jon914

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The Structure of Fun: Learning from Super Mario 3D Land's Director(gamasutra.com)
1 points by jon914 14y ago|0 comments
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by jon914 15y ago
The makeup of your diet, among other factors, determined how the body reacts to the extra calories and decides whether to store it more as fat and/or lean muscle mass.
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by jon914 15y ago
With some custom code and the help of libraries like MacWidgets, you can make some decent native-looking GUI's with Swing. See my profile for an example of one - it's a large-scale desktop application. I concede though that if you go with
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by jon914 15y ago
Apple's been fairly lax lately with its checking. A friend's game that we were able to get crashing on launch 100% of the time passed through the original submit process without a peep. The same friend, just for kicks, submitted a deliberat
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by jon914 15y ago
I get mostly relevant opportunities, but they never acknowledge that I'm already running my own company, even when contacting me via LinkedIn where that's pretty obvious. These aren't exactly no-name companies or recruiting firms but the ac
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by jon914 15y ago
High-protein, low carb and delicious (creamy texture and flavor) at the same time. I alternate between Chobani, Fage and a couple other brands, but the nutritional profile is about the same for all of them. I prefer to take my yogurt plain
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by jon914 15y ago
The Iwata Asks interview for Wii U has been posted. Some interesting insights into the thought process that went into it. http://e3.nintendo.com/iwataasks/
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by jon914 15y ago
The Fugue set is extensive and is my goto set. http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/
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Automated game ratings: How a form will affect the games you download(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jon914 15y ago|0 comments
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IBM, Caltrans and UC Berkeley create traffic prediction tool(www-03.ibm.com)
2 points by jon914 15y ago|0 comments
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by jon914 15y ago
Our startup's main product uses Java for a UI heavy app because makes it cross platform out of the box and is relatively easy to develop a nice, native looking UI with if you know what you're after. Our closest competitors locked themselves
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by jon914 15y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I missed the Target inclusion on the basic things I was looking for because it's based on the circular, which has fairly little in the way of food items. With Whole Foods, the best (and most pragmatic) deals th
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by jon914 15y ago
This is pretty neat, and I'd definitely use this once it expanded to cover the stores I visit (WF, TJ's, Target) and a broader range of items. The one pitfall for the current market is that stores that don't run circulars or stores for whic
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by jon914 16y ago
I use the Sparrow framework and find it to mimic the Flash's API more closely, and the API as a whole is less complex. The primary downside at this time is that the community is less active/developed, but the author is very helpful when it
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by jon914 16y ago
The poor in India and China don't eat enough to become obese, let alone gain significant weight. I think that the term "poverty" relates specifically to developed countries where fast food is the cheapest way for the poor to feed themselves
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Etude 1.5 Released(etudeapp.com)
7 points by jon914 16y ago|0 comments
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by jon914 16y ago
Thanks! The Balls in Space game scored several sponsorships that have collectively gotten it into the 4 figures range, which is pretty good by Flash standards.
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by jon914 16y ago
Cocos2D is the most popular 2D iPhone game framework. An alternative, if you're used to the Flash/ActionScript way of doing things, is Sparrow. You may also find that if you're doing an action/physics game in the future, Box2D will inevitab
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by jon914 16y ago
Nothing wrong with that. It was just the first thing that popped to mind when I saw it. I'd love to see a posting about the evolution of the mascot and overall design of the app. It's pretty slick.
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by jon914 16y ago
The mascot is cool, but am I the only one to think it looks a little close to Toucan Sam (Fruit Loops)?
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by jon914 16y ago
What fascinates me about Miyamoto is his tendency to allow form to follow function. Whether it's the design of Mario (to maximize visibility), the choice of music to suggest the nature of a stage or the instant recognizability of an enemy (
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by jon914 16y ago
Sure, I'll list out some of the pain points we're aware of and have tried to address. - Not able to think logically. There's only so much you can accomplish if you take logical thinking out of the equation, and when you do, the creations a
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by jon914 16y ago
As a founder of a startup doing #3 (Stencyl), I can attest to that idea being an enormous time sink and risk. I can name at least 10 startups or larger companies that went after that idea and either died or pivoted. What we have is working,
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by jon914 16y ago
Our main product isn't a web application, but we're the oddball startup that's using Java/Swing to build a desktop application which is a visual designer for creating both Flash and most recently, iOS games. Our ability to deploy to Windows
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Where Does Trader Joe’s Food Come From?(chow.com)
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by jon914 16y ago
You should build a relationship with potential investors over time, starting from when you have a prototype. Don't wait until you actually need to raise a round. Investors like to see traction in your product, and if you lack it, they'll co
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by jon914 16y ago
I've been on mine for almost 3 years, pulling in 40 hours a week on top of a full time job. I haven't launched (I will in a few months), but I've built up a base of 1000 users, all through sweat and blood. It's hard, it has it's up and down
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by jon914 16y ago
Fish feed consists of small, less desirable fish such as sardines and mackerel. These are rich in omega-3, so shifting to grains reduces the quantity available in the fish.
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by jon914 16y ago
Some farmed fish requires fish to feed them, which is unsustainable in itself when you're feeding N pounds of other fish to produce 1 pound of the edible type. See: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/farmedfish-pnas092... Recently,
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by jon914 16y ago
What surprises me most about this article is that the author was able to gain some visibility (sugarcoated or not) into this industry, in China no less. Slaughterhouses and meat processors in the US, in particular, are notoriously opaque ab

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