JeffL

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by JeffL 18y ago
That roller walker at the end was seriously cool. That actually seems like it might be pretty practical for some sort of robot in the future.
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by JeffL 18y ago
$19 a month is less than I'm paying now with Cybersource.
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by JeffL 18y ago
I think you might be right, but I do wonder. Has anyone seen any scientific evidence one way or the other?
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by JeffL 18y ago
I think that's a good idea. When people can give out unlimited upvotes, it's like the government printing money non-stop. Karma loses its value. I don't know if the ability to upvote should be related to a persons Karma score. That might
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by JeffL 18y ago
Does anyone have an idea on how to guess or find out how sales of a subscription based game would be affected by cuts in price, say from a baseline of $10/mo? I've always thought that $10 is so little that the biggest barrier to paying is j
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by JeffL 18y ago
Yes, maybe after a market crisis more people look for security, but I think that over time they forget the last crises and move back to chasing returns until it gets bad enough for the next crises to occur.
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by JeffL 18y ago
I made myself inline typing macros for all the common stuff I write when coding and it has done wonders for me both in reducing RSI and increasing speed. Some of the macros I use are: ,i = int ,f = float ,9i = (int) ,9f = (float) ,r = retu
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by JeffL 18y ago
I would like to do conditional formatting on one column based on the contents of another column.
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by JeffL 18y ago
Or else the ability to save it as text (XML) in a way that will work with SVN so that we can have multiple people working on an Excel sheet saved that way and SVN will be able to merge it. When you try that with Excel, you get all kinds of
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by JeffL 18y ago
So many straw men being attacked so lamely. He writes: "First off, the unstated goal of most libertarian doctrine is basically the following: 1. Corporations are more “efficient” than the government because of the “natural selection” of our
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by JeffL 18y ago
I think (1) is a really interesting point, but don't you think that humans also strive for inequality? People don't just want to keep up with the Jones's, they derive great satisfaction from being ahead of the Jones's. 2) I think society b
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by JeffL 18y ago
There would still be honest misunderstandings between people that might require a court to resolve, or at least the possibility of going to court to encourage a settlement. Also, you would still need a military unless the whole world was al
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by JeffL 18y ago
I wish I could upvote this comment more than once -- I think it is dead on. Profit is the creation of value. If there's no profit, then there's no value added. Profit works great for food, shelter, clothes, heat, and most every basic human
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by JeffL 18y ago
Hopefully one would diversify among many countries and also with some gold.
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by JeffL 18y ago
I think a distinction needs to be made between credit for consumer expenditures and credit for capital expenditures. I think that somehow eliminating or reducing the former would be beneficial to society, though I wouldn't advocate force to
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by JeffL 18y ago
I used these guys http://www.amerilawyer.com/ and it was cheap and easy. If you can get someone to do all the research, paperwork, and filing for you, and even receive your mail until you've gotten a mailing address for $120, I don't see
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by JeffL 18y ago
Well, in the case of renting, I'm currently renting a house that was originally bought when the housing prices were less than half of what they are now, so I'm indirectly paying only half the property tax that I would be paying if I were to
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by JeffL 18y ago
Owning a house is just so much more expensive than renting if the value isn't going up at insane rates. You have to pay for insurance, taxes, repairs, etc. It seems to me that the "extra" cost that people pay to own their own house is simp
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by JeffL 18y ago
I offer both options for setting up monthly subscriptions and people go almost exactly 50/50 between the two. Some people prefer Pay Pal because they feel more secure while others refuse to use Pay Pal for whatever reasons. Setting up a pa
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by JeffL 18y ago
Also: http://www.goproblems.com -- a great site with thousands of problems to solve http://senseis.xmp.net -- a Go wiki with a lot of interesting articles especially for the intermediate player
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by JeffL 18y ago
That's about what I've been getting recently for my game. About 40% of the clicks from the ads result in downloads of the game, then about one out of 20 of the downloader's actually end up paying for a subscription. It seems getting peopl
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by JeffL 18y ago
I did Google advertising for over a year with very questionable returns and then I added a new landing page, tons more graphics and screen shots all over the web site, worked on the first 5 minutes of the game play experience a bunch, and a
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by JeffL 18y ago
Our new graphics engine which will be coming out in a couple months is based on the open source Irrlicht graphics engine which is Windows, Linux, and MacOS. We're just going to support Windows at first, but in theory, versions for the othe
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by JeffL 18y ago
I could raise more money and hire an employee with the expertise I need, but then I would dilute and give shares to the investors. I would prefer to dilute by giving shares to another programmer who wants to work with the start-up mentalit
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Looking for cofounder/hacker for MMO
30 points by JeffL 18y ago|27 comments
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by JeffL 18y ago
Cost of bureaucracy, inefficiency and fraud in such a huge government program: $2 trillion
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by JeffL 18y ago
Very well put, Prrometheus, but perhaps some more subsidies for electric cars would be in order as a softer way to move in that direction and would be justified as a measure of national defense (cutting off the funding to terrorists and Isl
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by JeffL 18y ago
We use Pay Pal and Cybersource ( http://cybersource.com/ ). They are both pretty much equally easy to implement and cost about the same.
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by JeffL 18y ago
I hate it when links force a new browser window or a new tab. Users are smart enough to hold down shift or control when they click to get a new window or tab, aren't they? Why not have an option people can choose to have external links
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by JeffL 18y ago
Internet ads do work in certain situations. I can see why print ads would be more effective for things like brand awareness for large companies, but I can tell you that running a small MMORPG, I am getting over 3:1 return on investment on A

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