omarhegazy

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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Yea, I was kind of surprised when he said college students shouldn't start startups. This could be partially because 10 years ago, PG thought startups were undervalued in society and wanted to preach them as a valid alternative route t
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
What a great analysis. I'd like to see stuff like this on other games : what about shooters with instant-hit and slow physics where the player is still definitely NOT a tank (2-3 bullets from most guns will kill you), still capturing t
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Getting indie developers on board with Linux shouldn't be hard in the coming future. Linux is rapidly growing and is started to be seen by the public eye as an OS some people would actually personally use for their own personal compute
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Oh my God I thought these bullshit cries of doom stopped. It's such a simple matter of business. If Oculus did that, no one would by a Rift. That would be bad for Oculus, Facebook, and consumers. The much more likely thing to result fr
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New Emojis, But No Hot Dog(newyorker.com)
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
This with the Oculus Rift combined is going to make for some seriously awesome "tourism demos". Someone has to make a Bebop-as-a-service thing where you have warehouses full of Bebops across the world's largest tourist center
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
I didn't quite catch the joke.
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Sounds pretty stupid. Benefit gained from cancer cure is far higher than detriment from some idiotic comments online an a semi-spammy marketing campaign that was swiftly punished. Net effect is very positive. "I'm not supporting t
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
If you're afraid of looking silly to the company, just remember that everyone will be having that fear if their digital profile is requested. Relatively, your value doesn't change. If everyone has stupid stuff on their digital p
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Really ? Can you show me any statistical data for that? Or just anecdotal stuff? Because trust me, there's probably 10x as much anecdotal evidence for companies with large amounts of funding that HAVE had success. Just looking around
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
It's very possible to improve your skills on the side for a much, much better junior position. Resume padding and climbing the corporate ladder is not as effective as it used to be. Do the least amount required in your current job
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Yes, but factor in all the activity and opportunities and life of the city, and it's worth moving there. Besides, it's not really higher cost if the wage of the industry you're working in scales nicely with the cost of li
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Glad to see you're the leading authority on this matter. Tell me, from whence did you judge that Snapchat is "ephemeral"? How did you manage to outplay the dozens of very smart, very experienced, and very successful VCs and i
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Stuff like "next song", "accept call", etc. can be done with extensive knowledge in machine learning and some clever work. The really tough bits will be stuff like, "Siri, check if PBS Idea Channel has uploaded any
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
For women that chase rich men (not saying all women do this, but the existent and very small subset of women that do), it's often not because of the success implied. It's because of what the paper can buy. Those women would still
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
You really never did anything worth caring about in high school, academically, at least. Math was a series of formulas to memorize and various sequential combinations of said formulas to memorize. English and writing classes were focused on
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Really interesting program, although, as Andrew has said, seems kinda limited. That's not your fault at all; any early project will seem limited in scope. Given some popularity and extra effort, something like this could be the Siri of
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
The same way inaccuracies about tech in movies irritate people like Jeremy, the fact that people like Jeremy even care in the first place irritates me. I know he admitted to it being pedantic and not the point, but I can't help but s
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
If you want, you can run some wget magic to get the whole book's html files (and used css/js files) on your hard drive . wget -r gameprogrammingpatterns.com
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Pretty insignificant. You can't spend that money. No one can. ; YC, financially, is enough money for you to live in the Bay Area to work on your company for a fixed time in which you're expected to grow and acquire more capital an
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
This fucking sucks, man. Tom's always seemed like an awesome guy. As always, absolutely overblown PR messes like this are a result of faulty communication. Without proper context or research done about it by Internet warriors frothing
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
My favorite part about 1.0 is Gradle. No more Eclipse! Time to start writing my games in Emacs, maybe even Sublime Text ... Great fucking work, guys! Congratulations.
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Not an easily solved problem, though, to just up and install new toilets. The only thing you can do at this point is optimize for wait times.
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Agreed. I don't think the author ever said hacking was an inferior or unreasonable tactic -- she never said clever kitchen extensions were bad . She just wanted people to be able to separate and properly judge what is a clever kitchen
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
It really depends on what you're doing. Triple-A games and most graphically advanced 3D games pretty much require you to use C++.
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Yes, similar to why I flog my children for liking Toy Story : toys cannot move or talk, fools! At one point these complaints stop being "this is too much to suspend my disbelief" and become "yes an opportunity to thinly vei
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
You're right. I guess I'm just a huge sucker for the whole dynamic languages with a REPL thing. I mean, Ruby is just so goddamn neat. The stuff that takes me 2 lines in Ruby can take me 10-15 in Java or C, and the difference only
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Fucking awesome art, dude. Any gameplay vids? Demos? What are you deving in? What platforms do you hope to release for?
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Code navigation is hard in plain text editors, but definitely doable. I think the cost of setting up code navigation and jump-to-definition in Emacs is lower than the cost of dealing with how slow and bloated IDEs are. But, hey, to each his
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by omarhegazy 12y ago
Not bogging down your service with unneeded features is a feature in it of itself. And often times the best feature. Also, ditto with it not being the rule that customers know what's best. Customers are for the most part good judges of

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