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by mwd_ 13y ago
I'm not nostalgic about the old, low-resolution monitors though. The content in those design fits into 630/700 pixel wide columns and the 11 pixel text in Orchid Beauty looks tiny on my screen!
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by mwd_ 13y ago
Interesting idea. I have an Android game that I've been working on for a while and I think it is pretty interesting but I just don't have the time to continue to polish it and market it. Maybe there's somebody out there who h
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by mwd_ 13y ago
One thing I find strange is how this Minnesota accent has come to represent "Canada's" accent in American pop culture. It is, unsurprisingly, somewhat similar to nearby parts of Canada (Manitoba, Northern Ontario) but it is not the accent o
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by mwd_ 14y ago
I think this was from Le Journal de Paris. "Journal" in this case actually means "newspaper" -- it was a daily that ran from the 1770's to the 1840's. I have a copy, but sadly it has no Benjamin Franklin essays in it.
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by mwd_ 14y ago
I think the search function is biased pretty heavily toward more popular titles. Even if you put an obscure word in your app's description, if it is not very popular it will be behind pages of approximate matches.
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by mwd_ 14y ago
I'd love to give away free copies of my Android game but I don't think Google Play supports promo codes. You also can't start out with a free app and then convert to a paid app later. Of course, a common approach is to have a free version a
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by mwd_ 14y ago
It's probably a lot easier to understand a larger project like a game or a website by trying to implement something substantial on your own. A lot of the obvious approaches to coding that work for small examples don't scale well for one rea
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by mwd_ 14y ago
To give a sense of what the job market is like here in Vancouver, I know a few people who accepted great offers at Google or similar companies after getting only a couple of mediocre offers locally. There are some interesting startups here
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by mwd_ 14y ago
There's no correlation I would guess that there is a very high correlation between CS degrees and programming or problem solving ability. I've worked in a pretty good lab full of grad students and their average skill level was dramaticall
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by mwd_ 14y ago
So I know the article isn't entirely serious, but the "score one for the robots" attitude seems pretty common and it's perplexing to me. Isn't this "score one for the humans", since they have created and now control a new kind of machine? W
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by mwd_ 14y ago
I try to ignore this stuff. It doesn't really matter if he committed suicide or not, and the folk mythology is just silly. If you want to learn more about Turing and the Entscheidungsproblem I recommend Charles Petzold's "The Annotated Turi
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by mwd_ 14y ago
This is what I do for Android games -- design things to be mutable and pre-allocate however many I'll need during a level. You also have to avoid foreach because it creates objects. This is an area where C# is better. You can create classes
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by mwd_ 14y ago
It's possible, but if I were a cash-obsessed Craigslist founder I think I would have sold the company a while ago and moved on to something else.
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by mwd_ 14y ago
Craigslist is a privately-owned company and was actually a non-profit at one point. In the past Craig Newmark has talked about Craigslist as a tool for community organization and so on. If Craigslist were 100% profit-driven I think it could
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by mwd_ 14y ago
Realistically, chances are that if you could come up with a good idea for a startup and successfully follow through before university, you will still be able to do it a few years later. Even if the startup world implodes, you'll probably ju
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by mwd_ 14y ago
Part of the story here is that OpenGL ES isn't a new version of OpenGL, it's a different API for different platforms. It's nice if you can take old code and make it run on a mobile device easily but overall that's probably a small considera
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by mwd_ 14y ago
Cartels wouldn't have a business selling something like marijuana post-legalization. Just about anybody can grow it almost anywhere so its natural market value is extremely low. I doubt there are a lot of gangs financing their criminal acti
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by mwd_ 14y ago
These articles typically throw the ratio of female to male employees out there as a statistic. How do we know that gender discrimination is the biggest factor in the gender gap? It's not hard to imagine that men and women on average would h
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by mwd_ 14y ago
I wonder how much this industry could be or already is locked down by patents? Anybody know? The cynical part of me worries that, if this isn't bogged down by obstructionists, then most of the economic advantage will be captured by Google o
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by mwd_ 14y ago
Paul Buchheit wrote a good essay on identity called "I am nothing" which is closely related to "don't become anything": http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.ca/2011/08/i-am-nothing.html I think that's the best part of this article. The criticism
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by mwd_ 14y ago
You can't just sit down and start coding for your $150 or even $70/hr though. Here are some factors I can think of that change the calculation substantially: - You have to take time and put in effort to find good contracts. Not all work is
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by mwd_ 14y ago
The drive up to Eureka may not even hurt your chances at coming up with one of those key insights if you've been working a lot. Sometimes breaks are good, and as others have pointed out looking at opportunity cost in terms of billable contr
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by mwd_ 14y ago
Anybody have stories about negative consequences after they decided to leave at a normal time instead of staying late? I leave at 5, assuming everything's in order, and nobody has ever mentioned anything to me. I also like to get in at 9, e
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by mwd_ 14y ago
My advice to you is that a lot of the qualifications and requirements listed in job ads are pulled out of the air, and many of them are absurd. I've seen plenty of job ads listing "5 years of iPad experience" or "3-5 years JSON experience".
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by mwd_ 14y ago
I only did a master's degree, but the consensus among grad student friends is that graduate degrees are not worth it for money (maybe it's different if you go somewhere like MIT or Stanford -- I am talking about second tier schools). Grad s
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by mwd_ 14y ago
This is particularly interesting because it is common to hear complaints that (A) it is hard to find "good" people, and (B) it is hard to go through huge quantities of resumes. If those are both true then clearly it's time to worry about fa
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by mwd_ 15y ago
Orange groves are nice but they're not necessarily a great form of land use in an urban area. If you build an orange grove in one location then the housing and everything else that could have otherwise been there gets pushed farther out. Di
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by mwd_ 15y ago
On an abstract level it does seem better to have a large number of young people to care for a small number of retirees, but that would create an unsustainable pyramid scheme in a country like China. Many parts of the world are already overp
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by mwd_ 15y ago
Just the other day I saw a job requiring "3+ years iPad experience". I understand the appeal of hiring somebody who needs minimal training, but they may still not be the best pick. When it comes to a long-term position, it is better to hire
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by mwd_ 15y ago
Can you think of an important, common situation where it is definitely better to negotiate piecemeal? Maintaining leverage and being able to trade off concessions in different areas is very important in a wide variety of situations. "Never

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