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Frustration and failure fuel Dyson's success
- speeder 14y agoIt is interesting to see how much his description of invention also resemble game design. People rarely understand why the really good games frequently miss deadlines, take lots of work and rarely end as the original vision planned, it is because bleeding edge game design is also a research effort, prototypes and tests, specially because we don't have yet sufficient psychology theoretical information to always predict player behavior, most of the best game design inventions were more a discovery than a real invention. Like asteroids wrap around, street fighter II combos made with animation bugs, sim city disaster tool because players after a while on the prototype started to happily bulldoze the city to watch the chaos, and so on...
- awjr 14y agoSo I'm in the UK. I pay their licence fee and yet I get this: "We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee." I'd love to find the article on the normal BBC site but no luck.
- steveridout 14y agoWow, living in Spain at the moment I often get the problem where videos aren't viewable outside the UK, but I didn't realise the opposite problem could exist!
- splatzone 14y agoditto. is there a cache or anything up?
- paulyg 14y agoAs a mechanical engineer I 100% agree with his POV.
- splatzone 14y agoHere's a mirror for anyone in the UK: http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/future/story/20130312-failure-is-the-best-medicine/1 http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/future/story/20130312-failure-is...
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoThat's blocked for me...
- michaelbuddy 14y agoOk, I gotta say it. The Airblade hand dryer is a knock off and it's been all over Japan by other brands many years before. I've seen Toto and Panasonic versions. Good for him he made it into a product but it is NOT an invention of his. I've used his and the originals and his does not improve on anything either.
- thedrbrian 14y agoNeither are the vacuum cleaners, vortex separators have been used for years in large industry. His great idea that one could shrink them down to work in the home.