HeyImAlex

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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   I would never want the IDEA of pinterest to be protected, but pinspire's name, branding and service are so strikingly similar that it will undoubtedly cause confusion among potential customers. That should be illegal, and I imagine that it
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   >I don't understand how enhancing value doesn't create value. Value is value, there isn't good value and bad value He was saying that design is multiplicative, not additive. You could have an extremely beautiful and well designed app bu
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   I can't speak for the person you're responding to but for me; ~400 pages of content, if it's dense I assume a pace of about 30 pages per hour, so about 14 hours of reading, maybe three hours of review total on top of that. If you're learnin
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   I keep all of my ebooks in my ipad and have library, active, and completed sections. I have four books in my active section that I read through as time goes on and every time I complete a topic I pop a book from active onto completed and pu
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   For most theaters there are. Our local chain in my hometown started the actual film exactly fifteen minutes after the advertised time, and the same is true for the theaters where I live now.
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   You're right in that Halo 3 still managed to achieve mainstream success (it sold nearly twice as many copies as its predecessor), but sales are a lagging indicator of support and H3 was released to a very fertile market; the console wars we
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   I think people who say that the FPS industry is bland and uninspired fundamentally misunderstand the genre. Do you want to know how to kill a multimillion dollar franchise? Why don't you ask Bungie. After Halo 2 shipped, Bungie went to the
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   Me too, and no response. I really wanted that T-Shirt... http://www.solesavoria.com/instagram/v2/
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   by HeyImAlex 15y ago

   Only ever implement trueskill as a hidden metric; after a sufficiently high number of games, the level of uncertainty drops and your players get 'locked in' to a certain rank and, while this is great for actually tracking skill, it gives th
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    by HeyImAlex 15y ago

    There is definitely a chicken/egg problem at work here that will be hard to break early on. In the long run I'm hoping for a pool of users large enough that reaching the end isn't likely for your average signup, but for now you're completel
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    by HeyImAlex 15y ago

    Yeah, sorry about that, it was addressed below(above?). It should be fixed now.
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    by HeyImAlex 15y ago

    Thanks! About that image; it's a relic from when I first wrote the landing page (it was late and the copy was decidedly more crude) but I'm changing to something more in tune with my audience now. As for market research, I talked to quite a
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