alainbryden

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by alainbryden 14y ago
What if they were to desaturate the screenshot to give it that 'disabled' look and/or overlay a 'loading' caption? It would be less deceptive - the user would be able to distinguish it from the app being ready for interaction while still fa
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by alainbryden 14y ago
After reading all the effort a site like http://bandcamp.com goes to be an effective digital distributor of music, I retract this statement. There's certainly a lot of digital-distribution related expertise that's worth giving up a 10-15%
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by alainbryden 14y ago
"The only way to apply for the job was to solve a trivial programming problem. Solving the problem gave you the email address to send your portfolio to." That's genius. Great idea!
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Just to be clear - I'm not the creator - just a huge fan who thought you'd all be interested in it.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Ah, didn't know it was such an old game. Well in any event, thanks for sharing. While plenty of people will admit to downloading music and videos, not so many outside of the UG community admit to games. Maybe as developers, we're more wary
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Well it works razor fast for me, so congratulations.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I had no need to pirate Darwinia when I got it for 5$ in the Humble Introversion Bundle, along with 6 other games. (Could have gotten it for 1 cent).
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I'm guessing no insurance company wants to get the middle of monitoring everything a software company does to make sure it isn't deliberately trying to get away with infringing on a bunch of patents to cut corners because they know their bu
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Trying to make money as a third party distributor is just wrong. I really hope that's what babarock meant. You're absolutely right that the there's nothing wrong to ask for money for the effort that went into making the music from each pe
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by alainbryden 14y ago
It happened 4 years ago, and the guy's not rich, but this model supported him enough to release 7 full length albums since, and do quite a few concerts. Furthermore, his attitude towards the music industry (and fantastic creativity in music
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by alainbryden 14y ago
The original document was included with a torrent and that greeting was intended to be tongue-in-cheek.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I first saw it when I downloaded Soundtrack to a Vacant Life in 2008. I believe the Bandcamp was only added in the last couple of years.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I'm lucky enough to work a job where I get real enjoyment out of the coding I do for a living, and a chance to self-teach and employ modern coding practices. So the best way for me to unwind is to go home and watch some tv shows, play some
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Hello Downloader(alphabasic.com)
267 points by alainbryden 14y ago|162 comments
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by alainbryden 14y ago
It's artists also have a little success with digital 'busking' - where you intentionally deliver high quality content for free, along with a message that asks people to toss a few bucks your way if they think you're worth it. The best writt
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Funny enough, it worked perfectly in Firefox 12.0 and was nothing but an image in Chrome 16.0. After upgrading to 19 it worked equally well. Shows how much I use Chrome I guess.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Maybe not, but they're certainly the worst pies.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
"you can look directly at how many Internet users there are for each root server site in a region. The lower the number, the better." [citation needed]? I was under the impression that a diverse geographical distribution (to defend against
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I like it. It's more a game of psychology than logic or reasoning - you need to get into the author's frame of mind to come up with the same solutions he did.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
"If at first you don't succeed, refactor."
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I'm looking forward to these Olympics - I've got lots of money on some high-paying odds. I have it on very good authority that everyone in the stadium will spontaneously vanish during the opening ceremony.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Seems like a good question for stackoverflow
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by alainbryden 14y ago
This is getting tricky. It might be faster to write a brute-forcing Greasemonkey script. edit Please no one do this.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I've been mad at Google every since they took away easy access to cached pages.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Meh
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by alainbryden 14y ago
One of the most cunning ways I've ever seen of getting someone to read about how much Photoshop sucks - by making them think they're reading about how much Portal rocks.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
If only I wasn't at work...
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by alainbryden 14y ago
This app makes me want to get a Mac. Awesome job.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
He means it's the first one in 908 days, not it's the first one and it's in 908 days :p
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Generate word documents using workbooks (in a way mailmerge never could)(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by alainbryden 14y ago|0 comments

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