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by vitovito 16y ago
Wish I had seen this 21 hours ago. I currently work in the game industry, previously worked in the game industry, and have worked for non-industry consultancies that are trying to break into the industry. First, if you're not a gamer yourse
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by vitovito 16y ago
I consider myself a professional user experience designer, and I have no idea. Please tell me when you find out. :( UX as a discipline is still pretty unrefined: people are only just now realizing that you need actual (traditional) design
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by vitovito 16y ago
I recently held a workshop on applying game mechanics, in this case to a calendaring system. Details are here: http://vi.to/workshop/20100426/ My notes are here: http://vi.to/gmnotes Between going through the exercise (especially with o
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by vitovito 16y ago
I haven't interviewed as a programmer in a long time, so I'm curious, what defines "the most complicated thing was they ever programmed?" Algorithmic complexity, like a graph database or a computer vision system or an AI? Does it matter if
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by vitovito 16y ago
The comments in this thread are interesting, and I think that all the reasons brought up as to why it won't work are accurate. That said, I think there's a slight chance of value in making this a really premium service. Don't try to make i
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by vitovito 16y ago
You don't often get the chance to build the infrastructure for a site that will (re)launch and have to immediately serve two million-plus users, handle a never-ending influx of real-time data from those users' actions, and support comment
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by vitovito 17y ago
Practice. If a designer asked you for good tips on how to program, you'd say it's not simple, recommend some books, and tell them to just start writing programs, and reading programs, and writing programs in other programs' style, etc. So i
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by vitovito 17y ago
Mozilla Bespin now uses it as their framework (they render a canvas on top of its elements).
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by vitovito 17y ago
Local to Austin only. They're contract positions, so no relocation is provided. Sorry.
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by vitovito 17y ago
I think there's at least one server-side (senior Java) position open on the systems integration side: https://jobs.ea.com/jobs/jobposting.aspx?refresh=1&posti... (warning, will try to resize your browser window). I think knowing your
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by vitovito 17y ago
That's a misleading statistic because the IRS only allows you claim deductions on a money-losing primary income generator for the first five years. After that, it's reclassified as a hobby, and you can't deduct for it any more, so businesse
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by vitovito 17y ago
BioWare, Austin, TX. We make video games you might have played (Mass Effect? Dragon Age?) and the Austin office is working on the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The web team has 2-3 contractor openings for web developers (senior PHP [D
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by vitovito 17y ago
One of the gentlemen who run Directed Edge, the recommendation-engine-as-a-service startup, pointed me to his list of recommendations research at Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/collections/796791/Recommendations-r... (I suspect "all th
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by vitovito 17y ago
It errors out on many pages of my personal site, including the home page: http://vi.to/ I'd guess it doesn't like the inline data: URL I use for an alternate stylesheet.
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by vitovito 17y ago
Answered in reverse order: I'd have done market research first. They all failed because the intended market didn't exist and I couldn't afford to retarget. The ideas: 1) Unrealty, a 3D real estate startup. This was tech-driven: Quake 2 an
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by vitovito 17y ago
I went looking for the same thing and found it hard to separate the philosophy (and, with certain martial arts like wing chun, the internal politicizing) and history of the art from the practice of it. I found I wanted something deeper to
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by vitovito 17y ago
It should be noted that this isn't a movie showing "the right way to do wireframes," it's from a talk about how there is no "right way to do wireframes," there's only the appropriate way to do wireframes at the appropriate level of fidelity
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by vitovito 17y ago
Effect Games has something like this: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/ It was posted to HN a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986196
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by vitovito 17y ago
Not sure if the author's comment form will eat my reply or not, but you should already be able to use the existing LINK header, as the idea of a canonical URL was created using a LINK element. The spec for the LINK header is still a draft (
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by vitovito 17y ago
As long as you know what you're getting into. ;) I don't disagree with your blog post generally, I just am not sure you'll get the sort of buy-in you want from companies you want. Doesn't mean you shouldn't try, and I'm glad you are. I p
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by vitovito 17y ago
Oh, the poster really is you! haha! I would wager your story is very similar to mine, and to others here. It's why we're here, after all. Balsamiq uses Get Satisfaction to take in feature requests from users, and they go back and forth wi
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by vitovito 17y ago
Executive summary: Smart kid can't find a direct way to tell faceless companies his smart ideas so they can implement them, so he founds a startup in the vein of Halfbakery, Get Satisfaction or UserVoice where companies can track that sort
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by vitovito 17y ago
Good idea, I've been letting domains expire all year long. amateurhour.org just expired, but I could renew it if someone wanted it. trrd.org, trrrd.com/org, nichekitsch.com, enoughnow.org and w9gfo/0.org are the only ones left, I think.
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by vitovito 17y ago
Raskin's book, The Humane Interface, is basically what kicked me over into UX from development. The Canon Cat is absolutely fascinating, and I got to study one for a research project in college. Archy never really got traction. Creating a