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by alex_c 13y ago
We've been reading epi0Bauqu's posts about DDG here for... what is it now? Over 3 years? At first it seemed like a wonderfully quixotic project - a new, home-grown search engine? Yeah right! But then a year passed, then another, a
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by alex_c 13y ago
They often do, it makes for great material for propaganda videos. It's easier to do for pre-planned battles though, and/or they may have felt they didn't want to spare any ships and risk sacrificing firepower. Or most likely
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by alex_c 13y ago
Well, unless you're hunting NPCs (which is pretty boring), bounty hunting is not a reliable source of income. But you can run a small or even solo pirate operation, preying on lone travelers. Or run goods to dangerous markets in stealt
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He also has an excellent course on Coursera on this subject: https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon
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It's not meant to sell you a product, it's an attempt to position and differentiate the Apple brand (the fact that they feel this is necessary is pretty interesting). Think of it this way. How is Apple different from IBM PCs | ge
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by alex_c 13y ago
I'll play devil's advocate and ask: how is this different from the celebrated "Here's to the crazy ones" ads? Granted, these ads are more bland and forgettable, but that's a difference of degree, not kind. Com
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by alex_c 13y ago
FYI: the link in referral emails is broken ( http://wwww.howtofindsaasideas.com/ )
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by alex_c 13y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with Dwarf Fortress and wondering what all the fuss is about, I recommend the classic 'Boatmurdered' chronicles: http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/ It's a fairly long
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by alex_c 13y ago
It's plausible that BlackBerry may hang on to the 3rd place spot in the smartphone market. Their new phones are fairly solid, and it's plausible that many of their old users would upgrade (the question is how many exactly, versus
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>So who the F can we trust? Hint: not the secretive spy agency.
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It's tough to report "something didn't feel right" as an incident, though...
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Of course, nobody goes on Facebook anymore. It's too crowded.
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A few of us are discussing that, at least... much, much further down the page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5747100 ).
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I read this initially assuming it to be a clever spoof on the whole startup / crowdsourcing scene, because of the name: pick something that is obviously a joke product ("Soylent Green is people!") and run with it - start piling on impressiv
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by alex_c 13y ago
>Not to mention you write "obj." and can instantly see all the methods available with arguments. Eclipse could learn a lot from Xcode on how to do autocomplete well. I haven't spent enough time thinking about each to articulate a list
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Another great example is Team Fortress 2. All the characters are carefully designed to be distinguishable at a glance - I remember seeing a great explanation of this a few years back, but can only find this pdf right now: http://www.valve
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My developer account probably expired at some point. I kinda lost interest after the makers of the original video threatened to sue me (and they lost interest after they realized the game wasn't making any money). Maybe I'll open source it
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by alex_c 13y ago
Agreed, it can be a lot of fun, and it's also interesting / useful to look back at it after the project is done. Here's a video I made a couple years ago of making a simple iPhone game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpa
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by alex_c 13y ago
In fact, Facebook does quite the opposite - there's always been demand for "see who looked at your profile" apps on Facebook, and Facebook has always gone out of their way to squash them. It's something they most certainly don't want to
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by alex_c 13y ago
Probably something to do with not having to pay to play. That's a pretty big difference.
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by alex_c 13y ago
Why would it be illegal?
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by alex_c 13y ago
Random trivia: the "iron version" picture is of my own ring, uploaded a few years back when I was messing around with my friend's new camera. Pleasant surprise not only to see this on HN, but to see that the picture is still there after al
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by alex_c 13y ago
That would be good... I wonder if it's possible to remove the video entirely, as opposed to just hiding it - would be really useful when I listen to music on Youtube on battery power on my laptop!
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I like it! Very clean and simple, personally I find YouTube's built-in playlists pretty clunky so this is nice to see. As a bonus, with something like this I never have to read youtube comments. I would make the "Search youtube" thing mor
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by alex_c 14y ago
For those wondering: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raid...
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by alex_c 14y ago
Why are you blaming the users and the friends, but not the service? I friend people based on how well I know them and wanting to keep in touch, not how interesting their facebook posts are. Sure, I don't really care about all the mundane
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by alex_c 14y ago
Heh, I've most likely played with you (Dreddit member since day 1 - for non-Eve players, TEST was started by Reddit players and is now one of the largest alliances in the game). I haven't played in almost two years, but watching a single c
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Conceivable, but a real stretch. It would imply that they considered adding a single player mode, knowing that there would be demand for it, but decided it would be too difficult given their other design decisions to make it worth adding.
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Don't need Google Glass for that, a smartphone is enough. http://www.designboom.com/technology/tesco-virtual-supermark...
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Not sure I agree... give me the most basic computer chess program and 15 minutes, and I'll have (most of) the rules figured out. And that's assuming no tutorials or hints such as highlighting legal moves. Getting good at it is a different

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