Harkins

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by Harkins 18y ago
A games portal may not be a common startup, but I thought folks would enjoy all the stuff CC is doing with testing, usage data, being open, and subscription -> credits.
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Casual Collective: Lessons Learned(blog.casualcollective.com)
3 points by Harkins 18y ago|1 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
Sounds like a stripped-down version of http://www.ideosphere.com/ I get that you were going for fun over market, though.
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by Harkins 18y ago
You don't. Alpha tests are, by definition, internal-only.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I'm trying to figure out why Calvin is even used, and all I can get is the lame almost-ryhme in the title. Calvin could be anyone or no one, all the character does is stand there and say "What's the punchline, Mr. Jobs?"
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by Harkins 18y ago
This also happened when Wall-E came out. In any case: yes, bugs should be fixed.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Probably not. EC2 is really handy for spikes in usage but it sounds like that's not a concern for you. Maybe something like SliceHost would be a good idea for you. Same root access, lower prices but no automated expandability. As for "suppo
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by Harkins 18y ago
In case you're wondering how on Earth this is possibly news, it's because Google just hosted a training session for journalists at their DC offices yesterday. Showed them Google sites and tools that could help them in their jobs, answered a
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by Harkins 18y ago
One reason no ones does this is that a game company (3D0?) got a patent in the last 90s on playing a game (I know their game was PSX) while waiting through a loading screen. It was broadly-written enough that they forced a Linux distro (Red
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by Harkins 18y ago
I run a 3200x1200 desktop -- but depending on what I have open, my browser is regularly less than 800px wide. It's actually way more common now than when I ran at 1024x768; I don't have to maximize everything just to have a little working a
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by Harkins 18y ago
If you're not already familiar with screen, it's definitely worth the time to learn it. Sharing terminals is the least of what it can do.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I spent a few more minutes poking around and saw the company profiles I missed before (oops). But I still don't see anything that differentiates from other job sites except that you (deliberately) have fewer jobs listed.
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by Harkins 18y ago
You're getting a lot of comments about how it needs to be easier to search by location, and I admit I was going to post one, too. Thinking about it, though, it's a mistake. Searching by location is the kind of searching you do on regular jo
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Documentation or death (or: the rise and slight drop of rails blogging)(omgbloglol.com)
10 points by Harkins 18y ago|4 comments
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by Harkins 18y ago
Would you say it's more like glassdoor.com or coderific.com?
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by Harkins 18y ago
I misparsed the headline to say that the way to avoid looking older is just to live longer, to have a slower metabolism.
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by Harkins 18y ago
This is trouble for <a href=" http://areae.net ">Areae</a>, an online gaming platform startup that has Raph Koster and a few other names (including a friend of mine).
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by Harkins 18y ago
I've been in roughly this situation, where the founder of a small company made grandiose claims and would say anything to get the sale, get another round of investment, get his way. Reevaluate any promises he's made to you or any agreements
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by Harkins 18y ago
One caveat: anyone caught discussing software quality on the JoS boards will be beaten to death with posts echoing "Quality and design and anything else that makes a programmer happy are evil unless they directly put money into my pocket!"
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by Harkins 18y ago
I'm surprised that so few Basecamp users would recommend it. 94% is not a good number, you have to take into account survivorship bias. The people who would not recommend your service have already stopped being your customers. 94% says that
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by Harkins 18y ago
I've gotten that "Soft No" from 37signals, too. I was reporting a bug in the BaseCamp example API and was told that maybe we just had different views of how the API should be designed. I guess I was the only one in the conversation with the
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by Harkins 18y ago
A lot of good thinking about design of virtual worlds can be found in the archives of the mud-dev and mud-dev2 lists. They've run for ~10 years and include many of the game designers of the current hit games.
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by Harkins 18y ago
I hear lots of seven-year-olds are accepting exciting opportunities to work now in the garment industry.
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by Harkins 18y ago
The could also find a fax machine or a telegraph. It's not the user's job to jump through hoops -- stopping the service shouldn't be harder than starting it.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Yahoo employs over 13,000 employees. 5 leaving in the span of a couple weeks is not a "mass exodus". And if these 2 are to "join", that means that he's calling 3 a mass exodus.
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by Harkins 18y ago
...if I pause to change audio settings, the first option throws away my progress without warning. Happened twice to me, doesn't make me want to keep playing.
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by Harkins 18y ago
You're missing that you should just start contesting the charges. You made a good faith effort to downgrade. Chargebacks sound like the only way to get their attention.
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by Harkins 18y ago
Interesting premise and anecdotes, but where's the evidence?
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by Harkins 18y ago
Have you looked into the IP address? On a Unix command line, do 'whois 0.0.0.0' to find out what network they're on, possibly where they are. Contact abuse@ at that ISP and tell them one of their customers is violating Google's Terms of Ser
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by Harkins 18y ago
Companies trying to be memorable want to override a couple centuries of English history? Fuck 'em. The initial cap on proper nouns developed for good reasons.

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