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stiletto | 13 years ago | on: 16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial

I like the analogy, actually. There's nothing wrong with a field of work that allows so much creativity. Both involve people working creatively and interactively, which are good ingredients for cultures to flourish. If one were to somehow remove what made our field like fashion, I wonder if there'd be any passion left.

stiletto | 13 years ago | on: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

A few months ago, I convinced my startup to try bitbucket because of the free private repos. Over the course of a month or two, there were multiple times that I could not collaborate with my teammate because bitbucket was unreachable. We have since switched to github, pay a small fee per month, and have never had this issue.

How is everyone else's up-time experiences in the past few months? I'm setting up a few personal projects and would like to give them another shot if they've improved that one aspect.

I'm not affiliated with either company.

stiletto | 14 years ago | on: Programming Is a Culture

There are multiple principles being mistaken for one another or improperly being combined into one. There's PASSION and BALANCE. One camp seems to disparage another for their lack of balance, while the other responds that the first lacks passion.

They're not talking about the same thing! We can have both. We shouldn't spend all day in a job that leaves us uninspired, but neither should we let passion (or any driving force) make us sacrifice our physical health or essential relationships. We SHOULD have both.

stiletto | 14 years ago | on: Apple and Valve: Could frenemies really team up?

> Until the growth and success of games on the iOS platform, Apple and gaming were just two words that did not go together

This glosses over a major turning point in gaming history. Bungie debuted Halo at MACWORLD in January 2000: http://www.macobserver.com/news/00/january/000104/bungiemov....

Six months later, Bungie was purchased by Microsoft. The most relevant consequence of that deal was that Halo, a major turning point in gaming evolution, was on Microsoft's new console: Xbox.

Edit: forgot to make the obvious point. Mac was on the verge of becoming very relevant to gaming over a decade ago, and Microsoft stole that thunder for their entrance to the console races.

stiletto | 14 years ago | on: Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.

I have 2 hours of commute and I'm battling mental instability. I have to keep a queue of audiobooks handy, because two weeks with traffic and nothing to uplift me is enough to drive (haha) me into a bad mood by the time I'm home. I'm also a more aggressive driver when I'm not listening to something worth-while. The worst part is, last job, I had the same time commute, but could code on the train. Night and day.

stiletto | 14 years ago | on: Create 2D games in Lua and LÖVE.

With the wife and boys out of town for a few nights, I took one afternoon to see what I could make in 4 hours. I was really pleased with aspects of the language and libraries that, compared to my language of trade (C/C++), enabled me to add features almost as quickly as I could think of them. A+ would use again, especially if they could figure out mobile platforms.

stiletto | 14 years ago | on: SOPA 'shelved' until consensus is found

I've been meaning to ask someone this: do you mean that your return (if you receive a return) would be an additional $20, or that you are taxed as though you made $20 less? Sorry if this is elementary or too off-topic.
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