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YOU ARE THE REASON
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we're not kids anymore.
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This is a good post-mortem on an app built by a small team trying to achieve sustainable revenue. Summary: Strongly consider subscription model for mobile apps (free app w/ in-app purchase). Can still charge more for desktop apps, so good place to start for initial funding. Try to anticipate where the APIs are going to minimize your rework.
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When Innovating You Can't Follow the Money
I am learning that if you try to follow the money you won't be able to innovate; you'll be too late. The innovation precedes the payoff. But how can a project be built unfunded? Either by careful bootstrapping or by convinced investment. So it seems innovation is a faith-based affair. Even when endeavored the invention may not work. And even if it does the pay-off may never come. So all the more faith is required to begin.
Don't work for a company that is easily replaceable at a lower valuation.
James Altucher, "How Do I Know If I Should Take A Job At A Startup?"
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
One of the things I’ve been most impressed with at Facebook: GraphQL. It’s going to change the way APIs are done.
Looks like a great evolution in message-based web APIs. The idea is that the client describes the DTO it wants. Supports strong types but allows the client and server to evolve more independently.
First Insider Trade from a Drilling Core
Geoscientists with an interest in the Market will enjoy chapter 4 of Business Adventures by John Brooks.
The events that led to the S.E.C.’s action began in March, 1959, when Texas Gulf, a New York City- based company that was the world’s leading producer of sulphur, began conducting aerial geophysical surveys over the Canadian Shield...
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Many authors can't separate themselves from their work, but the ability to do so is a valuable asset.
John Carmack on code criticism. Comment on A Million Lines of Bad Code by David Robinson
Generic Library Programming
While I sometimes lament forming explicit constraints on generic types, building shared libraries that use generic types is much easier in C# than C++.
Generics in C# are implemented dynamically (link time or later). Templates in C++ are implemented statically (compile time). Thus type constraints can be implicit in C++.
But, if you want to use a template type in your API (e.g. std::string) you need to [DLL] export the specialization(s). This is confusing in the best case, and seemingly impossible in others. It may be because nested classes cannot be forward declared. Or because I cannot figure out the correct specialization of all the helper classes...
After years of using both, I prefer the link-time approach. In particular when building a shared library.
Open Source the "Bad" Secrets
In competitive endeavors some secrets are valuable. Other secrets are accidental and better shared.
It is frustrating to work with organizations where all work is confidential. One of the hidden costs is working alone on non-core problems. For example, encountering an obscure compiler bug can cost days. Sharing a work-around is unlikely to substantially help competitors. On the other hand it will likely lead to helpful comments from others with the same problem.
One day, every dollar you own will belong to someone else.
Favorite WWDC 2014 Announcements
Handoff - this is a key ingredient of ubiquitous computing
Instant Hotspot
Dial phone from Mac
Family Sharing (but must be same credit card)
Photo Streams / iCloud integration
New Photos app
Cheaper iCloud pricing
Metal - precompiled shaders, gpu compute
“Apple engineers Platforms, Devices, and Services together … seamless experience for users” - Tim
Looking forward to 2015...
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Instead of wringing our hands over attracting a potential corporate suitor, we were busy having a blast building a company of inherent value with a focus on continuous improvement and incredible customer experiences.
Jay Steinfeld, How my Company got Acquired by Home Depot http://www.inc.com/jay-steinfeld/blinds-dot-com-ceo-acquisition-home-depot.html
Things I Wish I Knew As an Aspiring Game Developer...
You want to make games? Make games. Lots of games. Work alone and on teams. Share your work. Use good tools. Take the right courses and get the relevant info from them. Understand as much math as you can. Consider grad school. Sketch out your career. Understand money. Grow deeply and broadly. Contrast the entertainment industry with other industries. Understand the real barriers to success. Understand true effectiveness.
I’ll be expounding on this at the Texas Aggie Game Developers meeting tonight.
Great reminder that Computer Graphics and high quality rendering has applications beyond entertainment. Also sounds like a great place to work: where process improvement is welcomed.
Ideal Tomorrow. Functional Today.
The ideal is the enemy of the functional, but…
But, only on teams where contention is normal and CYA prevails.
But, only when circumstances are so constrained we can’t imagine another single iteration.
But, it’s still ideal. So it’s good to agree that it is on the roadmap in exchange for having something working today.
It is better not to place the Ideal and Functional in opposition. The people respectively arguing for each are on the same team. We are working towards the same goals.
Every iteration on an already-functioning feature is a step towards ideal.
The continuous integration server running all tests on all devices for every branch is ideal. But let’s get a basic build server up today.
Mind the cost of 'Both'
When you do not choose, prioritize or put first things first...
In practice I see...
The chronic, but often hidden, cost of maintaining two technical paths...
Or the challenges of a team working on every feature because "every feature is necessary", yet no feature is complete.
Choosing "Both"-- or rather the failure to make a hard choice is a long slow miserable death.
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And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach.
James H. Simons
"Seeker, Doer, Giver, Ponderer" The New York Times
WPF Desktop Developers, now is the time to look at mobile development.
Xamarin has brought some sanity and coherence to the mobile UI development landscape. Finally declarative UI and data-binding via XAML and MVVM are easily possible.
Note this isn't a port of WPF, but the concepts will be immediately familiar. You don't even have to leave Visual Studio...
