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by doomlaser 15y ago
The proliferation of cell phones is huge, and the smart phone revolution is another gigantic social change. Conquering space in a meaningful way is a much larger problem than any of the leaps we've made technologically in the past 100 years
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by doomlaser 15y ago
"nostalgia"
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by doomlaser 15y ago
Don't forget that the Humble Bundle guys are also backed by a $4.7 million venture capital investment by Sequoia: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34255/Humble_Bundle_Backe... Puts an interesting spin on the whole situation. The slide
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Amazon announces Silk, a "split browser" that caches page renders on the Cloud.(youtube.com)
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Show HN: Kernel Panic Screen Saver(doomlaser.com)
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by doomlaser 15y ago
OK, so a poor child in a libertarian society would only receive care if his parents could afford to pay for it at a private hospital, or if he happened to have access to a theoretical charity hospital that a theoretical philanthropist may o
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by doomlaser 15y ago
I'm not so sure that's true. "Still, the opportunity to attend schools was limited. Formal schooling was largely restricted to those who could afford to pay. Even "free" schools often required payment of tuition, and primary schools require
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by doomlaser 15y ago
Before the public education system in the United States, schools were localized and constrained to the wealthy class. Edit: Why am I being downvoted? Am I wrong?
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by doomlaser 15y ago
The hospital example he ends with is strange. It's my understanding that under libertarian philosophy, children would not have access to any care in that society unless their parents happened to be able to afford it.
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by doomlaser 15y ago
You do realize that Flash still runs faster and uses less CPU than HTML5's canvas, even in OS X? http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/
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What's wrong with social? A game developer opens up on why he quit the industry.(forums.tigsource.com)
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by doomlaser 15y ago
Cloning a fluff entertainment app doesn't really bother me, but I come from a games background, and the app store is rife with shady cloning of full games that follow a monetization model similar to yours. I have a couple that have had two
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by doomlaser 15y ago
Incidentally, Flash still outperforms HTML5's Canvas on both desktop and browsers. http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2010/09/17/flash-outperforms-htm...
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by doomlaser 15y ago
So you're saying it would have been great if Google released a browser that couldn't even play all of its YouTube content?
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by doomlaser 15y ago
But the point is that they didn't port! The game is running in a self-contained Flash environment.
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by doomlaser 15y ago
I love these posts, and I am rooting for you guys, but find it a little depressing that you first started making real money by cloning someone else's crappy novelty fluff app.
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by doomlaser 15y ago
No, because HTML5's canvas performance on mobile browsers is comparable to Flash's performance on mobile browsers.
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by doomlaser 15y ago
Angry Birds already runs on HTML5. http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
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by doomlaser 15y ago
I find this a little ironic as today Apple also chose to highlight a Flash app as its iPad Game of The Week: http://yfrog.com/nxvz8p Machinarium is a popular flash game that runs on iPad through Adobe AIR for mobile. My guess is we'll se
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by doomlaser 15y ago
Log out of both accounts, and then login to your gmail/google+ account first, then google apps accounts. This'll set the cookie identifier that google uses in its urls (/u/0/) to be your g+. Then you'll still be able to use all the googl
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by doomlaser 15y ago
This person doesn't know wtf he's talking about.
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by doomlaser 15y ago
It's actually #7 right now, ahead of Tiny Wings and one of the Angry Birds variations.
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by doomlaser 15y ago
The original eveloper response here: http://www.vlambeer.com/2011/08/08/encouragement/ and there's a storm brewing about it on twitter if you look for Gamenauts ( http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%22gamenauts%22 ) or #NinjaFishing (
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A recipe for App Store profit: Take game idea from small devs iOS profit.(next-gen.biz)
32 points by doomlaser 15y ago|21 comments
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by doomlaser 15y ago
I kind of hate the Zynga revenue model more than anything. It doesn't seem like an ethical way to make money, and has absolutely nothing to do with any of the things that spurred me to get interested in game development in the first place.