ijk

36 ms·

421.
by ijk 13y ago
Mostly, they do it for branding and legal reasons. Particularly for trademarks, which can be lost if they become too generic. So they spend a lot of money to spread the word that it's Kleenex brand tissue and a Google search, just in c
422.
by ijk 13y ago
Now, if we can just get LaTex with instant feedback, we can approach the best of both worlds.
423.
by ijk 13y ago
Arguably there is a lot of social/technical space for making passwords better and more secure for the average user. But dropping the knowledge factor isn't a clear improvement.
424.
by ijk 13y ago
The "dirt" also acts as a proxy for location. What you're mostly buying is proximity.
425.
by ijk 13y ago
"It's extremely hard to come out badly if you are prepared to hold a property long term" This is a major sticking point for many people, particularly once you factor in opportunity costs.
426.
by ijk 13y ago
Ah, but that's why Panera and Starbucks have that little click-through agreement absolving them of all responsibility.
427.
by ijk 13y ago
I wouldn't poll the players, at least not nakedly, since that is vulnerable to the stated preference bias. Tracking actual play would be more likely to demonstrate revealed preference.
428.
by ijk 13y ago
I'd add: - Rules of Play http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rules-play - Challenges for Game Designers http://books.google.com/books/about/Challenges_for_Game_Desi... - The Art of Game Desig
429.
by ijk 13y ago
If you actually want to make games, as opposed to a game engine, I would pick an existing engine. I use Unity3D, which is becoming a standard. It uses Mono (mostly C# or Javascript). It has enough tutorials and documentation to get you star
430.
by ijk 13y ago
Yes...though darkroom manipulation has been around since the very earliest photographs, so it's not a new thing.
431.
by ijk 13y ago
The original play was by George Bernard Shaw. Any commentary on the absurdities and arrogance of the British class system is deliberate. Though by "the Bible" he's equally referring to the King James translation, which was re
432.
by ijk 13y ago
(Because of the other news item today): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6286374
433.
by ijk 13y ago
I suspect Wolfram Alpha was explicitly designed with Multivac in mind, either directly or indirectly through the general idea of an oracular AI machine. Google, on the other hand, is a bit more alien--though I have met plenty of people who
434.
by ijk 13y ago
"When plotted against log income, life evaluation rises steadily. Emotional well-being also rises with log income, but there is no further progress beyond an annual income of∼$75,000. Low income exacerbates the emotional pain associate
435.
by ijk 13y ago
Well today we have a society that approves of "jobs for life" and no jobs for life. The US has an employment-to-population ratio of 66%. Sounds like the worst of both worlds to me.
436.
by ijk 13y ago
Do they want to or do they have to? People having the freedom to change jobs is a good thing. People being forced to change jobs against their will is a bad thing. Which factor is more prevalent today?
437.
by ijk 13y ago
Which is why you should probably read this article, and not just the title.
438.
by ijk 13y ago
Which is a problem for a marketplace of mostly-unique or one-off items. Ebay makes the seller ratings paramount, which mostly works. Amazon has seller ratings, but the sitewide culture doesn't place as much emphasis on them. I've
439.
by ijk 13y ago
Obscure used books on Amazon tend to get automatically bid up to astronomical prices, as the repricing bots mistake the noise of an empty market for a signal: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 As of this moment,
440.
by ijk 13y ago
The XBox's 3-month figures were better than just about every other console on the market, including the PS2 & PS3[1]. Lifetime sales were lower, at about 24M, vs. the PS2's 155M. The 360 and PS3 are neck and neck overall, in t
441.
by ijk 13y ago
It's in the \base folder. Set the main folder to be the Python root, as in the grandfather post, and it should be able to find it.
442.
by ijk 13y ago
Game programmers are especially unlikely to use Clojure for several reasons: * New programming practices are adapted after the mainstream programming industry has adopted them. * Java is not widely used, partially because when the great Jav
443.
by ijk 13y ago
That's still a plus versus Will Wright's designs, which were just concepts for possible games. Most Game Design Challenge entries were more theoretical than actual. Rohrer's games are some of the exceptions, in that they actually exist. And
444.
by ijk 13y ago
It's glorified SMS in that the designer of the feature has explicitly said that they changed the design so that it would basically be glorified chat: > What it looks like, really, is a slightly oversized version of Gchat. And that’s no
445.
by ijk 13y ago
It's an online web app. You can give different people different interfaces for the same data. You can even let them choose which interface they prefer. Your data-collection might tell you that 90% of users would be better off one way, but t
446.
by ijk 13y ago
One quibble with the poll: For those with graduate degrees, that degree probably influences employment more than undergraduate. Actually, now I wonder about the percentage of grad students here. We can't all have dropped out at twenty to fo
447.
by ijk 13y ago
For the purposes of this question you are probably correct.
448.
by ijk 13y ago
Though I want to note that the US News and World Rankings have gotten a lot of flack for the issues with their methodology.
449.
by ijk 13y ago
256 colors? Why so high? And not, say, running on a monochrome text terminal? http://www.jfedor.org/aaquake2/
450.
by ijk 13y ago
Ironically, when it first came out, SimCity was seen as very left-wing because of things like the dominance of public transportation in the model.

More ›