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"The decline soon after? That’s the Chomp search update followed by iOS 6 and the card app store layout. So sad." Man, I do find that quite sad... the app store still has some majo…

Yeah I suspect you are right about post-processing. Good to read your points though, thanks for the response!

Darn, looks like I can't edit my post anymore, and HN formatting screwed it up lol. First link is for 300, second one is for the sequel. I guess it is quite subjective, but what ma…

I find it's still really noticeable in the skin tones and highlights. You can find lots of comparisons online; once you see film beside digital, the difference can be pretty huge. …

I think the truth is that if you're making a free game, you have to put an incredible amount of consideration into replay value and how to keep people playing for long periods (and…

Last spring I went through a lot of different techniques including the one you mention about subdivision. Was working on tower defense path-finding so basically the challenge was t…

With iOS development I've typically had the interviews that you are seeking. I show them my apps over coffee and then I do a few hours (or a feature) of contract work (paid) for th…

Great read! "In Angband, any monster that drops stuff can drop pretty much anything. Monsters have a level, and if they drop loot, it just randomly picks any item near the monsters…

"From the old world of unprocessed rolls of C-41 sitting in a fridge 20 years ago" Hey I still do that! :( I wonder if my (or anyone's) film photos on Flickr are completely useless…

I go through that quite a bit lol because I've made the conscious decision not to drink ever (I don't care to spend the money on it nor do I care for the taste). But my vice is dri…

An iPad could be a good stepping stone. For me it was Nintendo as a kid that then got me into computer games, which then got me into making my own stuff, which then made me into a …

I find that I've gotten to a point too where my mind subconsciously blocks out ads, even the ones at the top of Google searches. I also don't believe I've ever clicked on a banner …

Yeah totally, having some experience with 3D motion tracking and green screens, I was thinking: wow, it's so smooth and so perfectly tracked, AND cuts between player/grass so well.…

Speaking of RTS, I really miss the 90's/early-2000's. It was basically like a golden era of RTS's lol. But they don't really work on consoles (needed for AAA these days), and with …

Whoa I did not know anything about this story until now > On a related note, I also just noticed that the "Arecibo Radio Observatory" was in Goldeneye!

Oh man, I've definitely felt this pain many times lol: "The samples will be missing lots of implicit information such as how to install the necessary libraries and how to deal with…

Oh man yeah... UIWebView's have been left in the dust for a while now lol (and Apple probably has a reason for it unfortunately).

Haha, I wonder how many of us came here because we couldn't push or pull commits, so just taking a HN reading break... and boom the top post is about Github!

Okay wow the meta-joke on these games is getting to pretty intense levels lol. On a technical level though, I found this game extremely hard while using space-bar, but very easy wi…

That's really interesting to hear (I live in Vancouver too). I think it maybe also speaks to our North American culture of drive to work, stay at work, drive to home, stay at home.…

Yes, regarding the scanning, this is true... I will say though that I've tried photographing (digitally) my own negatives to see how similar it was to a drug-store scan, and it was…

Regarding no filters, I've been shooting on 35mm film for the last year and been really enjoying it, almost never have to color correct, and the photos look so damn good! (especial…

Haha oh man so true. This is why I've found it hard to really get into modern FPS's, especially the console ported ones... the perfection we tasted from HL1 is very tough to match.…

In many RTS peer-2-peer games like Starcraft or Age of Empires, they use a lock-step model, which can stop the majority of cheating. Every player uses a tick-engine (ie tick every …

But let's say I want to 'go outside' in Tokyo or Dubai, without having the money to actually travel there...!