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About 6 years ago, I posted an article I wrote about my experience on the app store[1] and somebody (now a good friend of mine) reached out and asked why I wasn't living in silicon…

I was playing around with writing an app for the new Apple TV, and it was fun enough that I ended up putting a bit of polish on it and releasing it to the app store. It's a free ga…

I feel like we're past due for somebody to come in here and complain about there being too much meta-discussion of HN these days.

True. But the suburb I was living in was pretty close.

Yeah, absolutely there is a great tech scene in the TC area. I tried to paint MN and my former employer in as good of a light as I could while concurrently throwing them under the …

Hmmm, I don't think so. I did a pretty good job of avoiding... everyone during that period of my life. It's only in recent years that I've realized that there are better ways to op…

http://daemoniclabs.com/

Yeah, thanks for the heads up. Just set up CloudFlare, so hopefully the stress level will be going down.

Tomorrow will be 11/12/11 again. Just like in 1911.

False dichotomy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Neat. I'm pretty sure that text at the beginning is a reference to a similar easter egg from an old version of windows (95 maybe?).

That is the first thing I looked for, too. Whoever made the list must not watch enough Seinfeld[1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAlinvw2Rb0

Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's not stupid.

"This and..."

Also, people traveling together won't be assigned to different boarding groups if their reservations are "linked" in the airline's system.

Good catch. Updated.

True... but I think it'd be hard to argue that I'm not a small fry in the App Store. But your point is well taken. I don't see EA writing blog posts like mine.

You're definitely not coming across as an asshole. I know a lot of assholes and I hardly ever see them mock-up screenshots for strangers. Very much appreciated. The screenshot is d…

Yeah, I definitely plan on follow-up posts with any changes that occur. As for engines, I used cocos2d for all of the 2d (imagine that) stuff like menus and the HUD. The 3d objects…

I think the other common theme is that programmers don't think about marketing until we need to.

Wow. I really appreciate you going out of your way to help like that. That is awesome.

It's horrible to think back and remember that I went out of my way to go for a "gritty" look, way back before I was even considering thinking about the marketing angle. There's one…