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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 c…

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 th…

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 ahe…

It depends on how early I go to bed. When I turn in later I wake up later.

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 …

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 reliab…

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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…

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…

Some background: I graduated college a little over a year ago with an Economics BA. I have the start of a career in game development; I did level design and scripting on a work-for…

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 com…

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…

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 …

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 arou…

That's awesome. Do you guys post on the compiler list?

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 "Collisi…

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 competitor…

If Steve Yegge typed slower, I wouldn't have to read as much.

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-lad…

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 tit…

I understood the ad. What do I do now?

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 …

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…