dc-tech-fan

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by dc-tech-fan 11y ago
I want this for something like Fiverr. Instead of my kids accumulating more junk, they learn the skills of hiring and delegating. Don't want to mow the lawn in this heat? Use your allowance to somebody else to do it. As long as the job
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by dc-tech-fan 12y ago
My mom wrote books using WordStar on the original IBM PC. She didn't like the default keys so she learned assembly to change them. She didn't change ^K^B, I still remember that one. I had to learn WordPerfect in High School and ha
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by dc-tech-fan 12y ago
I wish Facebook, Twitter, etc had some kind of "accuracy checker" built in. For example, if somebody posts a photo and describes as something that shocking that recently happened, the social network could add a tag "original
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Ask HN: Why hasn't the email client been reinvented lately?
8 points by dc-tech-fan 13y ago|4 comments
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by dc-tech-fan 13y ago
Ot: how did they do that header in github-flavored markdown? Github's preview mode doesn't render it correctly and I can't find anything about it in Github's docs. Here's the source: --- title: Michael Abrash&
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by dc-tech-fan 13y ago
Hi, I'm one of the creators of Doodle or Die. The drawing tool in the game and the anti-cheating systems are both things I created. I'm impressed with your app. Instead of converting a bitmap to a pixel-by-pixel rendention (which
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
$10,000 at $3/album means over 3000 albums were sold that day, out of 6000 available (according to his ad). So more than half of this random collection was worth buying, and if lets say each person buys three albums, over 1000 people came t
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Works on the new Evo 4G LTE. I wish it had drawing ability, but your art skills are way better than anything I could do. Was this inspired by Windoodles? http://windoodles.tumblr.com/
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
I see you are using Node and Express on the frontend - what other Node modules are you using or found useful?
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Doodle or Die is all HTML5. Doodles are stored as JSONP: http://doodles.s3.amazonaws.com/d2/5iSFn-ME/8qp73zuBe.js This json renders in canvas as the page loads like these amazing drawings: http://doodleordie.com/profile/underwearhero W
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
> The only technical problem where I've seen node be a unique solution is dealing with third party apis concurrently. Use a library like Async, it makes this really easy. https://github.com/caolan/async (assume redis, mongo, facebook,
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Retain users: More than 70% of our daily visitors are return users, but we do need to figure out some way to notify users when their chains are complete, etc. We'll probably ask for email for this. Do you have other ideas? Yes you get to ke
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
That is so cool, thanks for sharing the screenshot! I love seeing how different developers show the final chain. There have been many times when I've wanted to give up on Doodle or Die. For example when somebody created a site called Screw
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
NPM Modules: mongodb async - no more insane levels of nested indents when doing async javascript express - middleware ejs - templating system logging - very simple logging module i wrote more than a year ago when there weren't good logging
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Server Config: 1 GB of RAM vm at Joyent. This much ram has been perfect. We've actually had 1000 people playing at once on our first machine which only had 256 MB of RAM.
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Database: Mongo We're using a 5 GB instance at MongoHQ with backups to S3. Mongo is insane fast compared to what I'm used to with MySQL, and I love the JSON-based query syntax over SQL. Not being able to do relational-type queries has made
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
I agree about a colophon! We have a lot of this information on our About Page but maybe that's not the best place for it. http://doodleordie.com/about I'll reply to each technology separately to make it easier to reply to questions about
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
We have a reporting system to get rid of those few bad apples from 4Chan (amazingly most 4Chan players love the site and play legitimately).
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Do other drawings load slowly for you? Most images you see are drawn via canvas using the same code that runs when you draw with your mouse. For example: http://doodleordie.com/profile/underwearhero Let me know if those drawings load very
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
It is very simular - but we actually had never heard of or played Broken Picture when we created the game. I wish we knew about it before launching because there have been many times when deciding how the game should work that it would have
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Doodle or Die by about 6 months 2011-Aug-28: Doodle or Die 2012-Feb-06: Draw Something 2012-Mar-26: Drawception (edit: formatting)
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
We want you to have a user name, and the Node module we're using for authentication (EveryAuth) makes it easy to require a user name and password but not easy to require a user name without a password. EveryAuth: https://github.com/bnoguch
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
What browser and version are you using? I developed the drawing tool using Chrome, tested in Firefox, and people tell us it works on the iPhone and iPad. Also the game is 100% Javascript - if you are disabling Javascript it won't work.
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
Wow, excited to see a shout out on HN for something I created! I'll try to answer any questions you have, especially technical questions about running a game with thousands of users on Node. (Edit: spelling)
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by dc-tech-fan 14y ago
I'm giving Phonegap a try to make the mobile version of http://doodleordie.com . Thoughts/recommendations/inspirational success stories with Phonegap? Of course Native is better but the Doodle or Die fans want a mobile app now and Phoneg
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by dc-tech-fan 15y ago
I started to build one using Corona SDK but the drawing part wasn't smooth enough so we're going to start over using native code.
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by dc-tech-fan 15y ago
thanks, glad you are enjoying Doodle or Die!
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by dc-tech-fan 15y ago
thank you!
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by dc-tech-fan 15y ago
Thank you! We are actually working on improving Doodle or Die for mobile safari right now.

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