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The author seems to want to return to "Create games as a hobby" instead of having an industry that creates the best creative jobs involving a computer. There has been so much devel…

SEEKING WORK - Remote possible - located in Frankfurt/Main, Germany I’m a web developer doing frontend (Javascript, Coffeescript) and backend (Ruby, Rails, node.js, PHP) work with …

Be aware that the key for saints row does not work when you are in Germany. Luckily, the humble bundle support is good and will help you out if you have problems, at least they hel…

thanks, you are right about the landing page. This is one of the things you just forget about when you develop the whole app, but its the first thing the future users see, so it sh…

Yes, getting users is the first obstacle, where I really got problems with. If you are developing apps and doing websites 24/7, its really hard to be a marketing expert, too, thats…

I would lie if I said I didnt write the story to generate some buzz for the game, but I really think if I have those problems, many others have them, too. There must be ways for de…

That is a really nice collection. I think many of us are in the situation to have great products, but don't have the money to create a big marketing campaign or even buy a few ads …

I like the pomodoro technique, obviously, because I created an online tool for it, http://www.pomodorohelper.com . The technique has one major advantage over GTD and other systems …

First I wanted to use an existing game engine too, but I decided to write everything myself to get a better understanding of how canvas etc. works. Do you have any gameplay videos,…

thanks :) wasnt my intention do advertise the game (yet), but I'm working full time on it, so it makes progress. I also plan to release the engine as open source in the future, onc…

I think HTML5 is the future of application development. It has some very specific advantages compared to native apps, and we will see a lot more web apps with unique abilites. Ther…

Interesting post, though I don't agree with the last point. A good rails developer will present himself as a rails developer, even if he does other things. A typical rails app incl…

Its quite hard to follow the interview because of all the noise around the office there, too bad. With all the money, they should have built a small room with good noise reduction …

This is very general speaking. Of course, make something people need is good, because you have a nice niche then to sell something, but I think it is not accurate enough. Everythin…

indeed! gotta save this quote somewhere :)

I'd definetly go for the framework approach. After building apps with and without frameworks, its a lot less painful to build upon something which exists already. There are so many…

Interesting data, but unfortunately nothing you can see a trend in (other than the most well known companies have the most followers). One good advice you can take from this data: …

Disclaimer: My experiences are based on the current german web landscape, so I don't know if this is true for other countries. I don't include IE6 anymore in my web pages. If it wo…

The Kinect is a very interesting piece of technology. Because it is REAL. You can buy it, you can use it. Of course, it is not the end of the mouse and keyboard as we know today, b…

As someone with not such a Karma rating yet, I find it difficult to get feedback from HN. You only show up for 30 minutes up to two hours (depends on when you post) on the new post…

I like the "new" 5by5 podcast "Back to Work". It has some interesting informations about how to be more productive and follows the opinion of seth godin's linchpin, most of the tim…