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B3ta's Rob picks apart the rules of making a great (small) game(e4.com)
8 points by notauser 18y ago|1 comments
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by notauser 18y ago
Android seems* to be attracting people who write apps for themselves, while the iPhone seems to be attracting people who write apps to sell. It isn't yet known if having enough Type A developers will kickstart a pool of Type B developers. B
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by notauser 18y ago
Authentication takes two forms: Am I talking to this guy. Am I talking to the same guy as yesterday. << Anonymous certificates handle this use case.
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by notauser 18y ago
It doesn't have to work on everything to suceed, as long as: - There are large enough subsets to be worthwhile in their own right (e.g. J2ME phones, all Blackberry handsets, etc). - Customers only see apps that will work on their phone. At
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by notauser 18y ago
The people around you (and the networks they open up) are very critical, and very location dependant. Close your eyes and you would find it hard to tell if a chap who was educated in Hertfordshire was white or black - you would be able to t
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by notauser 18y ago
Very misleading headline - this is not opting out of ads, it is opting out of cross-site tracking. (By having an opt-out cookie set.)
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by notauser 18y ago
Because of the greater investor/regulator financial and legal scrutiny, better access to cheap capital, and tighter regulation over who can/cannot be a director * , your company has a greater probability of long term survival. This makes it
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by notauser 18y ago
I'd second the XPS M1330. My flatmate has one and it's pretty good (especially for the money). The Eee 1000 Linux is very well built too, although the low screen resolution would probably make it unsuitable for a main dev box.
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by notauser 18y ago
In Europe inter-bank transfers are free (unless there is a currency change) which can make them a better option than checks as they are quicker.
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by notauser 18y ago
If you want hands-free and FAST then Exkate sells electric skateboards that do 20 miles an hour over a 12 mile range.
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by notauser 18y ago
Some places take them... at a punitive exchange rate :)
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by notauser 18y ago
The feedback I have been hearing is that the Thunder is a crippled iPhone, but the Bold... wow. A proper keyboard is still a killer feature for a _lot_ of people, and adding in the 'missing' 3G and a usable web browser should help them hold
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by notauser 18y ago
I find that unless I battle really hard time wasted is fairly constant, the only difference is what I waste it on. Keeping the TV out of the house helps make sure that the distractions (books, HN) that are lying around are at least of some
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by notauser 18y ago
(Almost on topic) There is a JavaScript meetup in London on the 13th of August. http://javascript.meetup.com/3/
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by notauser 18y ago
> deliver a fantastic product, [product manager] Yes. > on-time. [product manager] > know how to ship desktop software [product manager] No, no, hell no. Product managers define what they think the customer wants (scope cr
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by notauser 18y ago
There hadly ever is, but as this is what life is like at 95% of companies (including small companies) the probability of this being correct is pretty high.
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by notauser 18y ago
The fact that they have valid business reasons not to support my use case doesn't magically make my need go away. It's perfectly reasonable for them not to want some people as customers, but virtualisation on Apple only hardware covers noth
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by notauser 18y ago
Which is a better commodity to back a currency? - Gold, where quantity is dependant on the supply of a single good dug out of the ground. - Debt, where quantity is dependant on the supply of all goods (including labour).
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by notauser 18y ago
Leopard server can legally only run in a VM on Apple hardware though AFAIK. I can legally run (some versions of) Windows on any of our Linux machines, loading it over the network, provided we don't exceed the license limit. This is _excepti
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by notauser 18y ago
If you can tether your phone then the browser on the device can be of much lower quality before you care. Any time I'm somewhere for more than 5 minutes (coffee shop, train, meeting ) I tether my Eee 901 to my phone (a 6120c, which comes wi
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by notauser 18y ago
Having a magnet for all that junk helps keep it off the rest of the internet. In any case vitriol past a certain level is easy to laugh at. The stuff you need to be careful of is the insidious slant, where nothing is said that steps over th
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by notauser 18y ago
Not anymore, but if there were no 64 bit machines... Video ram mapping reduces available memory space. Clawing back a few tens of megs of system ram could potentially have been worthwile(1). Supporting a 32 bit colour depth screen at 32,768
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by notauser 18y ago
I don't complain when companies chose not to contribute back to open source projects they use. I _do_ tend to try and spend my money with companies that contribute back.
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by notauser 18y ago
Opportunistic encryption is generally a good idea, but as it has no feedback method you can't really be certain if it is working or not. The seamlessness works both ways.
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by notauser 18y ago
The no 401K is a fairly big deal. Here in the UK, for high rate tax payers, a matching pension is worth a bit more than 140% of the stated value. So for an $80k job a 5% matching pension is worth nearly $6k a year. That's equal to a 0.1% st
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by notauser 18y ago
There might be a market for selling vitual worlds to VCs. And the best bit about that business plan is that you don't need to stress over dilution :)
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by notauser 18y ago
I always send out my resume in whatever format is asked for, however I make sure that the cover letter, email and resume include links to other formats for convenience. I assumed that there was therefore no way that I would meet someone who
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by notauser 18y ago
However drafting up a set for presentation to a laywer for checking and advice can be good (provided you have the right lawyer). The trade off is that you are presenting a solution not a problem. That is fine if you know what you want and h
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by notauser 18y ago
I can't believe that Windows for Warships didn't make the list. (I wish I was kidding, but I'm not - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea... - this would be bad for an American warship, but this project is British,
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by notauser 18y ago
It depends. A project _of defined scope_ that has no schedule pressure can go pretty fast. If the PMs concentrate on squashing change (or moving it to version N) instead of bugging people to get something out by a date, that can work. This

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