very interesting and woul
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by joeld42 10y ago
Best way I've seen is to have peer code reviews. Have different people from across the team review each others checkins. Every. single. checkin. It can be a quick "buddy check", or a longer code review for a big meaty feature
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by joeld42 10y ago
Not your problem. You didn't change your plans, they moved the deadline. When that was discussed you should have been sure to mention that is after your planned/announced departure, if you didn't voice this before be sure to
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by joeld42 10y ago
I ask them to design a structure for a card games that uses a standard deck of playing cards, and how they would implement shuffle (not the algorithm itself) and dealing and hands. This is simple. People manage to grossly over engineer it.
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by joeld42 10y ago
Don't forget, they are very new to mobile. Things that may be obvious to mobile devs are overlooked by a large company used to a captive console audience. Nintendo doesn't move quickly but they are very adaptable in the long run.
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by joeld42 10y ago
I'm making a VR game with giant mechs that has a totally unique movement mechanic. Anybody want to fund me? :P
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by joeld42 10y ago
C
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by joeld42 10y ago
I was lucky to learn C with pointers first, and then arrays. When you think about it as just chunks of memory, it all makes sense and is easier to reason about what the cpu will do. This is another example of a "simplifying abstraction
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by joeld42 10y ago
Networking. Beyond that, a good first start is to do some interesting analysis on public datasets and blog about them.
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by joeld42 10y ago
One of the best places to look is where an emerging platform overlaps with existing specialty fields. For example, VR is currently an emerging platform, here's a few things that maybe someone is pursuing but there's no established
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by joeld42 10y ago
This is why it's important to have a "hotfix" process where you can make a change fast and then still follow up with all the QA and coding standards.
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by joeld42 10y ago
Network. If you want to build up a portfolio a good way is to volunteer to build or fix things for local non-profits, in exchange for them to give you a testimonial and let you use their name for promotion (if you do a good job, of course).
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by joeld42 10y ago
I got tired of filling out timecards so I wrote a simple script to print out my timecard for me (I still double-checked and signed it). Word got around and I added some features to default to your hours/billing numbers from the previou
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by joeld42 10y ago
They do the site for the marketing value. People see the quality behind unsplash and that builds credibility for the agency behind it. It's not cheap to host and run (they had a blog post about that a few months back). Having a named l
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by joeld42 10y ago
My guess would be it means server-side work that involved c++.
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by joeld42 10y ago
You're entirely right, but it's not gonna happen.
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by joeld42 10y ago
Neither, and both. Lets say you have a scene with a cup of coffee spilling onto a desk... The overall description of the scene, where the desk is, the lights and materials etc, could be stored in a USD scene. Some tool would read this and g
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by joeld42 10y ago
When I interview front-end developers, I take a wireframe mockup, or sometimes just a screenshot (either from a real product, or just make one up), and ask "how would you implement this". I want to see if they know the toolkit, ca
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by joeld42 10y ago
Casey Muratori - Designing and Evaluating Reusable Components https://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0028.html
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by joeld42 10y ago
Tensorflow
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by joeld42 10y ago
My suggestion would be to use a combination of Mixpanel (for detailed, granular data) and Facebook analytics (for the strongest demographic data). Demographics is also something that you don't need a gigantic sample size like you would
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by joeld42 10y ago
Valve's "Left 4 Dead" had a system like this called the "AI director" that was pretty well-received. See the part about "Generate Dramatic Game Pacing" http://www.valvesoftware.com/publicat
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by joeld42 10y ago
This seemed interesting because I am working on visual story structure diagramming software (looking for beta users btw), but I wasn't very impressed with their results. Basically the only interesting conclusion I could see was "s
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by joeld42 10y ago
Because it adds complexity, but doesn't deliver the gains in productivity or encapsulations that you hope for. C++ is a big language, and most people agree that "some parts" of it are useful, but they just can't agree on
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by joeld42 10y ago
Keep at it: 1. You never know if it will be a surprise hit (Crossy Road) 2. All of my game projects have made very little money, but have had unexpected side benefits that made them worthwhile. 3. It's fun. I enjoy making games more th

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