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by hnal943 11y ago
The value they added at first was the viral nature of the deal - you only got the deal if enough people signed up. This prompted people to tell their friends, which created buzz. Once they got large enough, there was never a sense of urge
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I stopped using groupon because of the near-universal resentment I felt from the employees of the stores selling the groupons. Clearly, these businesses weren't getting the value they thought they would get, but I wonder how much of t
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That doesn't mean that they make good software.
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Or they won't understand what happened and "discover" it randomly from now on.
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I hope you're right. However, I think Broken Age that even in the best possible conditions, there's just no real market for classic adventure games beyond the fanatics willing to kickstart it out of nostalgia (like me). At least
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He has written about it at length: http://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland There's no way to force Disney to sell. There's no reason for Ron to do a MI game that he didn't have creative control
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the remake was done by Double Fine, and is essentially a port of the original game with a few touch ups. They did a great job!
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Imagine being a historian reading through illegible primary sources. It's hard to talk to the people to find out what they mean when they are dead. Really, you're saying that written communication should just be ineffective if ev
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Eh, if language is primarily about communication, there are many benefits to standardization. It feels like a cop-out to just say that everyone gets to make up their own rules of grammar. People also used to make up their own spellings, b
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Does Greece not have elections? How can you separate the people from the government that they elect?
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You're forgetting Onion2k's point that it's cheaper for companies to hire robot-replacable employees because it loweres the wages of the non-robot-replaceable labor. Under that theory, the reason they can't bring in the
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Even accepting your argument, there still comes a point where: [wages of robot-replaceable employees] + [current wages of non-replaceable employees] > [robots] + [higher wages of non-replaceable employees] And $15/hr for robo
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I came to like things about OSX also. In particular I liked the Ubuntu-style Spaces. That doesn't mean they were intuitive; it took effort to learn the Mac milieu.
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When I switched from Windows to OSX, I was constantly frustrated by the way Apple chose to organize things. I hated having the menu bar be on the top of the screen and not part of the window for example. Trying to take a screen shot was i
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I still prefer Chasing Ghosts, which features Billy Mitchell and his other friends from the 80's.
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Kohl's Grocery Stores (defunct) is different than the department store chain, which incidentally is headquartered in the Milwaukee suburbs.
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I've found I need to do a factory refresh every time there is an Android OS upgrade, because my battery life goes in the tank. ADB shows processes going crazy, trying and retrying to access things that are no longer there.
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You pay the sales tax based on where you live, not where the car is. For small purchases, no one tracks this but for large purchases like cars, you are charged the sales tax based on where you live.
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Project managers should not be providing the estimates, but this comment works equally well for the developers who should be.
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That reminds me of Neptune's Pride, which is a game that leverages latency for dramatic effect: http://np.ironhelmet.com
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That's alllmost the plot of Mystery Science Theater 3000
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Funny - that's similar to what people say about golf.
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I lost the game
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Makes so much sense. Owning your own slaves just doesn't make sense, especially in an urban environment.
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There's a difference between practice and mere repetition. You wouldn't get any better at speaking Russian if you just spoke gibberish, even if you did it for 10 years. You need to know what improvement looks like.
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The change in leadership explains the change in response. Obama does not believe the US should have the same role in the world the Bush did.
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"Markup" is insider jargon. A layperson looking at HTML may (reasonably) assume that is the website's "code". To the uninitiated, "markup" may be even more intimidating than "code".
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I don't think any wikipedia articles are exhaustive to the topic they cover. Summarization is a spectrum.
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Like Xanadu! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
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right, there's no lighting scenario in which black fabric looks gold.

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