georgefrick

As I sit here on Sunday afternoon, trying to get a Phaser game to run on an iPad 2; I read this and think "We haven't stopped caring, we care when it's a specified business requirement".

This bites us in the ass, because I can't make Wistia (for example) stop eating all the memory on this thing with my app running next to it.

So, personally, I stopped caring when it was not a priority and didn't, on average, affect user experience. But; it was a mistake and I am watching memory/etc more and more these days. This is for various reasons (old hardware, more than one app on a page, growing amount of bundled media content, etc).

This article seems to have missed that Amazon sucks and Netflix doesn't. How much of Amazon's content do I really get without paying an additional rental cost or fee? It's become quite annoying to even try to look through Amazon's library. We really enjoy Netflix, but from Prime; I mostly just want free shipping. * I don't usually post such vagrant "Opinion", but this article is making assumptions about consumer opinion that purports to represent fact.

Hrm, so the Kickstarter said this:

* We're aiming to ship Console OS Developer Release 1 within about 30 days of the Kickstarter’s conclusion.

* From there, we’ll use Kickstarter funds to build out support for the devices that you vote for.

* Our goal is to implement all of the features listed here over the next year

But then said this:

* We have most of Developer Release 1 done. It'll include a starter version of our user experience and should work on all 25 devices we listed in the initial supported device list.

* The Console OS Pro feature set is largely what funds will go toward (in addition to expanding device support, based largely on Kickstarter backer votes).

Nobody should have contributed to this; they never said why they needed the money or what it was for. It's ridiculous to read about them working 18 months in the shadows to get "near" developer release 1 but then promise to build out a feature set in 11 months (since they want a month to finish what they started).

19 months -> dev release 1

11 months -> undetermined device support (no formal voting!), + a big ass list of features.

I love Kick Starter, and I've received every single thing I've committed towards. But people have to be careful and pay attention to what they're getting into.

This is very close the experience I had. My MIL still turns the z-wave lights off wrong (she dims them to 0 instead of turning them off). Low and behold there is no way for me to 'fix' this. Dim 0 should equal off, but it doesn't. I have to dim them back up.

I still have all the z-wave stuff, including the thermostats, but sometimes they "die". When a z-wave light switch dies I replace it with an old school switch.

I'm not even going to get into the Nabaztag debacle. Door Stop.

It ended up being my best bet to buy a Green Building Advisor membership, watch some videos; and then seal up all the air leaks in the basement. Magic, a warm house with lower bills.

Three.

I am surprised, and it my own mistake not to look into. Thanks for pointing me to his resume.

I don't disagree (or claim to be 95th percentile). The question I have in regards to your comment would be - so then isn't it an article about how he is getting ripped off?

What I mean to say is, my thought is that a developer in the 95th percentile would make their own product/business.

I've never thought of myself as an 'average' developer; but then again most people say that about their driving. It does make me wonder what a bad developer is though.

So I've been at this 9 years and I'm not making six figures. Fuck. I don't even understand where I went wrong. Part of me can't believe the article at all.

His comment about cost of living was kind of an outright dismissal, very odd? I don't think Google will let me work from Milwaukee.

Where is the information on travel, quality of life (owning a house?), etc?

I'm going to check Subsonic out, thanks for the recommendation. Now I really don't need to upgrade.

Yes. With only 32GB, the "Use the cloud, Luke" is a bit pushy. The only thing selling me is the desire to get the USB Type C.

I've experienced what you are talking about, every time I get an OTA for the Nexus 5; the performance seems to degrade dramatically.

We're looking at spending $400 every 2 years to stay every other gen Nexus? That isn't horrible (55 cents a day or so). But if we pay for services to avoid storage on the phone, the cost rises.

Nothing about the CPU/Etc makes me think it's time for an upgrade.

There is a new Nexus 5 being shown on Sept. 29th, it looks to be a pretty good phone. I have a Nexus 5 and I already got the update they spoke of.

But you don't have future price information; so it's a bit hard for an actual enterprise recommendation. This will cost X in the future, but it's free for now? Free for now is great for me as a tinkerer/developer; but I couldn't recommend it to a client?

So when did you meet your wife? During a dinner break? When do you handle maintenance items? (cleaning, washing, lawn care, taxes). Should I assume this is all done by someone else? It's not realistic to bring a founder argument into the realm of a normal worker; who may or may not have a family yet, and isn't paid in the realm of affording to retain services. Maybe I'm missing something; the hours just don't add up. Do you fit all family activity into that 5:00 - 8:30 block? Son's baseball means no dinner that night? I realize I sound like a smart ass; but it's more of an accounting/detail oriented twitch. The math isn't working in my head and I'd like to understand.

Edit: I do respect your work ethic, again I know I sound like a smart ass; but I'm just trying to understand. I couldn't physically work those hours and handle all of my responsibilities.

I never said any of that. I called him out on working 80 hours; he apparently does. Good for him. That doesn't mean you should make assumptions beyond that. I'm already at 40 hours this week. So I'll hit ~60 before I go home Friday night. Second, why would I care about being laughed out of a room at those places? It's sounds like you are trying to put shame/value on not wanting to join in on the 80 hour fun. I challenge you or anyone, to actually talk about the value this provides to the employee. Go ahead and argue for 80 hours without mentioning 'successful companies'.

I see lines like this sometimes, and I never speak up. So here goes. You work 16 hour days and it's just fine? You are saying that in your post. It's right there. 80-90 hours. You expect someone reading your post to believe you work 16 hour days, it's fine; you're a rock star who loses no productivity by the 79th hour on Friday evening?

Yes, but we don't normally do "games". I make games on the side for fun and it ended up with me doing some professionally. Out of the 91, I'd say we've 'shipped' 16 at this point; with 16-20 more in the final tweak stages (repack assets, adjust sound, add mouse overs, tweak animations, add additional tweens, etc). We'll be working on it through the end of the year. We've tried to take the flash apps and improve on the design. Most now run on a series of 'engines'. So take 91 apps; categorize them; build the engines, then script the games for each engine. We've just finished up getting mouth movements to match audio; and allowing activities to launch other activities by restarting the preload state. We have a series of Grunt scripts for each engine that package up each game/activity as a zip file that is SCORM compatible.

Here is a multi-module project I wrote back in January: https://github.com/georgefrick/PhaserJsDemoGame

Working with it professionally, I agree. You pass the game object everywhere, no matter what. The variation if factory methods is also frustrating. It's ridiculous trying to reference how to create things when all the examples use game.add.<whatever> and sometimes you want to construct them separate and use .add.existing. But the standalone constructors will take different sets of arguments (including the game object).

I could possibly get you an example of both if you were interested. Most of the people using Phaser are using Tyepscript and doing multi-module management with that. I use Browserify (and bring in Phaser separately).

If you have a state that loads levels, you change the level targets and restart the state so that the preload runs again and gets the new resources. Or you can load everything up front and approach multiple levels that way.

I'm working on 91 applications in it (Series of educational games/interactives/story books). It's going really well and we have more than half complete. There are some bugs, but any framework has that.

It does, and they're easy to use.

I have multiple readers, including a Kindle DX and a Sony PRS-505 (still works like new!).

Print books are still awesome though, and I just pulled a few off the shelf for re-reading. But now there is freedom of balance. We have a whole carload of books on its way to the Good Will. There isn't an inherent reason to simply hold on to them anymore. So now we can keep what we want to keep; and let the rest be digital (which is easier to archive anyway).

I can't see being extreme either way. My Kindle DX works great for technical books; and I can keep another copy ready for viewing on the computer while I'm coding. My little Sony will show whatever fiction/non-fiction I throw at it (after conversion) and the battery is somehow still healthy. I'm looking to get a used Nook Glow though; as I'm tired of providing my own light.

But I'll still stop in the book store and browse the fiction. It's not only easier that digital browsing, but more fun.

If we're just going to be Slashdot style anecdotal and start slinging... I've seen huge projects go really well in Backbone. I can't imagine going back to Angular. Since when is 'fun' the bar for frameworks?

I think it's the new world case of 'I sold you solution X, now it's time for solution Y'.

If you are a full stack JavaScript developer looking at game development, then you might look at Phaser JS. It wouldn't involve learning a new language, but I've found its fun to work with both privately and professionally.

I have been greatly attracted to the idea of creating a better search engine. But people aren't generally searching for websites anymore, they're searching for content. There is a certain need for the service provided by google/ddg; and I'd be looking to provide more of an internet yellow pages so that you don't always have google funneling you back to a handful of large sites. It's hard to commit to a project like that, but I do think the idea (and your others), have merit.

So it all starts with some guy having the genius idea to "rebrand" the internet. Now it is "The Cloud", a fancy term for 'server'. Then all the late millenials fall for it. "It's cool, it's in the cloud, I stream my <everything>". I thought it was fairly obvious that the cloud meant 'turn the internet into TV stations'. Which is a mostly completed process at this point.

Now it's the good ol' days of 2012 when there was still bait on the line. 2012? Companies have been trying to transform the internet for a long time, and users have been helping by refusing to:

a) pay for anything. b) create sites/content the way we used to.

It wouldn't kill you to order an album, drop it in a CD drive and rip it. My apologies for implying hard labor.

You want your MTV.

This article has no content, the author makes a claim and then doesn't make an argument for the claim.

The Mashable post was much better actually. It was a bit sarcastic, but more interesting in that he tries to point out some of the day to day problems instead of just throwing his hands in the air. Thanks for the link.

So people are just going to do this again? Hand over all of their photos in exchange for free storage? How far are we from a computer being able to determine what is going on in a picture, and then they can mine the things you've done.