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901.
by pfisch 14y ago
What the hell are you talking about? If you actually placed bets by nate silver you could make quite a lot of money. The number of outcomes is very high on a parlay bet like this.
902.
by pfisch 14y ago
It's kind of hard for me to believe you since I predicted what would happen so accurately from the email chain. Like how could you in good faith hire 8 people and then fire all of them in days. I mean honestly you only were hiring them for
903.
by pfisch 14y ago
That was your title! Poaching - Illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or is under official protection.
904.
by pfisch 14y ago
"Either way, signing a contract does not make you a slave to the company.. you can just walk away. Yes they could technically sue you for damages, but this never happens in real life. It's too much hassle and expense for the company (espe
905.
by pfisch 14y ago
Just to clarify I think what Patrick did is fine since he went and talked to the other CEO and they agreed, but the way Arjun went about inciting him to do it seemed sketchy.
906.
by pfisch 14y ago
This whole thing raises a bunch of red flags imo. First of all you guys seem to be very morally flexible in general. There needs to be a lot of trust in employer-employee relationships. "I totally understand about not wanting to go back on
907.
by pfisch 14y ago
Signed up. Hope this isn't a phishing scam. It seems real, but I guess we will see.
908.
by pfisch 14y ago
Has anyone used this before?
909.
by pfisch 14y ago
It definitely looks like wordpress, and it says it is wordpress and prestashop on the bottom. Also prestashop looks like it is just an ecommerce plugin. Did you guys take VC money or something? This just looks like a normal business to me
910.
by pfisch 14y ago
I built one project with it for pay. It is much more limited than a real native solution like obj-c, monotouch, etc. What exactly would you do if the client came back to you and requested something titanium couldn't do? When I was using it
911.
by pfisch 14y ago
So...if I start selling stuff on ebay, does that make me a "start-up"? I'm pretty sure you are a couple of guys who setup a wordpress site with a generic theme on a shared server. Also it seems to be having trouble handling the small amoun
912.
by pfisch 14y ago
My experience with titanium was really poor. Lots of silent fails with no real error output. Also I found it very limited, more limited than just opening a webview and using html5 really and hooking into it with code for the native functi
913.
by pfisch 14y ago
"there's a LOT of amazing things you can do with the UI that are much harder in Objective C" I don't really agree with this. Can you provide an example? Because there are a million things you can do in objective c with the ui that are basi
914.
by pfisch 14y ago
You should quit. Life is short, there is no reason for you to spend it doing that.
915.
by pfisch 14y ago
Those are not high end games. Those are casual games that look like they would run better and would work in a wider array of browsers in flash. Also I am mistaken, you can include webgl. I meant NaCl and other kinds of techs that are real
916.
by pfisch 14y ago
Everything this person said is the truth.
917.
by pfisch 14y ago
You can use C# for all three with monotouch. But honestly it doesn't matter much. Objective C is very similar to C# which is very similar to Java. It is really just slightly different syntax. And you can always just embed a webview and u
918.
by pfisch 14y ago
So is anything not "hacking" anymore? Or can we just use that verb for anything? If so then I'm hacking pretty hard in this comment section right now.
919.
by pfisch 14y ago
This is the best thing I have ever seen on hacker news.
920.
by pfisch 14y ago
I'm not sure how much you provide beyond art, also an sdk? It sounds like you are essentially a publisher. Since you are giving a royalty advance in the form of art, software support, handling distribution and possibly marketing. You are
921.
by pfisch 14y ago
I think this is not a great business model. You are planning to take the distributor portion of revenue but also take the additional risk of making the art. This could maybe be okay by itself but probably not. However, additionally it so
922.
by pfisch 14y ago
Because there is less competition. Open game stores are flooded with games, mostly of low quality. It makes it very hard to stand out and you just fall off the front page really fast. There is too much noise and everything gets the same
923.
by pfisch 14y ago
So...Steam is a closed platform as well. We have a game on Steam, and I can tell you that the sales on the Steam platform are much better than the other open ones. One of the reasons for this is the big user base, but the closed nature of
924.
by pfisch 14y ago
For some reason I can't reply to you directly... If you left good deliverables for them in the end then that is better. But like I said, I don't think it is a great idea to publicize this situation because it doesn't exactly make you look g
925.
by pfisch 14y ago
It really depends what the initial agreement was. Were you a regular employee or was there an initial contract that you would complete X project for Y dollars by some deadline Z. If it was the second one then IMO you really owe them back t
926.
by pfisch 14y ago
It kind of sounds like this guy took an agreed upon amount of money to do a project and then kept trying to charge more and more for it while only sort of working on it, and then just bailing and never delivering the final product. I'm not
927.
by pfisch 14y ago
I feel terrible for the person who takes a contract job and is handed some code that depends on this. Also I hope it isn't me.
928.
by pfisch 15y ago
I think the only lesson here is that if you operate a site like megaupload the gov't will come down on you like a ton of bricks whether it is against the law or not. So if you operate some kind of scumbag business like megadownload you mig
929.
by pfisch 15y ago
I don't really understand how this game isn't going to be broken immediately and only programmers will be able to play it. Like day 1 some programmer is just gonna roll in with a large automated fleet of ships running on these computers.
930.
by pfisch 16y ago
What are you talking about? When you roll a new version of a high volume web app if it has bugs that don't get caught in certain scripts then you can literally cost people hundreds of thousands of dollars before it is fixed. eg. A trading

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