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by bd 17y ago
Yeah, but that's wrong assumption. This is no one-way street. I'm counter-example myself. I actually reverted from being hardcore game player to playing mostly simple web games. And I sure know others which went this way - from AAA titles t
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by bd 17y ago
Simplicity is strength, not weakness. There are already more complex, deeper games on Facebook, but they are orders of magnitude less popular than these simple Zynga games. If you go deeper, you go niche. BTW it's similar for game themes (i
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by bd 17y ago
"It sounds like a terrible business idea. By definition your target market is constantly turning over -- mothers these days have one or two kids, maybe three at the outside, and those kids don't stay young for long. You build a clientele,
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by bd 17y ago
This reminds me of a guy which used Craigslist to hire decoys for armored truck robbery getaway: http://news.cnet.com/bank-robber-hires-decoys-on-craigslist-...
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by bd 17y ago
There is definitely an opportunity for browser-based Civilization game, though it's going to be tough to compete with Sid himself: http://www.facebook.com/civnetwork
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Chinese Government To Police Social Games(techcrunch.com)
2 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
Not really hidden, it's very common (and extremely useful - Fitts's law FTW) user interface convention. I already became conditioned - I keep middle-clicking to close tabs automatically in every application, feeling something is broken when
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by bd 17y ago
So you do this? :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rpterEeRY8
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As More Asian Developers Build for Facebook, Regional Usage Patterns Change(insidefacebook.com)
4 points by bd 17y ago|1 comments
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by bd 17y ago
That's actually a quite common pattern in artificial life community (inspired by real world behaviors from insects): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization Also Sims had some "intelli
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by bd 17y ago
You don't have to earn all your revenue just on purchases of the application. It is also possible to sell virtual goods from within your (cheap or even free) application: http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/11/30/ngmocos-free-to-...
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by bd 17y ago
For those without Silverlight here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZuFUZpEZ-A BTW it's crystal clear also on YouTube (HD), so I suppose it's simply a well made video, not some special Silverlight codec.
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by bd 17y ago
Raphaël is pretty fast even on Explorer: http://raphaeljs.com/
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by bd 17y ago
Isn't this happening already by definition? lone_ly \'lo_n-le_\ 1a: being without company: LONE b: cut off from others: SOLITARY 2: not frequented by human beings: DESOLATE
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by bd 17y ago
Definitely. It's very noticeable when you are energy-constrained. I recently bought LED based flashlight and it's awesome. It's tiny, very bright and batteries lasts forever.
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Tech Adoption, Then and Now(paul.kedrosky.com)
4 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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Morphological computing(jwz.livejournal.com)
23 points by bd 17y ago|2 comments
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Evidence of life on Mars lurks beneath surface of meteorite, Nasa experts claim(timesonline.co.uk)
14 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
"Totally decent-looking" dudes are actually co-founders of OkCupid :) http://www.okcupid.com/about-us
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Another World level ported to Javascript(megidish.net)
69 points by bd 17y ago|19 comments
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by bd 17y ago
If somebody wants to try this method on different sequences, I made a simple solver in JavaScript: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/sequence/
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by bd 17y ago
For better comparison, here is Windows with ClearType switched on (#2): http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/font-cleartype.png
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by bd 17y ago
Not necessarily "wrong". For example, you could have an internal company wiki which would include links to competitor's site.
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by bd 17y ago
Firefox experience in Ubuntu is inferior to Firefox experience in Vista (at least on my Thinkpad). It's noticeably slower and fonts are uglier (even after installing exactly the same TrueType fonts as on Windows).
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by bd 17y ago
It seems only about a third of the US population takes SAT. I couldn't get the actual size of the 18-year-old cohort from US Census [1], but from various age groups it could be estimated to be ~4-5M, while SAT was taken by ~1.5M people in 2
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Facebook games: Scam or useful tool?(tobolds.blogspot.com)
2 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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The iPhone app industry(businessweek.com)
20 points by bd 17y ago|1 comments
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by bd 17y ago
For those who don't follow proggit, here is the context: Programming thought experiment: stuck in a room with a PC without an OS http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x15g/programmi... I am a little difficult to describe ...
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by bd 17y ago
So, in other words it's essentially nothing: $4.5B is about 0.3 promille of US GDP. Or for example, just Apple alone could power a complete web US infrastructure for ~7.5 years with its current cash reserves.
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by bd 17y ago
Somebody in the comments of the original article mentioned the author is going through a divorce.

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