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by pkaler 18y ago
I call bullshit. I don't know how old you are. I'm about to turn 29 years old shortly. And I dated multiple women for the last 10 years. The most I got to was dating 4 different women at the same time. It didn't work for me. And it took
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by pkaler 18y ago
I am thankful for the improved health of my family, my obscenely wonderful girlfriend, the business taking off, and being in the best shape since my university days. (Even though I live in Canada)
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by pkaler 18y ago
Most of my clients come from shaking the right hands. I get referrals from people I know and people I meet at events. Hackers underestimate the importance of dressing fashionably, speaking eloquently, and writing well. All of these soft s
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by pkaler 18y ago
I replied in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378412
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by pkaler 18y ago
I charge about that much. I've had to turn away a lot of smaller projects because I'm way overburdened at the moment. It's amazing how coders don't actually know C anymore. It seems like a rare skill these days. I also have a ton of embe
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by pkaler 18y ago
I own a Kawasaki Ninja 650R. A fairly slow bike by sportbike standards. It does 0-60MPH in about 3.8 seconds. Frankly, that feels very slow. I've been riding for many years though. It's amazing how your brain and body adapts to fast spee
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by pkaler 18y ago
Instead of "Make something people want", how about "Make something people with money want". Think twice about building something for someone that is either cheap or just flat out broke. It sounds like Meetup dropped a lot of users that wer
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by pkaler 18y ago
Tag, label, and categories your posts well. Check Google Analytics to see which keywords drive traffic to your site. Use these keywords as topics for future posts.
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by pkaler 18y ago
I'm interested. Parveen Kaler Smartful Studios. iPhone Application Development. pk AT smartfulstudios DOT com
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by pkaler 18y ago
Facebook should compete with TicketMaster. Allow Admins to sell tickets to Events and charge a service fee.
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by pkaler 18y ago
Please, no. That is a well-written book for the most part, but don't take the antics as actual advice.
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by pkaler 18y ago
"It's almost always just porky nerds who have notebooks." I've logged every workout I've done over the last 14 years. I squat over 300 lbs and deadlift 450 lbs. My roommate in university was an olympic lifter. The entire team logged the
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by pkaler 18y ago
Billing by the hour may be way too granular for some projects. Contractors should also consider day-rates. It can be a good compromise between hourly billing and fixed bids.
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by pkaler 18y ago
You don't really need VC funding to launch most iPhone applications. The cost of development is so low compared to other types of development. I'm the lone programmer at my startup at the moment. However, I just left a team of 35 programm
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by pkaler 18y ago
How is that the worst idea ever? I use Buddy Beacon with Where.app all the time on my iPhone. Probably one of the most useful apps I've used.
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by pkaler 18y ago
The 70% cut is a very, very special case.
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by pkaler 18y ago
The answer is, that it depends. Revenue split used to be 60/40, with 60% going to the developer. Depending on when Jonathan Blow signed his deal, he may be getting as high as 60% or as low as 30%. I blogged about the issue here: http://pa
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by pkaler 18y ago
You're assuming that murderers are rational.
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by pkaler 18y ago
This quote is probably biblical, but I heard it from Bob Marley: Don't gain the world and lose your soul. For Jerry Yang, losing Yahoo would be like losing his soul.
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by pkaler 18y ago
I can't count the number of times I've read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Gain new insights every single time I read it.
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by pkaler 18y ago
Actually, yes. I used to work on games for Sony. So, I add people on XBox Live and PlayStation Network. And Twitter is actually valuable based on the people that you follow. A ton of my friends work in the mobile space and push location
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by pkaler 18y ago
Yes. The fonts looks much better in this version. The new tabs are cool, especially if you spend the rest of your day in Safari. It also uses the keyboard in a much more Mac friendly way.
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by pkaler 18y ago
The problem with email is trust. ANYONE can leave something in my inbox. Whereas you have to be on my contact list to send me messages over other mediums. Sure, I can setup filters. But when I exchange business cards, we find each other
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by pkaler 18y ago
The core engine will most certainly be written in C/C++ for the next 10 years. A ton of gameplay gets pushed out to Lua and a lot of the UI gets pushed out to ActionScript. Tools are mostly written in C#. But really, all game programmers n
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by pkaler 18y ago
The management/production side is a huge reason programmers don't want to go into games anymore. But the bring problem with universities is that they stopped teaching C/C++ a while ago.
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by pkaler 18y ago
_I'm reposting my comment that I posted to the blog._ The alarm clock would need to run on the server and trigger a notification on the iPhone. There is a very slow task manager that can execute code: Me. Your service that is sitting on yo
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by pkaler 18y ago
Having worked on the XBox 360, Sony PS3, Sony PSP this is a HUGE improvement. The walled garden is not as huge an impediment as you believe it to be. Figure out if it is fiscally prudent for your organization to work on the iPhone platfo
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by pkaler 18y ago
Smartful Studios. Working on games for the iPhone. But really that is just the first beachhead since all of my experience is as a programmer in the video game industry. The blue-sky plan is a media brand. Non-profit, fashion, beverages,
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by pkaler 18y ago
That's a bad thing? I love Delicious Library. Stuff like the bookshelf, coverflow, and seeing a visual representation of items does actually have value.
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by pkaler 18y ago
There is one reason I can think of for adding profile pictures: reducing anonymity. People say a lot of things online that they wouldn't say face-to-face because of anonymity. I'm not sure if profile pictures would be a step towards anonym

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