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Los Angeles, CA. Full Time, onsite only.

Generalist programmer: Tools Focus (http://www.magicpixelgames.com/2012/01/20/generalist-program...)

Established Video Game development team

Unannounced Project

Magic Pixel Games (http://www.magicpixelgames.com) was founded in 2010 by the core members that developed the award-winning Steven Spielberg's BOOM BLOX. Much of our team has worked together for almost a decade, and we’ve now struck out on our own to continue our tradition of creating extraordinary games. Our first product was launched in 2011: Carnival Island, developed with Sony Santa Monica Studio.

We’re now building a team as we ramp up for our second project, which again, strives to break new ground – but is significantly different from our first in all ways – tone, target audience and style…we’re excited!

Join us and make a difference!

Each member of our closely-knit team makes a very real contribution to the game, and awesome ideas come from everyone. We all wear many hats, we play to each other’s strengths, and we build on each other’s ideas.

Our team moves fast, and takes on big challenges. We love what we do, and you will too!

Note: We're currently located by the Los Angeles airport. At the moment, we are not considering telecommuters.

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We’ve identified an immediate need for a Tools Programmer to help build up the asset pipeline for our game. As ramp up for our next game, we’re finding gaps in the technology that allow our content creators to put their awesomeness into the game, and we’d like your help!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain content creation tools, asset pipelines and scripts as required by lead programmer and project

• Collaborate with other engineers on integration and support tasks

• Collaborate with designers, artists and audio artists as needed to build and refine content pipelines.

• Work closely with producers, artists, and designers in a highly collaborative agile, small team environment

Requirements:

• 2-4 years’ experience in working on and shipping games

• Superlative C/C++ Proficiency

• Strong math skills

• Self-motivated, proactive and engaged attitude towards the project, and a genuine desire to help people realize their visions in game

• A mention of your dessert in your cover letter/E-mail

• Experience with working on other people’s code on a medium-sized team

• Comfortable working on an agile and collaborative team

• Flexibility in working with scripting languages, build systems, automation, XML and version control systems

• Strong debugging skills

• Accurate time and schedule management

• Passionate for (and interested in working on) games

• Generalist skill set, adaptable and flexible

Preferences:

• At least one shipped, credited game project

• Experience on current generation consoles

• Familiar with various high level or scripting languages
for game development

• Experience in GUI development with C# a plus

• Affinity to procedural content generation

• Wide range of knowledge on games

E-mail your relevant materials to jobs@magicpixelgames.com
Good call, I agree.
Cool. You grabbed some good domains here. Nice work!
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We have some optimizations in place so that if your screen doesn't change, the screen shot quality will progressively improve. As we improve the compression, we plan to increase the default image quality too.
Beyond ACTA: Next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood
Before complaining about success and size, it is important to know what % of college grads have each of these majors. Without knowing this, the conclusion of "Engineers with advanced degrees are more likely to become CEOs than MBAs" is suspect.
Thanks man, I did use the Hacker News API to retrieve data. Thank you @ronnieroller!
Or C) Heroku should develop and deploy fully independent availability zones and regions. Amazon hasn't yet done a great job of keeping AZ and even regions independent but better connected than separate providers, but maybe Heroku could do better (even if built on EC2).
You wrote, '"Web 2.0" is all about new ways of computing which exploit parallelism.'

I've seen many descriptions of "Web 2.0" but that's a new one to me. Or to quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Here's Tim O'Reilly's explanation: http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
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Cloning a game idea is totally valid form of doing business.

No one gets to have a monopoly on an idea (i m also against patents). Distribution (or more correctly, marketing and operations) is one of the more difficult, non-game-design related problems a gaming company faces, and all else equals, the company that profits is the one that can scale.

I feel like you are just critizing zynga simply because they got successful based on game ideas that others have failed to profit from. I don't see that as a problem - this is what nature intends, and the fittest survive. Those who makes the money deserves it.
I don't disagree that they have a good culture there, but I don't think they've reached a good balance between done and perfect yet. Loads of Facebook is riddled with bugs and at times, rendered totally unusable. The only reason they're able to get away with such an imbalance is that their product taps into the primal urge to be connected with other people, so much so that their users will overcome all odds to get on Facebook and connect with their friends. And for that, I don't much care for Facebook. Make a great service, not crap built to take advantage of a human instinct.
Raspbmc announced: an XBMC for Raspberry Pi
Depends on which skills you have. Do you know photoshop?
And Please Please look at Australia as well
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These phenomena are also highly correlated with particular cities.

Instead of comparing Israel to the US or India, compare Haifa or Tel Aviv to the Valley, NY, Bangalore or Pune. I'd be surprised if Haifa/Tel Aviv came out ahead of the Valley, but I'm definitely interested to know how they compare to NY.
The graphviz / svg output from the profiler shown there is very nice. Does something similar exist for other languages? I particularly like the scaling of the node size by the appropriate value (CPU time, memory use, etc).
That's a fair point. I suppose it relates to why people follow laws in general: is it because all laws we've adopted are good? Is it because laws, by virtue of being a law, are good? Is it because we are afraid of being punished for violating the law? These are major legal and political science debates (e.g. H.L.A Hart, Ronald Dworkin, etc.).

Anyhow, point being, although the law may be unjust, punishment for disobeying the law is not either unexpected or unfair. So while we can bemoan that people are punished for violating copyright law, that doesn't mean that they weren't justly punished by a government enforcing the law.
Thanks for checking it out - a social version of hack-a-day would be really cool...
They are just thumbnail images that link to the YouTube videos. No magic at all, unfortunately.
I am reasonably competent. My drawing skills are non-existent, however.
San Francisco, CA. Full time engineer.

Thumbtack is Amazon for services. A quarter of a million businesses have listed with us, and we're connecting them with local consumers in a very real way.

We recently raised $4.5MM in Series A funding.

We have an fun, intelligent team and eat gourmet home-cooked meals everyday. We work in Python, PHP, Javascript.

More info at http://thumbtack.com/jobs

OR email chris at thumbtack.
Isn't HATEOAS (REST) a great case for #1? If all the APIs get their state from Facebook they could inject a 2-3 seconds ad between every XX requests or YY interval. I dislike ads just like the next guy, but this IMO is better than intrusive hooks inside the content, much like TV.
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They do have the hackers for it at the moment (and it's not like Google is trying to keep them).
Just like Google said they weren't entering the phone business? I think search is inevitable here.
But then the zynga players would vote it back up. And guess who has more users?
Another interpretation is visual polish matters. Zynga's game definitely looks better to me.
so you never left uni....how are you an example to follow?
The Extreme Tech guys do actually credit and link to the GOTW article in the caption of the first graphic. So they got that right.

The graphic itself grates on me. Firstly, it is wildly out of date for a current article (no data for 2010 onwards and the last data point on perf/clock series being from ~2007). Secondly, using ILP as a measure of perf/clock seems quite off (the latency of various instructions do change quite a bit between generations)
Google is reporting itself as a malware distributor.
TodoMVC and knockout.js with unobtrusive bindings
From what I've seen, the message here and in many other places is a pretty consistent one that unauthorized copying for personal use is OK, and unauthorized copying for commercial gain is not. Have I missed something?
Thanks! We're trying to expand quickly, so please do come back!

We tried to use FB sparingly. It's useful to us because if you want to post comments or suggest an item, it's now much more likely you're going to tie it to your account. This hopefully helps reduce spam, on top of the obvious benefits of sharing with others in your feed. You can also "love" (vote up + save) items if you're logged in.

The flip side is that the site is very usable without ever logging in, which is fine too. The login is only needed if you're trying to discuss or further interact with the site. I think it's a pretty good balance.
This is cool. One thing I noticed is if you don't allow the app access to your google account, it encounters an error.
Countries with smaller populations would naturally exhibit a larger variance than larger countries that would tend to clump toward the middle. However, no one would say it's just the luck of the draw that papua new guinea is a undeveloped backwater and sitzerland is the center of global banking. With Papua New Guinea for example, I'd imagine that a history of colonial exploitation and lack of contact with the outside world resulted in its present circumstance. Switzerland's tight cultural and economic integration with the rest of europe while staying politically neutral probably greatly contributed to it's current situation.
they should've left out the touch screen, and added a keyboard and touchpad to it. Make it a android powered "netbook". Without the touchscreen, it should lower their BOM cost a bit so they can pay for better hardware that matters like a faster CPU and more RAM.

Since it's meant to educate the lower class in India, having a keyboard will also allow them to learn typing.
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History has been crushing the predictors of "the end" for such a long time. Why are they even trying?
I'm not arguing validity. Yeah, it's valid, no one really committed a crime here but what they do is shady. It's clear as day. They look for what's successful, clone it, and profit from someone else's idea. Zynga got where it is today by luck. From the beginning they copied - practically plagiarized and do an awful job of hiding it - other successful games for profit. Any other one of those game developers could have been as successful as Zynga (and perhaps they might not be rip off artists thereafter) but because Zynga got the resources others didn't they gained success they didn't deserve. I liken it to economic classes in a way. The smart poor kid doesn't really have as much social mobility as you'd think whereas the dumb rich kid will be a success because he was born into wealth. Zynga won because of money, not because of merit. Legality, validity, etc. are all points I can't argue with but what Im really trying to say is that we often think so robotically that we miss the bigger picture. This is about right and wrong from a human perspective, not a purely logical one. I understand that tons of games are ripoffs of each other but just look at Zynga's games and tell me they even tried the tiniest bit to make them different? Then Pincus says he wants to make them "higher quality"? How? Does branding someone else's game somehow magically make it higher quality? It might be valid but it's still not right.
Just tried it , looks solid product. Looking forward to use it more.
Didn't he invent baseball and the airplane too?
In particular, it's his use of the word "innovate" that enrages me.
Ahh, that's a good point, my example wasn't a great one. It seems an app-specific prefix is the way to go WRT my question.
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I have used Pivotal Tracker for a couple of small projects. I would say it is worth a try, so long as you are willing to buy-in to the somewhat unusual model it uses.
Is "we" PayGuard? And are you saying you won't "freeze, close or withdraw", or that you can't? One is a promise. The other is a fact. See Colin Percival's post on the distinction: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...

It's also not clear to me how what you describe prevents scams and money laundering. Note that in the case of money laundering, it's the same party on both sides of the transaction.
Yea you're right. Here is an article I found regarding it.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/16/zynga-sues-brazilian-copyc...

I have no words for Zynga's hypocrisy.
Please come to Australia!

I can't confirm or deny I'm working on a direct competitor.

Am I serious? Or joking, just to light a fire under you?

Please hurry! :)
In 3 years time, they'll still be selling these machines. A lot of companies still offer the Xeon's 3220, which, if I'm reading wiki correctly, first shipped in Jan 2007.
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You can be a node without necessarily being an exit node.
The choices are clear for every situation you describe.
Based on a cursory glance at the sources. Maybe I'm misreading things, or maybe it's an intermediate version - certainly possible.

And, to be clear, I _do_ believe there are substantial savings in program size to be had. (Especially over C++. Chatty little monster ;)

It's the 4 orders of magnitude that make me doubtful. The good thing, AFAIK VPRI is a year or so from completion, so we'll see soon. And even if it's not 4 orders of magnitude, I'm sure there's a lot to learn from it.
Just to give you some feedback. The biggest issue I have with the site is that I'm not sure if I can trust you.

How do I know my privacy is protected?

How do I know you're not a phising company trying to steal personal data by spying on screen sharing sessions?

Those are some of the questions I ask myself. And it's also the first impression I get when I look at the site. Also, I don't see a phone number anywhere on the site I can call to speak to somebody, or to even verify that you're a real company. There's also no real explanation of how the technology works, and how the tech could protect my privacy--if it in fact does.

I'm not trying to be harsh, just giving you my honest opinion. You have to find some way to make me trust you, if you want me to use your product.
>So someone making an honest attempt to discuss unpopular opinions gets shut out but someone making relatively meaningless platitudes to the group gets cheered on.

That's the Achilles heel of reputation moderating systems. You don't have to be insightful; you just have to play to the crowd.
What kind of product you have? There are several start-up video types, depending on the type of the product. Making real life videos (humans in video) is always easy but to be explanatory you have to make extra addition, with 3d or 2d video video editing softwares, if it's software or hard-to-understand SaaS etc. If you don't want to bother with these editing softwares like adobe after effects, final cut pro, 3ds max etc., making cartoon videos are always a good idea. Just look at dropbox's first video, how simple it is.

1. http://startup-videos.com/

2. http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-examples-of-startup-...

3. http://www.demoduck.com/samples/
gcc 3.x had #pragma once bugs related to symbolic links. MSVC had bugs related to filenames that only differed by case. Modern gcc and MSVC can recognize and optimize for the #include guard pattern. Many benchmarks show no build time improvement of traditional #include guards vs #pragma once.

I some one benchmark where the developer #included all his headers and source files into a single .cpp file. Compiling this single .cpp file was about 50x faster than a traditional build! <:) Of course, you will likely have name and dependency conflicts.
CS was likely the most demanding major at my university in terms of workload outside of class. Depended on what classes you took, but the toughest demanded ~30hrs per week of problem sets + coding assignments each. Made being a D1 athlete in a top national program very tough to pull off.
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There's a second bet in there:

gojomo: "To be specific, I will bet $100 that Facebook's annual revenue will reach $2 billion/year by 2014. Do we have a bet?"

jacquesm: "absolutely."
I would be cautious about changing your marketing based on feedback here. While we understand you are really downloading an applet, 99% of the people in the world won't even care that distinction exists. A/B test on your target market.
Is there something similar to this in the Bay Area?
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Hmm, not sure if we understand each other. To clarify, in Brazil we have "used auto fairs", a day-long event where a company provides a place where individuals can take their cars to sell. Individuals can go there and buy directly from the sellers (dealers can go there and buy too, but that sort of defeats the point for the sellers).

I tried googling the term in English and didn't get many hits, so I assume you call it by another name. And if for some odd reason you don't have such events in N. America, you should start a business and get rich easily :-).

Another interpretation is that you do have access to auto fairs but would still prefer to shop on the net, while still having the option to go through a third party. But I guess that scenario is not so attractive to the third party (unless that third party is a dealer which again defeats the point).
Interesting, but scrolling in my iPad was unusable, so I didn't really want to dig into it.
Doesn't Google also have dual class shares? They seem to be doing well despite that. Maybe it'll work for Zuck too.
Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

This reminds me of a company I respect for their history and ability to do great things (relative to their field). Things may have changed in more recent years but I recall a statement similar to this one made by Ferrari years ago. It went something like this:

We don't race so we can sell street cars, we sell street cars so we can race.
Facebook's revenue will eventually shift from display advertising to data selling. There will come a time when no display campaign will run without input from Facebook.

Before any impression on any online media, advertisers will make a query to Facebook to find out which of the ads should be shown to this user. And Facebook will charge a small fee for each such query.
Go's pprof is based on the C-based one: http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
Looks good but the scrolling on iPad feels really wrong. So much so that it actually bothered me and I had to stop. Actually a very weird sensation - like nails on a chalk board - it is the first time I have had such a 'physical' response to pictures under glass.
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I don't agree ethically with what Zynga's strategy is but I would not go so far as to say...

"The guys who they're ripping off are the ones deserving of all the money Zynga is making off them."

Zynga outsourced being innovative to the market and focused their resources on building distribution. You have to work hard to build distribution and it is an important part of a business strategy. It is not enough to just design a great game and expect it to be a huge business success. It might be a huge creative success but that is different from being a business success.

Lets use Mcdonald's as an example (I am not a fan of their food but I think they illustrate a business that is built on distribution not quality product). People were making hamburgers before Mcdonalds, no innovation in the product. The value of the Mcdonalds business is in the vast network of restaurants that they built to deliver their product. Does the person who made the first hamburger deserve all the money that Mcdonalds is making? I would say no.

I think a lot of people on HN ignore the importance of the simple fact that distribution is a competitive advantage in business and it is something you have to work hard for. I think Zynga is taking advantage of a resource they worked hard to build, their distribution.
Since when was Hacker News not implicitly about software companies?
It's probably worth noting that the third one you listed, HMA, was recently cooperative with a US investigation into Anonymous. You should check the log retention and other policies of whatever VPN you choose to make sure they are suitable for your activities. For example, if you are traveling in a country with restricted Internet access and accessing confidential information from your employer's network, you probably don't want to be using a VPN service that cooperates with requests that may be harmful to your employer.
Mongo is specifically designed for horizontal scaling, so it makes it easy to establish replica sets and shards, and it includes an auto-balancer that will distribute your data between the shards. Pg (the database, not the guy!) can do much of this, but it's not quite as built-in.

Which isn't to say there aren't things that Pg is better for. Full text search comes to mind.
Sorry, I understood your op as you making the point that people will still use Facebook on the desktop. I was providing the counterpoint that it is looking more and more like mobile is the future.

Also, I believe stats will show that engagement is rising rapidly on mobile, and that's what keep people logged on FB.
its actually different for www.google.com and google.com. Any googlers care to explain why?
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I run Ubuntu as my main OS. Then I have VirtualBox running with couple Windows virtual installs and a couple Linux virtual installs. I give about 5G-10G disk space to each, and about 500M to 800M RAM to each (my work laptop only has 2GB, so I have to be careful). The windows virtual installs are for running different versions of IE and programs like Photoshop. The Linux versions are for running things I don't want to conflict with my main Ubuntu system. For example, I use rvm for Ruby programming, and wanted to try rbenv. However, I heard they don't play well together, so I installed rbenv on one of my virtual Linux installs and was able to experiment right away without worrying about messing up my rvm configuration. Another time, I was learning about certificates and keys, and did not want to screw up my current configuration on Ubuntu, so I was able to experiment on on of my Linux virtual installs instead, with no harm done to my main Ubuntu system. It's very liberating to be able to experiment with these without worrying about affecting your primary system.