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by lt 12y ago
Well, technically they didn't abandon it, but rushed out a "completed" 1.0 a few weeks after some alpha or beta build. It's still being sold as a finished game, I believe. I haven't played the game, so I can't
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by lt 12y ago
Not quite. The project was an "old-school adventure game" of a then yet to be defined idea. The $300k that was asked had been budgeted for a short, simple game that could be made by a small team in a few months. When they got ten
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How Madden Ratings Are Made(fivethirtyeight.com)
46 points by lt 12y ago|14 comments
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by lt 12y ago
They should be able to do that themselves (I've seen a lot of projects adding tiers in the middle of campaigns, you can't remove/change existing tiers). Kickstarter shouldn't be able to add new tiers by themselves, as th
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by lt 12y ago
Nope.. Adding up all the tiers up totals a maximum of $9,550,000, for a total of 56k watches. Interesting that they didn't design this to break their 10.2M record of the first campaign. I'd bet they are going to increase the slots
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by lt 12y ago
This is well available today. For example, there's an app for that: https://keysduplicated.com/
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WANDERERS – Short Film(erikwernquist.com)
1 points by lt 12y ago|0 comments
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by lt 12y ago
Anecdotally: Guilty as charged, on both accounts. I also have a physical stack of unread books, which I'll probably never get around to read now that I have a Kindle, created mostly due to impulse buying on bookstores. Some I also boug
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by lt 12y ago
http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/faq01.html#patients
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by lt 12y ago
That's pretty much the idea of Braid, an awesome indie game. It uses time manipulation in different ways to create mechanics in that vein. Recommended. It's a different concept than true 4D though.
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by lt 12y ago
Or the "Car allergic to vanilla ice cream" tale. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/IceCream/humor.html
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Your nerd is showing(lostechies.com)
1 points by lt 12y ago|0 comments
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by lt 12y ago
Wonder how they would react if they saw swedish babies napping outside in sub-zero temperatures: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988
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C# Language Design Notes(roslyn.codeplex.com)
9 points by lt 13y ago|0 comments
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by lt 13y ago
http://fstoppers.com/photoshop-wont-let-you-work-with-images...
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by lt 13y ago
Another disaster about to happen is Games for Windows Live, a online DRM scheme, used by many games, but in particular GTA IV, which doesn't have much on online features except for the DRM check. It has been announted that GFWL is goin
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G+ Focuses on Territory Facebook is Not Interested In: Corporate Social Networks(insights.wired.com)
2 points by lt 13y ago|0 comments
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by lt 13y ago
What bugs me about this explanation is the following: aren't we moving quite a bit all the time? We go along the earth as it's rotating around itself, then revolving around the sun, then the solar system revolving around the milky
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by lt 13y ago
The concept reminds me of Charles Stross "Antibodies", first story of the Toast collection, available free here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to... Quick and worthy a read.
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by lt 13y ago
Instead, they were changing their goal in the Education Game from “Get a higher grade than my classmates” to “Get to the best answer.” The goal shouldn't be “Get a higher grade than my classmates”, it should be “Get the highest grade poss
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by lt 13y ago
Sounds like the VSRP would be more like: "Can't. Next month?"
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by lt 14y ago
Sounds like they also attempt to authenticate using default user/pass combos.
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by lt 14y ago
Does this mean that the source will be available for anyone playing the game, even if obfuscated? It should open interesting possibilities.
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Focuswill: A music service for concentration(focusatwill.com)
2 points by lt 14y ago|0 comments
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by lt 14y ago
I ran into a similar thing today, focus@will: https://www.focusatwill.com/about/ More than specific patterns they offer, I found interesting that they they claim unfamiliar music is better for productivity: "And the single most important
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by lt 14y ago
It's funny because cause and effect is one of the reasons he uses to call the claim "bogus".
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by lt 14y ago
It's in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or vi
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by lt 14y ago
What about Hangouts on Air private to your company? That would be really useful.
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by lt 14y ago
Yes, these are GUIDs in the following format: {931373E2-3DA4-4631-930C-F59510630DA3} It seems to me that's a good theory of what it might be looking for, as GUIDs should make good triggers. I wonder if this reduces the search space enough t
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by lt 14y ago
Wow. This was nice on a computer, but it's really, really impressive on an iPad. I suggest everyone to try it.

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