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by dsirijus 12y ago
This relates only to a particular type of games - the ones that are shipped and forgot, or the ones that need minimum upkeep costs. So, perfectly understandable, and this is (almost) analogous to complaining why some hotel staffs 30 during
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by dsirijus 12y ago
As a side note - you've single-handedly destroyed the layout of this article's comment page with this magnet link.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
MailChimp redirects to Designer Chat instead of The Hacker News Chat.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Just unrelated addendum to Fortumo - they enable developers from countries where Google Merchant account is not available to charge for in-app purchases on Play Store. We'll be using it in two of our upcoming games.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
There's game companies doing very profitably whose basic business model is - localization. [1] Word games work easiest for this case. Localizing international game is also a non-trivial task (especially from western to asian markets),
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Looks like something that could be modeled with some cellular automata rule.
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Thailand coup d'etat as military seize power(bbc.com)
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I resent your "working brain" allusion and, while I do have plenty of counter-arguments to your statements, I'll just walk away. <- That's how I cope.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
That only changes strategy of how money goes into politics. In your scenario, the focus will most likely be on "building a politician" before the actual nominations and office runnings, boosting his popularity before his public an
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by dsirijus 12y ago
There's a prevailing sentiment amongst hackers here and everywhere that things are and can be moved forward in an ethical, and positive ways in the future. I was always interested - are there cynics or at least pessimists amongst us th
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by dsirijus 12y ago
So what? Do one for the money, the second for the show, third to get ready, and then make proper games. That's exactly what I'm doing now. Quite literally. I can't wait to start doing games I'd like to play! Just few mor
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I tried first plain views (shouted it out really, to anyone), then per install (went from table to table). But no A/B testing, it wasn't a buzzword back then really.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
You don't have to like to respect .
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I approve! Five Mother's Days ago, I paid for beverage of their choosing to all local bar patrons who phoned or even just sent SMS to their respective mothers that night. Horrible conversion rate! <20%. People are just silly sometim
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by dsirijus 12y ago
That is fully my perception of it too. I really don't know why Valve is frequently so lauded as game-changer. They're just another store. With particulary shitty terms. Discovery on Steam is a bit better than on mobile stores, I
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I think the main issue here is that people don't clearly delineate making games from making money . You wanna make games? No one's stopping you from creating the most whackier experimental game this world has ever seen. You wan
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Well, you do have a new unread mail now. :)
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Well, resolution to a situation where I'm pretending to work, from an ethical point of view, is to, well, stop pretending to work. I can do that by either starting to work, or stopping to pretend to work. I now at least have a clear co
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by dsirijus 12y ago
We do, and I found another way to not feel bad - I started drinking. At least I'm not pretending to work anymore! Win-win. Thinking out of the box like a boss.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
My employee next to me is working hard. I'm in elinks in terminal on HN and on IRC, with vertical split of htop in tmux. He thinks I'm working hard too, with all those numbers, columns, scrolling output and blinking cursor. I feel
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I've always wondered - when synthetic meat becomes economically viable, and animal rights come even closer to human, will we end up in much greater need systematically controlling most animal populations? What are we going to do with a
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Anger makes people want things more(sciencedaily.com)
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Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient(slate.com)
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Early depression, anger may taint love life even 20 years later, study shows(sciencedaily.com)
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Mostly single-hand maneuverability of device, is what I find most useful. I'm pretty dexterous person with medium-sized hands, and weight and form factor of 4S allows me to easily fetch it from any side, flip it, access any button, and
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Well, as another data point, I used big-ass android and switched to 4S and found it to be much more appropriate size. Ordered in 5S not 10 minutes ago, and I'm afraid it's not really gonna be better form factor. I do find your &qu
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Epilogue: Guess we're stuck with reading about ssh configs.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Or never-ending "Hey, ever heard about SSH config files!?" . :D
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Because the content really is hillarious, breaks the HN bubble a bit and is tightly related to this particular community. To take that kind of joke badly shows immaturity and potentially some other psychological disorders, if one would try
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by dsirijus 12y ago
If it were to remain unflagged this time around, I think it would show that HN is reaching some kind of social maturity. Let's just wait and see.

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