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Re:I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA on Monday February 11, 2013 @03:05PM (#5202903)

I am just viewing his comments page: http://www.reddit.com/user/thisisbillgates/comments/

The context link will show the comment he is replying to.

Re:A minimal CSS layout framework on Thursday February 16, 2012 @01:36PM (#3600012)

Is this released under a license? I'm reluctant to use code which hasn't been.

Re:Bootstrapping to the Extreme (or "Consulting Your Way to Millions") on Friday September 05, 2008 @10:56AM (#295890)

Thank you for sharing. My own venture is going to be bootstrapped to a certain extent, although at this point it is less ambitious than your plan. Best of luck to you.

Ask YC: How to ensure the rights to a side project are retained when working a full time job?

Posted by riffplay on Friday March 07, 2008 @06:38PM
from the self-post dept.

I am planning to start a site with a few friends while working full time at another job. The site we're building is unrelated to the field I work in during the day. I want to be certain I retain all rights to the site and it's content, but I have heard that when holding a full time job your employer may have rights to your work, even when done on your own equipment during evenings and weekends....

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Re:What are your favorite reads in the web? (Besides HN) on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:56PM (#119131)

One of my most regularly visited links is http://aldaily.com/

Re:Ask YC: How do I get Started Making Games in Flash? on Thursday January 10, 2008 @03:29PM (#96904)

The flex sdk contains a program called mxmlc, which is what I use to compile actionscript into the flash swf files. I did a search for an introductory guide, and found one I remember from when I was starting out. It's for the Windows version of flex, but I think it's pretty obvious what needs to be modified if you are using a different OS. http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withmxmlc/

Re:Ask YC: How do I get Started Making Games in Flash? on Thursday January 10, 2008 @02:39PM (#96886)

I'm currently working on a flash game of my own. I didn't want to pay $700 for CS3 (or even $250 for flex builder,) so I'm doing so using only free tools.

The flex SDK is located here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/sdk/ It looks like the documentation there is quite good, though admittedly I haven't used it much. Any text editor would be fine; I am currently using SciTE with these options files: http://arthurdick.com/projects/as3/

Regarding graphical stuff, SVG graphics can be embedded http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/commo...

I haven't attempted any complex graphics creation yet, but one program I'm looking into is Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/

I'd highly recommend the Tweener class for animations. I only recently discovered it, and it has made my life much easier: http://code.google.com/p/tweener/