justinhj

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by justinhj 14y ago
It would be very difficult to run a game like this which requires large numbers of users to make money in a clandestine fashion. I worked on the tech for an MMO that launched in S.Korea a few years ago and even then we had to be careful to
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by justinhj 14y ago
I wish him luck. Various projects have come along with backing from people outside the video game industry with the goal of being more realistic, more revolutionary and so on. But it's a lot harder to make a playable fun game. Realism often
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by justinhj 14y ago
As they are so dependent on Samsung as a supplier I can't help thinking they're trying to get leverage for negotiations of future components, rather than actually kill the Galaxy
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by justinhj 14y ago
node has a neat API for quickly knocking out stuff like this; it's a useful tool for more than just server code. Calling that comment fanboyism is just displaying the opposite of fanboyism, prejudice against hyped-up tools that nevertheless
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by justinhj 14y ago
Wherever he hosted it would have some limits. It's a learning project that made the front page of HN :)
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by justinhj 14y ago
It's really not the same as giving refunds to a customer. Keeping your customers happy is really important. Keeping your employees happy is also important. Keeping ex-employees happy is really not that important. Personally I might have pai
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by justinhj 14y ago
Farmville is the number 7 game on facebook in May with 5 million daily users.You can buy Farmville yhemed cups in 7/11. A level of obscurity to dream of.
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by justinhj 15y ago
Incidentally the book Modern Compiler Design in C has sample code in a mostly functional style and talks about these same issues.
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by justinhj 15y ago
I wonder if growing up with a computer where you can poke bytes directly to its memory and video hardware makes you fundamentally less afraid or mystifyed by the technology
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by justinhj 15y ago
I also like Psytrance. I just search for Psytrance on shoutcast and go with one of the top 3. The nice thing about these kind of genres is they're loud and monotonous and drown out the world, whilst not being too much work to listen to.
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by justinhj 15y ago
I thought the point was that you have the freedom, as a programmer, to try whatever you want. Your success is still limited by the market, but you are not limited by needing substantial capital or needing to motivate a large team of people.
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by justinhj 15y ago
Xbox and Playstation have the same kind of games, and Call of Duty is of course on both. Consumers have expectations of what a social game is. Why not offer them the choice of social network to play them on?
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by justinhj 15y ago
You seem blind to the popularity of Zynga and other makers of 'shitty' games. Steam has plenty of what you would call real games. G+ is wise to court the popular games first.
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by justinhj 15y ago
Plus minecraft constructions. Lots of video games now let you create and share. My son is building automatic doors and creeper traps at the age when I was making sprite data by hand and making it move across the screen using basic
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by justinhj 15y ago
You're right. 2 years and 6 months of gaps by the looks of it
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by justinhj 15y ago
I liked it for the fun single player level design mostly. The game engine also paid a lot of attention to details othe fps did not. Different reactions based on where the bullet hits an enemy. Security cameras. Alarms. Stealth sections.
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Yahoo Decides to Fire Its Brightest Tech Minds. Facebook Will Gladly Take Them.(pandodaily.com)
35 points by justinhj 15y ago|10 comments
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by justinhj 15y ago
It's not a Comet style poll because the only requests I see it making are to a server that seem to be tracking metrics that have no response.
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by justinhj 15y ago
It should be illegal because the balance of power is in favour of the employer most of the time. Same as questions about whether you plan to have children, if it was optional to ask then those who don't would choose to answer and those who
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by justinhj 15y ago
Not only that, package developers are 'lazy' for not documenting or moving to github? I don't see the author volunteering to do anything. :)
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by justinhj 15y ago
I think the article is correct except for its timing. The iPad 1 did all of this, the updated display resolution really doesn't change the device fundamentally. Sure the fonts and icons look great to Jeff, who just bought his first iPad. Bu
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by justinhj 15y ago
How do you upgrade? I just installed following the instructions in the readme
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by justinhj 15y ago
I'd love it if my office could be the coffee shop, or wherever I happen to be, but so far I've found that after a certain level of complexity and team size you pretty much have to be in the same room to make constant progress. I'm not sure
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by justinhj 15y ago
I have worked at game development companies for nearly 20 years. Initially I worked a lot of overtime for free,but after a couple of years I started to feel the effects on my life. After that I mostly just did not do OT unless it was paid.
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by justinhj 15y ago
My bad for getting the name of the book wrong. I thought of it as PAIP for so long I forget what the actual name is :) Great book though, even for those not especially interested in AI or Lisp
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by justinhj 15y ago
Norvig's practical ai programming has a great chapter on search which also shows how similarly different algorithms can be expressed if you have the right abstraction
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by justinhj 15y ago
I wrote this about 10 years ago and hope to spend some time one day making it simpler, but it seems to have helped a lot of people judging by the emails I get... http://www.heyes-jones.com/astar.html
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by justinhj 15y ago
Does anyone know how they went from a tweet to real names and travel dates? And how do they stop some third party abusing twitter to prevent someone else from travelling to the us?
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by justinhj 15y ago
Is the intention to end up with all the emacs lisp code rewritten in Common Lisp? If so that may be misguided. emacs lisp is a DSL for making an extensible editor whilst Common Lisp is a general purpose programming language. There are good
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HAProxy design choices(haproxy.1wt.eu)
1 points by justinhj 15y ago|0 comments

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