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by VonGuard 14y ago
MMO's are fucking money sinks. Investors see the insane profits from selling virtual items and figure "No inventory! No warehouses! Yet they're selling product!" and figure they can just throw money at a game until it's profitable. Also, af
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by VonGuard 14y ago
2% royalty, even if you don't make a deal!? Effectively, this makes it the new QVC model, because the exposure helps even the non-deal companies.
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Non-profit videogame museum in Oakland teaches kids Scratch, Python(themade.org)
2 points by VonGuard 15y ago|1 comments
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by VonGuard 15y ago
I was just happy to see that there was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rule 6.
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by VonGuard 15y ago
I found a "lost" article I wrote about Jack from 2007. He was an Auschvitz survivor, almost died in a plane accident, and was an unsung visionary that, perhaps, was the first to truly commoditize compute power. http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/
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Lost article from C64 25th Anniversary with lots about Jack Tramiel(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 15y ago
If even a small portion of the US' population had any idea what socialism actually was, maybe we wouldn't all be going bankrupt from our asinine health care system.... This country....
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Good advice. But it is indeed, still frustrating. I'm not sure some fo the people here quite understand just how little journalists make... I mean, yeah I did not get into it for the money, but the Valley feels like a lottery sometimes, and
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Yah, obviously that's the value he's adding. I think it's a zero sum game, however. Shilling isn't going to help a crappy product out in the long term, only the short term. And it brings up all manner of ethical grey areas: is blogging jour
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Oh... My... God.... Lyons is a fucking god. As a journalist in the valley, I can just say that the first paragraph he's written here hits the nail right on the fucking head. ---"It’s tough being a journalist, especially if you’re covering t
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Donate to Oakland videogame museum, keep kids programming classes free(themade.org)
1 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Uhm, Raph? Aren't you closing your second startup in two years? Proust is done, right? Maybe not the guy to listen to anymore.
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Twitter deems certain users "Anti-Social," filters them from search results(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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5 Games software developers can learn from(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 15y ago
I dunno guys, there seems to be a big worry here about HN degrading, or trolling being more prevalent and mods banning non-troll entities... If you've been to Reddit recently and tried to engage that community, you might not be so worried a
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Be about 3 seconds before I'd flag Joe.
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by VonGuard 15y ago
If they succeed, like Android, Google is VERY committed. It's like they get other companies to test their grenades, and the ones that don't blow up in faces, they stick with. Hence Google buys Motorola, but not, say, Acer.
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in megabytes. (FTFY)
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Yeah. Customer services makes you want to kill them, not yourself.
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Agreed. The Internet can be a harsh mistress. "In the news" can also mean "reading 1000's of mean-spirited comments."
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Smart phone user demographics for Android developers(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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Live Blogging the Google Keynote at Android Developer Conference(sdtimes.com)
7 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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Android/Arduino talk from Android Developer Conference(sdtimes.com)
35 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 15y ago
starwars in ascii! Wow!
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by VonGuard 15y ago
Same here, though I had to get this book from my school library. High School library. Years after my 520 ST was already out of date. I programmed in the basketball game, which took about an hour or so, as I recall. The next year I got a Mac
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by VonGuard 15y ago
God, why do ya'll care? These tablets aren't even worth the $149. Buy a cheap, shitty Android tablet for $100 and you'll be just as frustrated, but have a device that's mildly useful.
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by VonGuard 15y ago
you need to know what I dislike: avocado eggplant, usually (there are occasional exceptions) hot pepper olives liver (even in trace quantities) stomach and intestine; other organ meats cooked tuna oysters egg yo
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Hadoop distro wars coming?(sdtimes.com)
1 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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Miles Ward, AWS Solution Architect, offers some tips for users(sdtimes.com)
2 points by VonGuard 15y ago|0 comments
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by VonGuard 15y ago
It's also a bird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon The bird does, notably, have better hygiene than RMS.

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