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Warby Parker Co-Founder Brings Style (At a Discount) to Shaving(wired.com)
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by GavinB 14y ago
Is changing the behavior of a group of units because it happens to be grouped with a distant unit really a good thing for the game? It makes for a good story, and it's great fun for the person who discovers it. Players like it, because it l
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by GavinB 14y ago
So the question is, should weird, hard to detect and buggy behavior that experienced players can exploit be kept as part of the game? It's a highly subjective and, to me, non-obvious answer. Players get very attached to timing and knowledge
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A fun unit in multiplayer isn't really a good excuse for a gamebreaking behavior in single player. An examination of what it was that made the Carrier fun might have revealed ways to get similar effects (long range, able to fire while retre
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The Protoss Carrier regularly lagged behind other units because it had its own way of doing … everything. The Carrier should have been scrapped entirely and replaced with a different air unit. Even to the latest upgrades of Starcraft I, t
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by GavinB 14y ago
Wikipedia lists "is sound only sound if a person hears it?" as "The most immediate philosophical topic that the riddle introduces." This is the question that Eliezer addresses. You may have been introduced to the tree falling riddle in a di
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Things to be prepared for/random advice for when you become a boss: - People will treat you differently because you’re their boss. - Yes, you can still be friends with people who work for you. But the work relationship will always have to b
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by GavinB 14y ago
Early warning: I recently learned that some kids under 13 are adopting Google+. They all have gmail accounts, but their parents won't let them go on Facebook. It's not really any different in terms of legality or functions, but parents unde
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by GavinB 14y ago
There are entire cities in the Gobi desert. The population is one person per square km: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/236545/Gobi/47958/... In the cities, you have to stay in a hotel because you're not allowed to pitch a tent:
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by GavinB 14y ago
If you want to sell services to large companies--even low cost ones--you need to offer invoice payment. At a big company, the corporate credit card is for meals and travel, not for paying vendors.
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I interpreted this as largely a protest in the hopes of getting Twitter's token policy changed. It seems very odd that they can get 100,000 tokens for free but can't pay for more.
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The developers basically get their choice of a job at Apple or quitting and going off on their own. Better yet, they can stay with Apple for a few months and see how they like it, or stay with Apple while they figure out what their next mov
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When you order cooked food, you're already paying a premium for someone to work on your order right now . So the price differential doesn't seem that great to go from takeout or eat in to delivery. This is why pizza delivery seems so cheap
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This goes on the inside of the door. Would-be thieves would never see it. The image lower down on the page (next to "Easily install") is MUCH clearer about what this is and how it works. If the creators are reading this, I'd suggest swappin
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by GavinB 14y ago
New York, NY. Full time. We're looking for an Assistant Project Manager, which is a grab bag title for some to work on with game design, producing, and community management for online and mobile games. See InfinityRing.com for our latest pr
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by GavinB 14y ago
The technology is great, but I'm a little confused about your business model. It was not clear at all from the front page who this was for (people who want to show off their models) and whether paying for "models" was paying for being able
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by GavinB 14y ago
The biggest barrier to mounting a credible election campaign is getting funding. Scientists are good at getting funding when it comes to writing grant applications, but raising real money in most elections means spending a couple hours ever
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by GavinB 14y ago
Have you considered centering the text in the page? This looks good on a laptop sized screen, but on a widescreen monitor it feels very odd to be so far over with half the screen white. There's nothing wrong with it this way, it just feels
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by GavinB 14y ago
New York, NY Assistant Project Manager, helping build iOS and Web games for the US's biggest kids publisher. One part project management, one part game designer, one part community manager. Entry level or intern okay, but you need to be ava
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by GavinB 14y ago
Isn't it a little sketchy to have one of the "games" be a game that takes into account outside information like your balanace? Here's another "paradox": Game A: You lose a dollar every time. Game B: If the last game you played was game A, y
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The nice thing about Unity is that there was never any question this would happen. They've built up enough trust that we can be confident that they'll be on any popular new platform.
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For the total novice: http://www.unity3dstudent.com/category/modules/ Start with Essentials, then do Beginner, then Intermediate. I ran through these and it got me up to speed very quickly.
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That's why they invented the biathlon--the perfect combination of cardio and shooting stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon
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This may be a tortured analogy, but it boils down into a basic problem: 1. You know there's a bug 2. You can't reproduce it Several next steps come to mind: 1. Hire an outside expert who's dealt with this sort of thing before. They may be a
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If you somehow started from this state, how long would it take the wave to reach the opposite side of the planet?
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I strongly suggest you add this to the post itself. If not early on, then at least at the end. My thought that "they probably let Dan sign off on this, but it would be good to know for sure" distracted from focusing on the broader point of
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New York City / NYC Assistant Project Manager - help us design "subversively educational" games for kids. One part game designer, one part project coordinator, one part community manager. Can be entry level, but any experience in games, web
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This is really tricky. Often the person telling you not to put more time into something is trying to protect you from later disappointment or waste effort. Sometimes you need time to look at a prototype and figure out how it fits into your
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Facebook does consume roughly one and a half percent of Americans' waking hours. ( highly rough estimate based on http://mashable.com/2011/09/30/wasting-time-on-facebook/ ) These various things aren't directly commensurate, but it shows a
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Frankly, I think that getting people excited about programming and learning that they can create something actually cool is the most important part of their first introduction. I took a course in high school that started with the nuts and b

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