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Agreed. This will likely blacklist him from the incubator, but it may also blacklist you. You might want to call and talk to them and let them know exactly what happened.

Sure... take the course. Can't hurt. In the meantime, pick up the tutorial and run through it. I picked up Python in 5 days, but I have extensive experience in numerous other object oriented language.

IMHO, from a scripting perspective, it's much easier than shell script, more robust than PHP, and better supported than C/C++ from a community standpoint.

Nice write up, but a little naive, IMHO. In consideration of the above, however, I'll pull this.

Thanks!

No need to be so sensitive. I don't WANT this to happen, but I see it happening clearly in front of me.

I don't see any evidence of that in the information I have as an Apple developer, which I sadly cannot post here in accordance with Apple's developer NDA.

Interesting perspective.. I agree, however, every time I read Ruby code.

Yeah, it's probably as fast or faster, but Python's a clean, beautiful, efficient language with a huge community. It does what I need, and with Django there is virtually no upkeep. It just works.

As for the IDE, I use PyCharm from JetBrains.com. It's pure awesome-ness.

Doesn't work? All of the links I've tried are dead.

We now enter the age of the "Booth Hag" ;-)

"Game Developer" is a misnomer. There are many jobs to be done in the "game development" arena, and most are not development of the game. Just to name a few, you have:

>> tools devs, who build the tools needed to manage the game environment;

>> server devs, for those games with a multiplayer component'

>> network stack devs, because that piece of code must be bulletproof and FFFFFAAAASSTTT!; and

>> AI devs, to guide the NPC's to their prey...;

Gone are the days of Epic's Sweeney and ID's Carmack, guys who would sit and write an engine in a week. Valve-type games are now million-dollar budget epic sagas. That said, there's nothing wrong with Plants Vs. Zombies... or Angry Birds... they've both made millions.

You need to decide what parts of the process appeal to you, and focus on those. Or, you could write a game, from the ground up, and spend a few months to a year cutting your teeth to learn how it works.

Then, there's always an internship if you feel you can afford a few months working for nothing to get your foot in the door.

If it were ME, and it has been (I sold my game company back in '94 for a pittance), I'd spec out a simple game, write it, add a network component, write it, and get some friends to test it in play to see how it goes. You don't even need cool graphics to start... those can be added later if you design it correctly.

Good Luck!

Do you exclusively control the github repo? If so, cut off access and don't give it until payment is made in full. You have an implicit copyright on the code, and he has no right to it until he's paid you in fill.

I'd go a bit further and tell him that if he doesn't pay you within 15 days, the "interest" is $100 per week. No reason you should not get interest on your debt.

Just FYI, I always let customers see "features", but not code, until they've paid in full.

Just remember, you can't move domains within 60 days of expiration, and if you let them expire, GoDaddy will snag them through one of their "partners" that they sell expiration data to.

Very well put. I have lost entire days in the 'zone', starting at 10am and ending after dark, not even realizing that other in the office have left.. It's kind of like time travel :)

Looks interesting, but isn't number of cores, OS, 32/64 bit, and swap space configuration/hit ratio information pertinent to this benchmark to make it usable?

At the very least, I'd like to know what type of Amazon instance is being used.

All rightie then.. I think I need to step away from the keyboard and pay attention to real-life for a bit... :-|

Keep going!! It's like a sequel to the Twilight Zone "How To Serve Man" episode... very cool. Lots of places to go here.

Looks awesome!! I've already recommended it to three friends who are learning Python.

Inasmuch as the thought of it, and the guilt you feel for supporting it, affects your decision to buy, yes. Otherwise, no.

The USA is NOT responsible for the working conditions in any other country, even though Apple clearly condones it. If Americans really cared, they'd eschew Apple for other brands, but they'd probably find pretty quickly that those other brands have similar work situations in their suppliers camps.

Additionally, even though China is not as freely capitalistic as we are, those workers still have the God given right to not engage in that work, or to seek work elsewhere.

Based on what I've heard from friends in China, the workers know going in that they will be pretty much held hostage working for just enough to pay for food and housing provided by the companies they work for.

Choosing to do so is still a choice, and if they have choice, they can still say no.

Yep. I love coding, but there are MANY more things in life than programming.

I'd spend a year building houses with Habitat for Humanity and finding a cure for Cerebral Palsy, which my daughter has.

I have two of these machines. One is a quad-core laptop, and the other is a dual-core E-350 server.

In both cases, the driver provided by AMD was horrific. The drivers that came with LinuxMint and Ubuntu (not the non-free drivers, the default ones) were fantastic and very fast.

I am very happy and run both machines on dual 24" monitors @ 1920x1200 and they scream.

I believe it.

It's a rockin machine, and when EVERY other Android device was sold out at Christmas, Best Buy had hundreds in the store.

I've spent probably a hundred bucks this month on Kindle Fire media.. books, movies.. I love it.

That said, it sucks as a development device.

Tried that, but not all the recipes I need are supported... I suspect there are just not enough users on OSX needing more vanilla Linux solutions.

Agreed... they are not publicly traded, but they shouldn't be pointing any fingers.

As for the politics, shouldn't one who cries fiscal foul be judged for their own fiscal idiocy? I'm suggesting you consider the messenger when you look at their purely marketing-message-related website.

For what it's worth, the AFLCIO doesn't list themselves in their list. Their CEO, Richard Trumka, makes over $300K/year... More than 5x the average worker, and he got a $50K raise in the past 3 years while his memberships incomes lagged.

How much does the Economic Policy Institute pay him to be on the board of directors?

How much is his net worth?

How is it possible that the AFL/CIO represents their membership, when 100% of 2010 political contributions went to Democrats, and none to Republicans? It's not even statistically possible that it MIGHT be representative. (source : http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00003806... )

Suggest Python... it has the benefits of both.. You can get Ruby-like efficiency in web development, and you can build robust desktop apps using WxWidgets and other similar gui libraries. An added bonus over Ruby, it's readable ;-)

Of course, I'm biased...

It means you don't get a board seat, and you probably get common, non-voting stock.

Sadly, it probably comes WITHOUT an anti-dilution clause, meaning that any new stock allocated will dilute your 5%. As a company progresses through its capitalization phases, new stock is likely to be allocated, usually in new classes that offer more protection to the investors, and less protection to the "monkeys" like us.

Your "5%" will likely be converted to a number of shares at the time it is executed, and that number of shares will likely NOT be 5% of the total number of shares available when a liquidation event (IPO/Buyout) occurs.

db4o is not unique in the claims it makes. I can store objects from any language in any database. The only requirement, and the reason why db4o only supports java and .NET, is that the language must support serialization of the object in both directions.

I have used this methodology along with Memcache (as a real-time database) in C#, PHP, Python, and Java, as well as storing those objects to PostgreSQL databases.

That said, I don't think I would use db4o simply based on it's claim to be able to store serialized objects. PostgreSQL, my database of choice, has trillions of user hours on it and is well supported by hundreds of thousands of users.

NoSQL databases store the tuples (or tuple-like structures) in indexed form, which is convenient but can be inefficient. I prefer to store only the pertinent tuples for indexing, and the serialized blob by itself as a non-indexed element.

I've used 'em all... I like GoDaddy, but their UX is very confusing. Name.com ( http://www.name.com ) is my choice of late. No crap, easy UX, and they actually have an awesome DNS management tool.

Thanks. Tried that. Wells Fargo(tm) states that until it clears, they cannot (read "will not") do anything.

I see your point, but the same quality filters could be had simply by assigning tags, and allowing members to upvote projects.

Let me see what the staff decides is tagged HOT. Don't decide FOR me what is hot and what is not by exclusion.