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   by dag11 14y ago

   Creating a social obligation to respond in many cases = more usage of the service.
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   by dag11 14y ago

   I fully agree with this. It reduces the quality of interaction from both ends: From the receiver's end: Like this post says, it creates a sense of urgency as the sender now knows that it's been seen. It also puts the receiver in a tough sit
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   by dag11 14y ago

   Neat. Reminds me of the favicon tetris. This could be very useful for an in-tab "progress bar".
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   by dag11 14y ago

   Thanks for the idea. By the way, have you heard of my new product, Sue Ville?
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   by dag11 14y ago

   My comment was mainly in the context of the parent comment's implied contradiction between our apparent siding with EA here, but our siding with Android in Apple v. Android.
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   by dag11 14y ago

   It's similar, but has one fundamental difference. The Apple vs. Android holy war spans many different devices, user interfaces, brands, packaging methods, and advertisements. Some Android phones copy the iPhone/iOS more than others. For exa
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   by dag11 14y ago

   They're suing for The Sims Social, not The Sims. In all honesty, I think the title should be edited to read 'The Sims Social' instead of 'The Sims'. They're very different games.
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   by dag11 14y ago

   It's not the genre that was copied, it was the exact behavior and appearance of the game. Read this, or at least view the comparison images: http://www.scribd.com/doc/101954002/EA-v-Zynga-Complaint-Fin...
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   by dag11 14y ago

   What does The Ville do that The Sims doesn't? Where are the aesthetics drastically different? Where do the two games behave differently. The Ville has identical behavior to The Sims Social, and strikingly similar artwork.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Here's the trailer for The Ville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXX6XvGBj4w It definitely has a 'Sims' vibe to it.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Another reason for doing this is motion. If the images themselves have double-pixels, then the game can still render moved/rotated images within the device's pixels and not the image's pixels. So scaling up your canvas makes development eas
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    by dag11 14y ago

    My dad and I ordered black Pebbles, and we fully intend to use them. When I see people wearing a watch, it's usually [fashion.] Yeah, that's because smart watches haven't caught on yet. There was a time when people only put earrings
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Well, what is it? How did you find it?
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Vertically centered, not horizontally centered.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    No he didn't; that was separate as we're discussing how to make it even shorter. His contribution was simply "Be concise."
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    by dag11 14y ago

    At least he was caught before he became another Stephen Glass.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
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    by dag11 14y ago

    I just checked out your drawbang. It's pretty neat! http://i.imgur.com/IeiQB.gif You should add some tooltips on the buttons though, as some of them aren't immediately all that clear.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    I'm pretty sure one of the reasons is its unprecedented size: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Mars_Scie...
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Sadly not, as its "timer" is actually just setting an alarm for x minutes later. That also means that you lose precision of seconds. If it's 5:22:36 and you tell it to set a timer for 10 minutes, it'll set an alarm for 5:32:00, not 5:32:36.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    I dislike how the camera is not vertically centered inside of that black strip on the back.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Well I wish I was alive in the 1970's. Seems like hacker heaven back then... albeit with no easy way of learning.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Darn. Yep, I can't figure out how to fix the bug causing that. I went to sleep hoping that it would in fact not be bugged and return to near-zero by the time I woke up, and now I can see that the bug is still very much there. Hmm.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Ah, but then click "View Source" next to Response Headers and you'll see the non-evaluated headers: http://i.imgur.com/Ql741.png HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: Close Expires: -1 Last-Modified: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:44:35 GMT Cache-
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    by dag11 14y ago

    You're right. I just updated my entry to be more accurate in this sense.
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Yeah, as ceol said, that'd essentially be polling. Plus, if you can place an iframe, you can almost always place Javascript which makes something with ajax or socket.io somewhat more suitable. But there are many places on the internet where
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    by dag11 14y ago

    Node.js. Server-side. All that's required on the client is this: <img src="/online.png" /> And you're up and running.
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    Show a real-time user count without any client-side Javascript(minipenguin.com)

    80 points by dag11 14y ago|23 comments
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    by dag11 14y ago

    I use pattern unlock. But I installed WidgetLocket to give me a primary lockscreen where I was able to make one of the swipe positions a Google Now shortcut, and another position a Google Now Voice Search shortcut, in addition to the two ex
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    by dag11 14y ago

    This is pretty cool, and works really well! For me, though, Jelly Bean voice search from my lock screen is still the quickest.