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by chops 16y ago
In Zynga games, you’re just trying to get more stuff. You’re caught up in this junkie behavior, and you have to keep upping the dose. That has me terrified. This exactly is what playing most MMO games is all about: the grind for stuff. I
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by chops 16y ago
You could also implement some kind of fake word-generation using common syllables, or word-combining (easier). Word combining is easy enough to do and will get you N^2 or N^3 options.
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by chops 16y ago
I'd think that's actually by design. If entering a duplicate URL forced it to reset the expiration, for example, you could effectively have a script that just kept submitting the URL and make a permanent link to whatever site you were targ
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by chops 16y ago
"I run a business that sells websites to videogame players"
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by chops 16y ago
He also played in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarion of Doctor Parnassus (which I just first saw last week) and was also there a very sympathetic character. I recommend it, it's odd in typical Gilliam fashion. It also has the distinction o
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by chops 16y ago
going to give a lot of fellow HNers a queasy feeling in their stomachs like I got; like you need to get back to your computer and start coding right away, and everything is passing you by, That is exactly how I felt watching it. It's ins
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by chops 16y ago
Downloading now, and I'll be seeding for at least a week or so.
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by chops 16y ago
Some people enjoy working like that, and enjoy their jobs enough that they don't care that they're actually working. The extreme example is John Carmack, who according to the book "The Masters of Doom", would crank music all night, and dri
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by chops 16y ago
That might be a little complicated for many customers.
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by chops 16y ago
Saw this posted on the Nitrogen Web Framework mailing list, and I'm strongly considering going. Seems this would be rather helpful followup/supplement to the Erlang books. And nice and close to Milwaukee.
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by chops 16y ago
That's the goal. FTA: Ever had someone ask you why you play plastic guitar instead of learning a real instrument? Now you can tell them you ARE learning a real instrument. Rock Band 3 empowers players to develop actual musical skills thro
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by chops 16y ago
While I'm not the GP, I do practically live at the beach. During summer, I spend an average of 20 hours a week playing beach volleyball during summer. So I'm pretty sure I'm not Vitamin D deficient.
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by chops 16y ago
Rock Band 3 Pro Mode will actually teach you to play instruments: From: http://www.rockband.com/zine/rock-band-3-announcements The Rock Band 3 Squier Stratocaster is a fully functional, full-sized, six-string electric guitar that also fu
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by chops 16y ago
You could work at a startup and get some of the same experience, depending on the startup's problem domain. With a small enough startup, you'll wear many hats, and get to make smaller decisions, which would lead to some of the skills you'l
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by chops 16y ago
Indeed. That part was quite fascinating and puts things into perspective. Target big to win big.
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by chops 16y ago
Nope, that's not what it is. He explicitly states that he excludes the free apps in the revenue analysis. He uses a combination of numbers from Apple and from other 3rd party services to come to the median revenue per paid app at somethi
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by chops 16y ago
That's just about the coolest response to a letter one could hope for - the kinda thing you frame and show your friends (or in this case, highlight on a blog). Handwritten is awesome as it is, but the little sketches give it such a great pe
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by chops 16y ago
My first job as a programmer came as a suggestion from a friend who convinced me to apply and interview for a startup where he was working (Cayen Systems, http://www.cayen.net ). At the time, they were doing MS Access applications. (They'v
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by chops 16y ago
GNU Screen is the big new thing for me. While old hat for many programmers, I just recently started realizing the power of it, especially detaching and reattaching, or reattaching to a broken SSH connection.
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by chops 16y ago
Also, gamers are notoriously cheap. Consider WoW players who whine about the servers being down, and their justification: "I pay 15 bucks a month, and they can't even keep the goddamned servers online!? WTF!" Frustrating, to say the least.
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by chops 16y ago
Non-savvy users really get lost at how screenshots work. I have a buddy who's a programmer at publishing house, specializing in niche magazines, and they deal regularly with non-savvy older users. He's got this story about one such custome
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by chops 16y ago
I'm a single-founder, bootstrapped, successful (by your definition - my monthly revenue has ranged from $2.5k to $13k since launch) startup founder. I don't, however, have a public blog about how I run or started the business. It's not th
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by chops 16y ago
In the summer during the day, I play beach volleyball a few times a week at Milwaukee's Bradford Beach. Great workout, great fun, and something completely different to hone and perfect. At night, and in the winter, I play videogames: Quake
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by chops 16y ago
Everyone (businesses and individuals alike) who contributes to open-source does so because it benefits them.
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by chops 16y ago
Reminds me of the movie "Galaxy Quest" when Jason (Tim Allen) snaps on his fans (lead by Justin Long as Brandon) who're trying to resolve potential inconsistencies in some episodes Galaxy Quest: BRANDON: Commander, as I was saying... In "T
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by chops 17y ago
My experience is not in line with yours. In my experience, answering calls and support questions, I've gotten plenty of guys who are grateful for the help. They might not gush about it, but they almost universally offer thanks for any hel
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by chops 17y ago
I've not used Django or Rails, so I can't speak with respect to those languages, but I am a PHP developer (my primary income comes from sites I've built in PHP). Erlang is a goofy language with it's goofy Prolog-based pattern-matching assig
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by chops 17y ago
Scant is a good word to describe the the state of the Nitrogen 1.0 docs. You definitely had to be willing to dive into the Nitrogen internals to find some things. The internal code was pretty easy to follow, so you could pretty easily fig
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by chops 17y ago
I've been using Nitrogen now for close to a year, and I've been anxiously awaiting 2.0, particularly the improved support for multi-node servers. I've got a couple of startup-type projects I'm working on that will be using Nitrogen, though
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Nitrogen 2.x Released (Erlang Web Framework)(nitrogenproject.com)
44 points by chops 17y ago|12 comments

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