BryantD

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811.
by BryantD 10y ago
It depends on where you live, but that in and of itself is a flaw -- ideally the game wouldn't be less fun for people who don't live in cities/large towns.
812.
by BryantD 10y ago
Although the hugely successful casual mobile games are, in fact, extremely grindy. Candy Crush Saga is nothing but a grind at high levels, with minimally complex gameplay. The question isn't whether Pokemon Go will keep my interest. I&
813.
by BryantD 10y ago
Clash Royale would be my guess. Recent release, IP carries over from a very popular existing game, but it's not just a sequel. Also had great word of mouth from the geobeta.
814.
by BryantD 10y ago
Yes, it did. The classic problem for geographically-based mobile games is critical mass. Ingress barely reaches the necessary threshold. Pokemon IP was critical here.
815.
by BryantD 10y ago
He sort of said that, sure. "Ayyadurai says his case has no financial connection to Thiel. 'To be absolutely clear,' Ayyadurai said, 'my relationship with [Harder] is direct. There is no third party involved.'"
816.
by BryantD 10y ago
I think it's more that Thiel's lawyers dropped claims that would have gotten Bollea more money in order to cause more pain to Gawker. And refused various settlement offers. And that Thiel is also funding the anti-Gawker lawsuit by
817.
by BryantD 10y ago
The tutorial is not great, but you can actually engage in the core loop (capture/evolve) at level 1. Conversely, one of the most common newbie questions in Ingress is "wait, why don't my bursters do anything against these hig
818.
by BryantD 10y ago
Man, if Pokemon Go has half the depth of Ingress it'll do awesome. The problem with Ingress isn't lack of depth, it's that a new player can't see where the depth is due to bad game design. Pokemon Go has a much better ne
819.
by BryantD 10y ago
Non-satire versions: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/lbs/5678169186.html & http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/pas/5676674461.html This does, of course, violate Niantic's ToS.
820.
by BryantD 10y ago
When I checked this morning Ingress also had full perms. I revoked and reconnected and Ingress only had basic account info. I was also queried appropriately. Possibly this was fixed on Ingress sometime in the last X months but not on Pokemo
821.
by BryantD 10y ago
"don't do things that people who are more powerful than you will dislike."
822.
by BryantD 10y ago
False equivalency. They bullied Thiel, and made him unhappy. I don't see any evidence that his ability to do business has been affected. Thiel has now made it impossible for Gawker to continue as a company. The effect of the bullying i
823.
by BryantD 11y ago
That's just the lawyer being clever -- it's obvious that claims made in a fictional context don't have the kind of weight he's ascribing to them. It's funny, though.
824.
by BryantD 11y ago
Ireland also does that: https://twitter.com/ireland
825.
by BryantD 11y ago
That's great reading and I appreciate it! From the Wikipedia article, it sounds like the Kerala government is very involved in health care. Am I reading that right?
826.
by BryantD 11y ago
Sure. My point is that the forces which optimize for medical tourism do not optimize for overall health care standards. You can certainly prioritize between those two things yourself.
827.
by BryantD 11y ago
I'd recommend doing some more reading on the health care system in India. I believe that it worked really well for the poster; my initial research seems to indicate that there's a huge difference between the health care you can ge
828.
by BryantD 11y ago
Some reporting indicates that Bergdahl's unit was riddled with this kind of problem: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-pris...
829.
by BryantD 11y ago
In this case, the only source for their article is the ESR blog post. We came very close to the amusing spectacle of ESR blog commenters claiming that the Breitbart post was confirmation of the blog post, but the dude pulled back at the las
830.
by BryantD 11y ago
By 1998, there were way more than five back end servers. I don't remember exactly how many 8400s we had -- 20? 40? Something in that range. They'd gone up to 12 GB of RAM apiece, which came on boards the size of a fairly large bak
831.
by BryantD 11y ago
AltaVista was originally a DEC project, which was the biggest reason for using Alphas. It's a search engine and a marketing tool! But I agree, the speed was great. There was a spare TurboLaser 8400 which was occasionally used for SETI@
832.
by BryantD 11y ago
This is correct, although as I recall every now and then Mike rewrote core functionality in assembly for speed.
833.
by BryantD 11y ago
Did Apple ever reject the Kindle app? They rejected Sony's app; from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01apple.html?_r... : “We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” Trudy M
834.
by BryantD 11y ago
And, in fact, the Kickstarter ToS acknowledges this obligation. Lengthy quote: When a project is successfully funded, the creator must complete the project and fulfill each reward. Once a creator has done so, they’ve satisfied their obligat
835.
by BryantD 11y ago
The paper also doesn't talk about whether or not the initial assumptions were true. E.g.: "The ability to delegate voting power allows liquid democracy to scale to large groups as well as representative democracy does. People who
836.
NTP Security Project(ntpsec.org)
3 points by BryantD 11y ago|0 comments
837.
by BryantD 11y ago
Thanks! I really wish this piece had been published somewhere else; while the author comes with his own baggage there'd have been a better chance of real discussion that way. C'est la vie, and thanks again for listening.
838.
by BryantD 11y ago
I think that's an accidental red herring. Let's try judging this news outlet by their policy, instead: "Reaxxion is a gaming site for men that was created as a reaction to extremists infiltrating and corrupting video game jou
839.
by BryantD 11y ago
Sebastian Marshall writes in a fairly hyperbolic style. If I were to apply a de-hyperbolizing filter, I think the post title would be something more like "this document is a pretty good example of how processes can evolve and become pe
840.
Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell(blogs.msdn.com)
828 points by BryantD 11y ago|390 comments

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