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by chavesn 12y ago
I like to think of "good gamification" as "help people notice the stuff they are actually getting done." When people notice what is getting done, they'll more likely be able to judge whether it's the right stuf
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by chavesn 12y ago
Are you blue/green color blind? If so, forgive my doubt, but wouldn't the movement help a lot? Not to mention that the green in question is much lighter in luminosity than the blue.
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by chavesn 12y ago
I haven't even heard of such a thing. I've done a couple written Q&As, but those I think are fair, since I have time to prepare a thoughtful response and don't have to worry about communicating body language to a faceles
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by chavesn 12y ago
If you consider it a "game" you should probably attempt to understand the rules of the "game". In this case, replying to the top comment with a non-sequitur self promotion is going to get you downvoted, and it did.
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by chavesn 12y ago
> What about your cache, should we just introduce HTTP into the caching mechanism and hope that one of your clients has the data you wanted to deliver to someone else? HTTP caching is a standard built explicitly for this. And it's
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by chavesn 12y ago
What a great idea, I'm really impressed with the cleverness and execution. A few thoughts and questions for you (you may have already thought of/know about): - Have you thought about "well-formedness" for the HTML? I re
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by chavesn 12y ago
But any point where the strongest examples aren't "technically true" and therefore rely on a common misconception is a pretty weak argument. Either Thiel's point is weak, or he means something else. I suspect he means do
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by chavesn 12y ago
You never know for sure, but I believe this happened to me. I had a follow up call with HR about why they weren't continuing with me despite what felt like a good "getting to know you" introduction interview. The gist of the
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by chavesn 12y ago
That's quite generous of you. I don't think there's any more reason to assume they are competent than to assume they aren't. The fact is that this sucks for the user. It's also a pretty safe bet to say that there ar
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by chavesn 12y ago
Unfortunately the colors of the web-safe color palette that we all know[1] (and hopefully hate) that results from combining 00, 33, 66, 99, CC and FF into triplet permutations has extremely poor color distribution. Can you find any oranges
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by chavesn 12y ago
OT here, but I've used Picasa's facial recognition extensively on a very large library of photos (about 50,000). Anecdotally, I would say it started out very good, but, strangely, it got much worse over time. Part or all of this
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by chavesn 12y ago
They may not, but I fail to see how that is "as a rule". One of the requirements of featured articles is that they contain media.[1] The review process and competition for main page nomination seems likely to ensure they are a
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by chavesn 12y ago
It's nice to know that the poor experience isn't just a matter of a missing upgrade path. However, having such a limited view of trust -- such as just "being good stewards of data" -- is exactly what causes companies to
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by chavesn 12y ago
It's a good thing they didn't use HTTPS. And a good thing that something else doesn't actually rely on samsung.com (listing services, API endpoints, whatever). This is a cool hack for now but if I had to make a prediction I&
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by chavesn 12y ago
I agree with your well-placed sarcasm -- this is not a black and white issue. However, I disagree that there is fundamental value in built-in TV software supplanting third-party devices. That is, unless a software company is making the
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by chavesn 12y ago
The fact is that Andreesen stands to benefit from claiming this is totally normally and rational. That means there's a chance of personal bias in his opinions, not that he's automatically wrong.
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by chavesn 12y ago
That really doesn't illustrate anything besides silliness. It does illustrate how these don't mean anyone actually has $10 billion cash[1], but that wasn't the point here. [1]: which does still confuse many as shown and exp
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by chavesn 12y ago
To be fair, these implementations are only poor in your opinion. And your suggestion might be poor in other ways. For example, I would suspect far fewer people are willing to invest upfront in a game like yours. It's much easier to fi
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by chavesn 12y ago
I've thought about this a little bit lately, and I've started to believe that it may be difficult to have both; if you let "funny" start to be valued, then it quickly overtakes the other values. Having spent quite a bit
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by chavesn 12y ago
Yes, the restrictions are interesting -- I've personally noticed (corrections/additions welcome): - Cannot downvote comments in threads older than 24 hours - Cannot downvote comments in response to you
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by chavesn 12y ago
Are you saying the are not as pernicious because they are not as common? I down vote the same as you, but I would hesitate to assume that the algorithms are tuned one way or the other. In reality it's probably more about velocity or e
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by chavesn 12y ago
It also appears to be a trimmed mean, removing outliers. That one amazing comment I made didn't seem to matter at all! I agree, it would be nice to address this, although I have a feeling I really shouldn't care.
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by chavesn 12y ago
I'm so impressed with the UI and execution. Very well done. No complaints, except that it's perhaps the move timer is a little fast. I first learned about Ultimate Tic Tac Toe here[1]. Might be worth a link to that post -- it&#
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by chavesn 12y ago
I always thought the Wikipedia progress animations illustrated the difference between A*[1] and Dijkstra's[2] nicely (and see some variations compared[3]). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Astar_progress_ani
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by chavesn 13y ago
I feel like I wasted my time reading that. It amounts to a big "Boo hoo!", makes tons of unsubstantiated and emotional assertions ("I can guarantee you that no one ever really gave any consideration to our arguments", t
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by chavesn 13y ago
Some of the comments here claim this is just showing how engineers think they are the only smart ones, or how there's equal frustration pointed back at engineers. However, this is illustrating a particular problem that only[2] affects
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by chavesn 13y ago
Some others have already mentioned that "mind mapping" software is similar, and I'd agree -- just see this image[2]. That image was created with Mindnode[1], which I really like (I've only tried the light version, but t
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by chavesn 13y ago
What an incredibly irresponsible post by Yahoo Tech. No disclaimer, and it is written as a how-to! Am I the only one that thinks that the people at Yahoo Tech should know better than to make de-facto recommendations to their users to insta
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by chavesn 13y ago
The setup for the article theorizes on the cost of lying on the person's stress levels. I'm sure that's a factor, but I think that pales in comparison to the empirical evidence the author has found in her own life -- the bene
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by chavesn 13y ago
I wanted to like this article, because I agree with the premise, but the author went a bizarre direction in trying to prove his thesis. As constructed, several far-fetched notions would have to be true to support the conclusion in the way h

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