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Co-Founder & CTO @Applanga a automation platform for web/app/game translation & localization workflows. Also indie gamedev @orkitec with @ChessfinityGame

Berlin
Joined September 2013
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For the past 1,5 years I’ve spent much of my spare time developing @ChessfinityGame and I am very excited to announce that you can finally get it now for iOS and Android orkitec.com/chessfinity #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #chess
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interview: sort binary tree job: manually update csv files
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Someone noticed that when you have hundreds / thousands of cores in a supercomputer, the individual utilization boxes in Task Manager start to look like pixels. People started making pictures by doing different amounts of work on specific processors. It escalated quickly.
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There’s absolutely no way I could pass the coding interview at any of the big tech companies. Even the ones where the interviewer learned to code from one of my tutorials.
A good Hacker News comment on tech interviews.
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Using this #indiedevhour to work on the relaunch of my #IndieGameDev website so i have some new #gamedev and #indiedev related things to show on the next #PortfolioDay ... hope to be finished till #screenshotsaturday ... #hashtagninja
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Instead of #gamedev nightshifts I will try to get up early to work on my #indiegame in the mornings even though I think I‘m actually an n8🦉What are your #IndieGameDev workingtimes?
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“My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean! I begrudginly complied, but it took me years to see they were right.” overreacted.io/goodbye-clean…
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planning todo regular #gamedev #indiedev #streams and configuring my setup. Do you have any tooling advice for #streaming on a mac?
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It‘s happening again I‘m starting a new game 😱🙄 #gamedev #indiegame #itshappeningagain
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When aeronautics engineers are bored nitter.cf/ZonePhysics/status/112…
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Big thanks to @GooglePlay for featuring @ChessfinityGame on their Indie Corner! @orkitec If you haven't already then check out our take on an endless runner combined with chess! ♘♖ play.google.com/store/apps/d…
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Italians can speak up to nine syllables per second, while Germans deliver five to six syllables in the same tick of a watch. Yet, they transmit a similar amount of information, according to a new study. fcld.ly/wfmyrp0
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“oh, the engineering manager has decided to start programming again”
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Picard theology tip: Unproven gods are hypotheses waiting to be tested. Proven gods are aliens with better technology.
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♟️Happy to announce the release of ChessFinity! A game that combines the rules of traditional chess with the thrill of an endless runner!♟️ Check out all the info below! Grab it: Android: bit.ly/ChessFinityAndroid iOS: apple.co/2ROlTmm @orkitec press.handy-games.com/check-…
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Following non-coders is so confusing. Couple definitions for some words you may see pop up on your time line: 📕 library: a place with books 📈 graph: a chart 🗺 map: used for navigation 🐍 python: snake 📚 heap: a pile of things 🌲 tree: a tall plant 🐞 bug: an insect
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Chess meets endless runner in this new Mobile Game "Chessfinity" Pre-register here on Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d… While adapting the rules from the most famous strategy game of all times, ChessFinity adds the thrill of an endless runner. #chess #endlessrunner #checkmate
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Well this might take a while... Any cool new #indiegames #mobilegames that I should try while doing my #macbook #ssdswap? #IndieGameDev
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Seems like #SQL is also used at the final frontier in the future ... I would have hoped they find something better till then :) #StarTrek #sqlinjection #space
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