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diziet
16y ago
It's no wonder that games such as World of Warcraft have a really low competence zone and a really large amount of space left to provide rewards for both time investment and player skill.
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16y ago
How would one measure discomfort from an injury in mice?
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16y ago
I've been really impressed with scribd when I saw the html text roll out. That, plus the fact that the website had a copy of out of print textbook that I needed raised my kudos value of scribd.
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16y ago
I believe the grown money would (mostly) go to the partner lenders of the program, Kiva makes it sound perfectly lovely, but someone has to go out and interview those people and file paperwork and take photos an collect the money, and of co
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16y ago
I wonder if the same thing will happen to 3d printing as what has happened to normal printing: using high ink prices to subsidize the actual units. I sure hope not: if industries actually build goods using this process the demand will bring
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16y ago
Yet can you imagine a public and political campaign to remove lotteries? Any kind of reasoning will sound condescending, especially with the reward structure build around infrequent but noticeable payoffs keeping the players coming back to
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16y ago
The company in question, Games Workshop, has a reputation for being even more draconian than Apple in mistreating customers while exploiting the large fan base. That's what happens when you have products that make your users wear pink goggl
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17y ago
I've always been a fan of trying to organize my writing with several levels of complexity embedded. For example, when writing any sort of FAQ or explanation, I would briefly outline the steps, and then proceed to explain each one in further
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17y ago
Daniel, I always thought the principle was that out of all the different various tasks you do, 80% of the benefit comes from doing 20% of the tasks -- rather than working on a task with 80% efficiency or effort. So, technically what you mig
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17y ago
What they should do is actually get rid of the ad after you "explore it", so it does not take up vital screen space.
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17y ago
I would imagine it's done using some kind of estimate of the known current rate of expansion and assuming some kind of model for the rate of acceleration.