MrFoof

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by MrFoof 15y ago
I've discussed it before (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3439732 ), but how much TV watching is borne out of inertia? How many people are plopping down in front of their television set every night because it's a formed habit?
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by MrFoof 15y ago
In the last month, I attended fifty hours of meetings. Fifty. In the last week before I gave my notice, the week had seventeen hours of meetings. It's not just where work goes to die, it's also a great way to drive individuals out of a co
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Well, Dwarf Fortress's scope is... impossible to match. I struggle to think of any game with even similar complexity. Making a Dwarf Fortress clone would take many years, however culling down the feature set (and the depth of each feature
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by MrFoof 15y ago
>"Suppose you could quit your job right now, and work on any project full time." Well, I just did the former though I can't really justify the latter. :) However, I mostly quit because my work was again taking over my personal life, s
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by MrFoof 15y ago
"Car dealers have haggling advantages over purchasers: - You buy a car perhaps once every three years, perhaps once every ten." Correct, this is no different than the mattress industry or bridal industry. There has to be a large premium ov
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I ran my own ad a while back (4 to 6 weeks ago?) and faced no issue. I also think I might know why: I didn't use a coupon to run the ads for free. I put my OWN money into the account. I also didn't set low bid limits. Actually, my bids w
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Is this the first case of something getting significantly funded on KickStart with nothing to show other than a promise? As others have mentioned... Tim Schafer (and Ron Gilbert) have a hell of a track record. They have an incredibly loyal
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Jeff's presence will be missed, but the man can't be faulted. His priority is his family, and he's sticking to his guns. Good for him -- seriously! Honestly I had been on the fence about changing jobs until recently. I'm single and I rea
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Johnson made no mentioning of eliminating popular sales seasons like Black Friday. This New York Times article (yes, login may be required) is much more informative in regards to his plans: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/jc-pen
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Apple makes one billion dollars in profit a week. Say that aloud to yourself. It's simply staggering. UPDATE: (@gruber has pointed out to me that it was a 14-week quarter, so only 0.935 billion a week)
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I'll chime here as being in a similar boat as your nephew was. Nearly 15 years ago I took a job at the local Wal-Mart as a high-school sophomore (15 1/2 was the minimum required age, with restrictions on hours worked), mostly so I could sav
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by MrFoof 15y ago
There are also sources reporting that four more board members may be following him: Roy Bostock, Arthur Kern, Vyomesh Joshi and Gary Wilson. http://allthingsd.com/20120117/sources-four-more-board-membe... Still rumor at this point, but th
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Personally I've found TV watching to be borne out of some sort of inertia. There was a point where I paid for all the pre-requisite packages for the privilege of being able to add The Speed Channel and watch my Formula 1, ALMS, etc. I wat
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I think comparing the Raspberry Pi to the original OLPC concepts is rather misguided. The OLPC is a computer that can be used immediately. It's turnkey. It has a display, and input devices, and comes in a case. The Raspberry Pi reminds m
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by MrFoof 15y ago
To be fair, there's actually a large number of reports of crashes and freezes in the App Store. I wouldn't consider SimCity Deluxe for iOS to be a model citizen in terms of application stability. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simcity-del
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by MrFoof 15y ago
>1% CTR is a high estimate for Adsense on a site like Stackexchange. 3% is downright fantasy. I came here to stipulate something similar, but I figured I'd back it up with at least something of an anecdote. How often do I click on AdSen
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I keep running into DBAs and data architects that keep trying the "we don't need foreign keys" argument. I always ensure they lose that argument (and stuff gets better, amazing!). Though in all seriousness, what alternate universe are thes
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by MrFoof 15y ago
The shallowness and laziness of Isaacson's research is quite staggering. John Siracusa pointed out on Hypercritical this week that Isaacon had a lot of information when there were sources he could borrow them from, but there's no depth fro
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by MrFoof 15y ago
This is correct. More specifically, Comcast will be using 6-to-4. If you're wondering if your router is compatible, Wikipedia does maintain a reasonably up-to-date list of known compatible routers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I agree entirely. I use Growl for exactly one thing: To notify me of deliveries via the Delivery Status widget. Because if I don't act on picking them up quickly, I might have to wait 1 to 2 days to get my package from the office. Everythi
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by MrFoof 15y ago
A valid question in return would be, "Do you know how many people don't know what the Humble Bundle is?" Moreover, what percentage of the population is even aware that A) you can buy games to play on the computer, and B) that didn't come fr
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by MrFoof 15y ago
On launch weekend, the iPhone 4 sold 1.7M units in five countries. The iPhone 4S sold > 4.0M units in seven countries (the additions being Canada and Australia). The iPhone 4 launch countries had a combined population of ~644 million.
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Although there's no numbers for the 3GS and 3rd generation iPod touch, GigaOM did benchmark the iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4 and 4th generation iPod touch to find small to otherwise noticeable improvements across the board: http://gigaom.com/ap
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by MrFoof 15y ago
For those in the US curious about their upgrade eligibility, use this link: https://buyiphone.apple.com/WebObjects/IPACustomer.woa/wa/IP... I'm finding that I'm eligible for the fully subsidized price after only about 17 months from gett
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I think the issue is the pronounced effect of market disruption. In your example, if an industry is disrupted to where it now employs 100K instead of 1M people, the problem that arises for the short term is up to 900K people will be without
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Our organization bought several of these shortly after release. All of them developed a serious crack in the top of the enclosure around the trackpad (a bit right off-center) within a month. Some also have hairline cracks on the right sid
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I don't really strive for the absolute reduction to large, basic forms. Without having built my space to control the lighting exactly as I intend, I think that'd be impossible. Mostly I'm just for removing things that aren't being useful
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by MrFoof 15y ago
I've gone towards minimalism -- or at least as far as I feel is reasonable -- for the purpose of eliminating parts of my life that were pure maintenance, such as cleaning and commuting. In 2008 I got rid of what I thought were "most of my p
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by MrFoof 15y ago
Depends on the shop, and the needs of that shop. If your development necessitates that you run one or more virtual machines on a consistent basis, the 8GB memory limitation of most laptops bites your hand almost immediately. If you work on
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by MrFoof 15y ago
> "You have to remember that this is still in beta. Does any 1 game really need 3 million beta testers?" Markus had sold somewhere between 800,000 and 850,000 copies before it went into Beta. Does a game really need 800,000 or so Alph

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