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cdevs··on Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
Was excited until I download comix zone and heard the choppy audio and the game was lagging out - worked fine over 20 years ago. Just read a article and they ported these games into unity blah blah blah that doesn't excuse that you should test your product to see the final quality before porting everything over. This is unplayable garbage guys...
cdevs··on Twice as happy customers means half the marketing spend
My companies current scenario is about 64% renewal rate from all years before but a 50% of that is from the year before current and 25% percent of that is from 2 years before current and so on and so on..

So how does all this differ if you're looking at renewal from year before and renewals from all time ?

cdevs··on Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language
What beautiful black magic programming even despite the fact that I hate flow chart programming like unreal and other game engines do.
cdevs··on Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently?
Duckduckgo is my default at work and on my phone. I love it for quick programming questions and usually everything else is fine but if I'm doing any design and need images I usually for some reason head to google but for everything else I'd rather not have google turn my query into my next YouTube ad2 seconds later..
cdevs··on Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
Like watching Silicon Valley
cdevs··on Ableton Live Redesign
I miss my ableton and fruityloops experimenting days I'm sure people who get to play with this stuff everyday love their job.
cdevs··on Atom 1.18 released
The load time was also one of my 2 reasons to jump back to sublime. The other reason was it struggled opening Linux mounted ssh files. If those things can be dealt with I would love atom and modifying with JavaScript and CSS.
cdevs··on Ask HN: How do you communicate technical ideas from devs to non-devs, vice versa
This seems very odd for someone to define a backend portion like this and ask you to build on top of it. The way I would approach this situation is list examples and situations where it makes your job harder and have reasons why a different approach would be better. If telling them that they will be stuck with these issues after you've moved on in a few years and they are ok with that then that's how it goes, nothing else can be done.
cdevs··on Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page
I could see some other nifty concept coming alive because of this.
cdevs··on How to Version an API
We do this at my job, what better way to screw over API users than to make them rewrite their integration every 2 years
cdevs··on Building Searchable Encrypted Databases with PHP and SQL
I know this is a I'm going quest and for that reason it annoys me when i see my companies competitors say they encrypt all their users searchable data and I know what they are really doing is using Amazon disk level encryption that's not really helpful if your live database gets dumped.
cdevs··on Better Form Design: One Thing per Page
*50 celebs who gained weight, just click next to see person one and completely reload the page and ads and crank up your mobile data charges.

I think those people agree with this article very much.

cdevs··on Kotlin is the hero Android needs
What's with the kotlin hacker news spam this week? Isn't one article enough?
cdevs··on Show HN: 3DC.io – A dead simple cross-platform 3D design tool
I've been a blender hobbyist for about a year now and it's a bit creepy how smooth this is on my iPhone at the moment. Thanks for sharing I hope I remember to dig more into this tomorrow.
cdevs··on Ask HN: How would you handle a large traffic spike (eg. being frontpage on HN)?
My company did some email marketing that would spike traffic to 50,000 visitors in 30-60 mins and Wordpress MySQL would go nuts. Who knows how many horrible plugins marketing had in there but first go to for me was varnish, then cloud flare then final awesome fix was swapping everything to static HTML that we crawled every night ourselves from our own htaccess blocked Wordpress. Only thing that had to be dynamic /do related was the contact form.
cdevs··on How do self-taught developers get jobs? (2016)
Here's the problem, thinking every job comes with a whiteboard test and needs you to know every sort algorithm as if you're going to build the next database. You know some Java and HTML and CSS? Great you'll either make it as a junior and become a awesome developer with those 8-9 hour days of new experience learning around other devs or you will flop. Maybe the question is how much does the industry generally tolerate as a junior dev? Forcing myself into the areas I hated or dreaded was what helped me the most. Realllly learn how the stack communicates.
cdevs··on FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed
I was pretty prepared for this when I noticed this is one of places I wouldn't have minded a captcha for once.
cdevs··on Apple has damaged the perceived value of software
I agree with the problem but Wouldn't this be more because the indie market is fighting the larger businesses for prices until the final lowest price step to compete for buyers was a .99 cent app or in app purchase or ads. If App Store kept indies out we would have had 9.99 Microsoft word style apps everywhere. It sucks now for a single dev who can't market a app for $30,000 dollars that only makes $8,000. It almost mimics the American economy where the top %1 wins, sometimes you hear of a lower class citizen making it and then everyone thinks they can make it.
cdevs··on Black Screen – Both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell
It's going to start with a browser based desktop ('not OS') and trickle down from there inception style. That way when we build a mirror out of raspberry pi we can CSS/js the calendar into the desktop background.
cdevs··on Music video showcasing procedurally generated graphics [video]
Hmmm turn a song into a minecraft level that would be interesting
cdevs··on The “Behind The Sofa” Certificate Transparency Log
I found my moment of zen the second time I read this.
cdevs··on Linger – Device to create and broadcast a virtual crowd
The best ideas are the ones you could have come up with yourself but didn't someone else made the cool white box. Nice work simple and a little creepy hardware design mocking our lack of privacy best practices.
cdevs··on The Curse of Development
Are these the words from the robot voice in "portal"? The cake is a lie.
cdevs··on Switching to Sublime Text from Vim in 2017
Nano for configs & logs, sublime for long term programming. I either user vim mode in sublime for movement or my own hotkeys that are more easy for me to remember. mulicursor editing is a must and a game changer from the days of editing 1400 lines at once without it. atom was soooo close to fitting my needs but it failed big time on opening files over ssh mounted file systems.(electron issue?) if that gets fast maybe I'll go back. The JavaScript modding and plugins were kind of nice.
cdevs··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
I think there was some fontawesome loading issues related to this, I also noticed a site trying to load twitter messages but couldn't Get the JavaScript loaded during that time today.
cdevs··on Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
To me programmer that knows devops is the 10x programmer in the right company.
cdevs··on Popularity of Sony’s PlayStation VR Surprises Even the Company
I have it , it's awesome BUT...it's pretty exhausting to use - like once a week. Resolution is low but then again there are these holy cow this is amazing get lost in what your seeing because of the depth of certain things and the awesome head tracking. Definitely needs more content I check every week for some new experience no matter how small.
cdevs··on Do Developers Need College Degrees?
Jumped into programming as soon as I could around 13, I'm in my 30s now and have been reading every night since. I'm a self tought system admin/dev ops/code monkey and on the side a security enthusiast. I did a year Of college in late 20s and couldn't stand the pace/starting over.

Lately I've been going through a lot of resumes and interviews. Out of 50 resumes and interviews not one was female so I'll just throw that statistic out there. Most are out of college but are grabbed by government contractor work eventually if they are good and the rest need to be open to learning or think they know everything and get fired a lot. We finally snagged a junior from college we like and training him but you'd be surprised the mistakes he can make or get stuck on but he just wasn't the type to learn on his own outside of his college classes and I think that's the problem.

There's also a lot of big data stuff these college grads aren't getting exposed to and then they some how jump into a job for 3 years working with a database and still don't know after 3 years how to create a index let alone scale something despite having it on their resume.

cdevs··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
We need John ham in that black mirror Christmas episode..
cdevs··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
We should jail oj until he tells us he did it?
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