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by __--__ 13y ago
If I could give you more than one upvote, I would. This was EXACTLY my reaction - "Didn't this exact same thing happen 7 years ago? Complete with half the internet losing their mind? What am I missing?" Once the 2 minutes hat
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by __--__ 13y ago
I work in this field and when we say "social" games, we really mean flash-based facebook-hosted games. The games you mentioned, while they do have social components, are classified as "mobile" games. The former is dying quickly, and will co
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by __--__ 13y ago
Except that's not what happened here. Zynga dominates the facebook games market and always has. Everybody else, including any newcomers looking to become "the next Zynga" all fight over the small piece of the pie left by Zynga. I can't reme
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by __--__ 13y ago
Criticizing people for their personal preferences is about as useful as criticizing a cat for licking itself. You look like an idiot and the cat ignores you.
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Canadian boy gets punished for preventing the stabbing of a fellow classmate(dailymail.co.uk)
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by __--__ 13y ago
> I don't work with people who can't do the whole thing. So having a "generalist" team doesn't sound like anything special, even though I'm aware this is an odd thing in the corporate world. Where do you work? and are you hiring? I have
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by __--__ 13y ago
> When lions hunt buffalo on the plains, they look for those they get separated from the pack. Simply put, attacking an individual that is part of a smaller, less powerful, group is more likely to succeed without anyone coming to their
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by __--__ 13y ago
He sounds a lot like my social studies teacher in high school. He was the best teacher I ever had because he was a complete, utter bastard. He didn't care if you had the right answer, you had to back it up with facts. He gave us 5 page pape
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by __--__ 13y ago
It sounds like it might be advantageous to make the poster of the topic the admin for the thread. That way, each individual poster can control the conversation how he sees fit. Another idea that just came to mind from your "bike shedding" t
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by __--__ 13y ago
You, sir, fail at reading comprehension. You even quote the relevant phrase: >"Money laundering" is a very recent crime Sure, it's been around for a long time, but only in the last 40 years has it been illegal in the US. I'd like to s
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by __--__ 13y ago
You're lucky, then. Facebook didn't become big until after all my friends were using email and AIM. They still switched to facebook because it's easier than email and AIM. I sent one of them an email last month and they told me they were co
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by __--__ 13y ago
rss2email is a good way of running your own rss to email service. I only say this because rss to email services have a nasty habit of shutting down.
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by __--__ 13y ago
I'm not management, but I've had it described to me like this: cutting soda, while it may be insignificant and certainly isn't going to change a damned thing money-wise for the company, makes the management feel better about the situation.
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by __--__ 13y ago
You mean like this -> http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=technology ?
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by __--__ 13y ago
You say you're disagreeing, but it sounds like you're agreeing. >"There are certainly some Finnish manners, like the tendency to get straight to the point, which one could intepret as rude at times but that obviously wouldn't be the cas
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by __--__ 13y ago
I couldn't agree more - this is a great article on a complex topic. It's hands down the best article I've read in months and I also donated. It gives me hope that quality can thrive on the internet.
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by __--__ 13y ago
I think this is what most people are really afraid of. They want kickstarter to be this small, odd thing that few people know about but they think is cool. By opening kickstarter to the mainstream, their cool, hip "mission district" is bein
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by __--__ 13y ago
>Diablo 3 is definitely not easier to crack. Moot point. Any client software can and will be cracked, regardless of how difficult it is to crack. Which is mtgx's point - online games are easier to secure because you can put logic and va
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by __--__ 13y ago
If you're working on a large team, this becomes a more pernicious problem. I've seen rebases change histories to the point that whole branches become incompatible with master. When you have 15 people all merging branches into master, comple
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by __--__ 13y ago
Is Flash "web-based" if it doesn't work in iOS?
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by __--__ 13y ago
I feel this message always gets lost in the sea of "but diversification is doubleplusgood!" You can't have a culturally diverse population and still have a singular national identity. Have you read about the Lombard invasion of northern Ita
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by __--__ 13y ago
They were paying attention. Exporting to flash would have been a huge coup for Unity. The adoption of their plugin is slow. Being able to leverage the flash player would make it an actual, viable solution for game companies now, not after t
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by __--__ 13y ago
It'll never happen. Flash is a lightweight rich media format designed for rich media. Unity is a full blown 3d environment and is not lightweight and not 2d friendly. That said, the only thing unity is really useful for is 3d applications,
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by __--__ 13y ago
The webplayer is more miserable than flash's, by virtue that it's less mature. It crashes a lot, especially on macs.
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by __--__ 13y ago
That's an awfully fine straw man you've got there. I see you knit him a sweater and everything! Until the past couple of years, most of the tech community has conceded that linux on the desktop was not ready for primetime. Hell, even now, t
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by __--__ 13y ago
>but that's not the sort of grass root support that feeds a living artistic community. When you get some artists worthy of grassroots support, trust me, it'll come. Believe it or not, I came to SF 6 years ago to become a writer. It took
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by __--__ 13y ago
I'm also a 29 year old childless white man working in the games industry and yes, the numbers and discussion surrounding the demographics of games workers are accurate. The problem is, it doesn't prove the premise made in the article. The a
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by __--__ 14y ago
>Any company can just buy an Xbox or a ping-pong table Yes, but you also have to have a culture that lets you use them. My office has both and yet, they never get used. If you try to use them during the day, you're told it's too much of
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by __--__ 14y ago
It's considered a security setting for preventing other people from opening your phone. If you just want to prevent pocket dialing, there's a mode you can set where you swipe anywhere on the screen to "unlock".
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by __--__ 14y ago
Are you saying we should never take advice from a man unless we're looking to emulate every last aspect of his life?

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