jimgreer

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Email queue/customer service tools?
1 points by jimgreer 18y ago|0 comments
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by jimgreer 18y ago
Male enhancement! Seriously it was the same thing ivankirigin said - what's the worst that can happen?
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by jimgreer 18y ago
We actually did the same thing for Kongregate. Except we gave out an invite code to everyone who asked - usually same day. So the artificial scarcity was... artificial. But if we'd had a big problem we could have stopped the invites. We did
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How Facebook deals with memcache consistency in multiple datacenters(new.facebook.com)
43 points by jimgreer 18y ago|18 comments
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by jimgreer 18y ago
Is anyone here using New Relic RPM? The demo looks slick. We're currently doing things a little more adhoc for Kongregate. Just using pl_analyze - http://rails-analyzer.rubyforge.org/pl_analyze/
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by jimgreer 18y ago
Yes. And vans are more commodious (and therefore better) than cars.
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by jimgreer 18y ago
Actually one of the most interesting things at RailsConf was MagLev, which applies the GemStone object persistence engine to Ruby. Apparently there are some pretty big Smalltalk apps out there using GemStone. http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/5
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How Insight and Epiphanies Work (New Yorker)(209.85.173.104)
5 points by jimgreer 18y ago|1 comments
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by jimgreer 18y ago
There's this one too - http://hoptoadapp.com/welcome . Haven't tried either one yet.
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by jimgreer 18y ago
I missed this too - I think putting a little play arrow next to the "+" is in order. Other than that, I love it.
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by jimgreer 18y ago
As the company grows, the extra friction on communications between the two locations becomes more of a problem. My company, Kongregate, has 10 people in San Francisco and 5 in Portland, Oregon. We make it work through all the methods you de
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Localization support to go into Rails 2.2(artweb-design.de)
4 points by jimgreer 18y ago|0 comments
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by jimgreer 18y ago
(shameless plug) - If you are an achievement addict try it on my site - http://www.kongregate.com/games/Scarybug/chronotron
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by jimgreer 18y ago
This could do for games what Dreamweaver and FrontPage did for web authoring - sweet!
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by jimgreer 18y ago
I hate to be the naysayer on this, but I disagree. An ugly MySpace page is interesting because your friends are on it. A bad game your friend made is still just a bad game. People who are talented enough to make good web games already have
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by jimgreer 18y ago
Looks pretty cool, and the physics are a nice touch. Honestly though, I'm pretty skeptical about people being able to create much of a variety of games unless they can do basic scripting. Still, there's a lot of 'remix this game' possibilit