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carlos

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game developer. I've been developing games since I was 14. Started with my Commodore VIC-20 and then moved to ZX Spectrum, PC, Symbian and now focused on online games. Yet trying to get my first hit... but getting old.

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

How to learn and master a new skill [video]

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www.howtogeek.com 6y ago

Why do noise cancelling headphones add a feeling of pressure

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

How to Crash an Airplane [video]

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bugfender.com 10y ago

To be or not to be full stack?

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edition.cnn.com 10y ago

Solar Impulse 2 lands in California after Pacific flight

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m.sfgate.com 10y ago

MIT's free online classes can lead to degree

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www.techtimes.com 11y ago

CERN may not have discovered Higgs Boson

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tvnz.co.nz 11y ago

Julian Assange, Snowden and Kim Dotcom

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witchnight.com 12y ago

[Rate my App] iOS – Witch Night

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gamasutra.com 13y ago

Practical ways to deal with problematic player behavior

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programmer-productivity.quora.com 13y ago

The death of the programming profession

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www.preposterousuniverse.com 13y ago

What Do Philosophers Believe?

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highscalability.com 13y ago

What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

The Dot In Your Gmail Address Doesn’t Matter

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terranova.blogs.com 13y ago

We can know whether we are in a simulation

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9to5mac.com 13y ago

Whoops ‘iPhone 5′ name seems to be confirmed by Apple.com’s search engine

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www.dadhacker.com 13y ago

Disable Java NOW

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www.openstomp.com 14y ago

Open Source Guitar Effects Pedal

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worldsciencefestival.com 14y ago

The limits of understanding - Gödel

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www.projectshellcode.com 14y ago

Shellcode tutoríals

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Zynga acquires OMGPOP

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www.zeroshortfilm.com 14y ago

The importance of zero

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physics.info 14y ago

The distinction between music and noise is mathematical form

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Any experience teaching LOGO to children?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Are you an entrepreneur or just like to build things?

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gridulator.com 15y ago

Create Pixel Grids (PNG) In Any Size

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homepage.mac.com 15y ago

The Art of Assembly Language

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clutch.mtv.com 15y ago

The Social Notwork: Facebook's 7 Biggest Fails

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

Opera In Numbers (It’s Pretty Huge)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

My stupid ways to draw the attention of Techcrunch

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I've been using this online training for long time already. I would say it's not only for beginners but also for intermediate levels too. It covers many different guitar styles. During this long time I've seen how the page positively evolved and I'm happy to see how one person (justin) which is doing a superb job in giving those lessons for free is getting more and more attention. This is in my opinion a good example of how perseverance, free content and love for what you do can at then end pay back with a very good reputation from users and I guess good money with the selling of same free online content but as DVDs,books, etc

Stop thinking about new ideas and start getting deeper in the first thing that comes to your mind. Iterate through it, don't develop yet. Be at least one/two weeks thinking only about it, Can it be extrapolated to something else?, How would you do it?, Improve it in your mind, iterate few times, find which niche could fit. Start implementing it... and iterate again, and again.

After a few weeks you will get a deep understanding on it... ideas will flow.

I agree some of the comments in FT are very interesting.

I'm not saying that productivity is going up, it's in fact going down, as the article says -3.1 variation GDP 2008-2009. But the ratio of unemployment/varGDP is very different to other countries because of the additional unemployment from construction industry, which is the suspicious indicator used by the author.

In any case I personally agree with some of the comments in the FT article saying that Spanish government may artificially modify some figures.

I live in Spain. From my understanding the ratio of Unemployment rate/GDP is very high because of the construction bubble collapse. That 9.7 increase are 80% because construction industry mainly. This bubble collapse affects much more to the increasing unemployment rate than to the GDP (which also does but less dramatically). That's is because we can't compare the ratios from Spain to other countries in Europe, as we have this additional problem.

I had the same problem, and sometimes it's embarrassing to say you read a book but don't remember anything about it. I'm happy I'm not the only one.

I loved the one of the sentences in post "You are all what you read". I would also add "We read what we want to be".

(now starting to forget the post)

Given the length of the article I guess that it's not only the most engaged, but actually the only ones who read it. I don't believe that article can be read in less than 5-10 minutes.

Maybe you could have a list of entrepreneurs, each entrepreneur could have a different fee and you should be able to choose based on your interest. I would pay much more for a well known entrepreneur that is related to my area of business to have my site reviewed.

Many times technical cofounders are used to basically "develop" the founder's idea. Anybody looking for a technical cofounder should give more than just ideas. Ideas are just 1% of the total work.

As rendering will get much faster, I guess we can consider JS will much faster too, at least when using canvas with JS, which I believe it's the most important bottleneck right now.