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by rtf 18y ago
I work in console game development, I've made Flash games, and I spent a week trying with a startup. (Subsequently I returned to console games.) Long post ahead. When speaking of console gaming there is a considerably larger amount of forma
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by rtf 18y ago
If he has a good track record, he can probably sell his experience; he just needs to get out there and start networking in whatever field he's aiming for. This advice is made on the assumption that he's in a major metropolitan area with the
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by rtf 18y ago
Exactly. If you invested in the index, you break even over that period. But if you invest in big winners(taking Apple and Microsoft for known examples in tech) you come out way ahead.
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by rtf 18y ago
It depends on how early I go to bed. When I turn in later I wake up later.
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by rtf 18y ago
School gave me the time to think and dabble and develop a lot of my personal philosophies and perspective. The business world tends to do the opposite because of the endless drive for fast and cheap. Either way, you lose one aspect of your
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by rtf 18y ago
Some thoughts: Will the cost of maintaining the hand-rolled code exceed the cost of working with XMPP tech (and subsequently benefiting from an existing community and proven reliable code)? Hiring someone for an existing standard, for examp
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by rtf 18y ago
jhofmann@321f.net
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by rtf 18y ago
When I got my game gig it was through demonstrating work at a Meetup group(San Francisco Game Developers), so I know this is a good place to start. I'm planning to show for as many of these events as I can.
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by rtf 18y ago
Thanks for your comments, everyone. I'll start following up on specific comments shortly, but some general thoughts: My reasons for wanting to go for a new business have to do with the calcified nature of the development process; now that I
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Ask YC: I just got laid off, and I have some startup dreams.
32 points by rtf 18y ago|29 comments
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by rtf 18y ago
In large part the critiques seem to center around failings of minimal prefix syntax(failings which I would agree with). Minor errors that in bulkier languages are caught by the compiler, become logic errors in a Lisp; an easy way to become
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by rtf 18y ago
Some problems become easier when I'm sleepy because I can't think as clearly but I start to focus very well. Other problems demand several passes of experimentation. For those it's easier to try a quick test during the day, think about it w
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by rtf 18y ago
I happened to run into this in the bookstore today. I don't recall it making any waves online, but it's a fun read and uses a lot of real-world concepts. Definitely worth checking out.
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Hackerteen, the hacker's superhero comic(hackerteen.com)
1 points by rtf 18y ago|1 comments
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by rtf 18y ago
If you hate having redundant types, I highly recommend using haXe. It has type inference by first-usage so in most cases you don't need to specify any type. If you want to get around the type system it has untyped{} code blocks, casts, and
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by rtf 18y ago
That's awesome. Do you guys post on the compiler list?
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by rtf 18y ago
This is not a new article by any means, but it's a good overview of the kinds of approaches one might take in collision. One of the directors at my workplace has the motto "Collision is gameplay" because of the high importance of getting th
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2d Collision Detection as Done in the game "N"(harveycartel.org)
4 points by rtf 18y ago|1 comments
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by rtf 18y ago
You have the "second move" in this chess game of monopolistic competition. Even highly successful, technically superior, first-to-market products have been beaten out by competitors.
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by rtf 18y ago
If Steve Yegge typed slower, I wouldn't have to read as much.
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by rtf 18y ago
Some random thoughts, as a game developer: AAA games as we know them will peak and then decline. The PC is inexorably moving towards a fully open-standard platform on which DRM-laden products cannot work. Consoles don't suffer the same prob
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by rtf 18y ago
My favorite Wikipedia article(and also a space-related article) is "Ultimate fate of the universe": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe It's the dramatic title that does it for me.
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by rtf 18y ago
I understood the ad. What do I do now?
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by rtf 18y ago
At UC Santa Cruz there is a Livejournal community with an end-of-quarter "post anonymous secrets" thread. Exactly what is described here, and very popular. I think other campus LJ communities did the same as well. I'm surprised at the criti
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by rtf 18y ago
I have no plans to learn new languages for the time being. I've been exposed to most of the big concepts, so I feel a creeping sense of diminishing returns as I have to invest time in increasingly different syntaxes to learn anything really
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by rtf 18y ago
This blog smells fake.
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by rtf 18y ago
I had a thought re: site quality -- which is that a community ends up with a focus whether it likes it or not, as the community hardens and desires a regular feedback loop -- so while Digg and Reddit opened themselves to a "lowest common de
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by rtf 18y ago
I already have a working urban transport. I regularly ride a Xootr scooter ( http://www.xootr.com/ ) for a working commute of about 2.5 miles, mostly on flat terrain. It takes 20-30 minutes. I can take it into the gym and fit it in a half-h
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by rtf 18y ago
Flash is an open specification: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/
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by rtf 18y ago
I suggest looking at the "Worse Is Better"/"Right Thing" discussion, as it maps perfectly to your situation: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html Worse Is Better gives you fast results with tradeoffs that you already knew of, while

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