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by joeld42 11y ago
This is really clever, and solves a lot of the problems with QR codes. Not just the hand-drawable-ness, these also look a lot better aesthetically.
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I mean, I'm sure this is happening, but are they sure this isn't just sloppy prefetching? I've seen a lot of ad sdk's do this poorly, for example if you drop in five ad sdks with a sloppy mediation layer on it, all of th
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by joeld42 11y ago
This series of blog posts from Mike Farnsworth (a rendering fanatic and blender contributer) goes over how to create a "modern" ray tracer from scratch. Highly reccomended: http://renderspud.blogspot.com/2012/
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by joeld42 11y ago
Cycles is hard to use for animation because it is very noisy, it's fast to get an initial image (great for tweaking) but it's slow to get a noise-free image. Also this includes pixar's "denoising as a post process"
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It's a screening question. If you make an ASCII spiral that doesn't mean you're qualified, but if you can't do that then you're certainly not.
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by joeld42 11y ago
I ask whiteboard coding questions not because I care if the applicant can do some trivial task, but basically to gauge familiarity. Someone who writes code in a language every day for their current job should not have any trouble expressing
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This is great news.
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Portfolio.
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Hello! I'm an iOS dev at Smule, and also develop my own apps on the side as an indie. Here's my thoughts: First, I probably wouldn't use a framework like this unless it was really compelling. There are plenty of free versions
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by joeld42 11y ago
I got my first Python job by going to a user group meeting where there was an interesting presentation, and afterwards introducing myself to the speaker and handing him a resume. As far as portfolio, I'm sure you can find someone in yo
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This is actually a good thing. You've got something working, it doesn't matter if it's pretty. I've seen a lot of successful things that started out as ugly code. The ones that start out pretty and "architected&quot
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by joeld42 12y ago
This is why it's good to have a ticketing system. At first, just create tickets yourself for the ad-hoc work (but make it visible to the requestor). I do this for anything that takes more than an hour or so, or for even miniscule tasks
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by joeld42 12y ago
Write it yourself. ISO games tend to have a lot of little difference and it's hard to find an exact fit, plus most of them are just hacked up versions of regular 2d tile maps. You'll end up customizing it enough that you might as
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by joeld42 12y ago
I used to struggle a lot with procrastination/motivation, but these days I very rarely have trouble with it. It wasn't an overnight change, I just tried to be aware and accountable to myself, tried lots of different things, and gr
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by joeld42 12y ago
K&R is more of a reference, I'd suggest this instead: "C Interfaces and Implementations" by David R. Hanson http://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Implementations-Techniques-...
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by joeld42 12y ago
"I quickly wrote the screenplay for a pilot episode. I think that it came out quite good" Not trying to be a jerk here, but unless you're a seasoned tv writer (and if you were, you wouldn't be asking this), it's pre
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by joeld42 12y ago
Animation/rigging tools seem particularly lacking to me. For example, a "set driven key" in maya is simple, very common action. You can do the same thing in blender, but it takes more steps and seems kind of obscure. Blender
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by joeld42 12y ago
There's some really cool prototypes from the making of of spore that got put online. It's fascinating stuff: http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes I would say that every part of Spore was fun, or at least coul
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by joeld42 12y ago
This is great. I'm using Dart on a (smallish) project, and I really like it. I'm a little nervous about whether it will be around in five years, and stuff like this really help reassure me on that front.
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congrats gophers! That's a big step for the language.
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This loops over the triangles and converts them to screen pixels. A ray tracer loops over screen pixels and checks if there are any triangles that overlap it.
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by joeld42 12y ago
How I do it is play with the system as a user first, and think of small stuff to change. It might be real features or bugfixes, but at this stage, it's often thowaways like "make that button report the current frommet count",
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by joeld42 12y ago
Avoid crunch, it's not good for you, blah blah, see all the other comments. But sometimes you have to. Try the "caf-nap". Drink a strong cup of coffee and immediately go to sleep (set an alarm for 45 mins or so). It can feel
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They should write some small apps themselves and get them in the app store. That will get them interviews.
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I find it hard to learn programming that way (though for other stuff I use post-its). My approach is first to skim the whole book, making a mental note of interesting features or ideas I haven't encountered yet, but not really learning
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The best results I've had so far are: - TouchArcade Forums (You can create a thread for your game) - Make a Facebook page for your game, just do it. You don't have to post personal stuff on your page if you have reasons to dislike
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Tell the person in step #3 about this. They might be able to give you an alternate coding test, or at least be more considerate during the interview. We sometimes give candidates "homework", where they have 24 hours or something d
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I'm still using it. It's a nice language. Just because something isn't super trendy, doesn't mean it's not a useful tool.
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Rovio was one of the few big mobile gaming companies that favored the cheap, not free pricing model for games. When that model collapsed, they got hurt by it. Still, i'm very impressed that they were able to take a hit that could have
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by joeld42 12y ago
Nobody is going to care. Sometimes I do look at candidates github repos before an interview (if they provide them on their resume). Even when the code is not great, it's still a positive sign because it lets me know they are writing an

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