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by ignifero 15y ago
It's hard to believe some of the projects in biotechnology and energy will only require $100K to be built. These things cost more than a laptop and pizza. These kids are certainly enthusiastic, but why not spend some more time learning abou
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by ignifero 15y ago
Ouch. Really sorry about that. Wish i could delete it. I would also add any paper by David Deutsch on quantum communication like this: http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/quant-ph/9906007v2
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Dear Facebook can you please start treating developers like we mean something?(forum.developers.facebook.net)
2 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
having an opinion hardly makes one expert
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by ignifero 15y ago
Agree to that, the virtual goods economy is here to stay.
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by ignifero 15y ago
No, no and no. Games like mob wars, farm town etc had these features already. If they pioneered something, it's "pushing facebook's communication channels to their limits"; I honestly cannot remember anything else.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I hate analogies, but i have to note that McDonalds invented the fastfood business. Zynga has shown inability to demonstrate innovation and acts opportunistically. If they shut down today, they 'd be instantly replaced by other existing soc
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by ignifero 15y ago
Something on quantum computation like, Shor's algorithm: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0010034
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by ignifero 15y ago
As an indie fb game developer, i 've been following zynga over the years. Their spam tactics were the reason that facebook started changing their platform policies every month. Zynga took advantage of the fact that facebook at the time was
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by ignifero 15y ago
The only innovation zynga did was changing the logos of other games (Farmville=Farm town, mafia wars=mobwars, cafe world=restaurant city, it's as if there's mass brain damage in that company and they can't come up with a single original ide
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by ignifero 15y ago
I 'd actually bet their profitability is even higher than that. You have no idea how much revenue these games generate, and we 're talking about massive user base. Just consider the fact that they have foregone display advertising in their
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by ignifero 15y ago
But what about long-term value? It may hit tens of billions the first day, but what happens in a few months?
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by ignifero 15y ago
I think it's called World Wide Web. We should memorialize Tim Berners Lee's computer instead.
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by ignifero 15y ago
What makes you think so (the balance sheets maybe?). I think it's gonna be a hit-and-run.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The thing with Zynga, is they have zero innovation and zero IP capital. You might as well invest in a chinese ripoff and it would be the same. Sure they make tons of profits but they will never earn my respect. They stole everyone else's id
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Zynga About to File for IPO(allthingsd.com)
61 points by ignifero 15y ago|66 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Intelligence and strong entitlement don't match. Show me a real genius who has strong sense of entitlement. Salesmen have it. Certainly PG doesn't have it.
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by ignifero 15y ago
book? dogs? cats?
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by ignifero 15y ago
I remember you from the devs forum :). Hope you get big in Japan
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Activists Fear Sarkozy's Efforts to Tame the Web(spiegel.de)
4 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
I especially disagree with his/her views on Europeans. If anything, we are more sensitive on those matters than the US, that's why the world's dissidents seek refuge here.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I was doing facebook games as side projects a while back. Now they're my main source of income.
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by ignifero 15y ago
the supplement is open: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/extref/natur...
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by ignifero 15y ago
What if there are consumer protection issues (which clearly there will be here)? The terms are not binding then. Example: The purpose of the app is different now than it was when they signed up
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by ignifero 15y ago
Without the user's consent (and their share of the royalties)? Regardless of their TOS, how would that stand in a court of law?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Amen to that. I wonder how long we have to wait for the w3c to create APIs for all sorts of device capabilities, like camera, compass etc. Open standards FTW.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I wonder how often these "HN existential angst" subjects come up, and how their frequency correlates with HN's traffic. S.P.: feel free to start political threads in http://textchannels.com/Politics
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by ignifero 15y ago
All 3 formulas are equally true then. Occam suggests you use the simplest. Just like in programming, where one prefers to write as little code as possible.
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by ignifero 15y ago
That's only true at a macroscopic level, though. If one wants to predict exact states of the universe, the complexity is proportional to the entropy of the universe.
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by ignifero 15y ago
s/reducing/increasing. My bad

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